February 2010
Still more Lego store fun
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January 2010
MySpace: Horrible in any font
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Ultimate Pocket Camcorder Comparison - Pocket...
Pocket camcorders are a hot holiday gift, but due to their nearly identical feature sets, it can be tough to tell which is best—so I tested seven of these humble unitaskers to make your decision easier. You’re welcome. Pocket camcorders (AKA mini cams or budget cams, or sometimes Flip cams after the pioneer of the category) are simple gadgets. They’ve got one job to do: Shoot...
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5 Reasons to Ditch Your Digital SLR | Gadget Lab |...
There’s a new camera category in town. It’s EVIL, and it’s going to kick your DSLR’s ass. EVIL stands for Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, and is our favorite acronym for cameras like the Olympus Pen, the Lumix GF1 and the Samsung NX10. These small, mirrorless, finderless cameras can fit in a pocket and outperform bulky DSLRs. Here’s why your next camera will probably be EVIL. ...
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Tesla to stop selling electric sports car next...
Tesla Motors vehicle technician Chris Yap readying Tesla Roadsters at the development facility in San Carlos, Calif. The Tesla Roadster, a $99,000 electric sports car powered by laptop computer batteries, is 100 percent electric, can go from 0-60 mph in four seconds and the electric car gets an equivalent of 135 mpg compared to a gas powered vehicle. Production begins mid-March. The car itself is...
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...
via en.wikipedia.org James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teachervia en.wikipedia.org That that is is that that is not is not is that it it isvia en.wikipedia.org Once you get your head around those, do spend some time with Wikipedia’s list of linguistic example sentences, too. (Found via @H_FJ / Hoefler+Frere-Jones on the Twitters.) ...
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News Secrets Revealed by Charlie Brooker - Wait...
The language in here might be a bit spicy, but it’s masked in a pleasing accent, so your colleagues might not notice the NSFW nature of it. I had to watch it a few times to appreciate all the details. (found in a roundabout internetty way via @robdelaney on twitter, crediting @charltonbrooker) via npr.org Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog...
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Deconfliction
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Deconfliction
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Concept Art: The Legend Of Zelda - Chris Cummings'...
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1981 live TV news interview with DEVO
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"[Civil disobedience] is not our problem. Our...
“[Civil disobedience] is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience…. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our...
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Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives: a $25...
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Tales of a Wayward Classicist: Latin tattoos
You know, I liked Pulp Fiction a lot, too. But I didn’t like it so much that I needed a quarter of my chest devoted to Sam Jackson’s badass Biblical quotation. I sure as hell didn’t need it put in Latin. If I did need it in Latin, I wouldn’t have put it through an online translator, either. Why do you people think this is a good idea? Look, it even left...
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Murray Hill Incorporated is Running for Congress
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Maxfield Parrish skies after Boston's thundersnow...
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National MS Society - Bike Event: Dan Sargent 160...
I Can Make a Difference Donate to Dan!Join Dan’s Team!View AZFixed Mr. Dan Sargent Goal: $1,000.00 Achieved: $25.00 Donate to Participant! Why We Are Moving Towards a Cure Having multiple sclerosis means that you may suddenly have blurry vision. Or that your memory will fail you for no apparent reason. Or that you may not always be able to walk, let alone ride a bike. The...
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Sometimes fake tablets are better than no tablets:...
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Apple's Tablet Vision 1990's
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Tablet Part...
Brian Lam hints at it on Gizmodo this morning, but it’s worth a deeper explanation. Little hint: It ain’t about technology. Here’s the money quote from Brian Lam’s Gizmodo article about how we’re trying to redefine newspapers, textbooks and magazines: The eventual goal is to have publishers create hybridized content that draws from audio, video, interactive graphics in books, magazines and...
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Mega Shark infographic "DEATH IN THE SKIES" « ...
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Brief notes on taste and entertainment: A shark,...
[…] Sometimes, though, the sneer didn’t come so easily. I’m thinking in particular of when we wrote about The Shaggs, a group of sisters best-known for their inability to stay in tune. Yet there is joy in their playing, an artless love of life in their songwriting, and I think Meg White listened to them when she and Jack were dreaming up The White Stripes. Can they play? Not really. But...
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iPhone app [and Nikon SLR] helped U.S. man survive...
An American filmmaker trapped under rubble in last week’s Haiti earthquake credits an iPhone app with helping him survive. Stuck for 65 hours in the lobby of his Port-au-Prince hotel, Dan Woolley turned to an iPhone first-aid app he’d downloaded to look up treatment of excessive bleeding and compound fracture. He then used his shirt to make a tourniquet for a gash in his leg and...
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A possible way forward on health care reform. With...
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Diamond Oceans Possible on Uranus, Neptune :...
Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with solid diamond icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus, according to a recent article in the journal Nature Physics. The research, based on the first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond, found diamond behaves like water during freezing and melting, with solid forms floating atop liquid forms. The surprising revelation gives...
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Swish, spit, protest: The new Mass. tooth...
(Brushing at school. A bad idea?) You probably missed this, with all the U.S. Senate election excitement, but a new law quietly went into effect Jan. 1 that may have more of a day-to-day impact on our daily lives than anything Scott Brown does. That’s right — government mandated toothbrushing. No not you, silly. The kids. The state Department of Early Education &...
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Time Cube
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION. 4 CORNER DAYS, CUBES 4 QUAD EARTH- No 1 Day God. ****************** FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is “BULL SHIT”, EVIL EDUCATORS block and suppress www.timecube.com. You are educated evil, and might have to kill the evil ONE...
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the-dark-side-let-me-know-if-you-think-this-is-gett...
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Maxenc Cyrin: Daft Punk's "Around the World"...
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Maxence Cyrin: The Pixies "Where is My Mind"...
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Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond, live in...
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300&65 Ampersands
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www.mnftiu.cc » 5 Jokes About The Apparent...
1. A Democratic congressman walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here.” The Democratic congressman whimpers, “You’re right, I’m sorry, I never should’ve come in here, it’s all my fault, boo-hoo, please, bend me over, I’ll do whatever you want because I’m a little punk.” The bartender says, “Jesus Christ, you people are pathetic.” via mnftiu.cc ...
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The Face Of A Famous Skull Found On Flickr : NPR
Courtesy Jack and Beverly Wilgus The tamping iron hanging in the Warren Museum bears an inscription reading, “This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr. Phineas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept. 14th, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury, and deposited this bar in the museum of the medical college of Harvard University.” Note: This image has been laterally reversed to...
Baking bread
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MOS polarized honeycomb mural
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The Formula For The Perfect Parallel Parking Job :...
The Formula Source: The Geometry of Perfect Parking by Simon R. Blackburn Credit: Alyson Hurt, NPRJanuary 23, 2010 If you live in a big city, this will sound all too familiar. Traffic is bad. You’re late for work. And, of course, the parking garage is now full. So you’re forced to parallel park on the street. You finally find a spot between two hulking SUVs, but it looks pretty...
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Jay Leno's 2004 announcement that he will hand The...
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Michael Deal ◊ Graphic Design: Exploration of...
Song KeysThe shape of these pictographs is defined by what keys the songs were recorded in for each album. The relative distribution of keys (with mid-song key changes considered) have been mapped over a graph framework based on the Circle of Fifths. The pictographs are in order of album recording.NOTES: The differences between each pictograph reflect the different relationships between songs...
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NASA Announces Designs for Personal Flying Suit -...
NASA/Analytical Mechanics Associates A conceptional rendering of the Puffin personal flying suit. Forget the Segway. Leave that jet pack behind. NASA is working on a personal flying suit. Conceptual designs for the experimental vehicle, called Puffin, were introduced by Mark D. Moore, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center, at a meeting of the American Helicopter Society on...
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Video: Mass Backwards | The Daily Show | Comedy...
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They Might Be Giants, "Why Does the Sun Shine?",...
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Thomas Jefferson, 1816: "I hope we shall... crush...
I hope we shall… crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816. via etext.virginia.edu Posted via web from Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy | Comment »
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"The Voices of All Our Yesterdays", an essay for...
The Voices of All Our Yesterdays I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles. When “Can’t Buy Me Love” came out, I was twelve. I sneaked out of school during morning milk break, bought the record, and broke into matron’s room because she had a record player. Then I played it, not loud enough to...
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Schneier on Security: German TV on the Failure of...
The video is worth watching, even if you don’t speak German. The scanner caught a subject’s cell phone and Swiss Army knife — and the microphone he was wearing — but missed all the components to make a bomb that he hid on his body. Admittedly, he only faced the scanner from the front and not from the side. But he also didn’t hide anything in a body cavity other...
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Scott Brown interview in "Cosmo"
via facebook.com Ladies & gentlemen, the next senator from the great commonwealth of Massachusetts. Money quote: “Our winner’s baby sister, 16, submitted the just-in-jeans photo that knocked Cosmo out without his knowing, but this prince-next-door wasn’t too reserved about later posing nude.” That’s not creepy or anything. I hope you’re satisfied. ...
Dear Massachusetts: This is what you just voted...
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looking for someone special - Houston Craigslist >...
houston craigslist > community > musicians looking for someone special (laporte) Date: 2010-01-01, 12:20AM CST Reply to: comm-fbz9e-1532514852@craigslist.org who would kill my drummer for $100.00. do not fear any negative consequences for this act. any self respecting law enforcement agency would gladly turn the other cheek once they hear this guy “play”. I...
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Paul McCartney & Wings, "Live And Let Die", with...
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Wings video for "Jet"
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