Ye Olde Metal Days
Metal!
Slayer! Metallica! Girlschool! Quiet Riot! Megadeth! Maiden! And many, many more.
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Rice Terraces
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Why am I stuck in Moncton? I really should be in Bali… stupid North America.
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Stick Perv
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I see you!
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Discipline help
The Blurter. The Complainer. The Know-It-All. The Spoiled Darling. You can handle them all.
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CN Tower Toronto
Excellent flash photo, The things that can be done with Flash. Amazing. Very slowly run your mouse over the entire photo and see the city from dawn to dusk to the city lit up at night. I like.
This is Sam from Toronto’s project. The guy is an amazing photographer. I’d recommend his daily dose of photography.
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Smokin’
Sex Education media has been around since the days of silent films. Seems most everyone can use a bit of guidance when it comes to the appropriate handling of their lustful urges… your geriatric, dementia-ridden parents, soldiers, Boys, Girls, couples, teens, Christians, and yes, trainables. On a less serious note, the topic of Sex Ed as addressed by: Monty Python, Conan O’Brien, fireside chats, Amy Sedaris, MAD TV, Fry & Laurie, Weeds, Ali G and the Simpsons, Family Guy, and some Florida trailer park slut on youtube. Note: this fpp will not play well in Bangalore.
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I can see you!
Have you played with Google Earth recently? You can track flights live and in 3-D, or watch an animation of global cloud cover over the last 10 days, or simply make Google Earth prettier using NASA images. Google Earth isn’t limited to the current, you can also enable historical maps from the 1700s, and view an animation that will show you what will happen in the future to New York and San Francisco if the sea levels rise. Google Earth can also shed light on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (and, indeed many other ship wrecks) to America’s top 150 buildings, now in all of their 3-D glory.
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Kool-Aid Pickles
“Kool-Aid pickles violate tradition, maybe even propriety. Depending on your palate and perspective, they are either the worst thing to happen to pickles since plastic brining barrels or a brave new taste sensation to be celebrated.”
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Nan’s Kitchen
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My home growing up
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Pop
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Derelict
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Harbour Grace, Newfoundland.
Nice shot
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Across the Field
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We’re off to see the wizard…
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No bass, but at least you can get a recorder!
Bandology! For those who loved Skyrates, here comes another casual, online community game from the brain-trust at the Carnegie Mellon University school of game design. Choose your instrument, join a band, and play old-school mini-games to build up your skills. Or choose track B to start your own band, recruit new members, and manage your gigs and travel. (And BTW, Skyrates has now rebooted from the beginning, with a new map and much more fun stuff implemented.)
Skyrates, pronounced like “pirates,” is a flash game currently open for beta testing. Designed by a group of seven students at Carnegie Mellon University, the concept was to create an MMORPG that you could simply check on every few hours throughout the day, like you would with your e-mail. The outcome is a simple but enveloping, and somewhat silly game that manages to be addictive as hell while only taking up a few minutes per day. (plus it’s free.)
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Shipped off to a foreign jail for warez
The USA playing global sheriff isn’t new, but the reach of US laws is extending. Hew Griffiths isn’t a terrorist or a violent criminal, he didn’t even make any money from his crime. He pirated some software, from his home in Australia. So why is he in jail in Virginia? Some think we might as well join ’em.
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Microwave popcorn is the new asbestos
Diacetyl, the buttery-flavored chemical used in microwave popcorn, may be banned in California by 2010. The fumes from it cause terrible lung-disease in people who work around it.
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D) has introduced a bill to ban diacetyl use by 2010. The chemical is an artificial butter flavoring most commonly used in microwave popcorn. Numerous study have found links between the chemical used by flavor workers and a rare disease called bronchiolitis obliterans. For those of you who aren’t 2000 yr old Romans, that means that the bronchioles and some of the smaller bronchi are obliterated by masses made up of fiberous tissue. It’s like sticking marbles into the networks of tubes in your lung that connect fresh air to the alveoli, the little sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged with the blood. As you Romans can imagine, that’s haud sanus. According to the WaPo, flavoring manufacturers have paid out more than $100 million due to health lawsuits. An excellent case study and background to this whole mess can be found at Defending Science.
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Scrambled? Something like that.
The World’s Most Unbelievable Invention Pursuing the demand for fresh eggs, Chinese manufacturers have come across the most amazing solution: man-made chicken eggs. More Here.
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Videos of how to open things
How To Open Things is a site where you can post a request for other people to post videos that show them how to open something — a door with a bump key, someones’ clenched fist, a user account in Windows when you don’t know the password, a Magic 8 Ball, etc.
There’s a prize-component involved. The person who makes the request for videos must offer some kind of cash prize to the creator of the video that gets the most votes.
The site is brand new and many of the requests are silly, but I could imagine this turning into a very useful resource.
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fear!
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/spiderman3/countdown/clock.swf
Watching it on an IMAX setup in Halifax tommorow night, hell yeah.
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Celebrating “Alice Day”
Today is Alice “in Wonderland” Liddell’s birthday, and by a happy coincidence, it’s also the day I scored the most beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass that I’ve ever seen. It’s one of the Anne Bachelier illustrated editions published by CFM in 2005. The book is an oversized oblong, tall and narrow, with Alice on one side and Looking-Glass on the other — turn the book over to switch.
Alice in Wonderland was one of the first books I ever read on my own, and I had a fat little school library edition that was reverse-bound with Looking-Glass, just like this one. But this one is really special — Bachelier’s luscious illustrations and the marvellous binding make this into more than a book, it’s a must-have artifact.
Jenn has been collecting Alice editions for a while, and she’s got some really nice ones, but I’ve never seen one quite like this. CFM also did a paperback edition, but I haven’t been able to find an online bookseller offering it. The publisher also offers a limited editions set of lithos of the Bachelier paintings.
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Vonnegut’s 2BR02B on Project Gutenberg
2BR02B, a story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in sci-fi mag ‘World’s of If’ but never published in book form has turned up at Project Gutenberg.
Everything was perfectly swell.
There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.
All diseases were conquered. So was old age.
Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.
The population of the United States was stabilized at forty-million souls.
One bright morning in the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, a man named Edward K. Wehling, Jr., waited for his wife to give birth. He was the only man waiting. Not many people were born a day any more.
Wehling was fifty-six, a mere stripling in a population whose average age was one hundred and twenty-nine.
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52 weeks, 52 wonderful pieces of art
Start here and work your way up to page one to see the most remarkable achievement of DC Comics just-completed weekly series, 52. 52 weeks worth of amazing covers by artist J. G. Jones! A weekly blog for each cover starts here. This one was my favorite. 52!
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Like the Soviet state, Google does not forget.
Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Like they said in Strange Days, “Memories are meant to fade. They’re designed that way for a reason.” What happens when there’s a record online of every site you’ve ever visited, every flippant comment you’ve ever made, every embarrassing question you’ve ever asked? Maybe computers, like people, should be designed to forget.
From the article:
“My proposal aims to reintroduce the concept of forgetting over time into our digital realm. My goal is to shift the default back from retaining forever to deleting after a certain time. At its core, my proposal does not envision that users cannot change the expiry dates if they want to – the digital equivalent of taking a napkin of somebody’s address and putting it neatly in a file to preserve it. In a sense, we have had the ability to do that almost forever. But it required a deliberate act; and that is what I suggest our digital devices require from us, too.”
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The most pressing issue in Canada today
Controversy in Canada! It seems that Canadian politicians have nothing better to do. The hockey Don weighs in. The issue described in brief here. More press links here. Lastly, some comparible(?) incidents.
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