Blue Skies Smilin’ At Me
Type The Sky: font project by a student at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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“I had a Raquel Welch in the pocket and decided to play it.”
She’s a mighty pretty woman. She’s a funky dancer. She has hijinks
with famous people and Orkans. She sings. She uses soap. She can bond with Janis Joplin and
outswim a speargun (but
not a boat). She fights. She has problems with buttons (and
accents). She likes wigs. She’s even a poker hand. And she
looks dang good for 66.
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Art to Go
The Grand Tour. Until August 31st, the National Gallery in England is putting reproductions of famous paintings on the streets of London, with MP3 audio guides and maps available for download. The reaction has been good.
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Souvenir Glass Collection
Thomas Graz has a collection of glasses with pictures on them. Mainly from the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the German Empire, but including some other countries too. A novel way to navigate history, architecture, people and landscape. Oh! and he needs help with some of them too.
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The Phoenix rises.
NASA’s Phoenix probe launched Saturday from Cape Canaveral, destination Mars. Its mission is to investigate polar ice. This probe is unique for a couple of reasons: first, it will face a traditional parachute-and-retro-rockets landing, unlike previous endeavors. Second, it will be landing far north of any previous mission. Previous Mars missions have had mixed success, with only about half successfully making it to their destination. It is scheduled to land in May, 2008.
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The blues had a baby and they called it rock & roll
John Lee Hooker performs Gloria and It Serves Me Right to Suffer with Van Morrison; I’m in the Mood with Bonnie Raitt; The Healer with Santana; Boogie Chilluns with the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton; and Roadhouse Blues with Jim Morrison & the Doors (audio only). [Also, Muddy Waters, Etta James and more blues legends & rock combos inside]
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More Alike Than We Thought?
Similar Diversity is a data visualization of a textual analysis of various religious books spanning several religions, showing the overlap in words, ideas, and meaning. Other infovis religion goodness includes a 90 second geographic history of the world’s major religions, a a map gallery of USAian religious adherance, and a timeline mashup of Jewish and Christian histories.
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NBC Dateline reporter busted at hacker conference
To Catch a Reporter. NBC Dateline producer Michelle Madigan tries to go undercover at the DefCon 14 security convention – and bites off more than she can chew.
Having been alerted to her presence days before the event, DefCon staff baits the trap with a fake “Spot the Fed” contest. Once she is seated, DefCon organizer Jeff Moss suggests they play “Spot the Undercover Reporter” instead. Knowing the gig’s up, Madigan bolts – and a comical parking lot chase ensues.
(Not a good week for Dateline NBC – its producers are being sued for bribing local law-enforcement officials to help them arrange their stings.)
Spot the fed is an awesome game. I was to DefCon 7 back in the day, was a hell of a good time, I was there actually with a group of friends, one of them being a fed. Back then the feds had a sense of humor about it, they took pride in the t shirt they got if they were spotted (“I’m a Fed”). Now though, with Bush Jr. in charge… yah, probably not as many feds with a sense of humor
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Alienshift
“Alienshifter is the one who takes the Oath in order to uphold and defend Humanity and their Rights in any contact with Alien or Extraterrestrial beings in addition to represent the Earth in contact and communication with Star Visitors from all other Planets or in the Council of the Worlds and Federation of Planets.” Alienshift is an eclectic conspiracy site, exploring such subjects as islamic ufology, the pole shift of 2012, Edgar Cayce, sufism, Akhenaton as well as the more expected fare, UFO videos, Nostradamus and the bible code. That is only the tip of the iceberg. Lots and lots of youtube videos grace the site of this New Hope for Humanity.
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HOWTO make a giant, insane match
Billy, an intern at Instructables, made this gigantic match out of 15,000 match-heads, 30 ping pong balls, and a 96-inch long piece of 4×4 lumber. The ignition sequence — lovingly documented in a series of videos on the Instructables page — is a joyous conflagration.
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Animated Alan Watts
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and their pals animated several audio recordings of Alan Watts, an iconic philosopher and writer who turned scores of people on to Zen Buddhism.
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“real-world white sharks with GPS units attached to their fins”
In the Sharkrunners game , players control their ships, but the sharks are controlled by real-world white sharks with GPS units attached to their fins (…) every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark in the real world.
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Live Hot Puppet Chat
Are you Lonely? Curious? Depraved? Do you have questions that are just too risqué for AskMe? Live Hot Puppet Chat has got your answer. Yeah baby! Now you can experience sizzling raw, uh, pleasures.
[NSFW]
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Masters of Science Fiction: Buried at Birth on ABC?
I watch virtually no television but this NPR review for the debut episode of Masters of Science Fiction (ABC) had me intrigued. (A similar review in the NY Times). ABC is being accused of burying this show with the timing of its introduction (and time slot). As for me, I’m still thinking about the debut episode, three hours later.
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There are two guards: one always speaks the truth, the other gouges the eyes out of people who ask tricky questions.
All men are liars. Start with the follow-up to this much-discussed article.
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Butte, Montana’s least favorite son: Evel Knievel
What does it feel like to crash? “What the hell do you think it feels like? Christ almighty. It hurts.” Evel Knievel was the original Jackass and now he’s living out his days like most elderly retirees in Florida: tired, cranky and on oxygen.
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Nightmares of the electric sheep
The first armed robots have hit the streets of Iraq and are now hunting evil-doers with high-powered M249 machine guns. The robots are called SWORDS, which stands for “Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System”. Army focus groups apparently preferred this acronym over the more obvious PUBE (Predatory Unmanned Battle Engine). The robots are currently being piloted through the streets of Bagdad using remote control. According to an interview on CNET with Chief Army Scientist Thomas Killion however, the army soon plans to make the killing machines fully automatic.
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The 52 Most Influential Photographs
52 Influential Photographs: From the oldest survivng photograph, to images of revolution, misery, beauty and humility.
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TED of the Web
100 Sites TED thinks you need to know about TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference held in Monterey, California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a “group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value”. These are the sites that it thinks you should know about.
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Potter Puppet Pals
Potter Puppet Pals. More: Ron’s computer , Oh noes, Bothering Snape, 4-potions class, The cute villian, The Gay Party, The Budget Wand of Doom. Even more.
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