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Start drawing! The Asia drawing portal. Drawings from Asia, drawing by Asians. It’s hot out, so crack open a cold drink, keep yourself inside and click through a great portal of art from the near and far east. Stay a while, and browse by category, by country, and revel in a large list of inspirations and resources. I’ve enjoyed reading about Sanjay Patel, the artist behind GheeHappy and Hindu mythology in cartoon form, an amazing array of CG artists from Thailand, the odd dichotomy of urban culture and ultra-slick anime from Korea, and puzzled over an array of meticulous resources like this Hair gallery (Japanese site).
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Make a penny shell with muriatic acid
PopSci has a fun project that shows you how to dissolve the zinc in a penny, leaving only the thin copper shell.
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Malawi man builds a windwill to power home
William Kamkwamba decided to build a windmill to power lights in his home: "For many years we had only paraffin candles to light my home at night. They are expensive, smoky, smelly and have to be purchased about 8 km from home."
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@#^&, %$*!, @%#, &!*$, @$#%@&!*#@#!, @*!#&$%@#*!&$# and @%$*.
"I find it kind of funny to be hassled for using [them] when my intention is to free us from hassling people for using them." Thirty five years later, George Carlin’s seven dirty words still aren’t forgotten by his arresting officer. "I couldn’t believe my ears," Elmer Lenz remembers. "I couldn’t see why nobody was doing anything about it."
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One hell of an obituary
"Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies."
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Gelatinous red semi-immensity
I think we all know what this "squoctopus" thing should be named. After vigintillions of years baby Cthulhu is loose again, and ravening for delight.
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You are making this up
Tornadoes have touched down in New Zealand, and journalistic standards have vanished into thin air, not surprising with the current standard of NZ news output.
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Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do “Stonehenge” tomorrow?
White Stripes play Toronto YMCA The duo of Meg and Jack White snuck in through the back entrance of an auditorium at a downtown YMCA in Toronto at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday for the latest in a cross-country barrage of small secret shows as part of their Canadian tour. During the short set, Jack pulled four of the children up to the makeshift stage to sing and show off the masks the campers had been creating before the arrival of the rock stars. In recent weeks the band has played on a bus in Winnipeg, at a bowling alley in Saskatoon and in a youth centre in Edmonton.
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Ten Evolutionarily Obvious Truths About Human Nature
Women won’t sleep with random attractive strangers? Damn.
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This American Life Parody
Kasper Hauser’s parody of this American Life :Episode 1 – Going Postal . Episode 2 – Phantom High School .
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“That is the most aquatic ice cream I’ve ever had in my life.”
Kevin Cooney visits Namjatown’s Ice Cream City, where he treats himself to such frozen delights as octopus, squid, shark fin ramen, curry and snake flavored ice cream.
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Watch Boeing launch the 787 live
Boeing launches its new plane, the 787, this weekend: 07/08/07. Check it out now or watch it live on Sunday.
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I was privy to something down and dirty.
Most people avoid outhouses, these people actively seek them out, and dig as far down into them as possible.
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Figurines of Fun
Barnaby Barford cuts up china figurines and rearranges them in amusing ways. Shary Boyle‘s art is similar, but darker.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
7/7/7 marks the 100th birthday of Grandmaster Robert Anson Heinlein, born July 7th 1907. Long live Lazarus Long!
While any attempt at a tribute would but naturally turn into a passionate link infested paean to this visionary genius, one of the Big 3, along with Asimov and Clarke, one must honour his contribution with a pointer to the Heinlein Concordance, a portal of his stories, characters, concepts and timelines.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ~ Robert A. Heinlein 1907 – 1988
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Airbag to the nuts
In case you were wondering, it’s probably a bad idea to sit on an airbag and set it off.
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happy birthday to you happy birthday to…..the Russian Ak-47
Ahh that symbol of the Russian endurance and the instrument of forcing peace (or certain radical beliefs) on everyone� Yes it was 60 years ago that a Russian peasant would create a weapon that would be tough, easy to use and easy to make. If the weapon tickles your fancy, then you can buy it here for about $880�
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Cow shit kills farming family
From the Associated Press:
Exposure to methane gas led to the deaths of four family members and a farmhand, but whether they suffocated from the fumes or drowned in 18 inches of liquefied cow manure may never be known, authorities said.
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Geek Squad jerk caught swiping porn from customer’s computer
Found a hella funny article over at the Consumerist:
The Consumerist’s 3-month sting operation snared a Geek Squad technician stealing porn from our hard drive, and we’ve got the work-safe video and logfiles to prove it.
To investigate claims by current and former Geek Squad techies (see “The 10 Page Geek Squad Confession – “Stealing Customers’ Nudie Pics Was An Easter Egg Hunt“), we loaded a computer with porn and rigged it to make a video of itself. We captured every cursor movement, every program opened, every file accessed. Everything that the user saw and did, we recorded.
Link, includes video and logfiles, and see also Why We’re Not Telling Geek Squad CEO Which Agent Stole The Porn. The takeaway: this could happen with any tech support service, not just Geek Squad (though Consumerist alleges this is a systemic problem there — not just one rogue dude). If you’ve got stuff you don’t want strangers to see (or copy or steal), encryption is your friend. By the time your PC needs repair, it will be too late to lock down. Plan ahead, grasshopper!
RobDurdle.com 
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