The end of time
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through the looking glass
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They look like ants…
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Use the Force, Luke!
30 years ago today
the dream of a man
named George Lucas
became a phenomenon
that changed the world.
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One in 20 is too many.
Nearly 700 cyclists are killed on U.S. roads every year, and more than 540,000 are sent to the emergency room. The annual Ride of Silence was started in 2003 to honor and raise awareness for those tragically killed and injured on the road, and has grown into a worldwide event, with more than 270 confirmed rides planned to start tonight, at 7 p.m. Ride along on YouTube or grab a black armband and join a group near you.
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In praise of Budweiser..?
In praise of Budweiser, in which Daniel Davies defends Budweiser, claiming that it is in the right in it’s copyright fight with the Czech brewer Budvar and that the rice in Bud is not a modern cost cutting development but is an essential ingredient in brewing an American pilsner. Worth reading whatever your view on Budweiser is for the brutal attack on the Welsh town of Wrexham in the footnotes.
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Well played, Rob Schneider.
C’mon, Roger Ebert, tell us what you really think about “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.”
Even though Roger Ebert had the last word with Rob Schneider. A few days ago, Rob Schneider proves that despite his undiscriminating film choices, bad films do not make a bad person and he is one classy guy.
On a completely related note, today Ebert’s website "Ebert’s Most Hated," a collection of classic zero- and one-star reviews. My favorites: "North" and "Freddy Got Fingered."
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Best of the Webb
“Clearly we need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time to see the very birth of the Universe.” The venerable Hubble space telescope is going to be replaced by what looks like a honeycomb on a box of chocolates. Of course, if it takes more pictures like this (XL), nobody is going to complain about its looks.
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Disney’s 1958 vision of tomorrow’s highways
Disney’s 1958 short “Magic Highway” is a retro-future look at the highways of tomorrow that never were. It is a perfect storm of goofy futurism (imagining the future to be just like the present, only more so) and crazy, angular pop art visuals. This makes me terribly nostalgic for the future
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Quack breast enlargement ad from 1924
This June, 1924 breast-enlargement advert from Popular Mechanics is a lovely illustration of the era’s prudery, employing “double your breathing capacity” as a euphemism for “get giant knockers now!”
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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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