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Great fan video of William Shatner’s psychedelic cover of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
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del.icio.us links for 01-21-2006
del.icio.us links for 01-20-2006
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“Trapped In The Closet” will apparently never air in the UK; I wonder whether there’ll be reruns in the U.S.? Good thing I saw it, as it was pretty funny… 🙂
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“A map supporting claims that the admiral Zheng He reached the New World in the early 15th century is plainly a hoax.” Some interesting background information…
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“The BellSouths and Verizons of the world should focus on offering better services at lower prices – not trying to fine-tune the Tony Soprano business model.”
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Poe’s birthday yesterday saw the continuation of the enigmatic Baltimore ceremony held every year since 1949.
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“Our mission is to provide the best possible search engine to you while at the same time, making sure the government is informed should you search for something obscure, illegal, or unpatriotic.”
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Photo essay on the Bangladeshi shipbreaking industry
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fun interactive flash video
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There’s just something off with this…
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“A visual look at where your tax dollars go.” Very nicely done chart…
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addictive little Flash game similar to Sokoban
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Happy 3rd Birthday, Trogdor!
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“The new Honda Civic UK commercial is based around a chorus who create all of the sound effects with their mouths.” Pretty amazing…
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nice list of applications
Happy Birthday Trogdor!
Trogdor (of Homestar Runner fame celebrates his third birthday in style. Happy Trogday! 🙂
I Shot The Sheriff…
For those of you who haven’t noticed, American Idol is back with Season 5. Check out this particularly horrible rendition of I Shot The Sheriff (embedded YouTube video below) by an actual deputy who apparently only knows the chorus.
del.icio.us links for 01-19-2006
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“Taking off for the first time this year will be small, speedy, cheap jets that big airlines worry will cause traffic jams around major metropolitan areas.” Interesting article on microjets/very light jets (VLJs)…
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“While this game of pong randomly plays, the so called players score the time. The left player scores the hours, and the right player scores the minutes.” Expensive but cool…
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First Nikon scales back its film cameras, and now Konica Minolta decides to get out of the camera business altogether…
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Come back, Copper! Oh wait, that was Zinc. Sorry, the Simpsons reference was unavoidable… 🙂
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very nice annotated list with download links
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“The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying ‘intelligent design’ is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion.”
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“A 24 writer talks about torture, terrorism, and fudging ‘real time.’”
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“The undeniable truth is that America’s space program no longer gets the first cut of science, engineering and management talent.”
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nice archive of grammar tips
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Talk about stupid…
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make your own Simpsons character
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one of my favorite Simpsons moments… 🙂
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The Onion has a podcast available! This may drive me to actually try downloading a podcast…
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The Pluto launch apparently went well today, so that’s two bits of good news for NASA…
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True! Check out the full scoop, because there is a catch (of course)…
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“The case worries privacy advocates, given the vast amount of information Google and other search engines know about their users.” This could be big…
[via digg]
Alexander Ovechkin’s Amazing Goal
If you haven’t yet seen Washington Capitals rookie Alexander Ovechkin’s amazing goal from last Monday’s game against Phoenix, you’re missing out. The Washington Post reports that superlatives are (deservedly, IMHO) flying:
Bill Clement, studio host for NBC’s and OLN’s NHL coverage [effuses] “Oh my god. It’s one of the greatest goals of all time. We are starting to talk about him for the Hart Trophy,” given to the league’s most valuable player.
Ovechkin is a shining star on a pretty mediocre Caps team this year, but this goal is just mind-boggling. Check out the embedded Google Video below.
The Land of Chocolate
Homer Simpson’s daydream in which he explores The Land of Chocolate (YouTube video, embedded below) is one of my favorite Simpsons moments (from Episode 8F09, Burns Verkaufen Der Kraftwerk)… 🙂
del.icio.us links for 01-18-2006
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“Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity [Habitat For Humanity], it was announced Tuesday.”
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“The world’s first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation will debut as early as 2008, a Tokyo-based company said Tuesday.” I don’t know, I’d be a bit leery of this…
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“Google plans to integrate dMarc technology into the Google AdWords platform, creating a new radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.”
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“[former Shuttle] Astronaut Mike Mullane has flown on the shuttle three times and would go again in a heartbeat, but in a new memoir he called this ship the most dangerous spacecraft humans have ever ridden.” Some interesting anecdotes too…
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Variations on “taint;” nothing but some possibly bad language here, but just in case I’ll mark it NSFW.
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a simple but slightly addictive game
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W’s presidency as an Infocom text game
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Batman, Godzilla, Abraham Lincoln, Shaquille O’Neal, Optimus Prime, and dozens more star in this hilariously amazing video.
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very thorough discussion of the fourth dimension through tutorials of increasing complexity. Reminds me of Abbott’s “Flatland”…
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cool Flash-based interface to Flickr
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“The Social Music Revolution;” another online music radio site that suggests tracks based on your favorite artists and inputs. I’m not sure I like it as much as Pandora, but I’m giving it a try…
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very useful and thorough
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“Hackers and spyware don’t lead to identity theft. Stupid people do. You be the judge.”
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fun 404 error page
del.icio.us links for 01-17-2006
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looks like the launch got cancelled today…
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probably a hoax… 🙂
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If you want to stay on top of the latest news on your favorite event(s), NBC is offering a plethora of RSS feeds for the upcoming Winter Olympics.
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“GE/Durham has more than 170 employees but just one boss: the plant manager. Everyone in the place reports to her. Which means that on a day-to-day basis, the people who work here have no boss. They essentially run themselves.”
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another wacky Japanese game show video
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another social bookmarking site along the lines of digg, but with less overhead
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neat high-speed photography gallery
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PDF files, mostly programming-related
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Brochures and ads from classic computers and gaming systems
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no registration required for now…
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360-degree Quicktime VR panoramas of many European cities
SkyVector
Jeremy Zawodny posts that “SkyVector is the Google Maps of aviation sectional charts,” and I think that’s pretty much right on. Charts for the entire country have been scanned in and made into a Google-Maps like interface that lets you seamlessly drag the map as well as zoom in and out. Very nicely done…
