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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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[via Hot Links]
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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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[via Screenhead]
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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…
The Requiem Project
[an] attempt to create the true final episode of the cartoon series, Dungeons and Dragons. Why? Because while there have been some attempts to do this, no one has done it yet, and near as I can tell, it will not be done.
The video trailer is pretty crappy looking, but the images look promising…
Mayor Nagin Calls For Rebuilding “Chocolate” New Orleans
I think New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has finally lost his mind. In a speech he gave yesterday, he had some very, um, unusual comments (video at The Political Teen):
“I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day… This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.”
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In his speech, Nagin also said “God is mad at America,” in part because he does not approve “of us being in Iraq under false pretenses.”“He is sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it is destroying and putting stress on this country,” Nagin said.
OK then…
del.icio.us links for 01-16-2006
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the original commercial for Tetris on the Nintendo (direct link to .mpg video)
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Bilbo Baggins’ (and later Frodo Baggins’) Hobbiton abode meticulously created in doll house form
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I’m pretty sure I posted this before, but it’s still pretty cool…
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the classic Monty Python sketch on Google Video
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Cool Saab commercial in which a Gripen fighter jet transforms into a 9-7x SUV.
del.icio.us links for 01-15-2006
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a look back at 2005 predictions (73% correct, apparently) along with a look at 2006
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Cats and other animals are allegedly having trouble distinguishing HDTV broadcasts from reality. I don’t have an HDTV yet to test this hypothesis…
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312 miles per hour! Check out the video at around 3:40 in…
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“The new cold remedy from the makers of Colt45.” They even got Billy Dee Williams… 🙂
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funny skit from Conan O’Brien
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I’m happy that John Matuszak got an honorable mention for “The Goonies”… 🙂
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“The redheaded late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien has been promoting President Tarja Halonen’s re-election bid as part of a long-running joke about their supposed physical similarities.” Hilarious, but not to Halonen’s opponent, apparently…
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“In most places, a politician has to kiss babies in order to succeed. Arkansas politicians have to eat raccoon.” If only I made this up…
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Some really nice photography here
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“The purpose of this site is to provide photos and descriptions of current and historic US highways ends, and to provide maps that show each US highway in the context of its ‘route family.’”
[thanks to Shaft for the link]
iSpecies
iSpecies is:
a test of E O Wilson’s idea of a web page for each species. The data displayed are generated “on the fly” by querying other data sources (learn how it works).
Definitely a neat “mashup”…
del.icio.us links for 01-14-2006
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very nice roundup of free software
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“To help you strategically plan the best use of your limited sick days.”
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[via Slashdot]
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“A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory a Chinese admiral discovered America before Christopher Columbus.”
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“An ancient map … strongly suggests Chinese seamen were first round the world.”
[via MetaFilter]
del.icio.us links for 01-13-2006
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Woo hoo! USA! USA!
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nice list of “Web 2.0” sites, some of which I hadn’t heard about and will have to check out
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“Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.” I was pleasantly surprised at how well it chose music for me…
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“With a 61 note range, the instruments size is 6 x 3 ft. weighing approximately 150 lbs, and built with an estimated 100,000 LEGO pieces!” Wow. Very cool…
[via Digg]
