Aviva Directory’s post 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know is a nice reference…
MacGyver Unplugged
Adrian Holovaty’s rendition of the MacGyver theme song unplugged (YouTube video) is pretty cool…
Online Communities Map
xkcd has posted an interesting Online Communities Map. The size of each territory is determined by the number of members of the particular community. I was a bit surprised to see how much MySpace dominates…
The Turd Twister!
I will second Gizmodo’s assertion that I can’t believe that I’m posting about The Turd Twister. Can you guess what it is?
Herbert F. Kornfeld Dead at 34
Herbert F. Kornfeld, Accountz Reeceevin’ supervisa extraordinaire, has apparently died at the age of 34:
“We believe the victim was assaulted after hours Friday by an unknown individual or individuals,” a Columbia County sheriff’s department spokesman said. “Though autopsy results are still pending, we believe the victim suffered fatal head trauma after his face was immobilized against the glass of a photocopier and repeatedly struck with the machine’s cover.”
The MetaFilter thread has some nice thoughts. Peace out, brutha. ;-(
Sci-Fi Movie Saves American Hostages?
Did you know that the CIA used a fake science fiction movie as a cover story to rescue some American hostages from Tehran in 1980? Wired Magazine has the very cool story.
U2 to Bring Spider-Man to Broadway?!
U2 is supposedly bringing a Spider-Man musical to Broadway. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
fotowoosh
fotowoosh claims to be able to convert 2D images into 3D images, something supposedly impossible from a single image. The technology is currently in beta, but the demo video they show is pretty neat…
15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
The Onion’s A.V. Club has a great feature in the wake of Kurt Vonnegut’s recent death: 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will.
A Moment On Earth Mosaic
A Moment On Earth Mosaic doesn’t have the best interface, but I think it’s a very cool concept:
This mosaic was created using thousands of images from the different moments that were captured for the first film in the A Moment on Earthâ„¢ series. The larger picture it creates shows images from the first moments in Iraq and the Pacific Ocean.