Tag: imported

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Advanced Photoshop Techniques that you may not be aware of [Inspect Element] Posted: 24 Oct 2009 07:46 PM PDT

The noughties – a decade of lost species [guardian.co.uk] Posted: 24 Oct 2009 03:01 PM PDT “From rhinos to redwood trees, the noughties decade has spelled the end for some species of plants and animals. Many have not been sighted in their natural habitat for some time, while others have been declared officially extinct”

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Windows 7 avalanche: Roundup of hacks, tips, downloads, and more! Posted: 23 Oct 2009 11:54 AM PDT

Drinkhacker.com Posted: 23 Oct 2009 11:35 AM PDT “The Essential Blog for the Discriminating Drinker”

10 Latin Phrases You Pretend to Understand [mental_floss Blog] Posted: 23 Oct 2009 11:32 AM PDT I didn’t get “memento mori” quite right…

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Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking [Official Google Reader Blog] Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:49 PM PDT

Lifehacker’s Complete Guide to Windows 7 Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:05 PM PDT

Bing Twitter Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:03 AM PDT

A Visual Guide to Computer Cables and Connectors – Identify The Right Cable Easily Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:02 AM PDT

Google Announces Search Deal With Twitter Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:00 AM PDT

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86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: “what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?” [Boing Boing] Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:29 PM PDT

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Google Wave Notifier Add-on for Firefox [That Smith] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:14 PM PDT

Fail to the Redskins: Worst-Run Franchise on the Planet [FanHouse] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT

Iconic Photos Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:51 AM PDT kottke remarks that “It’s one notable photo per post plus some context.” Pretty nice…

SkyTran – The future of travel. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT “SkyTran is a new transportation system, currently under development at NASA Ames Research and other locations. Light-weight vehicles ride above ground traffic on a magnetic levitation (maglev) micro freeway, also called the guideway.” Very cool; too bad it will never happen…

NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System [NPR] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT “NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.”

IMDb Turns 19. Yes, 19. Older Than The Web Browser. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:32 AM PDT “If you load up the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) today, you’ll see a new logo commemorating its 19th birthday. Yes, that’s really old for the Internet. Google, by comparison, is 11. Meanwhile, Yahoo is 14. IMDb is so old in fact, that is pre-dates the first web browsers.”

7 Reasons Why I Switched to Google Chrome from Firefox [webstudio13.com] Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:24 AM PDT

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YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net [Wired.com] Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:50 PM PDT Pretty wild…

The death of language? [BBC] Posted: 19 Oct 2009 11:48 AM PDT “In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world’s languages would have ceased to exist. ”

YouTube Comment or e. e. cummings? [McSweeney’s Internet Tendency] Posted: 19 Oct 2009 09:25 AM PDT

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Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax – Boy in the balloon [Gawker] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 06:54 PM PDT

Solomons Island Sunset 2 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:16 PM PDT driko posted a photo:

Solomons Island Sunset 1 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:16 PM PDT driko posted a photo:

Black-Eyed Susan Macro 3 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:13 PM PDT driko posted a photo: A macro taken of a flower in a black-eyed susan garden in Solomons Island.

Black-Eyed Susan Macro 2 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:12 PM PDT driko posted a photo: A macro taken of a flower in a black-eyed susan garden in Solomons Island.

Black-Eyed Susan Macro 1 [Flickr] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 12:12 PM PDT driko posted a photo: A macro taken of a flower in a black-eyed susan garden in Solomons Island.

Marge Simpson in Playboy [ohnotheydidnt] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 11:10 AM PDT NSFW and sad for me on many levels…

Baltimore Ravens – Organized Chaos [YouTube] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT Really well done video of defensive highlights from last season.

Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction [YouTube] Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:34 AM PDT

Pasta: Edible Geometry and Italian Genius Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:26 AM PDT Pictorial overview of pasta shapes

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‘Daily Show’ Destroys CNN For Fact-Checking ‘SNL’ Instead Of Their Guests (VIDEO) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 09:57 AM PDT

50 Years of Space Exploration [Flickr] Posted: 16 Oct 2009 09:55 AM PDT very nice infographic showing which spacecraft visited which planets etc.

Douglas Adams – Hyperland (1990) Posted: 16 Oct 2009 05:49 AM PDT As fimoculous posts, “Douglas Adams made a 50-minute ‘fantasy documentary’ for BBC Two in 1990 about hypertext and virtual reality called ‘Hyperland’.”

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SPACEWAR – by Stewart Brand – Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 07:55 AM PDT kottke.org writes: “Spacewar was one of the first video games and in 1972, Rolling Stone sent a 33-yo Stewart Brand to document the early days of computing as entertainment. The photographs were taken by a 23-yo Annie Leibovitz.”

‘Magnetic electricity’ discovered [BBC News] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT “Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones.”

25 Free Online Tools for Web Designers, Developers, Freelancers and Individuals Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:26 AM PDT

Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:06 AM PDT “Interesting” theory ;-): “I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.”

Hybrid Cars May Include Fake Vroom for Safety [NYTimes.com] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:04 AM PDT “’One possibility is choosing your own noise,’ said Nathalie Bauters, a spokeswoman for BMW’s Mini division, who added that such technology could be added to one of BMW’s electric vehicles in the future.” Oh, that will not be good…

Iceland Crushed by Europe [Strange Maps] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 03:57 AM PDT

I’m quite bummed to hear that Captain Lou Albano has passed away… 🙁