Recently Clicked Archive
Those links we've stumbled across that don't rate a full-on blog post, but are worth noting.
March 13, 2008
"Someone’s been eating Hall and Oatesmeal."
March 11, 2008
Jazz Quotes
"In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." -- Steve Lacy. More Jazz Quotes
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March 10, 2008
Your Wildlife Management Advice of the Day
Choose Your Own Map
The Problem with Apple's Air:
February 26, 2008
It's time to play...
February 21, 2008
Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?
February 15, 2008
BAGNewsNotes: What do News Photos Really Mean?
Thudfactor has been reading BAGnewsNotes, a Big-Inky linky if I ever saw one.
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See also: 2008 Election | Journalism |
February 11, 2008
This Stamp Would Have Made For An Awesome Velvet Underground Album Cover
The Skeptic's Dictionary
More of a general reference than a dictionary per se, but good for some clicking around. SkepDic.com
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See also: Reference | Skepticism |
February 07, 2008
Eating in translation
A NYC food blog of small ethnic eateries. Great photos, evocative text.
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See also: Food | NYC | Ethnic | Blogs |
February 04, 2008
And we pull down our blindfolds / And we reach out for the lever in the dark
Your Word of the Day
January 31, 2008
A lesson for those who dare mock male pattern baldness and
January 29, 2008
Bloggers Speak: Best Music of 2007
January 25, 2008
Ways To Make David Banner Angry
January 24, 2008
Blob Found In Maine!
January 23, 2008
An occasional report...
January 21, 2008
I, for one....
I guess there's now two advice-giving superheroines.
January 17, 2008
Make Mine Marvel!
Bring Bad Design To Justice
January 16, 2008
I Can Has Rezearch Papar?
Making The Gene Pool Safe
January 15, 2008
80 million tiny images
We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. The images for each word were obtained using Google's Image Search and other engines.
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See also: Maps | Information Mapping |
Older Recently Clicked Posts:
January 14, 2008: "Let's explore how fun it is to transform a 5-month-old girl into a ubiquitous campaign prop!"
Can I get my 5-month-old daughter photographed with every presidential candidate?
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January 11, 2008: Comic-ize Your Photos
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect Wham!
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January 10, 2008: "# When you get hit, it does not feel good."
How to Actually Win A Fist Fight.
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January 10, 2008: Neu-York
An obsessively detailed alternate-history map, imagining how Manhattan might have looked had the Nazis conquered it in World War II.
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January 10, 2008: 10 Creepy Old Ads
BLOW IN HER FACE AND SHE'LL FOLLOW YOU ANYWHERE.
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January 08, 2008: More Ephemeral Things
David Levine's Travel Ephemera from the 20s and 30s. Via Quipsologies.
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January 05, 2008: An occasional report on ephemeral things.
OldHandbills.com. Via Coudal.
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January 05, 2008: Best Links of 2007
According to Kottke.
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January 05, 2008: Cursor*10
Go on, play with yourself. My high score: 118. Beat it?
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January 01, 2008: 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
I don't even watch 24, but this "what if Jack Bauer had to work with 1994 technology" video is pretty hilarious. Floppies!
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January 01, 2008: 2007 Top 10 Indie Games
Someday, I may actually have time to play one.
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December 21, 2007: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards
An ebay auction.
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December 21, 2007: News That Sounds Like The Onion But Isn't
Blackwater Kills the New York Times' Dog in Iraq. I'll teach you to write bad things about our mercenaries -- and your little dog, too!
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December 19, 2007: Upgrading to XP
"I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop." Via Cynical-C.
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December 17, 2007: Netflix Fodder
AFI's Top 10 Movies of 2007
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December 15, 2007: What's That Font?
If you're at the movies, it must be Trajan.
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December 13, 2007: It's Official:
Republicans can't sing. At least, not these.
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December 12, 2007: 40 acres and a natural experiment
Would it have helped African Americans today if their forefathers had been given the land promised? An economist says yes.
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December 12, 2007: The Moby Equation
Sellout Songs
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December 12, 2007: Wait, They Have Electricity in Ireland?
Ireland Moves to Ban Icandescent Light Bulbs
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December 07, 2007: Where The Blondes Are
The Blonde Map of Europe
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December 07, 2007: I once was lost but now I'm
FFFFOUND!. Via Luc Devroye
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November 28, 2007: Best Airline Safety Video Evar!
Virgin America Safety Video. Via Coudal.
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November 25, 2007: Mrrowr?
Turducken Cat Food
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November 21, 2007: James Bond Plot Flowcharts
One and Two. Via things.
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November 17, 2007: Dear Rockers
Paying Back Musicians
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November 13, 2007: Noted Without Comment:
men who look like old lesbians. Via Cynical-C.
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November 13, 2007: Rock Paper Scissors Question
Paper Can't Win. Contains some profanity.
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November 12, 2007: Beyond Foo
List of Metasyntactic Variables
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November 08, 2007: Tetris + Geography =
Statetris. Via memepool.
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November 07, 2007: What Celebrities Are My Height?
Find Out At CelebHeights.com!
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November 03, 2007: Realish-Time Global Map of Anonymous Wikipedia Edits
WikipediaVision (beta)
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November 03, 2007: Freeware Redux
Yet Another Freeware List, this one includes a bunch I hadn't seen before. Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs.
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November 03, 2007: Remember What the Dormouse Said
Feed the Head. An oddly compelling little web game.
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November 01, 2007: The same coffee tastes better at the coffeeshop
"60% of sensory experience of drinking espresso comes from the retail environment!" It's the smell, stupid.
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October 29, 2007: It's All A Blur.
Deleted Images. Via Cynical-C.
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October 28, 2007: For the Digital Mixmaster In Your Life
You know who he is. Make a Mixa
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October 26, 2007: Awesome!
List of self-contradicting words in English
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October 26, 2007: Who Is...
... The Superest? Via Waxy.
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October 19, 2007: Tufte Alert!
Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps. I wonder if there's a point at which a semi-realistic depiction of a valley enters the Uncanny Valley?. Via Coudal.
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October 19, 2007: This One's For Debbie
Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time. I've seen 32.
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October 18, 2007: Fish Gotta Swim...
... Birds Gotta Fly...
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October 16, 2007: This Would Make For a Fascinating Bookshelf
What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?. Via Waxy.
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October 12, 2007: Your Political Double Entendre Recipe of the Day
Larry Craig's Super Tuber. No lie.
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October 12, 2007: Get Away From Her, You Bitch! Oh, And Can I Get Some Candy?
Power Loader Halloween costume
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October 09, 2007: I knew four of these.
Ten Whatchamacallits And Their Real Names
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October 07, 2007: Prince of Ties
Ian's Shoelace Site
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October 04, 2007: The dark knight meets Adam West
Stills from the cheesy TV Batman with captions from Frank Miller's Dark Knight. It's a scary combination.
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October 01, 2007: One Man, One Vote?
Cynical-C Blog - » Texas Legislation
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September 30, 2007: Image-Aware Resizing
The Image-Aware Resizing thing is now available as a GIMP plugin and a Flash-based web-app
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September 30, 2007: What is the Monkeysphere?
I never thought I'd read a consistent moral philosophy in CRACKED, which I remember as the less-funny MAD, but here it is: What is the Monkeysphere?
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September 28, 2007: New Idolator Column
From that Chris guy.
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September 24, 2007: Write Better Task Descriptions
Dear Me: Get to work | 43 Folders
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September 23, 2007: someecards
ecards for when you care enough to hit send
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September 20, 2007: The New $5 Is Coming!
And it's got a killer music video! A big purple sans-serif 5! Too bad it's only worth a couple of loons now.
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September 19, 2007: If You Like Pina Coladas
Online couple cheated with each other. Via Waxy
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September 14, 2007: If This Had Happened In Chicago, It Would Be a John Hughes Movie
But instead, Nova Scotia and real: Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message
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September 13, 2007: Circular Reasoning Works Because
Circular Reasoning Works Because
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September 13, 2007: Finally, the Empire is Integrated
Stormtroopers blast through gender barrier. Somehow I think the exposed midriff is less than ideal, armor-wise.
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September 12, 2007: Lawyers, Cons and Money
Wanted: Gullible Lawyers.
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September 11, 2007: Your Headline Most Likely To Inspire An Action Movie Of The Day
Mugger in Germany foiled by blind judo expert
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September 09, 2007: Judging Books by Their Covers
Corruption in textbook-adoption proceedings. Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman?
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September 09, 2007: "This is it, kid. Decide. Are you on the side of art or commerce?"
How the Last Shot in Being There Actually Got Made. Via Coudal. You have seen Being There, right?
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September 05, 2007: More Games! Noooooo!
Play This Thing!
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September 05, 2007: Secrets of the Perry Bible Fellowship
- 10 Zen Monkeys interviews Nicholas Gurewitch. This may be one of my favorite PBF strips. Via Waxy.
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September 03, 2007: Font Flowers
"All the curved segments of each character are placed coming out of the center. Comparing one flower to another, many formal differences can be noticed..."
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August 29, 2007: Tufte Alert!
Debbie sent me this link to the Gallery of Data Visualization. Pictured above, the coxcomb graph created by Florence Nightingale.
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August 29, 2007: sdrawkcab
redro lacitebahpla ni sdrow sdrawkcab
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August 28, 2007: Everyone else is linking to this, so...
YouTube Content Aware Image resizing demo. Whoah.
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August 28, 2007: Brush With Love
Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother
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August 27, 2007: Yet Another Freeware List
On Yet Another Blog. A few new ones here for me.
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August 27, 2007: The Ultimate RPS Opponent
It's a mug's game
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August 23, 2007: "No one remembers Ivan the Wonderful."
Cliché replacements and new idioms.
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August 22, 2007: Now That's How To Write An eBay Description
LOT OF POKEMON CARDS THAT MY KIDS TRIED TO SNEAK BY ME - (eBay item 130144061675 end time Aug-22-07 12:03:50 PDT)
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August 21, 2007: Britney Spears, Design Thief
Britney Spears' New Product Stealing from mondonation and Charities
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August 20, 2007: Where Bloggers Buy Crap
Design*Sponge: bloggers' guide to online shopping: part one
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August 20, 2007: Tufte Alert!
CSS Juice » 22 Code Snippets for Creating Decent Charts
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August 17, 2007: Speaking of Freeware...
WinMerge looks darn useful.
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August 13, 2007: And The Numbers Just Keep Going Up
World Clock. I remember a similar digital population growth clock at the Air & Space Museum when I was a kid, and was fascinated that the number of people just kept going up and up and up. Via Coudal.
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August 13, 2007: You're A Manga, Charlie Brown
Boing Boing: Peanuts characters as manga
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August 10, 2007: Ignatieff gets fisked
Rees fisks Ignatieff's fake mea culpa.
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August 10, 2007: Bulwer Lytton Contest: Bad First Lines of Imaginary Books
"The Barents sea heaved and churned like a tortured animal in pain, the howling wind tearing packets of icy green water from the shuddering crests of the waves, atomizing it into mist that was again laid flat by the growing ...
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August 06, 2007: We're The Kids of America
Best Ads of the 80's, Part one and two.
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July 31, 2007: Blackle? Negroogle?
"Negroogle, The Affirmative Action Search Engine... It should have "reparations" automatically queued in the search box also" It's humor, and hard to explain, so just click through. [Link]
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July 30, 2007: 200
200 Bad Comics. Via Cardhouse.
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July 30, 2007: Airplane vs. Zero Hour
The rights to the movie were purchased by the makers of Airplane!, and they were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit YouTube.
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July 29, 2007: Fallacies, Part Two
When I saw this The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies I thought, huh, didn't I blog about that five years ago? Indeed I did, but since that one's 404'd, I give you a renewed list of fallacious arguments.
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July 23, 2007: Exterminate! Exterminate!
Now that it's coming to the telly, you can also get the new Dr. Who (or at least the phone booth) on your desktop.
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July 20, 2007: Jailhouse Rpck
1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice, performing "Thriller". They're actually quite good.
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July 16, 2007: Life in the Last Century
The 100-Year Old Photoblog Seen on Photoethnography
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July 14, 2007: Let he who is without faceblindness recognize the first stone
A nice explanation of face blindness by analogy, written by a face blind individual.
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July 06, 2007: "If real life were like film I'd be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter."
What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies). Yes, we've read this sort of thing before, but still: funny. Via Coudal.
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July 05, 2007: Your MMORPG Headline of the Day
Gnome corpses used to spam World of Warcraft players. ♫ It's raining Gnomes! Hallelujah! ♫
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July 04, 2007: So Doctor...
... I keep having this proto-Gondry dream where Jodie Foster is singing to me in French.. What does it mean?
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July 01, 2007: Read to me
The New Yorker Fiction Out Loud, as podcast, along with discussion with another author concerning what they like about the story.
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June 26, 2007: Everetts in the News
Dan Everett (no relation as far as I know) and the language of the Pirahã of the Amazon. This is apparently big controversial stuff in linguistics. Go Everetts! Via kottke.
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June 25, 2007: 1000 Films
Now that's a list. Fire up the Netflix queue!
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June 21, 2007: Problems in Time
Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies. Via Coudal.
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June 21, 2007: Apparently, Hawaii's economy is based on email scams.
Which countries' GDPs are comparable to US states'? Which countries' GDPs are comparable to US states'?
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June 20, 2007: Handwritten Headlines
FONTSELF. Via Coudal.
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June 20, 2007: Solving Mazes...
... with Photoshop? Via Waxy.
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June 19, 2007: Darling!
Pesky' has a new job at Planned Parenthood, so hopefully she'll appreciate this 1956/1962 Planned Parenthood Comic on Birth Control. Via Boing Boing.
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June 12, 2007: Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island
The Island and Lake Combination is just one of the odd pages at Topografisch Verbond Elbruz.
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June 11, 2007: Adaptations
Authors pick their favorite movie adaptations of books. Via Kottke.
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June 07, 2007: Science Geek Merch
Wear it with pride or with air quotes: Merch from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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June 06, 2007: The man who weighed 1234 lbs
While the number is horrifyingly large, I'm kind of entranced by the fact that his weight made consecutive numbers in pounds. More interesting than if he had been 1308 lbs at his peak. Oh - and he's hoping to set ...
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June 05, 2007: Revenge Is A Dish Best Served With A Stripper Impersonating You At Your High School Reunion
I Remember Andrea BETTER. No nudity, but NSFW if your employer would wonder why you're looking at a stripper on YouTube. Via robotfilter
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May 31, 2007: Seal Generator
Every family should have one. Great for bookplates, too. The Seal Generator is from the good folks who brought you the Church Sign Generator, the Mobster Threat Generator, and George Says.
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