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Barack's Myspace
2007-05-19 00:00:00
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America." -Senator Barack Obama Become a friend today!! http://www.myspace.com/barackobama
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Flowery Urinals
2007-05-11 00:00:00
http://www.clarkmade.com/show.html Clark Sorensen has created some of the most amazing and beautiful urinals one is likely to ever see. Each is meticulously hand built and one of a kind - formed from high fire porcelain and fired to cone 10 (2300 deg.). They are fully functioning vitreous porcelain fixtures that can actually be plumbed and used in a bathroom or simply displayed. The show even contains three functioning urinals that you may flush! Clark hopes that his urinals will be put to use in uniquely designed bathrooms around the world. He has a gorgeous Calla Lily urinal in his studio from a previous show that is plumbed and fully functioning. http://www.clarkmade.com/show.html
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24hrs of Flickr
2007-05-03 00:00:00
Its coming! 24 Hours of Flick r ? A global Flickr community event What happens around the world in one day? In a word ? life. Here on Flickr, photographers are sharing what they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty. To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in "24 Hours of Flickr" ? a day-long global photo project. On May 5, 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. The group's photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer and in a companion book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group (more about this soon!). Join the "24 Hours of Flickr" group to get ready for the big day!

Bill Wyman Signature Metal Detector
2007-05-02 00:00:00
http://www.billwymandetector.com/signatur e.html I got this from the News of the Weird blog, and it is a bit weird... but you gotta love a guy who is bizarrely rich and still publicizes and shares his passions. ?My Bill Wyman Sign ature Detector is lightweight, easy to use and affordable ? yet has significant performance levels. It is the ideal metal detector for anyone starting out treasure hunting? Bill Wyman, Musician, former Rolling Stones bassist, keen amateur historian and authority on metal detecting The Bill Wyman Signature Detector is a lightweight treasure finding Instrument ideal for newcomers to detecting of all ages - incorporating all the latest developments in location technology. It is child?s play to use and you don?t have to worry about technical controls.
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Veiled Threat From Radio Rays!
2007-04-30 00:00:00
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/fem ail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_ page_id=1879 Tinfoil on her walls and a metal veil keep this fine lass from getting irradiated by all of the electrical waves in the air. Last time someone came to visit," she warns, "I started feeling awfully nauseous. It turned out he had a picture phone with him and had left it switched on. A picture phone!" She pauses, looking genuinely horrified. Apparently, this type of mobile automatically sends signals to a local base station every nine minutes - "No wonder I felt so sick http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/fem ail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_ page_id=1879
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Ebay Profits Jump
2007-04-23 00:00:00
I may get a profit out of my Ebay stock yet!! From NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/technol ogy/19ebay.html EBay posted better-than-expected profit in the first quarter as several of its newer businesses compensated for disappointing results in its mainstay auction service. The faster-growing units include shopping.com, a price comparison site; some classified listing sites; a service to let online merchants accept credit cards; and Skype, the online voice chat service. ?We are on track with our well-crafted portfolio,? Meg Whitman, eBay?s chief executive, said in an interview after the earnings report yesterday.
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Barack's Myspace
2007-04-23 00:00:00
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America." -Senator Barack Obama Become a friend today!! http://www.myspace.com/barackobama
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SilverLight is Shit
2007-04-18 04:01:00
http://channel9.msdn.com/playground/wpfe/ PageTurn/default.htmlThey've got a long way to go to catch up to Flash. This page turn is a 3 year old idea... Dreadful.
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies :: Loss of another shining beacon
2007-04-15 00:00:00
A writing hero of mine, Kurt Vonnegut passed away. His books filled my teen years with enjoyment and wonder. I hang my head low, for the kids today will need him now as much as I did then. ?And I say to Sam now: ?Sam?here?s the book.? It?s so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like ?Poo-tee-weet?? ?Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were leafing out. There was nothing going on out there, no traffic of any kind. There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two horses. The wagon was green and coffin shaped. Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim. ?Poo-tee-weet???
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Twitter
2007-04-15 00:00:00
http://www.twitter.com WTF? I still don't get it. What is this twitter thing for? What is it? Twit ter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless! Ok... so how does it work? You can send updates in three ways: send a text message from your mobile phone, type a message from the Twitter site, or instant message from AIM, Jabber or Gtalk. Start by texting the word help to 40404 if you're in the United States. For international Twitters, use +44 7781 488126. If you're from Canada or Australia-- we have different numbers. Write us and we'll give you yours. What is 40404? 40404 is the number you send your Twitter updates to if you're in the United States (US...

Drobo Cop
2007-04-09 00:00:00
http://www.drobo.com/products.aspx Expandable RAID storage made simple: The DROBO is a cute little drive tray that automatically configures itself after drives have been added. Pretty cool Fully automated storage you don't have to manage. Chances are, you get passionate about creating or collecting digital content, not about managing the storage where it lives. For you we've created Drobo, the first robotic storage device that takes the pain out of keeping your content safe. Drobo guards everything on it. Drobo combines up to four hard drives into a big pool of protected storage. Start with two, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives?get Terabytes of protection. Drobo upgrades capacity on-the-fly. Add drives to Drobo at any time. Mix 'n match capacities, brands or speeds. No downtime, data migration, or waiting to access new capacity. Drobo works the way you do. Drobo lets you "pay as you grow" Hard drives get bigger and cheaper all the time. Don't ...
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BBC Documentary :: Jeff Buckley
2007-04-09 00:00:00
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9 101158322649801083
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RageBoy Vs. Headrush
2007-04-03 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ?f=/c/a/2007/03/28/BUG0MOSR8R1.DTL This is very sad. Snarky blogger Chis Locke making fun of Kathy Sierra turned nasty and then led to defamatory photoshop images then ultimately to death threats. Bloggers hang their heads in shame. wtf?
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Google April Fools
2007-04-03 00:00:00
TiSP: Going with the flow TiSP Kit Googl e TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. Installing TiSP Installing a typical home TiSP system is a quick, easy and largely sanitary process -- provided you follow these step-by-step instructions very, very carefully. #1 Remove the spindle of fiber-optic cable from your TiSP installation kit. #2 Attach the sinker to the loose end of the cable, take one safe step backward and drop this weighted end into your toilet. #3 Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush? system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes. #4 When the GFlush is complete, the spindle will (or at least sh...
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EMI to go DRM free?
2007-04-03 00:00:00
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/2007 0401-emi-to-announced-drm-free-plans-tomo rrow-reports.html EMI will announce on Monday that it will be freeing much of its catalog from the shackles of DRM. The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter," reports (sub. required) that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be present at the announcement in London and that the music will be sold through the iTunes Store and possibly other online outlets. Related Stories * EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you * Making money selling music without DRM: the rise of eMusic * Musicload: 75% of customer service problems caused by DRM * Testing DRM-free waters: EMI selling a few MP3s through Yahoo Music The news comes less than two months after Apple published Steve Jobs' famous open letter on the issue of DRM. In his missive, Jobs laid the blame for the DRM mess squarely at the feet of the music industry and said that he would gladly sell unprotected musi...
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The Times finds the Turk
2007-03-27 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/busines s/yourmoney/25Stream.html?_r=1&ref=techno logy&oref=slogin Holy crap this took a while... Mechanical Turk began life as a service that Amazon itself needed. (The name recalls a famous 18th-century hoax, where what seemed to be a chess-playing automaton really concealed a human chess master.) Amazon had millions of Web pages that described individual products, but it wanted to weed out the duplicate pages. Software could help, but algorithmically eliminating all the duplicates was impossible, according to Mr. Bezos. So the company began to develop a Web site where people would look at product pages and be paid a few cents for every duplicate page they correctly identified. Mr. Bezos figured that what had been useful to Amazon would be valuable to other businesses, too. The company opened Mechanical Turk as a public site in November 2005. Today, there are more than 100,000 ?Turk Workers? in more than 100 countries who earn micropayments in exc...
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Mix This
2007-03-24 00:00:00
http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/pagano/ Mash a Kandinsky with a Duchamp, crumple one of Zaha Hadid?s smaller architectural experiments with H.R. Geiger?s eerie organic forms, cram the whole thing into a high-definition television, and you might end up with something like the art of Scott Pagano. Grind down the gritty, industrial detritus of Rotterdam ? one of the world?s largest port cities ? and process it in a digital audio factory and you may, if you?re lucky, get something that sounds like the mechanized mayhem of Jochem Paap, a.k.a. ?Speedy J.? Blend it all together in a high-fidelity digital soup and you get, well, you get something entirely new. Known for melding mind-bending graphics with edgy stills, Pagano has crafted pieces for musicians like BT and Richard Devine, but he?s also worked on international ad campaigns for the likes of Nike and XXX. Paap churns up dance floors across the world and is one of Europe?s hardest-working DJs. He?s also a prolific producer who ha...
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Halliburton Moving to Dubai
2007-03-13 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/busines s/12haliburton.html?hp=&pagewanted=print WTF? You've got to be kidding me... Halliburton 's officers need to be jailed.
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Extradition Treaty between US and UAE
2007-03-13 00:00:00
Nope.
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Powers of Ten
2007-03-06 20:44:03
http://www.powersof10.com/"Eventually, everything connects." —Charles Eames If anyone can find me a link to this video I'd really appreciate it... "In 1977, Charles and Ray Eames made a nine-minute film called Power s of Ten that still has the capacity today to expand the way we think and view our world. Over ten million people have since seen the film and it continues to be shown in classrooms, business meetings, festivals and retreats everywhere. Starting with a sleeping man at a picnic, the film takes the viewer on a journey out to the edge of space and then back into a carbon atom in the hand of the man picnic, all in a single shot. It is an unforgettable experience." http://www.powersof10.com/
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An Inconvenient Carbon Credit Trading Truth
2007-02-26 20:40:02
I finally saw "An Inconvenient Truth ", it made me suitably fearful for our future so I thought it might be beneficial to do some research into removing Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere. So far I've found no truly easy way that I believe will directly do the work. There are a number of sites that let let you offset your car's release of CO2 by purchasing blocks on the Chicago Carbon Exchange, a process known as buying carbon credits. I don't feel like this is a direct enough route for my dollars. I want to buy carbon storage units, maybe something like trees, lots of trees, trees that will grow very old and hold their carbon for a large number of years. None of the sites below allow me to buy tree planting directly. Buy Carbon Credit s: http://www.driveneutral.org http://www.carbonplanet.com/home/ http://www.e-bluehorizons.com http://www.terrapass.com/ http://www.cleanairpass.com http://www.carbonfund.org http://www.carbonfootprint.com Where are the sites for buying carbon ...
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Fuck Math
2007-02-23 20:38:02
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02311321 23?ie=UTF8&tag=coolass-20&linkCod e=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325& ;creativeASIN=0231132123 From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science /20book.html?ref=science When coastal engineers decide whether to dredge sand and pump it onto an eroded beach, they use mathematical models to predict how much sand they will need, when and where they must apply it, the rate it will move and how long the project will survive in the face of coastal storms and erosion. Orrin H. Pilkey, a coastal geologist and emeritus professor at Duke, recommends another approach: just dredge up a lot of sand and dump it on the beach willy-nilly. This “kamikaze engineering” might not last very long, he says, but projects built according to models do not usually last very long either, and at least his approach would not lull anyone into false mathematical certitude. Now Dr. Pilkey and his daughter Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, a geol...
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Science Need More Doers Less Thinkers
2007-02-20 02:35:01
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?artic leId=USN1736174120070218Great article from Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?artic leId=USN1736174120070218 Larry Page had a fun conversation with some academic researchers and berated them for lacking marketing and effort. Coolass. "There are lots of people who specialize in marketing, but as far as I can tell, none of them work for you," Page told researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science late on Friday. Page said the reason many scientific undertakings did not succeed was due to a lack of human effort rather than technical hurdles.
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Creative Commons Creative Cooption
2007-02-19 08:33:01
Seth Godin released a nice little pamphlet called "Everyone's an Expert" back in 2005. He released this little treatise via a copyright license called Creative Comm on s. Apparently to encourage the work's dissemination, it seems to have worked a little too well since someone has grabbed the Seth Godin text and published it as a book, the creative commons license doesn't preclude this. That is funny, and Seth got pissed, that is even funnier. Here is the Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/busines s/17online.html?ex=1329541200&en=162b 6febe5173d02&ei=5124&partner=perm alink&exprod=permalink
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Web 2.0 in 5 Minutes
2007-02-18 14:31:01
This explains to my co-workers everything that I have been trying to tell them for the last two and half years. An excellent video. Here is a link to the high quality version: Download High Quality Version
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Back to the Future
2007-02-18 14:31:01
Check out the shape, how can it be random. The Hubble will start to lose its functionality, we'll patch it, put some duct tape on it, but when it dies, we have no back up. The passion that we had for space has not been passed on. How do we let the kids know that Space is the only future for man...
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Make Number 9 is in the House!
2007-02-18 14:31:01
http://makezine.com/magazine/ For those of you that do not have a subscription to make magazine... Suckaz! I've got that latest sitting on my coffee table, came today. There is a special supplement called Athansius Kircher's Magnetic Clock, Make rs Tales, 1st in a Series, excerpted from the travel journal of Sir Robert Moray. Get the subscription! http://makezine.com/magazine/
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Card Catalog Card Generator Generates Fun Catalog Cards
2007-02-18 14:31:01
http://www.blyberg.net/card-generator/
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And she bangs, she bangs :: Chinese Radio and the Big bang
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/science /space/09collider.html?hp&ex=11709972 00&en=e2a2c4af44833c0e&ei=5094&am p;partner=homepage The location of the announcement yesterday, the Institute for High Energy Physics in Beijing, underscores the growing role and ambition of Asia, particularly Japan and China, to become major players in high-energy physics, a field that has been dominated by the United States and Europe in the last century.
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Yahoo Pipes Roto Roots Feed Data
2007-02-11 02:29:02
http://pipes.yahoo.com/ Yahoo pipes takes mash-ups to the masses by creating a visual programming interface allowing just about anyone to mix and match feeds into new combinations. Coolass.
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