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Japanese Magic

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potato magic
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t-shirt folding magic

MetaBlog: Question + Service + Congrats

The EDGE Annual Question: “What is your dangerous idea?” (link) via BoingBoing
What’s so bad about Microsoft? (link) via digg
List of sites to assist in transfering/hosting large files (link) via digg
Cory Doctorow Becomes a Full Time Writer (congrats!!) (link)

The EDGE question is a fascinating one. At 72,000+ words it’ll take me awhile to get through […]

MetaBlog: First edition

A further funneling of RSS…presenting, today’s nuggets:

Florida teen takes “immersion learning class” to a new level, flies to Iraq without telling parents, chills in the desert for a bit before finding the green zone and getting help (link) via BoingBoing
13 things that do not make sense (link) via digg
Microsoft employees talkin’ trash about Internet Explorer* […]

More Old Color Photos

So digg.com seems to be my new favorite site since slicedbread.com and wannabeafanboy.org. I just ran across more old color photos taken in the States from 1939 - 1943. Very very cool…

Russian Color Photos Before WWI

This is just incredible…
I have trouble overcoming the deception of old black and white photography. I can never really “picture” the scene in color. Here are some amazing pictures of Russia taken before WWI by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944).

Simply amazing and quite a shame that we don’t have more pictures of this and […]

Digg Diggers Dig South Dakota

Digg is a site I check upon nearly every browser opening of every day. I started my Sunday afternoon with a good laugh since the recent failed zip feedmill implosion in Sioux Falls, SD was a front page digg. What a splendid surprise to see guys I know in real life commenting on […]

Politics & Darth

Last week I was in London and was able to catch The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Before the film there was a great commercial from Orange depicting Darth Vader trying to pitch a film.

Using roughly the same side of the force, John Bolton appears in the video below to be an incredibly good […]

Pssst…media…this is a good one…

John Conyers and 88 members of congress are attempting to wake up the media a bit over the leaked Downing Street memo with an open letter to the president. The memo (written in July 2002) goes so far as to lay out ways to “shape public opinion” in favor of the war. Nice. […]

Welcome Back for Another Episode of “As the Bar Slowly Lowers”

This is, however, of course, naturally and most predictably an isolated incident.
Integrity, Honor, Respect

Get Perpendicular

I know anyone who checks slashdot or boingboing will have already seen this but it’s just too unbelievable. Hitachi has been working on expanding magnetic storage into the 3rd dimension. They’re so excited about their proof-of-concept working that they’ve endulged the evilest of fetishes and made a 70’s style disco flash animation about […]