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The Doors/Craigslist via Weird Al

With Ray Manzarek on keyboards:

120HP is all you want on marble

YouTube – Jeremy’s Extreme Ford Fiesta road test The fun starts around 4 mins in.

Internet Identity

One of the first Internet related cartoons I saw back in the day was in the New Yorker. One dog sitting at a keyboard explains to another dog: “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Apropos of that comic is the logo for the Internet Identity Workshop. The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on [...]

Battlestar: Lostica

LoL

Plato and Turing Walk into a Bar…

Plato and Turing Walk into a Bar…: “A seeker has heard that the wisest guru in all of India lives atop India’s highest mountain.  So the seeker treks over hill and Delhi until he reaches the fabled mountain.  It’s incredibly steep, and more than once he slips and falls. By the time he reaches the [...]

Give Up and Use Tables

Give Up and Use Tables: If you’re wasting time fighting with CSS — and we know you are — we’ve got just the tool you need. (Via Daring Fireball.)

Ethnic Food In & Around Washington D.C.

Tyler Cowen is a man of many talents with a new book out. It is called Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. Along with pithily-named books, Tyler is well know for his guide to ethnic dining around the D.C. area.

Dolphins De-bone, De-ink & Devour

Scientists have observed bottlenose dolphins preparing cuttlefish for consumption. Considering they can’t wield a knife or cleaver, dolphins make impressive butchers. Researchers in Australia recently observed a bottlenose performing a precise series of manoeuvres to kill, gut and bone a cuttlefish. The six-step procedure gets rid of the invertebrate’s unappetising ink and hard-to-swallow cuttlebone. (Via [...]

Prognostications – Wrong

Newspapers are going the way of the Dinosaurs. VHS will put an end to movie theaters as an industry. CD’s will make music easy to steal. The telephone will bring an end to concert halls and churches?!?!?!? Funny how well received some completely wrong predictions are.

Khaaaaan!!!!

If you just use Google to search for people, places and things to buy, you’re missing out on the POWER OF TEH GOOG!!! Take for instance the fact that you can use simple variables in your search phrase like: “KH(Ax)N” for x=1 to 100 This yields the following graph: Via Flashman’s Flickr

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