March 2008
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High resolution map of Middle Earth →
I’m not a hobbit head but this map is amazingly cool.
GoogleDrive from Phatfusion →
Drive a car around Google Maps using your arrow keys.
Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling....
WatchWhat is Jelly?
YouTube in Hi-Quality →
Tip shows you how to view the higher quality version of any video on YouTube. All you do is add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL.
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Classic PowerPoint Presentations →
STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING
A PowerPoint presentation by Robert Frost
PROJECT GOALS:
To watch woods fill up with snow.
To do so without being observed.
To steal some time from other projects.
To stay mindful of other projects, however.
Don't Eat Anything That Doesn't Rot →
Michael Pollan: Food’s under attack from two quarters. It’s under attack from the food industry, which is taking, you know, perfectly good whole foods and tricking them up into highly processed edible foodlike substances, and from nutritional science, which has over the years convinced us that we shouldn’t be paying attention to food, it’s really the nutrients that...
Back in the Swing, 1962 →
In February 1962, Sports Illustrated sent the illustrator Robert Weaver to cover spring training in Florida. He then created a series of paintings that appeared in the March 5, 1962, issue of the magazine.
The drawings that follow are from his sketchbook.
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Neil Young - Down by the River
If I could...
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12:16 p.m.
MAN: I'm a pretty intelligent fellow, but I'm not sure if I get this one.
PLUG: Uh. I'm just excited because I don't wear this tie anymore. It's ugly, right?
MAN: It's not exactly attractive. So did you quit a job or something like that?
PLUG: No, I wish. I kind of wish I did, but no. I was just informing people that I don't wear this tie anymore.
MAN: Okay. You just wanted the world to know. And the one on the back as well?
PLUG: Oh yeah. It's a different tie, but same message.
MAN: It's pretty ugly, yeah.
PLUG: Actually, the backing fell off of this one. And I was wearing it for a long time to weddings.
MAN: Right. Fuck it now, huh?
PLUG: Yeah.
MAN: What do you wear to weddings now?
PLUG: I have a new tie that I wear to weddings. And it's pretty cool actually. Well, I have more than one tie.
MAN: But you're done with these two?
PLUG: These two, yeah. These are gone. These are probably going to Goodwill. This one [without backing] is probably going to the trash.
MAN: Alright. Cool. I didn't know if there was a deeper political message.
PLUG: Uh. No. No.
MAN: You're just tired of those ties.
PLUG: Yeah.
MAN: Awesome. Have a beautiful day, man.
PLUG: You, too!
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Free online course materials from MIT →
There are a lot of great online resources for furthering your own education. Most of this stuff is posted on iTunes U as well.
Nine Cities, Nine Ideas →
Gardens can keep a roof as much as 70 degrees cooler, city officials say, because all the greenery reflects heat while providing shade. Consequently, less energy is needed to keep a building cool.
The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors →
Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops’ cooking pots and burned their ships.
He explained this was to focus them on moving forward — a motivational speech that was not appreciated by many of the soldiers watching their retreat option go...
“The average American spends nineteen percent of their income on their car.”
– Robin Chase, talking about new concepts in transportation.
Freakonomics →
In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for military duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Swtizerland has more firearms then just about any other country, and yet it is one of the safest places in the world. In other words, guns do not cause crime.
Steven Berlin Johnson on the geographic web →
The idea of requiring geographic metadata for information might strike some people as excessive, but I suspect in a few years we will look back at the first decade of the web and be amazed that we went for so long without it. …
We are also increasingly standardizing metadata for time. One of the things that is not commonly said about the blogging revolution is that it has introduced...
The Nubrella →
There’s a joke about Asians that says they will carry umbrellas rain or shine.
“mon•de•green [mon-di-green] — noun A series of words that result from the...”
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Jay is your new bicycle →
Around All-Star time a couple of weeks ago, Nike released a shoe called the Nike Trash Talk, “the first Nike performance basketball sneaker completely produced from manufacturing waste”. The shoe, worn by Steve Nash in a recent game, looks a bit like Frankenstein’s monster with all the exposed stitching …
Via Jason Kottke.
Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?
Yes.
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Outkast - Rats and Roaches (Unreleased)
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