Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo.TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
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How To Toilet Train Your Cat | Pets Do
Toilet training your cat is an attainable feat, made even more famous by Mr. Jinxy in the movie Meet The Parents. Cats make wonderful pets, however dealing with a litter box is never a pleasant experience. Instead of dealing with a foul smelling litter box, here's how to toilet train your cat in a few simple steps
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POINT — Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it."At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."Newsvine - Spider Web Engulfs Texas Park Trail
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Phase 1 is now underway with the first public “beta” release of our new fingerprinting technology. This will mature into a nice sexy (free) API that lets you grab clean metadata based on an audio fingerprint. For now, all that it does is send the fingerprint data to bootstrap the moderation system. This doesn’t change any MP3 files on your computer. It does send useful fingerprint data to our moderation system so we can get the ball rolling. If you have a big MP3 collection, it will take a while… Thankfully it remembers where it got to, so you don’t have to do it all in one session.Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata
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http://tastybooze.com/2007/08/easiest-opening-beer-can-ever/
From the age of the ad and the fact that those are definitely a woman’s hands I think this ad is implying that it will be easier for a wife to open up an ice cold brew for her man when he gets home for work. Ahhhh, the simple times.
Blog@Newsarama » Today, Jack Kirby would have been 90
Jack Kirby, the man who created a significant portion of our superhero mythology, would have been 90 years old today.
BedJump.com - Bed Jump - Hotel Bed Jumping 
C'mon, you know we've all done it.
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CrowdVine: Create your own social network
CrowdVine is a free social networking site that lets anyone create and customize a social network for their organization, event, or alumni group.
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Goo Goo GaGa - Googlified
In case you are wondering, Goo Goo GaGa “is a fictional character from the Cartoon Network animated television series Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.”
Swapatorium
This is how they used to roll in the 1970s
The proposed ordinance states that "the indecent exposure of his or her undergarments" would be unlawful in a public place. Atlanta Councilman C.T. Martin, a college recruitment consultant, calls jumbo-sized drawers that show off boxers underneath an epidemic that's becoming a major concern. But Seagraves said any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge.Reporter on fashion jaunt finds plenty of baggy britches | ajc.com
Newsvine - Shark Caught on Spain Beach Dies
MADRID — A shark that was captured in shallow waters where it had become a daily lure for tourists on a beach died Wednesday at the Barcelona Aquarium.Biologists had said they did not expect the 7-foot female sandbar shark to survive because it stopped swimming after being brought to the aquarium on Monday and needed help from divers to keep moving and thus breathing.
Cardboard cops slow speedsters - Nashville, Tennessee - Saturday, 08/18/07 - Tennessean.com
Earlier this month, the city commissioned a life-size, corrugated plastic cutout of Miller, posing with his radar gun, a menacing scowl on his face. They post the cutout in high-traffic areas, hoping that it will deter speeders."It's meant to get people to think about it and slow down. It's actually worked," said Miller, the head of Smyrna's traffic enforcement division.
For a spider to get into your mouth while you're sleeping, (a) you must have your mouth OPEN, which is certainly not universal, so there's a big chunk of people who can never swallow anything; (b) there has to be a wandering spider in your immediate vicinity, also something which--for most people in the civilized world, at least--is a fairly rare occurrence; (c) the spider has to either jump or fall into your mouth from a long distance, because they won't go near your mouth otherwise (they're not suicidal), and the odds are pretty astronomical of a spider randomly dropping into your mouth from the ceiling.Put it all together, and it would be a miracle for a spider to end up in anyone's mouth while they're sleeping, except for one rare circumstance--when a spider egg sac hatches indoors.The Straight Dope Mailbag: The Straight Dope Mailbag: Does the average person consume four spiders per year in his sleep?
Franz Ferdinand have talked about downloading and piracy in the past. They have admitted to illegally copying music and expressed their support for file-sharing. Now they appear to have gone one step further by encouraging fans to pirate their latest track - a cover-version of a David Bowie song.Franz Ferdinand Encourage Fans to Pirate New Track | TorrentFreak
Will Ferrell meets the toughest cop in the worldFunny or Die Videos - Good Cop, Baby Cop - Added by Will Ferrell
Power Records Plaza: All-New: Gemini Man and Superman Albums
A place for fans of the classic Power Records to freely trade and exchange audio files of the classic recordings.
madKast
madKast offers the simplest and most powerful way for people to share news and blog posts with other people through our incredibly intuitive, one-click share widget.madKast allows users to share content via e-mail, MMS text message, Instant Message, or pre-existing social bookmarking sites. No registration or downloading is necessary to use madKast.
Belkin : TuneStudio
Belkin's TuneStudio for iPod 5th generation (video) is the first 4-channel audio mixer that lets you create high-quality digital recordings directly onto your iPod. This mixer allows the input of up to four different instruments or audio sources, and records the audio onto your iPod for instant playback.
Threadless T-Shirts - Hangin' on the Line
Who needs an i-phone when you've got two cans and a piece of string?
Pepsi Commercials of the 1980s by The Retroist
In the 1980s the Cola War was raging. Coke was on the defense and Pepsi pulled in a bevy of A-Listers to remind you to drink Pepsi. After all Pepsi was the Choice of a New Generation and who better to represent the new generation then Madonna, Michael J. Fox and Don Johnson?
Digital Funnies: Comics Preservation by Jonathan Barli
Digital Funnies, dedicated to preserving the history of this most neglected of art forms and reintroducing it to scholars and new readers alike. While several well-known titles such as Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley, and Peanuts are being given their proper due in published form, there is still much of the rich history of comics and cartooning that will more than likely never see print again and worse, fade away with time.
Free Software Sticker Book
This book includes a set of stickers related to free software projects. Now, you may remove Microsoft sticker from your computer (computers are only not designed for the Microsoft Windows) and choose some sticker of this book to replace it.
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Friend of mine on Twitter posted about this.
Drunk driving defendant says he needs the source code to the Intoxilyzer 5000EN to fight the charges in court.
all kinds of stuff: A Gift From Mike Fontanelli
I want a Popeye Colonoscopy Kit for Christmas this year.
Lolcats: Im in ur computer makin ur graphix
Lolcats. Honestly, it virtually defies explanation.
but here's one anyway, a plug in for Flickr that can do this to your pictures.
Pee&Poo Shop - International (non EU) 
Now you can play with your Pee & Poo anywhere!
Q-TARO.COM: F Cup Cookies
F Cup Cookies make breast implants obsolete. Making your breasts bigger is now as simple as eating 2 cookies a day. They come in packs of 4 for ¥290, each cookie containing 50mg of that miracle breast enlarging herb Pueraria Mirifica.
Mugshot Features
Mugshot makes it easy to keep up with what your friends are doing online at different sites, all in one place.
Here’s how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) twittering:twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter - post RSS to twitter automatically
FoxyTunes Updated
via FoxyTunes
Signatunes - allows signing your email messages and blog posts with your currently playing music.
Queen guitarist Brian May has handed in his astronomy PhD thesis - 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.May recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of "zodiacal dust clouds".The subject forms the basis of a thesis for London's Imperial College, where May, 60, had been studying before deciding to pursue a career with Queen.BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Queen star hands in science PhD
I was curious, so I began to ask around. I posed the question to a couple good friends of mine, and my suspicions were confirmed when each of them came back with an entirely different answer. I decided to dig deeper, asking people via email, message boards, and eventually the Starbucks where my girlfriend works, all to ask the question: how do you wipe your ass?Random Salad » Blog Archive » How to Wipe Your Ass
Lee County - A son's untimely call to 911 helped land his father in jail for growing marijuana.Son's call to 911 accidently gets his father arrested for growing marijuana | WINK-TV - Fort Myers, FL | Weird
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