SECRET FUN BLOG: JEAN SHEPHERD- SHEPHERD'S PIE

You know his legendary storytelling from A Christmas Story, but have you ever wondered what Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) has to say about the rest of our annual American rituals? Shepherd was a longtime radio personality and a successful author who's fierce sense of humor, expert wordplay, and uncanny ability to evoke powerful "sense memories" made him a true master of retrospection. Or as he put it— the "pleasant tinglings of mingled regret and exhilaration that we all call nostalgia."Here I'm offering a super-sized album of eight recordings of Jean reading some of his own published "short" stories (perfect for summer listening!) complete with a nifty new "cover" design. Jean serves up laugh-out-loud wit as he guides you through all the places you'd be lucky to visit this summer— the county fair, Saturday matinées at the Orpheum, and the yearly family drive to the cabin by the lake. Shep also covers prom and a devastating fireworks display before concluding with two of his familiar Christmas pieces.

SECRET FUN BLOG: JEAN SHEPHERD- SHEPHERD'S PIE

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Test-Drive Flock 1.2b Beta

Welcome to the Flock 1.2b beta!Flock 1.2 integrates even more of your favorite services, providing youchoice and the ability to stay connected to the services you care aboutwithout being tethered to a single location.

Test-Drive Flock 1.2b Beta | Flock
Because of this I may start using Digg again :)

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Reel to Reel - Louis Armstrong Collages

When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. The story goes that he did a series of collages on paper and tacked them up on the wall of his den, but Lucille, who had supervised the purchase and interior decoration of their house in Corona, Queens, objected. Armstrong decided to use his extensive library of tapes as a canvas instead, and the result is a collection of some five hundred decorated reel-to-reel boxes, one thousand collages counting front and back. The collages feature photographs of Armstrong with friends.

The Paris Review - Reel to Reel

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Condi may not be a rocker, but Kiss likes her

Condi may not be a rocker, but Kiss likes her - Yahoo! News
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have attended just four rock concerts in her life, but the rock band Kiss apparently thinks she is pretty cool.
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After a day-long international conference on Iraq, Rice was dining Thursday evening with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at a 19th-century villa when a call came in that Kiss was in the Nordic capital on a tour and wanted to see her, aides said.

The U.S. group had heard Rice was in town.

"It was really fun to meet Kiss and Gene Simmons," Rice told reporters on her plane en route to Iceland on Friday.

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Use iGoogle and Google Reader in the Sidebar

A simple use for Google's iPhone interfaces is to add them as sidebars in Firefox or Opera. I mentioned last year some Google gadgets for Google Notebook, Google Talk, Google Docs, that could be displayed in a permanently-visible sidebar. Here are two interfaces optimized for iPhone that have permalinks:

Use iGoogle and Google Reader in the Sidebar

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ACT-I-VATE - New FEAR, MY DEAR

ACT-I-VATE - New FEAR, MY DEAR

The New Dean Haspiel online comic series has a new chapter.

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WhatTheFont

Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.

WhatTheFont : MyFonts

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Dummcomics.com

A new daily comic blog feature such artists as Gabe Swarr and Fred Osmond!

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H-B TITLE CARD SET AND ART

14-piece HANNA-BARBERA cartoon title card set and the 18" x 24" HANNA-BARBERA original art

Patrick Owsley: Cartoon Art & More!: REMINDER - H-B TITLE CARD SET AND ART AVAILABLE TO OWN!

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FoxyTunes - Now with webpage player!

FoxyTunes - Control any media player while surfing the Web and more...


The Newest version of Foxytunes has an embeded browser player. If you visit a website with mp3 files on it you can play them directly on the page with a new Yahoo! webpage player. Much like the songbird player.

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butches ARE special

butches ARE special

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twistori - Social Networking as poetry

this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter.
Choose a word and watch how they appear in real time

twistori

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Sad Kermit covers “Needle in the Hay”

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Sue Simmons curses on live television broadcast

During the 10 p.m. hour, the station featured a brief promotion for the 11 p.m. news with Simmons and Chuck Scarborough. Simmons was teasing a story about rising grocery prices when the footage laid over her voice switched to a cruise ship that had a passenger go overboard.That's when Simmons blurted "What the ---- are you doing?"

Sue Simmons curses on live television broadcast -- -- Newsday.com

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BLU - wall painted animation

BLU / blog

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
An animated short using the walls of the city as it's canvas.

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Overheard.it

Post a notable quote to Twitter, preface it with "overheard" and we’ll do the rest.

Overheard.it is a fun site that pulls in all the fun things people overhear on Twitter.

Ways to interact

• If your tweets are unprotected, just start a tweet with "overheard" and we'll snag it.

Tweets - Overheard.it

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SuperDeluxe Sinks into Adult Swim « NewTeeVee

PaidContent wrote last night that Turner will fold comedy site SuperDeluxe into Adult Swim and lay off much of the SuperDeluxe staff. Turner sent us the following statement this morning: “Effective immediately, we will begin transitioning the content of Super Deluxe.com to Adult Swim.com and merge the operation of both sites. This move allows us to grow more strategically and create a richer, stronger platform that builds on Adult Swim’s number-one position with young adults.”

SuperDeluxe Sinks into Adult Swim « NewTeeVee

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Bungee Connect - development, testing, deployment and hosting of amazing web applications

Bungee Connect is a platform all about interactive applications connected to multiple web services and databases. It's a great fit for many types of real-world applications connecting live to CRM, business productivity systems, e-commerce, entertainment, social networking,...whatever you need.

Bungee Connect :: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

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Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

What is that all about?

It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.

Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page

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BrightKite - Social Mobile

Location-based social networkingDiscover who visits your favorite places. Join the community in real time.Track your friendsSee where your friends are and what they're up to, in real time.Meet people around youMeet real world friends. Reveal your location, befriend, and chat with people around you.

brightkite.com

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The Resignitent Series

Michael Freiman

The Resignitent Series from mike on Vimeo.

My friend Michael Freiman just posted a video outlining his current art projects. His pursuit of Beer, Words and what is interesting?

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Movies Through the Eyes of Kids

Once upon a time we were all pretty stupid. It's an unfortunate side effect of being young, impatient, and uncultured. Eventually we grew larger, gained extra limbs, and became adults. But during that horrifying nightmare of youth, with all its jumbled priorities, interests, and miniature attention spans, we saw things remarkably different. With that in mind, the Something Awful Forum Goons took a big pile of movies and edited them to show how they would appear when viewed through the eyes of the typical elementary school kid.

Movies Through the Eyes of Kids

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Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail - CNN.com

Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested April 10.On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.The message only had one word. "Arrested."Within seconds, colleagues in the United States and his blogger-friends in Egypt -- the same ones who had taught him the tool only a week earlier -- were alerted that he was being held.

Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail - CNN.com

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andLinux.org -- Run Linux natively inside Windows

andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.

andLinux.org -- Run Linux natively inside Windows

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Three Men Put Human Feces In Microwave At Sandy 7-11

Police are looking for three men who put human feces in a microwave inside a 7-11 store in Sandy, Utah.Officers say the men put a one gallon plastic baggie with human feces inside the microwave in the store at 2175 East and 9400 South and set the timer at ten minutes.The suspects left the store and the feces bag blew up ruining the microwave and spreading the feces and ugly odor around the store. The 7-11 had to be aired out for a long period of time.

Three Men Put Human Feces In Microwave At Sandy 7-11

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Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

An interesting side-effect of YouTube's recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser's cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append "&fmt=18":

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

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Man Charged With Screwing a Patio Table

Art Price, Jr., 40, has been charged with four counts of public indecency after a neighbor videotaped him getting all nasty with the umbrella hole in the middle of his plastic picnic table. Apparently preferring the table's legs in the air, Price reportedly flipped the table over before forcing himself inside of it.

No Picnic: Man Charged With Screwing a Patio Table - Asylum | For All Mankind

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Engrish.com!

Welcome to Engrish.com!

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Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows

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Relevantly Speaking #11: Matt Galligan of Socialthing!

Relevantly Speaking #11: Matt Galligan of Socialthing!

Nice interview with Matt at SXSW

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YouTube - Fainting Goats

YouTube - Fainting Goats

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Christopher Walken: Talkin' Web 2.0

Am I the only one.... that doesn't... give a crap about the iPhone? Who needs, some pansy little... glass encased, lightweight piece of junk. Give me a brick. I'll make my phone calls with a brick. You might say, "Chris, how can you call people... with a brick?" Trust me, when Walken calls with his brick... you'll hear it.

Walken: Talkin' Web 2.0

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Thomas: not your average bear

Back in 2004, the innovative photographer and photoblogger Noah Grey was working with the Photos team on developing Picasa. He contributed a great deal to the design and evolution of the software, but one of Noah's most unforgettable contributions can be seen by pressing Control-Shift-Y while in Picasa. Continue pressing it, and watch what appears all over your screen. Given to Noah as a gift by an old friend, this bear has had a special place in Noah's life for over 15 years; and Noah decided to return the favor.

Google Photos Blog: Thomas: not your average bear

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YouTube - Hunger Strike

YouTube - Hunger Strike

It's funny I seem to remember this song being a lot better :)

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DO THE TEST

DOTHETEST

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Down for everyone or just me?

down for everyone or just me?

Down for everyone or just me?

A site to double check to see if it's really down

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Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange

Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops."The service has no email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want. To make a drop just click the big red button that says 'drop it'

Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange

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3 Inches of Bloodsport

YTMND - 3 Inches of Bloodsport

Jean Claude Van Dame in a metal band. Check it out.

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Woman Sat on Toilet for 2 Years

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Deputies say a woman in western Kansas became stuck on her boyfriend's toilet after sitting on it for two years.Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital."We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

The Associated Press: Sheriff: Woman Sat on Toilet for 2 Years

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Voters Turnout High for Texas Primary | KVEO 23 TV

Check out this headline:

"Voters Turnout High for Texas Primary"

How did they know they were high?

Voters Turnout High for Texas Primary | KVEO 23 TV- News, Sports, and Community Events - NBC - Brownsville, Texas | Local

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SXSW Biz Cards FTW!

This is real simple.. collect business cards from your fellow attendees at SXSW 08

Joshua Strebel SXSW Biz Cards FTW!

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When geeks and graffiti combine

There is a lot of geeky graffiti out there. Some are just scribbles on a wall (programmer art being as it is), and some definitely qualify as artwork.

Royal Pingdom » When geeks and graffiti combine

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Machine Shop: The Hype Machine Blog about Hype Machine (and things we love)

Just go to the homepage and then click “Settings” in the black toolbar. Once you enter your user/pass, just go back to enjoying music on Hype Machine. All your tracks will be scrobbled to your Last.FM profile page.

Machine Shop: The Hype Machine Blog about Hype Machine (and things we love)

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Watch this site break!

HEMA - online winkelen

A pretty cool site. Useless but cool.

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The Fashionistas

The Fashionistas – Music at Last.fm

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Very funny By the new dexter

Embedded Video

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You Suck at Photoshop #7

My Damn Channel » You Suck at Photoshop » You Suck at Photoshop #7

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The Phobia List

The Phobia List

An A to Z list of phobia names

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Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown

Torvalds was in Melbourne last week for the linux.conf.au conference and was invited to pass judgement on OS X versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview."I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary."He poured scorn on the modern trend to treat a new version or update of an operating system as a cause for major celebration and marketing."An operating system should be completely invisible," he said. "To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment ... to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware."

Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown - Technology - smh.com.au

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LED Throwie Rat (or Mouse): Throw! - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, tech

Throw, toss, or carefully stick your Throwie to a nice metal surface.Since these critters require a fair amount of work, you'll probably want to retrieve your Mouse or Rat LED Throwie after use. Choose your site wisely and you can have nearly endless fun.

LED Throwie Rat (or Mouse): Throw! - Instructables - DIY, How To, art, tech

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QIK | Streaming video right from your phone

Stream live video fast to the world. Right from your phone

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone

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Double Cheese Bagels Sign

The Triumph of Bullshit

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Google Maps Gone Wrong

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Via http://mgalligan.com/

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Charges filed in defecation complaint

Ballard was charged with three counts each of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property and one count of bail jumping, all misdemeanors. He appeared in court Thursday, where Dane County Court Commissioner Todd Meurer, saying words he never thought he'd say, ordered Ballard to only defecate in toilets.

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

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Monkey Eyes

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Don't know what animal this is but WOW! Yikes!

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David Lee Roth Vocals

The folks over at Chunklet Magazine (prior guests on Tom Scharpling's Best Show on WFMU - real audio link) have uncovered this highly entertaining isolated vocal track of David Lee Roth singing Running with the Devil.

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: David Lee Roth Vocals and NWA in high school

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Blog with the Songbird Player

A full featured blog editor that integrates with your Songbird music player and lets you easily post to your blog.

Songbird Addons

Turntable Watch

The TableTurns watch tips its fitted cap to the art of the DJ by slapping the object of your affection right on your wrist. The TableTurns is more than just a simple effigy, it redefines "keeping it real," by being true to form, down to the most minute details, available with both a leather and a steel band, this watch is bound to scratch the surface of more than just a few conversations.

TableTurns - Steel : FLUD

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Licking dog

Have a dog lick your screen clean :)

iPhone Guitar Hero Video

This dude made software that turns his iPhone into a Guitar.

iPhone Guitar Hero Video

iPhone Guitar Hero - Watch more free videos

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List Of The Day: Great Olan Mills photos

Total frickin' awesomeness from Olan Mills, Sears and other fine portrait studios.

List Of The Day: Great Olan Mills photos

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Banksy - Graffiti Art

Banksy - Outdoors

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Last.fm · Free the Music

We already have licenses with the various royalty collection societies, but now unsigned artists can put their music on Last.fm and be paid directly for every song played. This helps to level the playing-field—now you can make music, upload it to Last.fm and earn money for each play. If you make music, you can sign up to participate for free.

Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music

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INAPPROPRIATE!

YTMND - INAPPROPRIATE!

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igThemer

igThemer is a tool to automagically make iGoogle themes using the new API.

igThemer v0.1a

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Your Daily - Weekend round-up show Jan 20 2008

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The Thermals – Music at Last.fm

The Thermals – Music at Last.fm

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CerealBits.com

CerealBits.com - Powered by vBulletin

Buy sell and trade cereal boxes here!

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Extreme board games

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Your Daily - Weekend round-up show Jan 13 2007

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Liars – Music at Last.fm

Liars – Music at Last.fm

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Crap you already seen Volume One

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10 Most Misspelled Words in Blogs

Ok, so technically the following words aren’t misspelled. They’re misused. The reason you should review this list is because a spell checker won’t correct these for you. Make sure that you’ve got foolproof control over them (especially if you tend to write around 3:12 AM like I am now). Extensively misusing them throughout your posts may actually cost you a visitor or two every now and then because some folks do get caught up on these, which means they won’t focus 100 % of their attention on your incredibly valuable content!

10 Most Misspelled Words in Blogs | The Probabilist . com

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HOW TO - Make fireballs

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make fireballs


How To Make Fire Balls - video powered by Metacafe

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Unknowing twins marry each other

LONDON, England (CNN) -- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said. The marriage has been annulled.

The couple's identities have been protected for legal reasons.Their case was first highlighted by Lord Alton of Liverpool during a discussion on donor conception in the House of Lords in December, but only came to light Friday.

Unknowing twins marry each other - CNN.com

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Glowing pig passes genes to piglets | KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | Technology

The piglets' mother was one of three pigs born with the trait in December 2006 after pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein. Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green from their snout, trotters, and tongue under ultraviolet light, the university said.Robin Lovell-Badge, a genetics expert at Britain's National Institute for Medical Research, said the technology "to genetically manipulate pigs in this way would be very valuable."

Glowing pig passes genes to piglets | KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | Technology

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GANGSTA RAP COLORING BOOK

The title says it all. Break out the crayons, 'cause it gangsta rap coloring time!
48 pages of line drawings of "Gangsta" rappers, done with the thick black line we all remember from the coloring books of our youth.

Last Gasp Books - GANGSTA RAP COLORING BOOK

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YouTube - malibu talks about his injury

YouTube - malibu talks about his injury

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Pair wheels corpse to store to cash check

NEW YORK - Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store Tuesday and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.
David J. Dalaia and James O'Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron's body from the Manhattan apartment that O'Hare and Cintron shared to Pay-O-Matic, about a block away, spokesman Paul Browne said witnesses told police.
"The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side," Browne said.

Cops: Pair wheels corpse to store to cash check - Criminal weirdness- msnbc.com

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Bloog: The RSS Mod-Synth

a machine that scrambles the words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer. It pulls in any RSS feed (for demonstration I used Technorati to create one that fetches all new net-wide blog posts about ‘music,’ har har). The knobs and sliders scroll through the text and add or subtract words from the screen, creating new ideas from the existing sentences.

Andrew Haarsager » Bloog: The RSS Mod-Synth

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David Lynch on the iPhone

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Fashion TASER

The TASER C2 is our newest product designed for personal protection. Utilizing the same technology as our proven law enforcement models, the C2 has incredible take down power.
The TASER C2 is a self-defense electronic control device. Electronic Control Devices (ECDs) use propelled wires or direct contact to conduct energy to affect the sensory and motor functions of the nervous system. The TASER C2 uses a replaceable cartridge, containing compressed nitrogen, to deploy two small probes that are attached to the TASER C2 by insulated conductive wires with a maximum length of 15 feet (4.5 meters). The TASER C2 transmits electrical pulses along the wires and into the body affecting the sensory and motor functions of the peripheral nervous system. The energy can penetrate up to two cumulative inches of clothing.

TASER C2

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The Helio Sequence

The Helio Sequence – Music at Last.fm

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Disqus

Find and join conversations from blogs plugged into Disqus. Or plug in your own blog — Look to the red box on the right to get started.

Disqus

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Newsvine - Puerto Rico Forced to Cancel Cockfights

SAN JUAN — A ban on bird imports to Puerto Rico has forced the cancellation of more than 100 cockfights, dealing a blow to a lucrative industry in the U.S. territory, an official said Friday.Puerto Rico halted all bird imports Thursday after a rare outbreak of avian flu in nearby Dominican Republic, where authorities killed more than 100 chickens, including fighting roosters that tested positive for the lethal virus.The cancellation of the fights could cost the industry millions of dollars in lost revenue from people who come to watch or enter their birds, said Carlos Quinones, the cockfighting director for the island's sports and recreation department.

Newsvine - Puerto Rico Forced to Cancel Cockfights
Now what do I do on the weekend?

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PandoraFM

PandoraFM is simple. As you listen to music via the excellent Pandora music service each song gets submitted to your profile on Last.FM. You're listening to music, so why shouldn't you be able to account for it? Some call it a mash-up, others call it a hack. I call it Pandora.FM
PandoraFM

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Quantity Over Quality at Google Book Search

Surprisingly, the scanning process involves humans, as you can see in some books from Google's index (TechCrunch, Google Blogoscoped, George Hernandez, The Genealogue spotted fingers). "If you go into Google [Book Search] and look at any book, you'll be able to see by the number of body parts and fingerprints that [the pages] are being turned manually," suggests Linda Becker, VP at Kirtas, the company that produces the fastest robotic book scanner in the world: APT BookScan 2400. "If you were to go to the Google site, you'd see that one out of every five pages is either missing, or has fingers in it, or is cut off, or is blurry."

Quantity Over Quality at Google Book Search

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Top 10 Worst Realtor Headshots | Eric Bramlett, Austin Realtor

It's no secret that Realtors love plastering their photos - everywhere. Real estate agents have always done pretty crazy things to set themselves apart from the crowd...often to a fault. In a profession not always know for being, well, professional, it blows my mind what some agents will do. Here are the Top 10 Worst Realtor Photos (as rated by me.) Every photo is from an actual Realtor, on an active website.

Top 10 Worst Realtor Headshots | Eric Bramlett, Austin Realtor

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Your Daily... Weekend Roundup Show Dec. 30, 2007

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The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. - Creative Commons

These musicians are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive. When it comes to copyright, they are pro-choice. Here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them.

The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. - Creative Commons