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A snowball’s chance in hell, but it can’t hurt to try
On this page, you can apply to test drive a Google Chrome notebook. (thx bro)
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Beatboxing Google Translate
I read about this a couple times recently but never actually tried it until now: How to make Google beatbox for you! (hint: click the link in the first comment for best effect)
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Random Links 11/22/2010
The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald’s Burger That Just Won’t Rot We all assumed it was due to preservatives/additives/salt content, but this experiment tries to determine the real reason with a control – homemade burgers. Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving BEST ILLUSTRATIONS EVAAAR!! Grandma’s Superhero Therapy Interesting background story, but the curtains in the sandwich photo sealed it for me. The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students’ papers I felt like this in high school; I wrote around fifteen entrance exam essays for various universities with 100% success rate (and then didn’t make it into a UC myself due to a…
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Random Links 11/15/2010
Grizzly Bear Chasing a Bison Down a Highway in Yellowstone Somehow more satisfying than a photobombing rodent. The Pirates Are Winning If you had nothing to lose and everything to gain, you might make a good pirate, too (especially if you had access to cheap Soviet Bloc weapons and ready access to shipping lanes). How to install Android 2.21 on an iPhone 3g Nobody’s stopping you from swapping an NSX engine into your Ferrari, either. Where and how to play Caravan in Fallout: New Vegas My kings and jacks are your worst nightmare. ///////////////////////// Also: Hey, that’s what I said.
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Your Robert Smith fix for the day decade
—==|||| ATTENTION OSAKA BILL, PARIS SOPHIE, COSTA RICA SOPHIA, ADAM(s) AND OTHER ASSORTED CURE FANS, PAST AND PRESENT |||==— An incredible Crystal Castles cover of Platinum Blonde’s “Not in Love” with Robert Smith vocals: Right click to download This is currently playing on loop on my deck as a full-scale molam concert is going off at the entrance to our hood. I walked out a few minutes ago to see what was happening and decided I’d rather listen to this again and again, which is saying a lot. (thx attica)
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There aren’t enough to go around…
People who use two or more hang drums in YouTube videos are just being assholes. Also: People who tell you not to call them drums and instead refer to them as hangs or hanghangs are probably taking themselves a bit too seriously.
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Random Links 10/21/2010
Why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux Hint: Rebels suck at preventive maintenance. Tracing the fate of Aliens’ commandos (the Colonial Marines) Game over, man, game over. Create 8-Bit Style Graphics with Authentic NES, Gameboy, and Sega Colors (Photoshop tutorial) Max as Mario? Mina as the Princess? Lost, Unpublished Dr. Seuss Manuscript Surfaces Having kids enables the enjoyment of One Fish, Two Fish a second time around. One way to deal with a stupid homeowner’s association I ROTFLed. Why the hell do people back home put up with that kind of crap at all? 2 Years In Prison – A Man’s Story Not for the…
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I know a lot of people who are into Scrabble…
…and if you are one of them, you need to check this out: Massively Multiplayer Online Scrabble
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The best spam to make it through my Gmail filters in recent times
It’s apparently Persian; I just think it looks cool. Reminds me of starting out in DTP straight out of Japanese university and learning how to lay out these texts running right to left.
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PP in SW
King sent me this awesome Power Point spoof image: It’s just so well done… who knows, Microsoft might take it seriously and use it to advertise the next version! — It’s from here: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint
