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Erik Mongrain live at Jaxx Montreal ’07
This is the second time I’ve featured this guy. Here’s the first.
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SAMURAIFERETTO (?????????)
shifty samurai speak softly –> Speak softly SAMURAIFERETTO Go check out Translation Party!
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Wayback archive
I just went through my bookmarks, which have been transferred from browser to newer browser to internet bookmarking service to different browser to FTP site via FF plugin to even shinier browser over the past eight years and not really cleaned for the past three. Its amazing how many sites are gone, mostly replaced by domain sitters now. I figure about 80% of the blogs I’ve ever bookmarked are either deserted (in the case of a free hosting service like blogspot) or just gone. Blogging feels so old school… I remember the moblogging and videoblogging fads very well. Hell, kid, when I was your age we walked to our blogs…
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Lightning and electro-fishing
This article about lightning strikes on animals is interesting but the comments about people’s experiences with lightning strikes and electrofishing are even more so: Death by lightning for giraffes, elephants, sheep and cows
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chatting with strangers
I couldn’t possibly bring myself to do this sober, so it just isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Besides, I’m pretty sure it will be hard to top this one:
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Letters to John Hughes
Now that’s a sendoff: Sincerely, John Hughes I’m pretty sure everyone my age is a huge fan; I have a cousin who at times totally looks like Ferris Bueller.
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Saccharomyces Draught
Over at Wired: Brewing Beer From 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast Unspeakably cool. In most of Asia, they’d probably still drink it with ice, tho.
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“The travels and trevails of two honest workmen”
This has got to be one of the greatest webcomic series, ever: vulcan & vishnu
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Adless Gmail
I don’t really mind the ads in Gmail*. I’d actually feel kinda guilty/uneasy if Gmail were totally free, because I depend on it so much. This is interesting, though: How to avoid Gmail’s Sponsored Links Forget Big Brother – we need top worry about those who we willingly trust with our privacy every day. ///////////// *If they bother you that much, you can always use a dedicated email client with Gmail.
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birch pollen allergies
Very interesting article on food allergies: Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser
