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Cook like an engineer
via Signal vs. Noise by Sarah on June 16, 2008
This chart on Cooking for Engineers totally startled me, but once I got over my need for everything to be in lists and paragraphs, it made perfect sense.With some substitutions, I made a delicious ratatouille on my first try!
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Teach the Controversy tees illustrate other important "scientific controversies"
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
Shared by Stefan Hayden I love these shirtsWear Science's line of "Teach the Controversy" tees invite Creationists to consider other "scientific controversies" that might be taught in school.Link(Thanks, Gus!)
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Print Your Guinness World Record Certificate for Firefox 3
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on June 18, 2008
... 24 hours.”Though the official body of Guinness World Records is yet to approve this record attempt, Firefox is celebrating with certificates that also carry a Guinness World Records logo.To print your own certificate, go to spreadfirefox.com, type your name and download the certificate in PDF format.Print Your Guinness World Record Certificate for Firefox 3 - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS
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Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)
via Boing Boing by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
Shared by Stefan Hayden I love when companies think they can just invent their own laws. To bad AP... you'll have to buy your laws in congress just like everyone else.In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people...
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BBC Builds a News Aggregator To Show Related Web Content
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on June 17, 2008
Media websites like The Washington Post, TIME, Wall Street Journal, etc. use Sphere to show related links next to their news stories. BBC went one step further and built their own news aggregator. Now when you read some news story on the BBC website, you will also see links to related stories published on other mainstream media websites sorted in the order in which they were published (see...
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US reportedly pulls out of UN Human Rights Council
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on June 07, 2008
The Human Rights Tribune is reporting that the US has pulled out of the United Nations' Human Rights Council, "an international body within the United Nations System. Its stated purpose is to address human rights violations."The news that the US has completely withdrawn from the Human Rights Council spread like wildfire Friday afternoon (June 6) through the corridors of the Palais des Nations...
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Interesting video about ads in Times Square
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 04, 2008
John Woods visits Times Square and explores the advertising there. The One Times Square building is empty. Why? Because the owner can afford it by selling ad space alone. It costs $300,000/month to advertise on that structure -- one of things you'll learn in this behind-the-LED-screens look at Times Square.Link(ThanksAndrew!)
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Clippy - Day 2
via My Crazy Roommate by wily on December 18, 2007
As clippy continues to bestow his knowledge and observations unto P, our subject seems to be adapting, or so I thought. It appears that P, much like with the Tron, prefers to bottle his frustrations until no more can be contained and a geyser of concentrated frustration, profanity, and much needed criticism is erupted onto all in the vicinity. Of course, if I'm not in the vicinity, I am...
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Londoners lukewarm on free £5 notes
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 06, 2008
A price comparison website, www.moneysupermarket.com ran a experiment on the streets of London and Manchester: [Representatives] wandered the streets this morning wearing sandwich boards offering a free £5 note to anyone who asked. Despite encountering over 1800 people, only 28 passers by bothered to take advantage of the offer.The experiment also found a stark difference in the attitudes of...
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Disney World in 3D in Google Earth
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 04, 2008
Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has news that Disney World of Orlando, Florida, is now available in 3D in Google Earth. To view this, enter disney world in the Google Earth search box – you might want to download the latest version, but note when I tried it always crashes Firefox 3 – and tick the “3D Buildings” box in the bottom left. Here are some screenshots, and Frank also put up...
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