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Youth Killed By a Helicopter While Getting His Mail Sparks Debate About Headphone Safety [No Joke]
via Gizmodo by Sean Fallon on May 16, 2008
Seriously guys, you just can't make this stuff up. A 23 year old Canadian college student was killed when a crashing helicopter struck and dragged him as he was walking to his mailbox. Apparently eyewitnesses noticed that the youth was completely unaware of his impending doom and a friend told reporters that he often listened to music through earbuds underneath the hood of his sweatshirt....
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via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger? by ichctcf on May 15, 2008
ooooh! I’m scary baby panda ooooooooohu nawt sew skarree compard 2 dis.picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: laurinemily » Recaption This
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Zealous Autoconfig
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
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Mistranslations
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 23, 2008
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Video: The Day There Was No News. This is what...
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on May 14, 2008
Video: The Day There Was No News. This is what CNN should do instead of filling the 24 hours of the day with recycled hysteria. (link)
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Lenore Godin's son
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on May 14, 2008
[Intentionally posted on a day that's not Mother's Day]. My mom always disliked Mother's Day. She had a few good reasons. First, she pointed out that anytime you do something because you're supposed to, or because everyone else is doing it, it's not worth as much. Flowers the week before or a nice poem the day after were priceless compared to the trudge to the restaurant on...
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NYC vs. Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 13, 2008
Boing Boing Gadgets' John Brownlee spotted this fantastic Flickr set comparing real photos of New York City with computer graphics from Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City. Link
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First look: Peeking through Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
via Ars Technica by zeotherm@gmail.com (Matt Ford) on May 14, 2008
Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope was released yesterday in a Spring Beta form. Ars takes a look around the Universe and sees how it stacks up to the previously released Google Sky.Read More...
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HBO Series Now Available in iTunes [Apple]
via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on May 13, 2008
It's confirmed: HBO has hit iTunes and now you can download The Wire, Rome, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood (another season, please,) and what really makes it all worth it: Flight of the Conchords. Ladies (and gentlemen) of the World, rejoice.Hermaphrodites with your sexy lady bits and your sexy men bits can rejoice too. [Thanks, Steve]
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You Say "Ga," I say "Ba," but Everyone Hears "Da" [60-Second Psych]
via Scientific American by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]So this week I'm taking it back to a study published in Nature in 1976 to tell you about a freaky auditory illusion called the McGurk effect. However, it also requires some visual input, so I'll have to send you to a video at http://snipurl.com/sciam-illusion (or simply click to play the video posted below this transcript.) [More]
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