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Looking at History, and the History of Bagels – NYTimes.com
“You used to be able to eat a bagel that would give your facial muscles a workout.”
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daniellespencer.com { projects { various { jell-o turkey: 2008
some very inventive uses of a turkey-shaped jello mold. Winner: “Bubby’s Matzoh Turkey”; the [...]
YouTube – microsexuals’s Channel
“The Microsexuals is a new series chronicling the lives of 4 guys living together as roommates inside a mold spore growing on a half-eaten ham sammie. If you’ve ever wondered why bacterial growth is called a “culture,” The Microsexuals will scream the answer loud and proud!”
(tags: youtube video humor toy micronaut)
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Twitter / MannyFlores
“Bio: I represent the 1st Ward in the City of Chicago. I was first elected to the City Council in 2003, and am now serving my second term.”
(tags: chicago twitter opengovernment)
University of California Press: On Deep History and the Brain
“When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book [...]
Creative Grooming
truly horrific poodle grooming
(tags: dog weird funny via:santheo)
Chicagoist: Sneak Peek: Trader Vic’s
“But as everyone knows the main attraction will be the bar. Talking with Adam, the bar manager, led us to believe that cocktail training for barstaff is only a shade less intensive than that of the Violet Hour. The core drink menu [...]
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program onWNUR-FM. I realized when I mentioned on air that people should google to find these archives that I had been failing in my SEO so let’s be clear. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can [...]
It’s Not Over: We are “the change we need.” – O’Reilly Radar
“The question, of course, is the right way to get involved. What do we do next?”
(tags: democracy participation opengovernment)
CyberCinema
“An Interactive Site Devoted to the History of Computers and Artificial Intelligence in Film”
(tags: film history computer ai)
Carl Hewitt on cloud computing, scalable semantics, [...]
Paraconsistent Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
“Consider a computer which stores a large amount of information. While the computer stores the information, it is also used to operate on it, and, crucially, to infer from it. Now it is quite common for the computer to contain inconsistent information, because of mistakes by the data entry operators [...]
Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook: Royal Tenenbaum’s World of Futura
Director Wes Anderson seems to have a thing, bordering on obsession, for Futura. The credits are set in Futura Bold—nothing strange about that. But it doesn’t stop there. The Tenenbaums seem to exist in a world dominated by Futura (mainly Futura Bold)…
(tags: typography film filmtagged [...]
Spot.us – Home
“Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the [...]
IDEAS IN FOOD: TurDuckEn
“Just in time for the holiday, we are talking T-day preparations, are our thoughts on the TurDuckEn. In our first rendition we used the thighs of the requisite birds, bonded with Activa, flavored with chermoula. The results were just down right tasty.”
(tags: food science)
VENTURE CAPITALISTS INVEST IN SOMALI PIRATES – The [...]