tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204662922011-04-21T21:11:16.690-04:00Departing daily from the <a href="http://monist.buffalo.edu/ToC/88-4.html">ordinary objects</a> of my <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/">thoughts</a>.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07955907239059784620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20466292.post-15834911468082951842009-03-25T20:48:00.004-04:002009-03-25T20:59:20.968-04:00

If you're a fan of architecture, check this out. Make sure you also check out part II.

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Need a passport? Get one from Lalaland.I'm not kidding! You can pay $10 (+ $2 for (sic) handling and shipping). I'm actually tempted!

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Apparently at BYU, adults need to be treated like children. Don't believe me? See for yourself here.The only thing I wonder is whether going there makes one need to be treated like a child or whether the need to be treated like a child makes one go there.UPDATE: Just so there's no confusion. Click on the "bars" at the link above and you'll see clearly what I mean. Click around and find the

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When ever I hear this song I end up whistling it for hours. I guess the bird feels the same.

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And, how's that for an impassioned performance?

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A long time ago, I posted about a friend's video that he posted on YouTube. Mennos in Medschool was the theme. (See installment one here and two here.) Now, there is installment 3, titled: "Menno in Med School Part 3: The End CaRMeth." Watch it below and then go and leave Jeff a comment here. While I was watching this video, I noticed this other video, "Matrix 101: The Med School."

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I'm not a map addict, but these quizzes are fun. Have a go at: 50 US States in 10 minutes198 Countries in 10 minutesRandom Geography QuizzesThese are colossal time wasters so don't go to these sites unless you really don't have anything else to do.

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So, it's been a while.This post isn't going to be anything spectacular, but this little video did make me smile. So, without further adieu, here's Nora:

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Now, THAT is a cool story.

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Ever had one of those moments where you're trying to carry coffee, a newspaper, and some cookies and then you need to open a door? It was too much wasn't it. Even if you put the newspaper under your arm or between your knees.For those situations you need this: Sometimes it’s the most simple of tasks that present a design conundrum. This designers conundrum, in the absence of a plate, where does

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But worth it, I think. This is a cool video of useless machines that people have built. Although useless, the machines definately have a cool factor to write about.

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Test: What's the song? Answer in comments.

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This is shockingly amazing.

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If you have synaesthesia, then you might see colours like this: Chromatic-full screen. I highly recommend that you also check out some of the interesting variations on the top right. The idea is pretty simple. A full rotation takes 3 minutes. The largest circle will travel the circle once. The second largest (which is imediately to its left, at the start) will travel around the circle twice, the

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What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.The West The Midland Boston The Inland North The South Philadelphia The Northeast What American accent do you have?

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Yes, Storm Troopers are coming to a neighborhood near you and NO it will not be as cool as it sounds. Anyway, it looks like they already invaded Paris, is New York next?All of these are from photographer extrordinaire Cedric Delsaux.

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If I had kids, I would most certainly get them this.Isn't that cool? It is a mini circuit board that allows kids to move around the circuits and build different machines.According to the website, there are 500 different projects to build with this board alone, some include: Digital recording device Electronic lazy cat Flying saucer launcher Digital text

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A long time ago I stumbled upon a really fun site by GE. It is called Imagination Cubed.Go have a look and play around a bit. It'd also be a fun thing for kids to play around on.

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This video is titled "Best Fight Scene Ever." I guess that might be true if you understand 'best' in a sarcastic way, but otherwise it might get the title "Worst Fight Scene Ever." Regardless of the title, it's worth watching, either because it's so good or because it's so unbelievably bad. (Disclaimer: It gets minimally graphic at the end, but nothing that you wouldn't see in something rated PG:

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Someone at Metafilter asks: Do you think a super strong person could yank off his own head?Like one of those strong-man competition guys (the ones who lift those big boulders and carry around telephone poles), or some other freakishly stong person, could one of them actually kill himself by ripping off his own head? Or would other physiological factors make this feat impossible?There are 33

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For all of you out there with less than stellar looking children, there is hope. After all, look at Demi Moore when she was a kid... not so hot looking, although, Bjork was cute.Below are a few for guessing. Find the answers at: Celebrity Kids.Please make your guesses in the comments... no cheating please.1.2.3.4.

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The spectacular Robert W. Service poem The Cremation of Sam McGee can be seen recited here:If you aren't familiar with the poem, I highly recommend that you take the time to watch and listen to this recitation of the Canadian Classic.

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Forget the espresso machine, I want one of these:

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What do you get when you cross 4 people, three pumpkins, and a whole lotta knives?You get some rage building.You get some rage exploding.You get some pumpkin head-like behaviour... literally.And you get three awesome pumpkins.(But the most-awesome of all is the bear-shark.)

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According to Digital Camera Magazine anyway.If you like photography, you should enjoy these.First Prize:Second Prize:Third Prize:There are more Runner ups (Runners up?) here.

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If you're having a hard time putting playlists together, then this is the app for you (provided you're a Mac user).What Tangerine does is scan your iTunes library and identifies tracks on the basis of beat count. Once you have this information, it is easy to put together playlists that build you up and let you down.Find this and more great products at the Potion Factory.

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I'm really asking... is it cool?

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If you've never heard of Freestyle Walking, then you need to check out these videos.and, This second video is rather long, but if I could do half of the stuff that they do in this video, I'd feel justified in posting a video this long too.If you're still not satisfied, have a look at this.

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...or know someone who is, then you need to watch these videos. There are two installments, both brilliant.Menno in Med School Part 1: Representeth (Now go here and leave a comment for jmklassen.)Menno in Med School Part 2: Menno Againo(Now go here and leave another comment.)WARNING: If you aren't Menno or know anyone who is, then you might not find these funny.

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For those of you who think that beer is one of those "unholy" drinks, you'd better have a read below.(From Baby Priest)Beer BlessingFrom the Rituale Romanum (no 58)Bene dic, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisae, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi: et praesta per invocationem nominis tui sancti, ut, quicumque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corporis, et

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How's this for some super cool choreography?Ok, not really, but it was a good try.

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From the same guy that brought you the Daily Mumps, comes ads for the Utah State Fair. These ads have Napoleon Dynamite though, so they are cool without the Daily Mumps association. Watch and enjoy:

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According to Rolling Stone Magazine anyway.500 Greatest Songs of All Time500 Greatest Songs of All Time Undoubtedly, you'll disagree with the lists since, for example, the greatest song of all time is Like a Rolling Stone.

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I played with Lego a little bit when I was a child, but I never played with it in this fashion.

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Some cats look like Hitler, these cats are called Kitler's. Some Kitler lover made a website to share pictures of these cats. The website is called CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com. Creative eh?

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The title of this post is the name of a blog. I'm not sure whether I should say that I like this blog or not. Partly because certain people might be disturbed by that claim and partly because I'm not sure if I actually do like it. I certainly like the creativity of the blogger (who is not Jeff) and I certainly think one of the animals pictured on the site is very cute... but... well... have a

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Earlier on in my blogging career, I reported that my blog was worth a big fat $0. Now, however, it seems to be worth a little more. If anyone wants to buy my blog, I'm happy to sell it for $5,080.86. My blog is worth $5,080.86.How much is your blog worth?

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How'd you like to trade one red paper clip--not even a diamond studded one--for a house? Well, one Canadian did just about that. I must admit, he made a few trades along the way, but in the end, he did get the house.For more, see Google News or ABC news for a video.

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Have a look at the video posted here. Make sure you click the full screen button at the bottom right hand corner of the viewing window. When it is done, make sure that you look at something close by, someone's face, the text in a book, or even your own hand.

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You scored as Beast. Beast is an intelligent, politcal spokesman for the X-Men. He has a Ph.D in Genetics and is well versed in literature. He may look like a blue fuzzy monster, but deep down he's very benevolent and logical. Powers: Enhanced strength and agility Cyclops65%Gambit65%Beast65%Iceman65%Nightcrawler60%Jean Grey55%Colossus50%Rogue45%Storm45%Emma Frost45%Wolverine40%Most

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Mmmmmm, I bet your mouth is watering now.

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ZeFrank is at it again, both with his crazy antics and with his steady stream of updates on his video blog which is called The Show. One video that is worth crawing your attention to is the first ever making of an earth sandwich. An earth sandwich is just like a ham sandwich only with the earth in the middle instead of the ham. Neat heh? Check it out here.

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More here.

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If you visit paulsadowski.com, there are two things to check out. The first is the What Your Name Means "calculator". The "facts" that you are given from typing in your name are kind of lame, but it's slightly fun anyway. The second, and more interesting "calculator" is the Birthday Calculator. When I input my birthday, I get the following interesting facts:You entered: 7/1/1979Your date of

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It's been a while between posts now, but here's something fun. This would not be my first choice of coffee beverages, but apparently, I'm a:You Are a FrappacinoAt your best, you are: fun loving, sweet, and modernAt your worst, you are: childish and over indulgentYou drink coffee when: you're craving something sweetYour caffeine addiction level: lowWhat Kind of Coffee Are You?

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Look at this first picture:And now look at this second picture:Now, how did that snail get all the way across that gap? It did it on its own and if you want to see exactly how it did it, look here for pictures of the in between bits.

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This is my one-hundreth post on Daily Departures. Maybe there will be a hundred more.

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Another friend of mine just started blogging. Go check out her blog, Life Itself.Anna tells me that she's going to be sharing all of her deep dark secrets on her blog, so watch out, this will be good! (jk)

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...like anything more than Star Trek action figures? Of course! How about Star Trek action figures singing karaokee?Or what about Star Trek action figures sitting poolside?Or what about Spock and Kirk in a coffee house? Or, how'd you like to check out Spock's crib in an episode of Cribs?

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We're all familiar with the collage. Some of us have even put one together. There is a far more complicated variety of collage by which a new image appears via the arrangement of the smaller (sub-) photographs. I found a very interesting site that plays with this concept in a very interesting way. Observe: You begin with a photograph like this. Notice the white box in the upper right corner?

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Despite all of the bad things that go on here on earth, this planet makes for some pretty stunning photographs. If these photos aren't evidence enough for the claim that we have a gorgeous panet, then I'm not sure if you could ever be convinced. This is Iceland. Sand storm anybody? These are the Swiss and French Alps. Geneva is on the bottom corner of the curved lake--which is Lake Geneva.

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My friend Angela has started a blog. There are lots of pretty pictures and she promises to have some soapbox-style rants soon. This should be fun. Achtung Baby Go check it out!

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If you've never checked out the links that I have on my sidebar, I suggest that you do it now. If you have, then very good I'm pleased. Every once in a while I'll add a new link to a fun blog; today is one of those days. The link for today is The Cool Hunter. The Cool Hunter finds "cool" things online and blogs them. The VW post from a few days ago was a Cool Hunter find.

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Keeping the Mr. Rogers references alive, here's a video of Mr. Roger's speaking to a US senator--Senator Pastore--about twenty million dollars of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1969. The video speaks for itself, so click here and watch.

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Here's me pretending to be an artist:By the way, that's Jennifer's face.

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Even if you don't own a VW, I suspect that you'll find this interesting. Recently at The Cool Hunter there was a post on a new kind of parking garage that VW has built. From The Cool Hunter: The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US. Not only is the German structure less expensive to

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Flickr, for those of you who don't know is a place to upload your pictures and store them online. There are many other neat features. For example you can tag photos with keywords. Doing this then allows people to browse all of the photos on Flickr with those keywords. There are lots of other neat features, but I'll let you go and see for yourself.One of the interesting things to browse on Flickr

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Oftentimes comedies like, The Simpsons and Futurama are rated on a joke per second basis (often on these shows the jokes are references to pop-culture in some form or other). Well, if a high joke per second ratio is a sign of funniness, then the video below takes the cake. Challenge: Try to identify every character in the video.If the lyrics are too fast, you can read them here.

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I'm in the middle of writing papers and my free time can't be spent writing long introductions to blog posts. So, that means that I'm posting another video; a video that really needs no introduction. It's just hilarious![UPDATE: It looks like the video got taken off of YouTube. Go here to watch the video.]

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I suspect that few of you could tell me who Mark Seliger was if I only told you his name; however, I suspect that most of you have seen some of his work. Mark Seliger is a brilliant photographer who specializes in portraiture. Seliger's new book In My Stairwell features numerous celebrities over various shots all taken in the same brick stairwell. Seliger has a gift for capturing attitude and

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There are online manuals for just about everything these days, including How-To-Dance. Probably my favourite is by zeFrank. He calls it his "How to Dance Educational Video. He truly is a pioneer in dance education. Recently however, a new instructor appeared on the scene; he is Judson Laipply. His instructional video is very comprehensive and although not in strict chronological order, it will

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It's been awhile since I've had an evangelical rant on here about Macs; I'm not going to subject you to one here either. However, I thought that I'd show you a really nice way of displaying one of Macs really nice iMacs. What you see pictured above is the iWoodKiosk. I suspect that it was designed for businesses and museums and other such places, but if you like the idea of sitting on a bar-like

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This week I found a very nice piece of furniture on Moco Loco.This piece is called Lovescape and is produced by Henny van Nistelrooy--I know, that's a mouthful. It looks like the lounger--for lack of a better term--is malleable and can easily accommodate four people. Not only does this look comfortable, it looks like a great discussion piece. I recommend checking out the other things on the

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Well, that's nothing! Check out this video for a new and exciting taste sensation or three: Frog sashimi and two other delightful tasty treats. I don't really want to spoil it, but I also don't want anyone who is uber-anti-meat-eating to watch the video. So, without further adieu, click the play button below. [UPDATE: If you liked that, then you might want to see what Anthony Bourdain will eat.

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If you aren't familiar with MySpace, it is an online friends network. So, you sign up for a MySpace account and you can add a picture and other information about yourself. Once that step is complete, you can add friends who also have MySpace accounts. That said, my friend Matt has a band called Drace that has a MySpace profile. The link has now been added to the 'listen' section of the sidebar.

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You mix: Two very large focaccia type breads,Fifteen (or so) pounds of ground beef,A block of cheese, a very large onion, four portabella mushrooms, five avocados, five large tomatoes, a macheteand a mini-keg of Heineken?You get the biggest hamburger that I've ever seen.Enough said.[UPDATE: This post is dedicated to Jordan who I know is salavating at the site of this post. Eat on buddy, eat on.]

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I promise I'll stop with the videos soon, but this was too unbelievable to not share. Ronaldhino, who has recently become the worlds highest paid soccer player--or, so my friend Jonathan tells me--made this video for Nike. When you watch this, count how many times he manages to bounce the ball off the crossbar.Well? If you still aren't impressed, then watch Ronaldhino make all of these other

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I had a friend who lived by the title of this post. In keeping with that spirit, I give you a video from YouTube. This video is of an interview with a "top" researcher in the field of animal languages. This "Professor Timothy Fielding" has been working with a gorilla named Gerald. More specifically, he has been teaching Gerald to speak. Click the play button and observe:I noted at the bottom of

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The title of this post poses an interesting counterfactual question.If The Simpsons were from India, then they might be called The Singhsons. Homer might be called Omar and own a cow. Marge might be called Mar Ji and have dark non-beehive hair. Bart might be called Bartinder and ride a bike. Lisa might be called Lisajit and play a drum. Maggie might be called Mugglie and read a book called

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Frankly, I don't know anything about poetry. I don't especially like poetry either. That is not to say that I dislike it, I just don't have any strong preference for it. I've watched people read and write poetry before and I see how much they love the words and the interplay between them, but for some reason, I don't respond in the way that these people do.That said, recently I came across a book

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Have you ever called someone 'Bat-brain' or 'Monkey-brain'? If you have, you no doubt intended it as an insult. Well, now you can make the insult significantly more insulting by showing the insulted what a bat-brain or a monkey-brain actually looks like. (Of the photos below, the bat-brain is on the left and the monkey-brain on the right. The brains are shown beside a business card for scale.)

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This evening Matt directed my attention to a fun site that will generate slogans for whatever word you want. The generator is obviously set up to take nouns as input, but there you can also use other types of words--the output might not make sense if you use anything other than a noun though. The link is here if you want to give it a try. A few examples are: Philosophy: "Got Philosophy?"Google:

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Tea is one of those drinks that can be very boring or very complex and interesting. Whether a particular type of tea is one or the other of these two options depends on a lot of things. It depends on everything from the mode of preparation to the blend of teas to the drinker herself. You might wonder how a drinker can make a difference between a boring tea and a complex and interesting tea. Here

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Jennifer loves her bike, as the picture above can attest. Because of her love, she is going biking. Actually she's going cycle touring and if you want to read about it, make sure you check out her blog that is dedicated to her trip. It is called A Turn of the Wheel.Given that I'm going to be writing papers for the entire month, this blog will be a catylist for my vicarious cycle tour that I'll

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I've added a new section to my sidebar. If you are ever bored and want something new to listen to, I recommend that you check out the links under the 'listen' heading. Especially, I want to recommend six bands that you might not be familiar with. They are: Emiliana TorriniJoanna NewsomMatisyahuThe AtticsThe Polyphonic SpreeXavier Rudd I will continue to add to the 'listen' list so keep checking

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Today Jen posted a music video and a few links to videos from YouTube. One of the links was to Sigur Ros, a band that I've liked for a while now. I'd not ever seen any of their videos though. I found the video for their song "Hoppipolla" and it is one of the most soothing videos that I've ever watched. Sigur Ros's music is very soothing on its own, but this video--which you can watch below--is

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Moco Loco, one of the cool blogs that I have listed on my side bar, had a post with a number of really cool things on it. One of which, falls into our recent theme of cool clocks. There are a number of other things that are cool in this post. I've attached photos of them below. As always, however, you should go and check out the actual post, among others at Moco Loco.

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Recently, I stumbled upon an absolutely fantastic site; this site is so fantastic in fact that it allows you to download feature length films. This site is so fantastic that it is getting it's own line for a link so that there is no confusion where you are supposed to click. So, without further adieu, go to (if you are using a good browser like firefox or safari then please hold ctrl while you

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Remember Opentopia from this post? Well, for only a few hours (maybe for most of Easter Monday) you can see an Easter mass performed in a Czech Church in Hostyn, Moravia. So, go here now and see for yourself.[Also: don't forget to check out the "clocks" post below.]

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Moco Loco has found it again. This time the subject is clocks. In the last couple months they have featured two clocks from Buro Vormkrijgers. The most recent is the clock above and immediately below. This clock is intended to sit on a desk and it will slowly spin around--it seems like a round desk or table would be ideal--and you read the time by looking where the face of the clock touches the

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As anyone who uses a Mac knows, there are many free pieces of software with incredible functionality and wonderful UIs (user interfaces). I was recently sent the following link, for a program called Disk Inventory X. What this program does is map your harddrive and display the contents of your harddrive graphically. The advantage of displaying the contents in this manner is that you can very

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Ok, so I don't really know what the title of this post means, but it sounds clever. There are obviously many things that one can use to make art. Recently, via Art Moco I discovered an interesting new medium that Ryan Brown is using. If you look at the image of Einstein above, you are likely not able to identify the medium, but that artwork--as well as all of the ones below--are comprised of

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Recently I added a number of links to the sidebar. (The sidebar, is what the finger is pointing at.)I don't know how many people check links that fall on the sidebar, but I frequent each of the sites on my sidebar and I think that you should do so also; after all, that's why they are there. Let me bring your attention to the new sites that were just added. Rocketboom: is a daily video blog.

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I linked to these before in this post. However, I really like these shelves and I think that other people will too, so they deserve a post of their own. If you have a lot of books and not a lot of space for a number of bookshelves like those sold at Walmart or even Ikea, then these are perfect for you. The shelves only require the purchase of a few pieces of wood a saw some screws, and a bit of

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If you like Weird Al style parodies, then you need to check out Spaff.com. There are dozens of songs to listen to and enjoy. My personal favourite is: I Blog Alone (Which is a spoof of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams").[NOTE: Not all of the songs are universally appropriate. The one above is though.]

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If you've ever had one of those moments when you just aren't sure what is the grammatically proper thing to say (or write)--you know, those times when you re-read a sentence over and over and at a certain point, both ways sound equally wrong--, then you should check out the Guide to Grammar and Writing. This is not a thoroughly exhaustive to grammar and writing, but if you are having one of those

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I was watching Rocketboom yesterday and was introduced to Opentopia. Opentopia has a number of sections to the website, but the only one that I really think is worth checking out is their list of webcams, from around the globe, that function 24/7. If you aren't so sure that you want to sift through the webcams, then instead of following this link follow this link to the random webcam generator.

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So, thanks to Meredith, I bring to you one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. I think that you should start at Gordon Nicol's biography. In this biography, you will discover this Scotsman went from looking like this: and playing in a glam-rock band called Iron Virgin (Gordon is the second from the left) to looking like this: and making CDs in which he whispers sweet nothings which are

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If you are a diehard Monty Python fan, then I have something that you need to see. What you need to see is an interview with the troop from the 70s. They are being interviewed... well, the introduction to the video tells you the details. Go watch!

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Most of you probably think that Dr. Seuss just wrote children's stories that contained characters like the ones to the left. If you think that, then you're wrong. Dr. Seuss had a relatively productive career as a political cartoonist. A while ago, I found a website that catalogues most (if not all) of Seuss's political cartoons. The site is nicely organized into time periods and subjects.

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I am extremely tempted to say that if someone can paint something like this, then they are a talented painter. My only bit of hesitation comes in the fact that I don't know how this is done. It is plausible that this sort of painting is very simple. Regardless of the potential simplicity of the task, I would love to have a room in my apartment painted like this. The only problem is that I

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I don't normally post pictures of me and my life, but I recently took a trip to Vancouver (hence the dearth of posts) and someone else already posted some pictures of my trip. There are, however, a few pictures that didn't get posted. Let me share. I really just love that tree. This piece is made completely out of Nike Air Jordans. The real reason I took a trip to Vancouver. Take that prairie

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I think that everyone can deal with a bit of beautifying every once in a while. I think that these garden images should help beautify anyone's day.Enjoy!

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Site: http://www.woot.com/Product: Soyo Cigar HD20 1.8” 20GB USB 2.0 Hard DriveOne of my daily rituals is checking Woot! and seeing what item is up for sale that day. For the uninitiated, Woot! sells stuff. In fact, they sell a different piece of stuff every day. For any particular piece of stuff, it will go on sale at midnight central time. For any particular stuff, Woot! will have anywhere from

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If you do, then go check out the short film called McPassion.I don't think that I need to say much more than that. The film and website speak for themselves.Also, I'm really curious to know what people think. Leave a comment OK?[UPDATE: The original video is gone, so I've attached the video from YouTube below. Again, enjoy!]

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