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October 30, 2007
Study on in-car Air Pollution
A heavy commuter inhales more pollution while driving than in the entire rest of the day, a new study finds.
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Moderate Earthquake hits Bay Area
Fun little shakey shake. Yahoo! News
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Great Simpsons Game Trailer
Big Super Happy Fun Fun Parody Trailer - YouTube
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October 29, 2007
Rumsfeld Charged with Torture by French Court
Awesome! Yahoo! News
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Giant Propane Tank Exploding
Everyone likes explosions! Video
(thanks Brad!)
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October 28, 2007
Bat For Lashes Music Video
Whats a Girl To Do - YouTube
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King Coal
In China, there are plans for a coal-fired power plant to go on line nearly every week. Emissions from these plants alone could nullify the cuts made by Europe, Japan and other rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol treaty.
An average of 13 Chinese miners die every day in explosions, floods, fires and cave-ins. Toxic clouds of mercury and other chemicals from mining are poisoning the air and water far beyond China's borders and polluting the food chain.
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October 27, 2007
China to Spend 14 billion dollars on Polluted Lake Clean-up
Their environment is so fucked. Yahoo! News
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October 26, 2007
Pool Trick Shots
YouTube - Artistic pool 1 (2, 3, 4).
It's a lot of pool to watch (I didn't watch it all), but some of the tricks are pretty sick. That's dedication.
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October 24, 2007
Toyota's Next Gen Hybrid
Made largely from carbon fiber, could get twice the MPG as the Prius.
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Comcast Admits Delaying Some Traffic
"The bottom line is that if ISPs start regularly engaging in conduct like this, then kids in their dorm rooms or small startup companies that are trying to develop innovative new uses of the Internet are going to have to come and get permission from players like Comcast to get their protocols working properly," Eckersley said. "That kind of veto over innovation would be very bad news."
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October 23, 2007
The Genetic Version of Myspace
GeneTree.com will sequence your DNA, find out who your ancestors are, who you're related to, and connect you. Like DNA MySpace.
(This concept occured to me a couple years ago, but I'm suprised someone made it already).
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October 19, 2007
Comcast Blocking Some P2P Traffic
Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
This is quite bad. Yahoo! News
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October 18, 2007
Fire Alarm Goes off On Conan
And he wings it quite humorously. YouTube
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October 16, 2007
First Airbus A380 Delivered to Singapore Airlines
The double decker superjumbo plane comes with:
471 seats configured in three classes: 399 economy class seats on both decks, 60 business class seats on the upper deck and 12 luxury suites on the main deck.
Crazy big individual TVs
Plus two double beds!
Are you kidding me?! Yahoo! News
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October 15, 2007
Virgin Atlantic Testing Possible use of Jet Biofuel
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October 13, 2007
Two Biographies of Interesting Nerds
Alan Greenspan and Charles Schulz in the NYT Book Review
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October 12, 2007
Netherlands Cracking Down on Drugs
The last sensible liberal first-world country slowly caves. Now they're banning shrooms. Yahoo! News
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October 11, 2007
Interesting Optical Illusion
The Right Brain vs Left Brain - The Daily Telegraph
I've seen it both ways. If you kind of unfocus your eyes you can get it to flip, so I don't really buy the left brain, right brain thing. The chick is hot though!
(thanks Jed!)
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October 10, 2007
Honda Unveils Hybrid Sports Car
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October 09, 2007
Funniest Craigslist Spoof Evar!
Cat that takes bong-hits and types
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October 08, 2007
Far Right Reactionary Politics in Switzerland
Three years ago the SVP blocked a move to liberalize the citizenship process, using the image of dark-skinned hands snatching at Swiss passports.
Immigration, Black Sheep and Swiss Rage - New York Times
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Paul Krugman on American Conservatism
Same Old Party - New York Times
I mostly like this article because he inventively quotes the Talking Heads at the end.
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October 07, 2007
San Francisco Taqueria Reviews
Burritoeater (for you Tim)
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October 05, 2007
African Family to Adopt Britney's Kids
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October 04, 2007
Berkeley Lectures on YouTube
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Hilariously Shallow CL Personal and Witty Response
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More Starcraft 2 Gameplay Footage
Cool new Terran units.
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October 01, 2007
Funny Conan O'Brien Telemundo Spoof
(Bonus: Conan's Book Club skit)
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut
It's been 25 years since the release of “Blade Runner,” Ridley Scott’s science fiction cult film turned classic, but only now has his original vision reached the screen.
Sweeeeeet! New York Times
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Random Vintage Pictures of Famous Sunglasses
Sunglasses from the 60s and 70s
(via boing)
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The Untold History of Sputnik
Secrets of 1957 Sputnik launch revealed - Yahoo! News
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