December 2010
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http://☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝.ws →
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I only painted the first five and I was like, ‘f*** this’, I hated...
– Inside Damien Hirst’s factory
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A Guide to the Open Internet →
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Frightened Rabbit - It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop (Choir Version)
We have so much information now, and we have to try to learn as a culture what...
– Tests Detect Alzheimer’s Risks, but Should Patients Be Told?
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Google Labs > Books Ngram Viewer →
Every chart tells a story…
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“I Put a Spell on You”, She & Him on Conan, 12/9/2010
I love this interpretation of this classic song. The arrangement is raw, visceral, even uncomfortable at times, and casts the song as a last desperate plea to a lost love. Zooey exudes a newfound confidence in her voice, she’s really grown as a singer since that first album.
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New York Times Chrome Web App →
Similar to Times Reader, which in turn is similar to Times Skimmer.
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Shearing FireSheep with the Cloud →
Browse the web securely… in only 28 kinda complicated steps!
If your speech is published on the Internet, it’s published with the consent of...
– http://rc3.org/2010/12/03/somebody-can-always-cut-you-off/
Because even if this is a faked baby with a faked Google street view, it’s...
– http://www.sippey.com/2010/11/even-if-its-fake-its-real.html
Spacelog: Apollo 13 →
Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts.
exfm →
The web is now your music library. Exfm is an extension for Chrome that makes it incredibly easy to discover new music while browsing, organize that music into a library and share it with all your friends.
Bacteria first species observed to use... →
The researchers’ discovery that bacteria can substitute phosphorus with arsenic in the backbone of DNA has significant implications for evolutionary chemistry and astrobiology, since it suggests that life won’t necessarily be limited to the six elements it favors here on Earth.
Pirates release pitcher Dinesh Patel →
The Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday released right-hander Dinesh Patel, one of two pitchers from India who signed in 2008 despite never having played baseball Left-hander Rinku Singh, who advanced from rookie ball to short-season Class A last summer, remains in their organization. Singh won an India TV reality show called the “Million Dollar Arm,” in which scouts sought to discover...
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Mashup Breakdown →
Visualization of the samples used in Girl Talk’s All Day.
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A great R&B cover of the Velvet Underground classic.