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May 31, 2007

Mac Plus Kicks Athlon's Ass

Awesomeness: Speed test between a 1986 Mac Plus and a 2007 AMD Dual Core Athlon machine. Care to guess which machine wins? It takes the MacPlus 11 seconds to boot to desktop, but 63 seconds for the modern machine. [via Dana!!!]

Mashup: Boogie Nights vs. Star Wars

Mashup: Boogie Nights vs Star Wars [via kottke]

May 30, 2007

Major and Minor Pests of the Strawberry

Major and minor pests of the strawberry — We have a spit-bug infestation, and it's affecting our strawberry crop. (Not to mention grossing me out.)

Coping With Death on the Web

Coping with death on the web [via Dave]

Scientists Close in on Cyborg-Like Memory

Scientists close in on cyborg-like memory

Science Fiction Writers Join the War on Terror

Science fiction writers join the war on terror [via Joshua]

May 28, 2007

Don't Try This at Home

Don't try this at home

How to Make Excercise a Daily Habit

I'm telling you: Leo's Zen Habits is my favorite blog right now. (Leo is one of my "imaginary colleagues".) Here's how to make exercise a daily habit and 7 ways to build the exercise habit.

What's Cooking, Grandma?

What's cooking, grandma? Grandmas of the world share their special recipes.

Joshua Bell Plays for an Audience of None

Amazing story: If a great musician plays great music from great composers on a great violin, but no one cares, was he really any good? [via Paul J.]

May 25, 2007

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

The quick and easy way to effective speaking

Feline Zen

Feline Zen: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.

Why I Won't See Pirates 3

Why I won't see Pirates 3 (Actually, Pirates 2 is why I won't see Pirates 3.)

May 24, 2007

ABBA Museum to Open in Stockholm in 2009

ABBA museum to open in Stockholm in 2009

May 23, 2007

A Glimpse Behind the Scenes of Successful Blogs

A glimpse behind the scenes of successful blogs. Amen. This stuff is work, make no mistake. It just happens to be work I love.

May 22, 2007

Overclocking Your Reading Speed

Overclocking your reading speed — ironically, at Leo's blog but not by Leo

May 21, 2007

How to Learn Another Language Quickly

How to learn another language quickly

The Blog is the New Resume

The blog is the new resumé

The Civil War in 4 Minutes

The Civil War in 4 minutes

Death by Veganism

Death by veganism

May 20, 2007

Collect-Me-Nots

Via Paul J.: Collect-me-nots: "The owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J." [NYT registration required]

The Pressures of Blogging

The pressures of blogging

May 19, 2007

Creed Thoughts

For Sabino: Creed Thoughts, the blog from the Director of Quality Assurance at Dunder Mifflin Paper Company

Create a Morning Writing Ritual

More from Leo: Create a morning writing ritual

May 17, 2007

Obi-Wan Buys a Car

Via Jeff: Obi-Wan buys a car

How to Win at Rock, Paper, Scissors

How to win at rock, paper, scissors

TNG End Scenes

The last ten seconds of every first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (How I loved this show!)

MacMozy

MacMozy, a backup app for when I ditch .Mac

May 16, 2007

7 Ways to Crank Out Articles

7 ways to crank out articles, from my pal Leo

May 11, 2007

Trouble With Women

Trouble with women (1959)

The Gong Show

Via Rich: How many of you remember The Gong Show? Well, here are some classic clips. Dig the popsicle twins!

May 10, 2007

2007 Kentucky Derby

2007 Kentucky Derby on YouTube — I've always loved horse racing

How to Talk to the Press

Matt on how to talk to the press — This is something I'm doing more of lately.

May 8, 2007

A Childhood Saved

I love this: Brad's A Childhood Saved, records of a natural and personal history.

May 7, 2007

Astronomers Report Biggest Stellar Explosion

Astronomers report biggest stellar explosion [NYT login required]

May 6, 2007

Cat Town

Cat Town — an early precursor to LOLcats?

May 4, 2007

'Tom Cruise' Rules Gay Unicorn Planet

'Tom Cruise' rules gay unicorn planet

E-mail Bankruptcy

E-mail bankruptcy — Welcome to my world. I've declared e-mail bankruptcy twice in the last six months, and am dangerously close to a third instance. I must find a better way to deal with e-mail.

Mexican Coke is the Real Thing

Mexican Coca-Cola is the "Real Thing": It's made with sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup. Coke officials would have you believe nobody can tell the difference, but reality is somewhat different. Apparently, most people can tell the difference, and prefer the real stuff. Some (all?) Costcos are selling Mexican Coke.

May 3, 2007

The Animated Bayeux Tapestry

For Nick: The animated Bayeux Tapestry

Marvel vs. DC

For all my geeky friends: Marvel vs. DC

Time-Lapse Journey Through the Panama Canal

Time-lapse journey through the Panama Canal

May 2, 2007

Music from Paul

Paul Carlile recommends some new bands: The Black Angels, Silversun Pickups, and Band of Horses