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August 17, 2007

Interactive Global Storm Tracker

Rich sent me this great interactive global storm tracker

7 Reasons the 21st Cenury is Making You Miserable

Seven reasons the 21st century is making you miserable — this is a fascinating look at how isolated we've become.

August 8, 2007

The World Clock

The world clock [via Rich]

July 11, 2007

My Compliments to You

Scott Adams: My compliments to you

Scott Adams on Hypnotism

Scott Adams on hypnotism

July 10, 2007

xkcd

I recently read every single episode of xkcd, a "webcomic of sarcasm, romance, math, and language". My two favorite episodes were: Beliefs and Dreams.

June 20, 2007

Map of Antarctica

Map of Antarctica — without the ice

June 14, 2007

Tree Drawings

Tree drawings

June 3, 2007

Polish Man Emerges from 19 Year Coma

Polish man emerges from 19 year coma

May 30, 2007

Coping With Death on the Web

Coping with death on the web [via Dave]

May 28, 2007

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 21, 2007

The Blog is the New Resume

The blog is the new resumé

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]

May 8, 2007

A Childhood Saved

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

May 3, 2007

Time-Lapse Journey Through the Panama Canal

Time-lapse journey through the Panama Canal

April 19, 2007

Female Body Shape in the 20th Century

Female body shape in the 20th century

April 18, 2007

My Six-Week Journey to the Land of the Thin

My six-week journey to the land of the thin — extreme dieting

April 9, 2007

I Wish I Had a Government

I wish I had a government

March 26, 2007

Multi-Tasking Makes You Less Productive

Multi-tasking makes you less productive. This is something I'm just beginning to learn. (See my recent epiphany about getting more work done when I don't have a wireless internet connection.)

March 4, 2007

This Too Shall Pass

This too shall pass: The key to staying calm during an argument

February 5, 2007

How Marbles Are Made

How marbles are made — stick around for the lovely hand-crafted marble. It's fascinating.

Open Locked Car Doors With a Tennis Ball

Open your locked car door with tennis ball!

January 21, 2007

Demolished Buildings of Portland

Demolished buildings of Portland, a map by tinzero

January 17, 2007

The Astoria Notes

The Astoria Notes — a series of missives from a downstairs neighbor

January 16, 2007

The Slave Epic

For Kris: The Slav Epic, the magnum opus of Alphonse Mucha

January 10, 2007

The Dinosaur Factory

Ooh. Way cool: The Dinosaur Factory [view first | view second] via mefi

January 3, 2007

DrawerGeeks

DrawerGeeks! Not what you think it is.

November 29, 2006

Oral Tradition Storytellers

AskMe: Where can I find recordings of good oral tradition storytellers?

November 22, 2006

Kids Lead to Unhappiness

AskMe: Does having children make people less happy? Studies show that kids decrease happiness levels in parents slightly. Here are some anecdotal responses.

November 21, 2006

The Little Book of Flow

Life 2.0: The Little Book of Flow — an encapsulation of the idea of "flow" in a longish blog entry

November 14, 2006

Non-Newtonian Fluid

Walk on the water: a pool filled with a non-Newtonian fluid

November 8, 2006

How to Be Interesting

How to be interesting

October 28, 2006

DIY Secret-Door Bookshelf

DIY secret-door bookshelf [via lifehacker]

October 26, 2006

What If All Humans Vanished?

What if all humans vanished? [via Dave]

September 19, 2006

Old Portland

Old Portland, a Flickr photoset [via frykitty]

September 18, 2006

ListPic

Are you a CraigsList fiend? Try ListPic, which gives the site a new front-end. Not necessarily better, but different, and fun.

September 14, 2006

Burning Man Sucks

A review ripping Burning Man: "Burning Man is not run for hippies and not run by hippies. It is run by thugs and bullies for the benefit of thugs and bullies. It is a festival for the Freudian Id."

September 8, 2006

How to Ruin People's Lives

Waxy has the amazing tale of a sex-baiting prank on craigslist in which a couple hundred responders have been "outed". This is disturbing on many, many levels.

September 5, 2006

Everyday

Everyday (a work in progress) — guy photographs himself every day for 6-1/2 years, makes a video, sets it to music. The effect is mesmerizing.

August 29, 2006

Research into Bilingual Children

For Pam and Sabino and Marcela: research into language acquisition in children, particularly in bilingual children. Fascinating science!

August 7, 2006

Hating America

This is awesome. Hating America isn't really about hating America, but about the cultural adaptations one makes after spending a long time in a third-world country and then returning to the U.S. Why is it that everyone who comes back finds the U.S. more foreign than the country they're returning from? Excellent reading.

July 21, 2006

The 1% Rule

The 1% Rule — in online communities, 1% of users create content, 10% interact with it, and 89% simply watch. But everyone benefits from the content. Very interesting.

July 20, 2006

A Record Player Made of Paper

A record-player made of paper [via bb]

The Secret to Wisdom

The secret to wisdom is strong opinions weakly held [via kottke]

July 12, 2006

Everest Panorama

Mt. Everest panorama — it's kind of awesome to see this, including the Hilary Step. So many people have died in this one spot. And it's the location of so much personal achievement. [via rich]

July 10, 2006

How Meditation Works

How meditation works — I've been thinking I should practice a little meditation in order to calm the million thoughts constantly buzzing in my head...

July 6, 2006

Cambodians Ride Bamboo Railway

Cambodians ride bamboo railway

June 29, 2006

Hurricane Animation

Awesome hurricane animation demonstrating the effects of storms ranging from category one to category five. Excellent. Thanks again, Rich!

The End of Network Neutrality?

The end of network neutrality? Susan forwarded this article to me. It's an interesting disucssion on the future of the internet, a future being decided by Congress right now.

June 28, 2006

Train Surfing

Awesome article on train surfing in South Africa

June 9, 2006

The Amazing Lyrebird

Amazing! Sir David Attenborough, naturalist and pioneer of the nature documentary, turned 80 last month. To mark the occasion, Britons were asked to choose their favorite Attenborough moment and of all the memorable scenes, his recording of the lyrebird came out on top. In this clip the bird mimics neighboring birds, several cameras, car alarms, and perhaps most impressively, loggers with chainsaws. (wmv, qt) [via mefi by way of frykitty]

June 5, 2006

Getting Real: An Interview with Jason Fried

Getting Real: an interview with Jason Fried — I find this guy's story inspirational. It's similar to what I plan to do with some of my stuff.

June 3, 2006

Mindfulness in Plain English

Mindfulness in plain English

May 29, 2006

Amazing R/C Airplane Demo

Video: amazing R/C airplane demo

May 24, 2006

The Great Money Trick

My feelings about market economies are all kerfuffled. The Great Money Trick does nothing to help. Am I a capitalist or am I socialist? Maybe I'm both. And neither.

May 16, 2006

Feral Children

Is this a repeat? I love stories of feral children. They're wild! [via Dave]

A Future With No Bananas?

A future with no bananas? "Go bananas while you still can. The world's most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed."

May 11, 2006

The Best and the Interesting

A great weblog entry that I wish I had written: The Best and the Interesting

May 9, 2006

Have You Ever Quit Using the Internet?

AskMe: Have you ever managed to quit using the internet? I've given it up for short periods, and loved it, but am always drawn back. I've talked with others who have had similar experiences. Now, though, I'm entrenched: I'm running three sites and have bought into the lifestyle!

May 4, 2006

Newspapers Published in New York 1900-1967

Newspapers published in New York 1900-1967

April 28, 2006

Death's Acre

For Kris: Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab 'The Body Farm' Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. That's an awful title, but the book looks intriguing, even to me. (And I'm not even a trained observer!) [via frykitty]

April 24, 2006

Soviet Underground Submarine Base

Soviet underground submarine base — I love cool abandoned structures like this [via Dave]

April 20, 2006

Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation

Wildlife defies Chernobyl radiation — this is a fascinating story of how the twenty-mile exclusion zone around the failed reactor has become something of a nature preserve

April 10, 2006

Incredible Machine

The Incredible Machine — a series of elaborate Rube Goldberg-style machines that do nothing, but are simply amazing to watch [via frykitty]

April 4, 2006

Adapt to Experience

Adapt to experience: "Nothing is more important than developing the ability to learn and understand new things that enable you to change.
If you can change your future is open. If you are incapable of change your future is closed."