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An unexpected side effect of iTunes.
Remember
Bowie Bonds? Introduced in 1997, bonds tied to future profits of music artists (besides Bowie, James Brown and the Isley Brothers offered them) tanked with the advent of online filesharing. Thanks to iTunes, some on Wall Street are betting that the Bowie Bond is a concept with a future.
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at 8:41 AM on August 23, 2005
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Nanotube sheets!
"The ribbons are transparent, flexible, and conduct electricity. Weight for weight, they are stronger than steel sheets, yet a square kilometre of the material would weigh only 30 kilograms. 'This is basically a new material.'"
Applications could include flexible TV screens, light panels and that digital paper they keep telling us is coming soon.
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at 9:37 AM on August 19, 2005
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The latest additions to the
National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress
have just been announced. This year's additions of "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" works include "Swanee'" by Al Jolson, Edward R. Murrow's radio reports from London during WWII, and "Fear of a Black Planet" by Public Enemy. View the full registry
here, selection criteria and nomination information
here.
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at 10:00 AM on April 6, 2005
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• Things which we will rock:
- you
•
Songs in list form:
- the best thing ever to come from LiveJournal
- Amazingly addictive
- via
waxy.org
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at 2:44 PM on March 28, 2005
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Spamusement!
Sort of like Exploding Dog, if all the suggestions came from spam subject lines.
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at 11:50 AM on February 7, 2005
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The Museum of Temporary Art.
"The museum itself is located in my home. It is about 40x50 cm big and has 33 compartments. This website is a representation of what is currently in the museum, i.e. the compartments."
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at 3:21 PM on December 6, 2004
(3 comments)
TV-B-Gone.
A remote with only one button: Off.
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at 9:01 AM on October 20, 2004
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Apple-1 CPU, VG-Mint.
"This computer, as is documented, was bought from Steve Job's parents garage. The checks for the purchase and the original manual are included." More photos
here.
[via coudal]
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at 11:50 AM on September 27, 2004
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The Wall Street Journal offers RSS feeds
...headlines only, alas, and you still have to be a subscriber to read the full stories. But it's still a big endorsement of this technology by a major newspaper. Any other papers offering feeds? [Sample WSJ feed
here, additional info inside.]
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at 8:52 AM on July 28, 2004
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Political ads fail their mission.
In an
Advertising Age poll, 92% of respondants said the ads had not swayed them to change their prospective votes. More than half said the ads didn't influence them, and nearly a quarter found Bush's ads "not at all persuasive." Before you liberals get cocky, consider this: 29% thought Kerry's ads were totally unpersuasive.
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at 9:29 AM on May 25, 2004
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The Serco Transarctic Expedition:
Ben Saunders is attempting the first ever solo ski crossing of the Arctic Ocean -- from Russia to Canada via the geographic North Pole without kites or dogs and without replenishing supplies. He's now about 160 nautical miles into the trek, and making daily posts about the experience.
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at 12:26 PM on April 7, 2004
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The Amazing Baconizer:
Take two books, CDs or films and find out how they're connected via Amazon's "people who bought this also bought..." database. (Wiki, including a short FAQ,
here.)
[via kegz on eggz]
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at 2:28 PM on October 14, 2003
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