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- is an "alternative way to view Flickr photostreams. It is designed to facilitate high quality viewing with minimal distractions." By
Justin Ouellette, creator of Muxtape.
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at 7:24 AM on January 27, 2009
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Scientists at the Auckland Museum will be performing a
necropsy of a great white Shark between 11am and 1pm New Zealand time on Thursday. Though they will be examining the contents of its gut, they will also, among other things, look at its sex organs (female) and jaw. The necropsy will be
viewable on the web from 2pm NZ time (
when's that?).
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at 8:44 AM on January 7, 2009
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The sections of
britishbattles.com about The First Afghan War have
apparently been quoted verbatim in Al-Qaeda propaganda. Site author, amateur historian John Mackenzie, told the press "It's exactly appropriate to use the account of the first Afghan war to point out the pointlessness of the current operations and the dangers that they run of a similar disaster,"
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at 2:49 AM on January 1, 2009
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Pocketful of dough
- an article on where the art of, er,
tipping up front can get you. Originally printed in a year 2000 edition of Gourmet.
Via Juicy Tidbits.
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at 6:05 AM on October 10, 2008
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Return to sender: Artist puts Royal Mail to the test
- "To put them to the test, Harriet Russell concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers. Among the disguises she employed were dot-to-dot drawings, anagrams and cartoons. The answer, it seems, was very far indeed. Amazingly, only 10 failed to complete their journey back to her." Be sure to click the "more pictures" link to the right for more samples.
Via one.point.zero.
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at 5:27 AM on October 9, 2008
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A novel youtube page
promoting Nintendo's latest platform game. The page itself adds context as the video progresses.
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at 3:16 AM on October 8, 2008
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The Eureka Tower Carpark
in Melbourne makes makes great use of forced perspective for its way-finding system, designed by Axel Peemoeller.
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at 3:19 PM on September 7, 2008
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Ghostschool
is a collection of photographs taken of the sketchbook/scrapbook of designer Wil Freeborn (and a few other tumbled bits and pieces).
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at 11:55 AM on September 6, 2008
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Record player + video camera =
Phonographantasmascope, animator Jim LeFevre's extension of the zoetrope. "It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use."
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at 12:38 AM on June 23, 2008
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New Kiribati "...will future climate change refugees become a new caste of service sector workers inhabiting a sort of Floating Hotel & Duty Free Mall ... ?"
Small island states are on the front line.
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at 8:16 AM on June 19, 2008
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GrifBall!
Red Vs. Blue's Sarge and Caboose introduce the rules. A sample match:
Bungie Vs. RvB. Context: Since the release of online multiplayer first-person shooter Halo 3, Bungie have allowed players to customise maps with the placement of objects, weapons, spawn points etc. using the
Forge feature. Combined with customisable rule sets, unusually innovative custom games are possible.
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at 6:16 AM on June 17, 2008
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Ping.fm lets you update your social network statuses, blogs and microblogs simultaneously from one place. The current
sign-up beta code is "tastyping".
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at 2:23 AM on June 12, 2008
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page2rss is a simple, effective RSS scraper. For instance, here's an
RSS feed for
Astronomy Picture of the Day. A powerful feature: "You can add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing."
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at 2:18 AM on June 2, 2008
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Peculiar corpses: "
Incorruptibles remaining free of decomposition have baffled scientists to this day. These bodies are discovered in many different environments, including environments that would typically cause an accidental or deliberately preserved corpse to decompose rapidly." The photographed examples seem to all be associated with Christian faith. Hmm. "[At Oratorio di San Lorenzo] in Palermo, however, corpses are treated as characters in a play":
The Museum of the Dead, reassuringly less preserved.
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at 4:25 AM on May 30, 2008
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"When I get the time when I'm not raking, whenever I'm near water, I'll beach comb for bits of wood, feather or anything else that appeals and make
some boats."
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at 1:14 AM on April 21, 2008
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"Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up. Love, Jay / The Plug". Stranger Photos Have Happened.
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at 4:03 AM on March 21, 2008
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