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"I'll argue for the sake of arguing that we as human beings have a finite supply of attention for ambient awareness of things around the world.... And the fact that I know just a little bit too much about popular television due to twitter has to be responsible for some other deficit in my life..."
Twitter zero: One man's experiment in staying connected to the public-soundbite world without becoming overwhelmed by it.
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at 8:57 AM on October 8, 2008
(9 comments)
How do I switch windows in Photoshop CS3/Mac?
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at 11:23 AM on August 18, 2008
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As the Tour de France concludes, let's spend a moment commemorating the
derrière garde of world-class cycling, those bad enough to come in last but never bad enough to fail, les
Lanternes Rouge. If Wim Vansevenant can retain his tenacious hold on 145th place in Sunday's stage he will be
the worst cyclist to complete the Tour de France for three consecutive years and set a Tour record. You can, indeed, win by losing.
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at 1:32 PM on July 26, 2008
(53 comments)
A couple years ago, The Inquirer noticed that the same college student was endorsing competitors Dell and Gateway. Readers started mailing examples of her selling UPS, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Ford, Siemens, CNN, Greyhound, and
quite a few others. After being dubbed The Dell Girl, she was promoted to The Everywhere Girl. People
critized her shallow commitments to the universities she endorsed. Nonstop appearances across most of the western world
must have been fatiguing. She's even in
high demand among Christian and textbook publishers.
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at 4:00 AM on April 14, 2008
(34 comments)
Free Star Trek. The only Star Trek that matters -- the ones with Kirk, Spock, Bones, and the rest.
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at 1:00 PM on February 22, 2008
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As a photographer, you need to get close to your subject. But sometimes things get between you and your subject. Things such as state lines, restraining orders, and guard patrols that can keep you miles away from the people you want to shoot. What do you do at times like this?
Get a bigger lens.
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at 7:20 PM on February 7, 2008
(58 comments)
Has anyone ever been fired for choosing Microsoft?
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at 9:24 AM on January 25, 2008
(10 comments)
Remember
NSFNet? If you had an email account in the U.S. before 1995, chances are most of your mail passed through an NSFNet node. The folks who ran it are
having a reunion.
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at 10:27 AM on November 30, 2007
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"
NATURMOBIL is about to pioneer in the state-of-the-art, first ever advertising promotion by means of traveling around the world with the vehicle that is nature-friendly that preserves the welfare of the beings and the environment. NATURMOBIL will soon to be the byword in every household globally." If Fleethorse, LLC meets their modest goals, the world's first advertising-funded
horse-powered car will be followed by horse-powered
buses and taxis.
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at 6:34 PM on November 26, 2007
(10 comments)
A new generation of bike rental is here, where you pick up the bike where you start your ride and drop it off at the destination.
Vélib' and
Vélo'V are the high-profile, wildly successful products of the JCDecaux ad firm in the cities of Paris and Grand Lyon. Velib' provides
10,000 bikes for
cheap hourly rental beginning this past summer. In exchange for fully underwriting the €90 million of expenses, JCDecaux wins exclusive rights to all the city's billboards.
JCDecaux' rival Clear Channel beat them out of the gate by a couple months, opening
Bicing in Barcelona to similar success, although at a smaller scale.
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at 8:01 PM on October 8, 2007
(17 comments)
"
A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver."
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at 5:12 PM on October 7, 2007
(76 comments)
Variations on a theme
, a short history of alligators biting and threatening people - mostly children, mostly African-American - a surprisingly popular motif of candy wrappers, sheet music, and post cards.
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at 10:43 AM on September 7, 2007
(26 comments)
Bjarne Riis, current coach of premier cycling squad Team CSC,
used drugs to win the Tour in 1996. His protege, Ivan Basso, was suspended from Team CSC before last year's Tour for suspicion of doping. Team Discovery hired Basso to fill Lance Armstrong's seat as captain, but
Basso quit shortly before he had a chance to win his second consecutive Giro d'Italia, and is out for the season, if not permanently. The conclusion of
Floyd Landis's appeals to reinstate his 2006 Tour victory will wait until some time after this year's Tour de France. Jan Ullrich capped a good but unsatisfying career by retiring early and under a cloud. Several of Ullrich's former Deutch Telekom/T-Mobile teammates, including Erik Zabel,
admitted to doping, and the team masseur claims to have personally administered EPO to Ullrich. Ullrich, Basso, numerous other leading riders, and the majority of some team rosters continue to be under suspicion as the
Operación Puerto EPO lab investigation grinds onward. It might be the best time ever to market a competition road bike called the
Addict.
(previously, previously, oh-so-very previously, )
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at 5:47 AM on May 27, 2007
(14 comments)
How do I make my iPod quieter?
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at 8:00 AM on May 9, 2007
(7 comments)
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007).
Master cellist and renowned conductor, Rostropovich was one of the great artistic dissidents of the Soviet Union. He started his career as a star of the Moscow Conservatory and lived long enough to play his cello in the rubble of the Berlin Wall. More from the
Associated Press and
Wikipedia.
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at 4:21 AM on April 27, 2007
(38 comments)
I think that Kurt Vonnegut would have approved of commemorating his death during Happy Hour.
Corner Brewery, Ann Arbor/Ypsi, Friday, April 13, 6:00 pm. Or get there earlier and save us a table.
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at 3:56 AM on April 12, 2007
(7 comments)
My favorite entree is the salmon sandwich on foccacia bread. Water is served with a slice of cucumber which is very refreshing.
Which profession dines out the most? Whose judgements can be counted on for honesty and straightforwardness? The
truckers'.
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at 7:01 AM on March 28, 2007
(60 comments)
Saparmurat Niyazov
is dead. The self-designated "father of the Turkmen" was the absolute ruler of Turkmenistan for fifteen years, a minor middle-Asian country which would completely escape the notice of the West if it wasn't for
Turkmenbashi's unique form of excess
and its oil. Along with the usual human rights violations and wallowing in wealth -- an estimated $3 billion cached in private accounts -- he dedicated himself to reshaping Turkmen's philosophy and cosmology on a scale to inspire Kim Jong Il. Among his accomplishments are
redefining the ages of Man and
renaming the names of days and months after neutrality, the flag, and Turkmenbashi's mother. Who now will speak up for
Turkmen Melon Day?
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at 4:10 AM on December 21, 2006
(42 comments)
I know somebody who has the opportunity to design casino-worthy playing cards. What does a playing card need?
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at 6:05 AM on November 14, 2006
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