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Grand Canyon 1983.
posted by jjray at 10:31 PM PST - 64 comments

Chicago Welcomes You "How to redesign a resettlement process for immigrants who may never have seen a streetlight, cooked on a stove, used a toilet that isn’t a hole in the ground or handled any type of currency." More about the project.
posted by ocherdraco at 9:44 PM PST - 12 comments

The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images
posted by Artw at 7:37 PM PST - 18 comments

Level Up! A sweet and oddly deep little RPG/platformer flash game that's all about grinding, stats, and broken fences. [more inside]
posted by The Whelk at 5:06 PM PST - 35 comments

6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe. A smart, funny take on some of the most common Hollywood movie tropes about mental illness.
posted by ShawnStruck at 4:04 PM PST - 100 comments

My drive to work in the rainstorm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [more inside]
posted by defenestration at 4:03 PM PST - 40 comments

12 years in the making, a good working hypothesis about the nature of conciousness. [more inside]
posted by AceRock at 3:08 PM PST - 72 comments

Look at this frakking geekster.
posted by Pronoiac at 1:57 PM PST - 72 comments

Portraits of Power "An interactive portfolio of portraits by Platon of world leaders, with commentary by the photographer."
posted by gwint at 1:26 PM PST - 24 comments

You ever wonder what sorts of computers and software people use to get their job done? Yeah, me too.
posted by chunking express at 12:37 PM PST - 196 comments

Beer Calculus is a freely available homebrewing recipe generator, which allows you to easily create, save and share your own beer recipe(s). The calculator includes hundreds of malt, hop and yeast varieties, adjuncts and other ingredients, different mash processes, and fermentation and storage variables, and can toggle between US and metric units. Also, if you associate your recipe with a BJCP-recognized style, the calculator will give you guidance regarding your recipe's adherence to the style's guidelines. Homebrewers, have at it!
posted by cog_nate at 12:26 PM PST - 26 comments

African Remix! Put A Ring On It and Lollipop have both been covered by the Naija Boyz who appear to be a couple of Nigerians living in America with dreams of home, hence the remixed lyrics, "...shorty I'm a fan of your super pounded yam...."
posted by pick_the_flowers at 11:56 AM PST - 10 comments

King of the rock critics Lester Bangs has been written up in here before, but TheHoundBlog provides us a rare, detailed look at the man behind the myth, both the good and the bad. [more inside]
posted by stinkycheese at 11:25 AM PST - 13 comments

The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009
posted by Mountain Goatse at 9:38 AM PST - 275 comments

In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee... where he’s seeking re-appointment as the Fed’s chairman, Bernanke called for cutbacks in Medicare and Social Security... “Willie Sutton robbed banks because that’s where the money is, as he put it,” Bernanke said. “The money in this case is in entitlements.” [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese at 8:55 AM PST - 91 comments

Tim Perlich was the senior music writer for Toronto's NOW Magazine for 20 or so years. The two parted company for unexplained reasons earlier this year. For those who love or hate him (and there are plenty in both camps), he's now blogging about all things music at The Perlich Post.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 8:27 AM PST - 17 comments

There are plenty of skiing games (many online), from dodging drunken skiers (flash, French) to the basic downhill skiing (java) but the grand-daddy of skiing games is SkiFree (previously), iteself based on the older Atari Skiing game. SkiiFree has been remade into a basic version built from SkiFree sprites and HTML Canvas, and the more complex flash version of the freestyle course, which includes the monster.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:17 AM PST - 22 comments

So I got arrested by the SWAT team last night… Jeremy Bell's office was stormed by Ontario Police looking for some Lego blocks he bought online. An eyewitness account.
posted by boo_radley at 7:15 AM PST - 140 comments

A teenage girl named Hope Witsell died after being tormented for sending a nude photo of herself to a boy. [more inside]
posted by Ouisch at 7:12 AM PST - 160 comments

8 bit Christmas
posted by DU at 7:12 AM PST - 19 comments

At least something good for someone has come out of the whole Tiger Woods brouhaha. Photos of Woods' wrecked SUV reveal a copy of Get a Grip on Physics on the floor of the Escalade's back seat. [more inside]
posted by Naberius at 7:02 AM PST - 60 comments

Patton Oswalt's "Christmas Shoes" - the cartoon version [SLYT]
posted by porn in the woods at 6:51 AM PST - 20 comments

The author of the Hokey Pokey dies at the age of 104.
posted by LSK at 6:10 AM PST - 45 comments

Revisiting Old-School Text Adventures as a Jaded Modern Gamer. {NSFW language}
posted by Ljubljana at 2:10 AM PST - 20 comments

Wesley Willis's Joy Rides, one week only at Pitchfork TV. Dual-wielding a Technics KN and a microphone, breaking Chicago down to a vector space of magic marker; homeless busker, Napster celebrity, punk headliner and hellraiser: take your pick. The late Wesley Willis as remembered in Joy Rides.
posted by kid ichorous at 1:17 AM PST - 33 comments