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Maximum Fun! Interviews with all sorts of interesting people. John Hodgman and Henry Rollins, Brendon Small and Peter Molyneux, Terry Jones, Jonathan Katz and Jonathan Goldstein, Patton Oswalt, Elmore Leonard, They Might Be Giants, Ira Glass, and many, many more, from all areas of the arts and sciences and stuff. Something for everyone! [more inside]
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"What if I could get Neil Gaiman, our most fave author and fantasy writer, to help propose to my girlfriend?" A sweet tale of how Jason got Neil Gaiman to stage the proposal. (Video here. From Gravity Lens)
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Mashups are a genre of music in which one or more songs by other artists are mixed together into a (hopefully) better whole.
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Histoire de M. Vieux Bois is considered the first modern comic book. Also available in GIF.
posted by sushiwiththejury at 2:09 PM PST - 6 comments

Deceiver is a blog that exposes the hypocrisy of celebrities.
posted by Tube at 12:52 PM PST - 93 comments

Language log has uncovered the reason for the inappropriately common appearance of the word fuck in English translations on Chinese signs. One more Chinglish phenomenon explained.
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All About My Dog - Marimo
posted by brett at 10:39 AM PST - 23 comments

Award-winning ad exec Rich Silverstein (Goodby, Silverstein, and Partners) who is known for creating the "Got Milk" campaign -- among many -- has created three posters designed with input from the public to depict "The Bush Years". The results - Events, Slogans and People. Of the project Silverstein said: "Here is my thinking. What if we could TiVo the last six-plus years and play them back - without comment -- for the American people, and let them connect the dots?"^* Republicans respond with posters of their own: Posterizing the Democratic Party.
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The Gömböc is the first known convex, homogeneous shape having just one stable and one unstable point (i.e. altogether two points) of equilibrium. A little like some turtles' shells (or weebles), it's self-righting, but for purely geometric reasons. [more inside]
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Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma.
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Miomi (beta) is taking all the world’s information—including the personal history of as many people as possible—and putting it all in a big fat timeline. [more inside]
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What I Killed Today. I work with a lot of injured wildlife. Also not wild animals that are just in a lot of pain. Sometimes I have to euthanize them. I decided to record each animal I euthanize here.
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Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age.
posted by Soup at 1:06 AM PST - 77 comments