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A list of 100 skills every man should know. The annotated version of the list starts here. My dad taught me almost all of the skills you should teach your kids. (link)

Anytime is a good time for a well-cut movie trailer mashup: here's The Dark Knight version of the Toy Story 2 trailer. (via buzzfeed) (link)

One of the most popular events of the annual New Yorker Festival is Calvin Trillin's food-oriented walking tour of SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and Little Italy. According to the New York Times, one of the tour's favorite destinations is Banh ...

The Big Picture has a selection of photographs from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who is the answer to the question "hey, who takes those amazing aerial photos of all these different places on earth?" Many more images are available on Arthus-Bertrand's web s ...

Remember the fun we had reading about this root beer tasting a few months back? The #1 root beer from that tasting, Sprecher (from Wisconsin), is now available on the root beer section of the menu at Ssam Bar. My Moscato d'Asti-addled brain forgot to ...

jcgregorio : Using Java (GWT) with Google App Engine :: Tech Videos, Screencasts, Webinars, Techtalks, Tutorials

Simon Willison : Tracking your Cat with GPS - Tracking your Cat with GPS. Alex Lee strapped a GPS to his cat.

Andy Baio : TIGSource's Bootleg Demake competition winners - best game competition ever

Andy Baio : Take on Me: The Literal Version - if songs sang what was happening in the music video Rod Begbie : YouTube - Take On Me: Literal Video Version - "Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do." Tags : ...

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I've always wanted to figure out how to put my cats to work...

still wine based but maybe worth another try?

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ah, I just love stories like this

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RAM raiders: inside secrets of the cyber hackers: Here’s a great story about white-hat hackers testing the defenses of Symbolic Motors in the San Diego area. It’s a blast to read, and part of a larger article at the London Times. He ...

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web: There are so many amazing ideas crammed into this 18-minute talk, it’s hard to list them all. At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is onl ...

That Elena was born on this day in 2005.

neonsignal writes "Raja Petra Kamarudin, a Malaysian blogger, is in court under the Internal Security Act, under which he can be detained indefinitely. He is well known for his commentary on the Malaysian government, and was arrested after a piece on ...

eldavojohn writes "The funny thing about the RIAA & BPI is that the artists are just as tired as the fans with how online music is being handled. So they're trying something new called the Featured Artists' Coalition. FAC's site states in their c ...

An anonymous reader writes to mention that the Tokeneer research project has been released to the open source community by the US National Security Agency. The main goal of this project was to show how highly secure software can be developed cost-eff ...

SpuriousLogic writes to tell us that University of Arizona researchers claim to have broken a barrier in holographic technology by creating an updatable, three dimensional display with memory. While the existing model is only able to update once ever ...

In just a few days a few of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon event in Anaheim, CA. In addition to the interesting announcements, sneak peeks, and other distractions, we will be sitting down with several Blizzard employees to answer ...

coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA seems to still be having fun with their funding and continues to aim for the "far out". The latest program, a submersible airplane, seems to have been pulled directly from science fiction. Hopefully this voyage ...

Wall Street joined in a worldwide cascade of despair Monday over the financial crisis, driving the Dow Jones industrials to their biggest loss ever during a trading day. Even a big afternoon rally failed to keep the Dow from its first close below 10, ...

The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 bill ...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.

After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of its work force, in its la ...

Shares of SAP AG plunged Monday after the business software maker said it saw a sudden drop in business at the end of September as global financial turmoil escalated.

The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 bill ...

Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets — or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter — because of risks for disease.

An intersection in southeastern Idaho has proven unlucky for a woman who's been in two car accidents at the same crossroads since August. Kris Payne was driving at the intersection of Pole Line and Eldredge roads on Thursday when another driver ran a ...

There's a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, the latest in a string of bra burglaries ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slid for a fourth straight day on Monday, leaving the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, on fears the global economy was hurtling into recession despite government efforts to contain the fast-spreading fina ...

This is an explanation of economics. There's no way to avoid some boring details and glazed eyes when talking about such things. However, I promise to avoid some of the jargon which will send you running to wikipedia, if you in turn forgive me for s ...

Stock markets plummet around the world as investors worry about the growing level of financial turmoil.

I’m delighted to say that online bookstores are shipping copies of Here Comes Everybody today, and that it has gotten several terrific notices in the blogosphere: Cory Doctorow:Clay’s book makes sense of the way that groups are using the ...

A look back at the week that was ... · Mazel Tov! · Time flies when you're looking for online filth. · It finally happened! "Pirates II!" If only someone had told us about it beforehand. · Suddenly we're not very hungry. & ...

A new book by Randall Stross is out; it's called "Planet Google" and covers Google's beginnings but also their latest actions and troubles. It's a very good, highly readable, well-researched and up-to-date introduction to the subject and will also o ...

In AdSense ads Google serves to websites, they don't always disclaim the ads as such; arguably, this job could be left to webmasters (though they sometimes do show the disclosure, which causes redundancy for those webmasters adding their own disclosu ...

One of the most popular events of the annual New Yorker Festival is Calvin Trillin's food-oriented walking tour of SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and Little Italy. According to the New York Times, one of the tour's favorite destinations is Banh ...

Somehow, a 22-year-old University of Alaska student named Richard Millay got his hands on a videotape that's eluded the media since John McCain asked Sarah Palin to be his running-mate — original footage of her 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant. Of cou ...

A recent LA Times Piece bemoans the lack of freedom today's children enjoy. Given the rise of such articles, is this a shared consensus? Judging by the reaction's to Lenore Skenazy's child rearing practices, maybe not. The explosive popularity of ...

Any Top 100 list of UK comedy shows has the famous Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketch in the top ten. Silly word play, songs and Ronnie Barker's fabulous timing, made them TV blockbusters for 16 years. Presenting a brief youtube linkdump... ...

The remake of Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is finally finished The 1990 adventure/ rpg game from Sierra has been almost eight years in the making by AGDInteractive Studio, who already remade Sierra's King's Quest I and II. The game is fully in ...

CERN has published the full technical details of the design and construction of the LHC and it's six detectors (1589 pages, 115MB).

I wonder if Kathleen Parker wants to save males with mudblood....oops, because I am stupid I deleted the last deep thought. The universe weeps.

Bringing a stack of books to Drinking Liberally tonight, 6-? at Tangier at 18th and Lombard, in case anyone wants them. I'm starting to get multiple copies of stuff sometimes. You know you want to be the proud owner of Kathleen Parker's "Save the M ...

Something Awful eschews humor in this week's Comedy Goldmine for gibbering madness. "I know you were coming here expecting to laugh at the Comedy Goldmine this week. Well, you're screwed....

"It's the Bizaro Ethel Merman." "She's like a garbage bag full of fighting Muppets back from the dentist." "It's like the little exorcist girl stung by bees." "The first time...

A short film in which a Paris Hilton-esque socialite is revealed to be the architect of her own loopy attempts at notoriety, and who will go as far as she...

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— — YouTube is having so much trouble serving the video. It really should be on BitTorrent. And so it is. — — www.mininova.org/ tor/ 1882614 — — Thanks to RaveDelay for providing a complete copy of the movie! It a ...

.... internet. # 23:34 Enjoying some toast - the edible kind # 23:35 @aeropoastale prep with cinnamon & splenda deeelish # 23:49 Gonna plug my blanket in to warm up. I'm cold # 00:13 Crawling into a warm bed is heavenly # Automatically ...

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The whole Stack Overflow team got together in person at Fog Creek's shiny new office in New York City for a roundtable discussion about the future of StackOverflow.com, which is up as this week's podcast. Shanah Tovah u-Metuka! Not loving your job? ...

Why doesn't somebody make this? It's a power strip It's a network hub It's a USB hub You clamp it onto the back of any desk This would make it easy to plug in laptops, USB peripherals, and all your rechargers at your desk without crawling arou ...

if songs sang what was happening in the music video  

best game competition ever  

"In Alaska, we have mosquitoes."  

Banksta 4 Life  

with convenient Google Maps links for each  

reminds me of an ant colony  

it's got a beat and you can dance to it  

The Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia. That's about 900 kinds of wow, and I say this as someone born and raised in this part ...

So I thought I was breaking some new ground in Testament by interpreting the Bible through the comics medium. It gave me the chance to play with a near-future frighteningly like the deep past being described in the ancient mythical stories. Now, a Sw ...

Jean Jean french beatboxer guimbarde UP YOUR SOUND !, YouTube (Thanks, Brendan via "friends list")...

I've given a few interviews in Milan where I've been for the past two days – what a beautiful city! – and almost every time, someone has asked what Web 3.0 will be. As if I'd know! If Web 2.0 is about how easy it's become for people to participa ...

To: Luke — From: Owen Hope you landed safely. Then again, if you didn't, I probably wouldn't be writing this, so much for small talk, hrm? Reader pepsidewd from Montreal sent that in (full size on the jump). It's a Wiimote Pez dispenser. Well, ...

If you wanted to, you could by 11 versions of three different NBA games on Tuesday. Of course, if you wanted to, you could also buy Imagine Fashion Designer New York and Imagine Babysitters on the same date. And which would be worse? Another jampacke ...

Found near the ice rink in Central Park.

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volte-face: an about-face. Originally from Dictionary.com Word of the Day, ReBlogged by Other Options on Oct 4, 2008 at 11:57 AM

: Being based in San Francisco has its advantages, but having seasons is not one of them. Our readers were kind enough to share their fantastic fall photos with those of us who are seasonally challenged. These are the top 10 photos, according to you ...