It's all about editing...

THis is briliant. Thanks to Neil Gaiman's blog for turning this one on:

2 things

Interesting article on spamming and captcha this is not spam.

and a cool way to deal with super long url's: tinyurl.com

An Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine!

This thing is so cool that I want to laugh out loud when I see it.

Baynham & Tyers Innovation Business Consultants, Product Design, Concept Creation, Problem Solving for Small, Medium and Large businesses, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Intramural Glory

Jami's friend put this video together... It's the start of a series, and pretty damn funny. A little something for the amature atheletes out there:
Intramural Glory Part 1

-Richard

Killer App -

Maybe the coolest "Social Web" app that I've seen yet. Love it!
Flickr: Explore everyone's geotagged photos on a Map

Karyn Gartel is Altered Diva

I am such a sucker for this stuff.
Karyn Gartel is Altered Diva

Gread Photoshop Animal Hybrids

Very, very cool.

Allatok

Bike Messengers Are on Crack

This one's for you, dad -- and for all of you other bicycle junkies out there. Wonderful Chevy Wrestling. It gets better as the video goes on.
Looks like a blast.

Icon War

Neato flash!
Icon War

badger badger badger badger badger...

mushroom!!! mushroom!!!

Exclusively Food: Sweet Potato Salad Recipe

This Sweet Potato Salad Recipe sounds awesome.

Cool Eyeball trick

Nifty Optical Illusion

I Love Bubble Wrap

Bubblewrap. Aaaaahhhh...

Modest Smith

Johnny Marr to join Modest Mouse.

The Finger

Hopefully you'll forgive me for giving you the finger.

Yay Independence!

Happy 4th everybody! Please be sure to take a moment to thank the French for their help in liberating us from under English rule! - Richard

Sleater-Kinney No More

Sleater-Kinney recently posted a statement on their website advising that this summer is their last tour. Damnit.

What the internet is for

Finally, we have arrived:

A little ray of sunshine...

And in the midst of what seems like a world going insane (politically, anyway), there's a little ray of sunshine...
Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Trials: "The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The vote was split 5-3, with moderate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joining the court's liberal members in ruling against the Bush administration.

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Old Husker Du Videos

My favorite Husker Du single ever (Makes No Sense at All/Love is All Around). But I'm sharing this video because the very, very Wayne's World quality to the videos -- there's even a scene in the "Love is All Around" section where they're sitting on a sofa in what seems to be the basement with funny hats on, playing instruments and lip-syncing badly. Made with love, and not much else. I love it back.

Secret Passage For Your Home

This company will design/engineer secret passages for your home with trick latches and everything (just like in the Scooby Doo cartoons!): hiddenpassageway

Rube Goldberg machine built out of sticks and stones

Way, way cool. Looks like a fun afternoon!
Rube Goldberg machine built out of sticks and stones: "Cory Doctorow: There's a feature on today's Make video podcast about a giant, elaborate Rube Goldberg machine assembled out of sticks and stones in a forest. The video features some jaw-dropping, Mousetrap-style action, and the use of found forest-floor materials makes it all the more Wile E Coyote. The video features tips on setting up your own woodsy contraption. Link


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Chocolate generates electrical power

Our parents' generation wished for their flying car when they grew up. Although the flying car would be more fun, I just want one that runs on table scraps:

Chocolate generates electrical power: "Mmm, chocolate - is there nothing it can't do? Microbiologists fed sugar-loving bacteria chocolate factory waste and the results were electrifying"

Honda Robot Controlled By Brain Waves

File under HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?

Honda Robot Controlled By Brain Waves: "Dotnaught writes 'Honda researchers to have developed a way to control robots using human brain waves. Using brain signals read from a person in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, a robotic hand mirrored the movement of the human controller, spreading its fingers and making a 'V' sign.'

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Leaking Space

Interesting perspective from William Gibson's blog...
LEAKING SPACE: "BLDGBLOG: How are these shifts being accounted for in the geopolitical and military analyses you mentioned earlier?

MIKE DAVIS: The problem that military planners, and some geopoliticians, are talking about is actually something quite different: that’s the emergence, in hundreds of both little and major nodes across the world, of essentially autonomous slums governed by ethnic militias, gangs, transnational crime, and so on. This is something the Pentagon is obviously very interested in, and concerned about, with Mogadishu as a kind of prototype example. The ongoing crisis of the Third World city is producing almost feudalized patterns of large slum neighborhoods that are effectively terrorist or criminal mini-states – rogue micro-sovereignties. That’s the view of the Pentagon and of Pentagon planners. They also seem quite alarmed by the fact that the peri-urban slums – the slums on the edges of cities – lack clear hierarchies. Even more difficult, from a planning perspective, there’s very little available data. The slums are kind of "

Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006)

Stanley Kunitz died May 14 at the age of 100. His collected poems reached me deeply and I carry his words with me daily. This is not the same planet it was Saturday.

Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation
by Stanley Kunitz

Since that first morning when I crawled
into the world, a naked grubby thing,
and found the world unkind,
my dearest faith has been that this
is but a trial: I shall be changed.
In my imaginings I have already spent
my brooding winter underground,
unfolded silky powdered wings, and climbed
into the air, free as a puff of cloud
to sail over the steaming fields,
alighting anywhere I pleased,
thrusting into deep tubular flowers.

It is not so: there may be nectar
in those cups, but not for me.
All day, all night, I carry on my back
embedded in my flesh, two rows
of little white cocoons,
so neatly stacked
they look like eggs in a crate.
And I am eaten half away.

If I can gather strength enough
I'll try to burrow under a stone
and spin myself a purse
in which to sleep away the cold;
though when the sun kisses the earth
again, I know I won't be there.
Instead, out of my chrysalis
will break, like robbers from a tomb,
a swarm of parasitic flies,
leaving my wasted husk behind.

Sir, you with the red snippers
in your hand, hovering over me,
casting your shadow, I greet you,
whether you come as an angel of death
or of mercy. But tell me,
before you choose to slice me in two:
Who can understand the ways
of the Great Worm in the Sky?

Happy Science

According to Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist, his research indicates that the happiness you feel about good things that happen to you lasts longer when you don't have an explanation for it. His book, Stumbling upon Happiness, sounds fascinating. Dig the NPR Day-to-day article on it if you're interested.

Lily Allen Your ears will thank me!

Psssst!

Preposterous Horseshit.

Pass it on!

Gizoogle

You have to try this search engine: Gizoogle.

I searched for teamtinnaro with it and it pulled this up: teamtinnaro

It's pretty damn funny.

THe coolest tee shirts on the planet

I found the coolest tee shirt store on the planet.

My birthday is in September, in case you were wondering.

Giant Squid Photos

I Finally found some of the Giant Squid Photos that I posted about so very long a ago...

We HAVE TOTry This

Mentos+Diet Pepsi=COOL.

USF Grad Michael Welch

Mike, formerly of the Tampa band Americar Underworld wrote this article for Newsweek. Michael is also the other of The Donkey Show. The article is about post Katrina NO and the book is about pre Katrina NO.

Another Weird Cross-Association

I remembered another weird cross-association today. Damned if I can remember exactly what it was now, but I'm pretty certain that it's another of those weird software-location associations. I'll remember it eventually.

Cross-associaton

I have noticed that I have a few associations in my mind that are, well, weird. Not like the smell of cologne I used to wear reminding me of an old girlfriend (nothing weird about that), but stuff without a visible connection. For instance, I have a mental association that causes me to think of the intersection of 10th Ave N and First street sometimes when I remember learning to use, or am using the rectangle tool in Adobe Illustrator. There's nothing notable about that location - nothing "happened" there, I never knew anyone who lived on that corner. But there it is, pretty regularly. I am sure that I have more of these seemingly random associations, but I can't think of any right now. I'll post them later as I experience them again. Do you have any?

Someone to watch peasant

Cool Blog

I don't understand it, but I just think this is a cool blog. I love that there are people like this out there. fermat

Can't be Satisfied

Last night I dreampt that I was hanging out before some conference, waiting for things to get started with Keith Richards (yes, of the Rolling Stones). I think we were even going to share a hotel room. What I remember best is agreeing, very cordially, that we should have a fistfight but that before the conference wasn't good timing. We'd schedule it for later in the evening.

Reading "Can't be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters" is having a disproportionate impact on my moment-to-moment psychology, even in my sleep. It's a good book and interesting for far more than just the information about an important senior member of the blues and rock and roll pantheon. Particularly of note is that transition from life as a sharecropper, to life as a blues star. Talk about turning the world upside down.

Another Creative Mis-read

While scaning headlines on the 'net, I stumbled across a very curious headline:
"Iran Defiant After Being Reported by IKEA"

I was suprised to find that the story was *not* about a conflict between an Islamic Middle Eastern nation and a low-cost Scandinavian furniture retailer.

Not feelin' too bright today...

That smell in your back yard

How Krispy Kreme works: Krispy Kreme

Digging a hole

Another goofy app built on top of Google maps - now you canfind out where you'll REALLY end up if you dug a hole straight down from wherever. It's really cool. But the major disappointment is that all those holes I dug in the back yard weren't headed for China at all. I was going to end up swimming in the Indian ocean.

Computers and money

I used to think that computers were going to make our lives easy, but
it turns out that computers are like money - when you have them, it's
nice, but you really are just trading one set of problems for another.

Engrish

One last pointless post today - maybe it was just a long weekend, but Engrish.com had me laughing up a storm tonight:Recent Discoveries

flyGuy

A wonderful, whimsical flash... game? flyGuy.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Just Say No To Bread

Despite its wholesome image, Bread Kills

Some interesting tests

Some interesting survey and psychological tests online provided by our pals at the BBC. Fun!BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Surveys

Lockergnome

So this is interesting... An article about Lockergnome and their editorial process. I wonder if I could turn this into a job?

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You might also find lockergnome interesting.

Google Zeitgeist

If you're generally interested in the shared mind that is our society, you'll love this year's Google Zeitgeist. It's a little more guided than last year, and I think that they've pointed out some interesting items.

Noteworthy:
4 of the top 10 items searched for in froogle are iPods
The Harry Potter book release gathered more queries than the movie release
Wikipedia is more popular than ever
Michael Jackson still makes the news
Green Day was a top 10 gainer in search this year (Kids love that punk rock)

Anyone who does marketing needs to memorize each of these graphs. Incredible. There's definitely some qualitative information in those quantitative pictures.

100 things we didn't know this time last year

The BBC tells us something nifty 100 things we didn't know this time last year. Pretty neat. Among the interesting facts there are these:

71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.

and

73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.

and this one which is of great interest to some of us:

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

89. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.

And PLEASE don't tell the MPAA about this one or it'll happen here, too. The sad thing about this one is that the poor music store OWNERS have to listen to 1,500 teens throwing down whatever-kids-play-in-music-stores-instead-of-Nirvana-riffs-these-days, they have TOPAY FOR IT:

100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".

Another try

Another test of the backlinks functionality... sorry...Team Tinnaro :: Family Life

A test of backlinks

THis is a post that tests the "Backlinks" functionality of the blogger blog. Sorry for teh false alarm. Pepa's face is the latest post on the Team Tinnaro blog.