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Football Games Have 11 Minutes of Action
“There’s very little actual football in a football game.” I rarely record a game since I can’t stand not watching it in real time, but when I do I’m always blown away by how quickly I can skip through it.
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Polaroid Fans Try Making New Film for Old Cameras
A nice little article in the New York Times talking about The Impossible Project.
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Chicago Tribune endorses Barack Obama for president
It’s the first time the newspaper has ever endorsed a Democrat. It’s a damn good endorsement too.
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10 reasons why newspapers won't reinvent news
Sobering and well argued, the future for newspapers doesn’t look so bright.
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Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet
“Break’s over.”
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Toilet-paper researchers create 3-ply tissue
“The company touts the toilet tissue as ‘ultra-soft’ and says it plans to market the product to women 45 and older who view their bathroom as a ‘sanctuary for quality time.’” You can’t make this stuff up.
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2002 story resurfaces on Web, decimates United stock in minutes
“the light-speed wipeout is a powerful reminder of how quickly bad information can spread via the Internet to a trigger-happy Wall Street that is willing to dump millions in stock before checking the facts.” Whoops.
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Olympic Medal Count Map
I absolutely love this interactive graphic depicting the medal counts since the modern games inception in 1896. Big kudos for representing the different regions using color and a rough “map” via large circles. It’s great that you can quickly flip to just a straight numerical order too though.
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Georgia 'under attack' as Russian tanks roll in
“Georgia’s president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.” Wow. I hate that first thing that popped into my head was that Russsia might just be jealous of the spotlight being on China for the Olympics.
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What's New on Delicious
I love the new redesign. It’s clean, straight forward, ad free and there’s finally a character counter to let me know how long my description can be instead of being randomly being cut off. I’ve almost switched to ma.gnolia three or four time, but was always turned off by the ads. With this redesign I don’t see any reason to switch now. Well done del.icio.us design team.
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NPR: Coming Soon: Our New API
Can’t wait for this. I’m a radio addict and can’t get enough NPR. I’ll definitely be taking a close look at this API when it gets released. Excited to see what “widgets” they’ll be releasing as well.
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Two new EveryBlock cities are live
Charlotte and Philly. Still waiting on Seattle… sigh.
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Rumors Barack Obama's campaign shouldn't try to correct.
“Barack Obama has the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE tattooed on his stomach. It’s upside-down, so he can read it while doing sit-ups.”
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NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58
Damnit. I really enjoyed watching him on Meet the Press.
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OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens
Sure, it’s all just concepts and hand waving, but very impressive regardless.
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Taken by oregonianphoto
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The Day There Was No News
Taken by Jason Arber
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Newseum: Today's Front Pages
As you can tell from the design of T Inc. I’ve got a big love for newspaper designs, and this little automator script looks like a nice way for me to store up some inspiration archives.
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Smile you're on ele-vision
“How a camera attached to an elephant’s trunk captured amazing jungle views.” I just hope the elephant was annoyed with that huge camera hanging from its tusk.
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He wrote it himself. Think of that. He wrote it. Himself.
I haven’t watched the entire thing yet, but what I’ve seen it’s incredible. If he really did write it himself that’s just staggering.
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'Mentally tired' Favre tells Packers his playing career is over
I’m surprised and a bit sad about it but it’s probably for the best.
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Completing the Cycle of News
Congratulations Mike and the Newsvine team for making this happen. I’m excited to see what more they have in store as MSNBC and Newsvine become more integrated.
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EveryBlock Chicago: A news feed for your block
Great new site from Adrian Holovarty, Wilson Miner, and crew. I just wish they had an EveryBlock for Seattle!
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Newseum (Again)
Looks like the man was spreading some holiday cheer and swiping a little extra for himself.
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Rare Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed: Contains Skin, and Maybe Organs, Muscle
Initial reactions were “No way!” and then “Booyah!” from scientists.
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Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women
“One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use “ho ho ho” because it could frighten children and was too close to “ho”, a US slang term for prostitute.”
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‘Fruitbat’ at Bat
“We just can’t stop being nice to Iran.”
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To all iPhone customers
Surprising but very cool.
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Men want hot women, study confirms
Huge surprise.
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Chinese food 'made from cardboard'
Mmmm… paper.