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Miracle on Toast: DIY Laser

The miracles are only limited by your talent. Wired

Miracle on Toast: Great Literature

One classic finds another Heldfond

Quality Content Farm

This is the best content farm ever. I never thought I'd like one.

How to Become the President of the United States

If the United States had a king, it would be the president.

The Constitution says you have to be at least 35 years old, born in the United States and live here fourteen years to become president.

This is how you become him.

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The Content Farm

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

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Voynich Manuscript

Voynich Manuscript Wikipedia

Google Art Project

You can browse 385 rooms in 17 galleries. There are more than 1,000 works by 486 artists.

This is a wonderfully intense endeavor that will benefit many art and technique lovers. Google Art Project

TED Talk 2010

Behind the TEDTalk 2010 from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

got this from via an etsy post.

from the video:

"dreams are what guide us and what help us to become the best thing that we could be... and if you kill dreams. if you squash them. if you kill the capacity for dreaming then you dehumanize us in a literal sense. so dreams are what i really think make us who we are."

The Ruins of Detroit

Yves Marchand & Romaine Meffre

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Abandoned Detroit

The Internets is Changing - Larry Page to Become New CEO of Google

Eric Schmidt will become Chairman and hand off CEO duties to Larry Page in April 2011.

"Google named Schmidt executive chairman, and his duties will include forging external partnerships and conducting government outreach on the company’s behalf, according to the statement. The management change will take effect April 4, the company said." Washington Post

Loving Your Enemies - Talk by Martin Luther King

"So I want to turn your attention to this subject: 'Loving Your Enemies.' It's so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: 'Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.' But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."

Sarah Palin's Run for the White House

At this point, it looks like the cross hairs map will be Sarah Palin's political tombstone.

She played the hand she was given the best way she knew how. Palin grabbed that national attention and squeezed it for every penny it could get her.

Litigation­, major debt, a baby with down syndrome (who will need a level of care his whole life), and a teenage daughter with a baby. I haven't seen anyone say this, but her reason to step down had a lot to do with securing her family's future.

She got sucked into to the fox news world fringe. She continued to operate in a bubble since she became a national figure. Part of that means bringing a lot of hunting metaphor onto the national stage.

It doesn't reflect calls to violence the way some of her fringe peers do, but she is lumped in and the cross hairs map became symbolic.

Glenn Beck was her spokesman about her feelings on the massacre..­.. the guy uses calls to violence and violent overthrow of govt as a punchline to his brand of entertainm­ent. She continues to allow herself to be lumped in with them. That response and a facebook post is un-statesm­an like and amateurish­. It does not show good leadership.

I would not want my president, the leader of the free world to be calling on supporters to take out opponents with cross hairs. That's what happens in unstable countries or dictatorsh­ips not the U.S. We are above that.

The Future of the US - Flowers for Assassins?

Rose petals thrown for assassin of Salman Taseer as he heads to court. NYT

The Chupacabra Might Be a Hairless Raccoon

Paranormal

Wikipedia entry of the Chupacabra.

CNN video.

Turning 65 - F U Baby Boomers

Heheh... they make up about 25% of the US population

"In keeping with a generation’s fascination with itself, the time has come to note the passing of another milestone: On New Year’s Day, the oldest members of the Baby Boom Generation will turn 65, the age once linked to retirement, early bird specials and gray Velcro shoes that go with everything." NYT

Sniffing Your Cellphone - Hackers eavesdrop on GSM phone calls with aid of $15 cell phones

The first time I noticed this was in 2006. They used triangulation. It's not new. Financial, tech, and nonprofits rely heavily on some version of this. Examiner

Another Asian Nerd Stereotype Born

Asians Sleeping in the Library

Richard Holbrooke Gone at 69

"Mr. Holbrooke’s signal accomplishment in a distinguished career was his role as the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton peace accords, which ended the war in Bosnia. It was a diplomatic coup preceded and followed by his peacekeepingmissions to the tinderbox of ethnic, religious and regional conflicts that was formerly Yugoslavia.

More recently, Mr. Holbrooke wrestled with the stunning complexity of Afghanistan and Pakistan: how to bring stability to the region while fighting a resurgent Talibanand coping with corrupt governments, rigged elections, fragile economies, a rampant narcotics trade, nuclear weapons in Pakistan and the presence of Al Qaeda, and presumably Osama bin Laden, in the wild tribal borderlands." NYT