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Ducklings Vs. Wind Gusts

Ducks blown off their feet by the wind (via derbydanx)

I’m on a star wars kick today. Here is a star wars alphabet to teach to the cub (via www.brandonpeat.com)

Not only, but also.: Dr. Seuss does Star Wars

Crazy hills of San Francisco (by Håkan Dahlström)

Happy Thanksgiving from Turkzilla! (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) - Boing Boing

This outta be good. - Indexed

“If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” (via cache.gawkerassets.com)

Cat vs. Gator. Who will win in the showdown? (hint: the cat does not get devoured. p.s. the cat chases off more than one alligator.) Cat & Gator (via arketron)

Diary of a Dog. Diary of a Cat (via www.icanhasinternets.com)

I think only hardcore English majors can idendentify all six. This is a list by MIKE LACHER:

via http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/27lacher.html

A turducken is a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey. The word turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken or hen. (via Turducken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Self-Repair Manifesto - iFixit

My home state, Florida, from space (via msnbcmedia.msn.com)

PEOPLE ARE AWESOME (via Hadoukentheband)

Works almost as well, costs a lot less - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

A bomb squad was summoned to inspect a suspicious package left outside the Cocoa Beach, Florida Social Security office. Sometimes, bomb squads will detonate packages after clearing the area. Fortunately, they broke from that protocol this time:

The bomb squad quickly suited up and headed to the scene to defuse the situation. Once they arrived on scene, specialists found a box slightly stirring. There was no “tick-tock,” but a different familiar sound. Meow.

Boba Fett charged Jabba a hefty sum for that Carbonite encased Han Solo: Boba’s Invoice (by Brock Davis)

lamas playing basketball Photoblog - Monks playing basketball

Mama elephant kicks baby elephant. Baby elephant gets some good distance… Elephant kicks baby elephant (via tubeyourgoods)

How they shot the opening story lines in Starwars (via Make: Online : How they shot the opening crawl in Empire Strikes Back)

Yet one more reason not to allow crocodiles onto air planes.

A STOWAWAY crocodile on a flight over the Democratic Republic of Congo escaped from its carrier bag and sparked an onboard stampede that caused the flight to crash, killing 19 passengers and crew, reports said today.

(via Stowaway croc causes crash, killing 19 - Herald Sun)

New data just released from Nielsen show the average teenager sends 3,339 text messages each and every month. More impressive, the average teenage female sends over 4,000 messages on a monthly basis. (via Average Teenager Sends 3,339 SMS Messages Monthly, Average Teen Girl Sends 4,050 - Mobile Marketing Watch)

If that is the average, then it means there are teens sending out much more per month.

22words has a very cool collection of shadow sculptures, sculptural art done by casting a shadow on a wall. It’s incredible what these artists do with light and lines. Amazing shadow sculptures - 22 Words

The Economic Argument: via imgs.xkcd.com

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

— Andy Warhol on Coca-Cola

Medicare loses seven times as much money in fraud every year than the combined profits of the 14 health insurance companies on the Fortune 500.

— Medicare Fraud Puts Insurance Profits in Perspective - By Mark Hemingway - Critical Condition - National Review Online

Boomerang kids: 85% of college graduates must move back home - Oct. 14, 2010

AIRPLANE, a melodrama! It’s just not the same without the jokes…

Generally, you wouldn’t want to stand that close to a volcano. Most incredible volcano footage ever (via geoffmackley)

DaveDrawsComics: The Blog!: Seinfeld SuperHeroes

Irish Hand Dancing

Acclaimed Irish Dancers Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding blow the brains out of the Irish Dance genre in this multi-media extravaganza. Their style liberates Irish Dance from its velvet-clad, tin-whistle-blowing, diddly-idleness and drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.

We No Speak Americano ft. Cleary & Harding (via upandoverit)

Ninjabread Men

Souped Up: How to Make Instant Ramen into a Gourmet Meal [Hack]

Even though some people say we are living in a “knowledge economy,” we are living in a political atmosphere in which ignorance has more power than ever. Washington politicians who have never run any business are telling all kinds of businesses - from automobile companies and banks to hospitals and insurance companies - how they have to run their businesses. This is the golden age of ignorance in power.

— RealClearPolitics - Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene Thomas Sowell

This is our Pledge to America. We pledge to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers and honor the original intent of those precepts that have been consistently ignored – particularly the Tenth Amendment, which grants that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. We pledge to advance policies that promote greater liberty, wider opportunity, a robust defense, and national economic prosperity. We pledge to honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based organizations that form the core of our American values. We pledge to make government more transparent in its actions, careful in its stewardship, and honest in its dealings. We pledge to uphold the purpose and promise of a better America, knowing that to whom much is given, much is expected and that the blessings of our liberty buoy the hopes of mankind. We make this pledge bearing true faith and allegiance to the people we represent, and we invite fellow citizens and patriots to join us in forming a new governing agenda for America.

— A Pledge to America - The Fall 2010 GOP Agenda - GOP.gov

America is an idea – an idea that free people can govern themselves, that government’s powers are derived from the consent of the governed, that each of us is endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is the belief that any man or woman can – given economic, political, and religious liberty – advance themselves, their families, and the common good.

— A Pledge to America - The Fall 2010 GOP Agenda - GOP.gov

Only for internet geeks and T.S. Eliot Fans: THE .DOC FILE OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK

2010 U.S. Election Ratings - Google

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Just look at this awesome banana shoe.

Cognitive scientists from the University of Rochester have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. The researchers found that video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this benefit doesn’t just make them better at playing video games, but improves a wide variety of general skills that can help with everyday activities like multitasking, driving, reading small print, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town.

— Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate

xkcd: Password Reuse

Google Maps: From 0 to Instant (v0.2)

Shadows kiss in public (via s-ak.buzzfed.com)

Globe Genie - Joe McMichael

Highest-Paid Athlete Hailed From Ancient Rome : Discovery News

Best anti-theft sign - robotpainter

Straightforward Street Art Makes the Case for Cycling - GOOD Blog - GOOD

CtrlV CtrlX Ctrl Z, Pic, Gear

Do young women have camera activated magnet in their heads? pearlswine: Pearls Before Swine - August 26, 2010

Me biking to work shouldn’t strike anyone as that odd. The most popular vehicle in the world is the bike: 1.4 billion bikes vs. 400 million cars.

(via number27.org)

I doubt there is a shorter means of communication than the tweet, unless we start to make monosyllabic grunts at each other or communicate silently, brain to brain.

— Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Our Digital Crisis

Studies showed that middle-aged and older Americans who drank two cups of water before a meal ate about 75 to 90 fewer calories over the course of the meal.

— Water Before Meal Means Fewer Calories Consumed: Scientific American Podcast

Write drunk, edit sober.

— - Hemingway

Don’t be afraid to explore. via www.mint.com

Running on water at the youth Olympics opening ceremony… via i.timeinc.net

Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years

Kill or cure?

Here’s a map of the world’s population by latitude and longitude.

via www.radicalcartography.net

“Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D.” (via The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.)

Wait… What Christopher Nolan Movie am I watching? via img2.timeinc.net

“I shoot people and pets.” The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks: photo/hit woman

Here’s a beautiful Collection of Fantastical landscape illustration. enjoy… (i heart) ART - Dadu Shin - Home - Where the Lovely Things Are

An amazing collection of closeups of eyes. There is some really amazing detail here. (Your beautiful eyes on the Behance Network)

Grow A Wall

Pearls Before Swine - August 6, 2010

Maximidia Seminars: Vintage Youtube - Ads of the World

Maximidia Seminars: Vintage Skype - Ads of the World

Maximidia Seminars: Vintage Facebook - Ads of the World

Google Launches Multiple Account Sign-In for Multi-Google Account Holders [Google]

Inception ripped off a Scrooge McDuck comic

Sunsets Around The World Sunsets from the USA, India, Cambodia, Colombia, China, Russia, Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Hong-Kong, Australia, Vietnam, Guatemala, Belgium & France the same year during one guy trip around the world. The world is a beautiful place. via Sunsets Around The World.

Now that’s a proper LEAD singer! Sculptor carves tiny Elvis on tip of a pencil - Mail Online

This is the weirdest action adventure music video I’ve seen.

The World In The Year 3000 - Coolvibe

“A stunning painting of a possible future (or present depending on how you look at it)… walled cities of techno-utopia surrounded by the rest of the world living in the middle ages.”

History of The Beatles as told by their hair this isn’t happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr

Millennium Falcon Guitar Creator Travis S. Tells Urlesque His Creative Process (via Millennium Falcon Guitar Creator Travis S. Tells Urlesque His Creative Process - Urlesque)

“Runnin’ Rhino” - Animals, Cute T-shirt by Allan Faustino

Dealing successfully with times of change (like now) requires that you simultaneously broaden your reach, focus on what’s important and aggressively ignore things that are both loud and false.

— Seth’s Blog: The management of signals

(via Pig prank)

She wants to know what I accomplished on my day off, but when I show her she yells at me for not flushing. Marriage is hard.

— Twitter / MJ: She wants to know what I a …

(via orangefrizzante) - Home Sweet Home

Look! Crispy, Creamy Avocado Fries

Rocket Propelled Chainsaw (via Rocket Propelled Chainsaw [PIC])

Spanish matador Oliva Soto stares at a bull during a bullfight during the San Fermin festival at Pamplona’s bullring in northern Spain on July 9, 2010. (RAFA RIVAS/AFP/Getty Images) (via The Festival of San Fermin, 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

I’m really glad someone has finally done this. Every time I go to get Chinese food I think (or usually tell my wife) that it would be really funny if there were mis-fortune cookies or fortune cookies with scary fortunes… Finally someone has stepped up and made them.

A package of 10 is $9.99 at ThinkGeek. Don’t want. (via Evil fortune cookies - Boing Boing)

Meerkat? Mere Cat?

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China 2010 (湖南张家界国家森林公园) (via ALL THINGS PHOTOGRAPHY ~ 30,000 MEMBERS -)

This is why I don’t pay for cable (via farm5.static.flickr.com)

Organization is in part about being prepared for the moment when insight strikes. It’s about creating the conditions for creativity to flourish, so that when you enter into creation mode, your physical world is set up to support you.

— Joan Rivers and Twyla Tharp, Organized Artists « Student of Change

Microsoft .NET vs Java - trailer [Video]

Oh my. I’m not this much of a geek, but this is very well made. I’d watch the movie…

Daylight Hours Explorer

Most Creative People In Business 2010 - Fast Company

Architecture’s Modern Marvels - Culture - Vanity Fair

Thanks, Lord, for the gift of my own good company. And thanks, too, for always being there Yourself, listening to my crazy ramblings with good humor, and entering so often into my self-conversation.

(via Music, Ministry, and Motherhood: Me, Myself, and I)

Hulu took the wraps off of its new television subscription service Hulu Plus on Tuesday, which delivers shows by internet rather than cable or satellite receiver, for the relative bargain of $10 per month.

— Hulu Plus Launches: Three Networks, Zero Real-Time Shows - Epicenter - Wired.com

Don’t you wish you had thought of this one? And yes, it was a real band, with a real member named Bagpipes McDonald. (via Awesome Band Name and Photo: Turds of Misery - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down)

Ricky - LADY GAGA - TELEPHONE ft. Beyonce’ (Drum Cover) (via RickyFicarelli)

Try Garfield minus Garfield the book.