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Similarities between the Godfather and Arrested Development

The World Map of Useless Stereotypes - via NYTimes.com

Harry Potter Comic.

This is the whole harry pottery series in comic form. Click through the see it close up. (via Lucy Knisley - OMGRYFFINDOR.)

Wired Magazine’s article on Feedback loops explore what they are and how we can harness them to modify and improve our behavior.

[T]he simplicity of feedback loops is deceptive. They are in fact powerful tools that can help people change bad behavior patterns, even those that seem intractable. Just as important, they can be used to encourage good habits, turning progress itself into a reward. In other words, feedback loops change human behavior. And thanks to an explosion of new technology, the opportunity to put them into action in nearly every part of our lives is quickly becoming a reality.

Woody Allen as Toy Story’s Woddy

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“Leonardo’s rediscovered Salvator Mundi , before restoration.”

Possible long lost work by Leonardo da Vinci (via ARTnews)

The Rocketeer 20th anniversary (by John Banana)

Imagine if Pixar made an animated version of the Rocketeer…I have fond memories of the Rocketeer from my childhood but am afraid I would find it very cheesy if I watched it again now. So this will have to do.

Splitscreen: A Love Story by JW Griffiths, shot on a Nokia N8 Phone.

Twitter Whom to follow - Chrome Web Store

Org charts at major tech companies:

arainert:

You don’t work on an assembly line any more. You work in project world, and more projects mean more chances to screw up, to learn, to make a reputation and to have more impact. When it’s you against the boss, the goal is to do less work. When it’s you against the project, the goal is to do more work.

— Seth’s Blog: When is it due?

This is a video of the Office re-imagined as a 1980-1990’s sitcom.

(by benny2700)

Why to join Google+ (via xkcd: Google)

CASSINI MISSION: pro-tip, watch in full screen with headphones and prepare to be blown away by the beauty of this video made from footage of NASA’s Cassini Mission to Saturn. (by Chris Abbas)

Claiming clairvoyance. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Here are a few of my reading highlights from the Foreign Policy article Meltdown, by Gennady Burbulis and Michele A. Berdy, an exciting account of the August coup in Russia, and the fall of the former Soviet Union in 1991.

We began to work together on a new union treaty that would transform the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign states with a limited central government. Yeltsin planned to sign the controversial pact on Aug. 20. As we miled about Yeltsin’s living room on the morning of Aug. 19, it was instantly clear to us that the coup was an eleventh-hour attempt to prevent the treaty from being signed the next day. But that was the only thing that was clear. Americans watching the events unfold live on CNN knew more about what was going on in Russia than we Russians did; the news anchors in Moscow simply read a formal statement issued by the coup plotters’ hastily appointed “Emergency Committee.” Information arrived at the dacha in bits and pieces, by phone from friends and colleagues in Moscow and around Russia.

Hidden cameo in Indiana Jones: C-3PO & R2-D2??!?

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Broccoli House

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