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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke: Seth’s Blog: An end of magic

I haven’t seen this one in the store yet, but it’s a wine I’d try. (via Punch in the Face : Serious About Wine)

Cinemassacre’s Top 10 Jackie Chan Fight Scenes (by JamesNintendoNerd)

Signs of Hope in Alabama’s Tornado Wreckage - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

This is the second installment of my reading highlights from my Kindle. This one is much more digestible than the first. Again, I’ve included links to the originals. Enjoy.

Understanding America-Exceptionalism – The Heritage Foundation

Added on Monday, May 09, 2011, 12:47 PM

The original Mt. Rushmore design had the presidents depicted from the waist up.

The Technium: Tech Shopping Rules of Thumb

PEOPLE ARE AWESOME (by Hadoukentheband)

(via Dogs in the news - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Vintage Photographs of Moscow 1909 - a set on Flickr

The best way to sabotage chances for upward mobility of a youngster from a single-parent household, who resides in a violent slum and has attended poor-quality schools is to make it unprofitable for any employer to hire him. The way to accomplish that is to mandate an employer to pay such a person a wage that exceeds his skill level.

— Minimum Wage’s Discriminatory Effects by Walter E. Williams on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

laughingsquid:

Human Bicycle

It is truly incredible what your brain does when it sees this collection colored squares.

illillill:

In the medical literature, the vocal “cord” is a mere “fold,” a piece of gristle that strives to reach out and touch its twin, thus producing the possibility of sound effects. But I feel that there must be a deep relationship with the word “chord”: the resonant vibration that can stir memory, produce music, evoke love, bring tears, move crowds to pity and mobs to passion. We may not be, as we used to boast, the only animals capable of speech. But we are the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation, combining it with our two other boasts of reason and humor to produce higher syntheses. To lose this ability is to be deprived of an entire range of faculty: it is assuredly to die more than a little.

Frank Sinatra Slang

This is a short animated film about a boy and girl seeing light for the first time on a dark and desolate planet.

Its a film from students at Sheridan College 2010: Sean Calligan, Jen Bamford, Hail Kim, Nosa Ott, Cassandra Piesz, Morghan Peressini, Vanessa Stefaniuk, Derek Spencer, and Eddie West.

Sun Day (by Derek Spencer)

Death Cab For Cutie’s “Home Is A Fire,” video by Shepard Fairey and Nicholas Harmer (by boingboingvideo)

Gnome of the living dead. Etsy artist dougfx, from Seattle created this scary lawn ornament. It would be best for Halloween, but is still cool any time of year. (via Zombie Garden Gnome Walking Dead by dougfx on Etsy)