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Entries for week beginning November 9, 2008

November 15, 2008

angrigami

The amazing Ze Frank manages to create something collaborative and sweet out of bitter emails. Long may he reign.

The Breeders

The Breeders

The Breeders

The Breeders

November 14, 2008

The Breeders

The Breeders

November 13, 2008

New Watchmen trailer

Words can’t describe how much I’m looking forward to this.

November 12, 2008

November 11, 2008

Google Flu Trends

Benevolent data-mining of Google’s search logs — but it does raise the question of what else they can predict… Does Google have “insider trading”-esque omnipotence for the whole stock market, for example?

Recycling is Bullshit; Make Nov. 15 Zero Waste Day, not America Recycles Day

Great piece on the wasteful middle-class-guilt-reduction that _is_ recycling. “Recycling is simply the transfer of producer responsibility for what they produce to the taxpayer who has to pick it up and take it away.”

November 10, 2008

Get Your War On: New World Order

“America’s new flag is just a white flag, but there’s a picture of a burning American flag on it.”

November 9, 2008

Instant FriendFeed - Notifications and Posting over IM

I usually don’t much care for FriendFeed, but I have to say that I’m impressed with their implementation of an XMPP bot — especially since the folks at Twitter suggested this week that such a large scale bot is impossible.

2008 Electoral Cartograms

Remoulding the US electoral map based upon population, rather than geographic, size.

My favourite parking lot in California

My favourite parking lot in California

OK, maybe not as awesome as the Staples/Dunkin Donuts/Pizza Hut triumvirate in Somerville, but an In-n-Out and a Krispy Kreme in such close proximity is truly a thing of beauty.

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