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Great article by Michael Lewis on the reasons for the Icelandic financial collapse. Favourite quote: ‘Before Alcoa could build its smelter it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it. It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free but, as he put it, “we couldn’t as a company be in a position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people.”’

Bizarre Ted L. Nancy-esque flyers. Made me smile.

Both of Boston’s 2004 world-champion-ring-owning shortstops will be playing in Oakland this year.

No worse than “The Real Ghostbusters”, I suppose.

YouTube videos remixed into awesomeness.

Sharp (and surprising) move by Amazon — you can buy any ebook from the Kindle store, and read it on your iPhone.

I suspect this is a trojan horse move: give users a live demo of how how good the bookstore (with its free samples) is, let them build up a library of purchases in Amazon’s walled garden, then once they realise how crummy (and battery-draining) the iPhone is as a reader, reel them in in for Kindle device sales.

Flickr now serves up Panda APIs so you can build your own rainbow-vomiting app. (Don’t forget that Flickr feeds also come in LOLCODE flavours)

730Mb of source tracks for Jonathan Coulton’s greatest hits compilation, available under a CC non-commercial license. Get your “Code Monkey” remix on!

Makes Unicodetatic short URLs like http://➡.ws/틔

Grisly snippets of 1930’s Detroit newspapers. Disturbingly gripping.