Excellent photography by Aaron Ruell, who played Napoleon Dynamite's brother, Kip.
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America: FUCK YEAH. May not be safe for work. Trey Parker was involved, and it says "fuck" a lot.
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Humor
Awesome: Mtv's The State's Michael Ian Black analyzes his own odds of late-night-talk-show-hostability.
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Television, via Neil.
An interesting article about dumpster diving.
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Culture
Frisco residents might have to pay a 17 cent tax on shopping bags?
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Places
Bruce Mau on The Connection today at 11 EST. You can listen live, or streaming version available here tomorrow.
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Design
Core77's brief thoughts on Iron City's new aluminum bottles.
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Design
speaking of copyrights, movie- and music-industry lobby groups are trying to press a ridiculous copyright law through congress; it would be legal to edit out sexy or gory content (via Tivo or whatever), but illegal to skip commercials, among many other absurdities.
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Politics
Here's a link to a really great article about intellectual property by Malcom Gladwell, which I stole from TMN. I don't know who they stole the link from.
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Innovation
In the vein of designer vodka bottles, Wyborowa Vodka is releasing booze bottles designed by Frank Gehry.
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Design
A dingo (almost) ate their baby!
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People
Rapist captured when victim spies him as contestant on Blind Date.
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Television
My friend Jason points out:The Brits have our number.
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Politics
misterpants once said:America is complicated. I kind of love it, but I also kind of hate it.
Right on.
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Politics
Woah. Alaska is voting on whether to legalize pot today. How did this get under the radar?
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Politics
Hmmmm: this guy (who is pro-Bush), reworked all of the state polls to reduce the margin of error, and the results are not good for Kerry. Also tries to show that the "incumbent rule" is not really meaningful.
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Politics, via TS
Scientists disprove creationists' favorite argument:
the eye actually could (and did) evolve.
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Miscellaneous
I've been reading electoral-vote.com for a while, but I've always had a problem understanding how, despite there being way more red than blue states, the race is so tight. I understand the electoral system, I just couldn't visualize it. But then I noticed they also have the map in cartogram form: each state sized according to its electoral votes. Now it looks like a close race.
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Politics
Um, both the coolest and lamest calendar ever: Women In Waders. Work-safe, but you might have some explainin' to do.
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Humor, from Jason
My MicroSoft-employed friends all tell me that everyone there is embarrassed by MS's new Philippe Starck-designed optical mouse, feeling that it looks a little too much like a not-safe-for-work body part.
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Products
flash animation is clearly the main source of intelligent political discourse in the modern era.
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People
On yesterday's "Talk of the Nation" on NPR, there was a really great segment with a cognative scientist, analyzing the psychological and worldview differences between conservative and liberal perspectives . It was totally kind of fascinating. Check it out if you have time: The Difference Between Red and Blue States.
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Politics, about 45 minutes, real audio or windows media only, sadly.
The Nobel Prize winners in economics were announced today. One is Finn Kydland, a professor at Carnegie Mellon.
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Carnegie Mellon
Anheuser-Busch is adding a new beer product to their roster. They are trying to compete with flavored liquors by making it sweet, and adding ginseng and caffeine. It has the clearly un-market-tested name of BE, and is to be referred to as "B to the power of E." What the fuck? Is that a joke? Additionally, it's been long established that combining stimulants and depressants is significantly worse than either is alone. It probably won't kill you, but it will make your hangover way worse.
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Products
Fashion designer and my personal homonym, Geoffrey Beene, dead at 77.
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People
As seen on Boing Boing and Slashdot: The previously moderate governor (who seemed to be generally reasonable) sticks a shiv in the gut of Californian free speech.
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Politics
Assuming the recent polls are correct, if the election were held today, and Colorado passed the referendum to split their electoral votes, and one elector switches his vote (as he has threatened), we could possibly end up with Bush as President and Edwards as Veep. See the 5th paragraph.
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Everyone wanted to have Oprah's babies when she gave cars to all those people. I am sure they really needed them. But it turns out you still have to declare gifts like that as income. And $30,000 in additional income can bump you into the next tax bracket. It is going to cost each of them about $7000. Sure, it's a "good deal" to get a $30K car for $7K, but can these families afford that kind of "gift?" It's worse than when she made people in Africa walk for 3 days so she could give them blanket for them to carry back home, because at least that highlighted the African AIDS crisis. I despise publicity stunts that masquerade as selfless philanthropy.
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Television
The postal service's new cloud stamps are pretty cool. They look good together on a sheet. And it lists their scientific types.
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Design
A Republican elector from West Virginia has stated that he might not vote for Bush even if Bush carries the state's popular election (which seems likely) No laws control an elector's actual votes; the popular vote only dictates which party gets to send its members to the electoral college. Obviously, in a close elction, this could change the outcome.
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Politics
cool little mosters made of modelling clay. updated semi-regularly in blog form. I like this one and this one.
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Art
Photos of telephone books organized by state. I remember using the last three editions of the Northern Virginia directories. Sorry, Wyoming, and various Canadian provinces.
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Books
This was on TMN today, but I want to post it, anyway: an interesting analysis of Arnold's admittedly inspiring, but ill-informed speech. Will people please please please stop refering to the GOP as "the party of Lincoln"?
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Politics
This is a bad reason not to vote for Bush (there are plenty of better ones), but the video they just showed at the RNC to honor Gerald Ford had the worst production values I have evern seen this side of the PAX network. They could have done a better job using PowerPoint templates. I guess all the good video production designers are Democrats. If I could find any screen captures, I would post them.
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Politics
Remember the Simpsons where it's the future and Lisa is president and Homer tears up the White House looking for Lincoln's Gold? Yeah, it's like that, except with Nick Cage.
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Film
Sam Brown, of ExplodingDog, has a new book coming out.
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People
The Girls Guitar Club video: awesome awesome awesome. but big. 47 Mb.
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Film
I didn't hear Bob Costas mention this Olympian in his "coverage".
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People
somehow, extremely creepy. make sure you check out "custom homes."
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