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    Picture-taking tips from KodakWyoming pictures“Powers of ten” look at scaleThe scoop on www.houseblinger.com/bling-rock.phpAnother Holiday light displayLatte Art ChampionshipsHere’s what may happen if you keep pouring your lunch in the cracks of your keyboardOnline children’s books, with full textsNYU’s ITP student winter showAmazing paper creationsWorld’s largest ball of paintSimulation of a bike ride at near-light speedCute…

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    Great shot of the NYC skylineMIT lecturer extraordinaire Walter Lewin on “the mystery of light“MP3s of classic New Orleans musicInteresting performance with sand.One baby out there has a new Halloween costume – crocheted Yoda earsJello San FranciscoA bunch of customer-created short films, as Converse adsFrom a dorm in China, an outstanding short filmNapoleon Dynamite sound…

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    The 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest shows awful first linesThe power of simplicity: how Stonehenge could have been built by *one man*Google logo maker – LogogleInteresting tool – convert any unitsEver wonder who does the voiceovers during movie trailers?Well, maybe it’s fun *now*, years later: top 10 dotcom flops.Very cool Adidas commercialBrian freeze and “The Final…

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    Incubating ideasWhat geeks work on… real screenshots of their computersWarning: Addictive game.  Hint: press the space bar.The funniest little video clip in monthsA “spicy” full-on parody of the latest Star Wars debacle.Another Star Wars takeoff.A prank of pure silliness.Gel 2004/2005 speaker Digital Dan Dubno goes two miles under the sea, in the Galapagos (see right-hand…

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    My homage to Flickr, called “lickr“.  It’s a sort of best-of of This Is Broken…This is a must-see: “Fair Enough“, a sitcom spoof based on actual tobacco-industry documents.Silliness: click on the pig. (Thanks, Joyce!)What 140-year-old technology, still in use, is a more efficient method of wireless text messaging than SMS?  Jay Leno explains.Finally, the coolest…

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    Worst hairstyles of all timeVirtual stapler!Science toys you can make with your kidsWhile we’re on the topic, tell your kid how light sabers workThe comic strip FoxTrot, which I’ve loved for years, mentioned Wikipedia, the brainchild of Gel 2005 speaker Jimmy WalesWeird short movie made from an actual wrong-number voice message.  Might be a bit…

  • Guess the Google

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    Guess the Google: very attractive game, even if it’s near-impossible to guess the word right.  Thanks to Amit Gupta.MP3 downloads from Amazon Worth reading: Are you in a race to the top?  Or…?Click “What dog are you” in the lower right.  [The Dr. is an Irish Setter]Ramayana cartoonGood Experience newsletter, 26 April 2005