Happiness manifesto?
Happiness has a manifesto?! It seems to involve spending time on the BBC web site and watching BBC comedies, which […]
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Transparent chip, anyone?
Not ready for show time yet, but still pretty cool (and environmentally-friendly, too, the researchers claim): World’s first transparent integrated
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The end of the world as we know it.
Note: I started writing this post last Fall. Then, all this house construction happened, we got rained out of our
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O’Reilly Radar: Reading 2.0
Tim O’Reilly posts a lengthy list of links from the Reading 2.0 summit in SF yesterday, which covers a range
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Roller Derby Queen Ann Calvello.
Roller Derby queen and former Bay City Bomber Ann Calvello has died at the age of 76.
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Roomba Frogger
Glad it wasn’t my $300 robot Torrone sent out into traffic, that crazy guy: Roomba takes Frogger to the asphalt
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What does Nora Ephron know about the Internet?
Not much. She is the author/screenwriter of Bewitched and Sleepless in Seattle, after all, not an Internet expert. But for
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Tibetan sky burial.
Photographs of a “sky burial,” where vultures are invited to eat the corpse: Tibetan sky burial in China. (And here’s
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Ian’s Shoelace Site – Shoelace Knots – How To Tie Your Shoes
The superfast “Ian Knot” looks intriguing. Unfortunately I almost never wear shoes with laces anymore. How To Tie Your Shoes
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A Unique Gift for Children and Adults! An Optical Illusion of You!- Turn Your Head
Bizarrely cool: turn your profile into a lathed piece of wood. Turn Your Head (via Cory on BoingBoing)