Until I have the time to figure out the best way to present this data, here's every link I've flagged since the beginning of this project.

• Sara Palin is not stupid - I wholeheartedly agree, as much as I don't want to.
• Best ice cream cone in the world? - I love soft serve ice cream. If you add crushed Nilla wafers and caramel? I think my head would explode.
• Proposed bill would turn down TV commercial volume - Oh, please do this. Normally I loathe this kind of petty lawmaking but my burning hatred of unnormalized broadcast audio is too great.
• Estrogen Controls How The Brain Processes Sound - perhaps this explains why The Wife™ never hears what I say?
• HBO picks up pilot from The Wire writers - Set in post-Katrina New Orleans. It will even have a few of the actors from The Wire.
• Flickermood 2.0 - Beautiful motion graphics reel worth watching. [via]
• Archipelago House - Stunning. [via]
• The Original Inspiration For Batman’s Joker, German Actor Conrad Veidt - Filed under "Things I never knew" as well as "thank you, internet"
• Sabbath Mode on Appliances - Via Kottke. Who knew?
• Camels in a Suburu - Um. Yea.
• A Life, Interrupted - Apparently the Bourne identity thing is real, and happened to this girl in NYC. Crazy.
• Snapple goes natural - Following the news of Pepsi experimenting without HFCS, Snapple ditches the nasties in favor of regular sugar.
• Found In Space - A “blind astrometry server” monitors the Astrometry group on Flickr, looking for new photos of the night sky. It then analyzes each photo, and from the unique star positions shown it figures out what part of the sky was photographed and what interesting planets, galaxies or nebulae are contained within.
• Origin of Muppets - Taking a look at the history behind some of the more famous Henson characters. Thanks, Brad.
• What #43 said to #44 that we didn't hear - Not sure what kind of credible news source this is, but an endearing tidbit nonetheless.
• Photos from the Inauguration (Boston Globe Big Picture) - No where else to bother looking for the best photos of history being made.
• Al-Qaeda cell killed by Black Death 'was developing biological weapons' - Oh. Oh, my.
• Washing machine Twitters when clothes are done - Wow. That shows, err, initiative?
• Meet the new White House decorator - "The family's casual style, their interest in featuring 20th century American artists and utilizing affordable brands and products will serve as our guiding principles as we make the residence feel like their home." [via]
• Top 11 compounds in US drinking water - Just so you know...[via]
• Calvin & Hobbes comment on art - Replace "snowman" with "Nickelback album" (or Hinder, etc, etc)...
• Jailbirds - Video commentary on the American prison system. Collaboration between Good magazine and the esteemed Frank Chimero.
• The making of The Godfather - Mario Puzo tells it all to The Daily Mail
• Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy - I always appreciate a good Klosterman review.
• President-Elect to do weekly "Fireside Chats" via YouTube - That's actually a pretty cool idea.
• Dan Rather speaks on bankrupt American journalism - High fives for that guy.
• Netflix streaming coming to Mac - Finally.
• Checking the facts on the VP debate - Great job, you two!
• Rock Music Quality vs US Oil Production - Freaky.
• Kentucky governor seeking to block online gambling - He wants to be given ownership of every gambling domain so he can block the people of Kentucky from visiting them. Riiiiiiiight.
• Ben Folds Five reunion show - Previously linked-to reunion show happened and there's write-up and photos about it. Failed to see a "band plans to record new material soon" mentioned. Still looking.
• US Map of Personality Traits - Stay neurotic, Kentucky.
• Candidate tax plans drawn to scale - Noted without comment
• South Carolina sheriff buys tank to conduct raids - Umm. All I can say is one commenter had it right, "They secured the sh*t out of that empty field, that's for sure."
• 3D animation for the iPhone - Whoa.
• Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema's Ultrahigh-Res Camera - I had no idea the man behind Oakley started Red.
• Johnson & Johnson Introduces 'Nothing But Tears' Shampoo To Toughen Up Newborns - Hmm. Maybe I should check Liam's bottle...
• Compressor-free Refrigerator May Loom In The Future - "Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers."
• Nifty bike helmets - Makes you feel less dorky about being safe.
• Zack de la Rocha talks to Ann Powers - The media-reclusive musician opens up to the LA Times.
• Olympics Broadcast schedule for Google Calendar - Handy, so you can subscribe to it.
• An Appetite For Science - On Alton Brown. "I'm not a chef and I'm not a scientist. I'm a storyteller who makes 30-minute movies about food."
• Cheap Wine - "Fifteen years later, I am happy to report that the results of my little experiment have been confirmed by rigorous academic research involving more than 5,000 subjects..."
• The photography of Dustin Humphrey - (NSFW) Bizarre yet intriguing photographic work. Think SoCal + Steam Punk + Underwater. Or something like that.
• Kermit Love (Sesame Street costume creator) dies - My love for all things Henson runs deep. This saddens me.
• Barack Obama's Speech on Father's Day - Well that was nice.
• Myspace plans a redesign - Good enough. The site is beyond embarrassing.
• A Pint-Size Problem - Make it an honest pint, damnit.
• My Morning Jacket article in Paste - Good read about some nice dudes.
• Take the Funny and Run - Short article in Radar on joke stealing in the Comedy business. So not only is Carlos Mencia not funny, he's an a**hole too.
• Kurt Cobain’s Ashes Stolen from Courtney Love’s L.A. Home - Some people are just mean.
• Segway guy makes a motorized wheelchair - Lame-o name but pretty BADASS wheelchair. Throw some tiny deep-dish gold Daytons on that thing and sign me up! [via]
• Craziest baby stuff of the century - Noted, with comments withheld.
• Cleaning the Space Needle - Filed in the "world's worst jobs" category. Well, for me at least. Don't miss the photos, though. [via]
• Junior High Sweethearts Get Engaged In Bay Area Math Class - 16 years later. -1 for inviting friends and family. +2 for awesome tshirt.
• Things Younger Than McCain - Silly. On the list: Obama's parents, Alaska/Hawaii and Mount Rushmore.
• Beauty Reel - Video work by Bill Pollock. He makes celebrities look goooood.
• Liquor and Lit - Beautiful short story. [via]
• Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart (video) - The ending is almost as spectacular as the technology. (via)
• Police Make Headway In Baltimore Co. Mystery - Mysterious, deafening, blinding explosions in the middle of the night. Still no answer.
• Bush cameo sinks game show - "Monday's show averaged 10 million viewers, down 27 percent from its season average...tying the show's worst-ever Monday-night performance." Worst part is he joked on air, "I'm thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days." *sigh*
• Tim Robbin's talk on broadcasting - Controversy surrounding it. Only six minutes of audio. One of the most raw, honest, impassioned talks I've heard in a long time outside of a church.
• John McCain watches The Hills? - Tougher man than I. I can't stomach that crap. Though it concerns me that at age 70, he might think Heidi Montag is what America's youth are really like...
• 'My Super Sweet 16' Dad Accused Of Defrauding Oil Investors Of Millions- (from the episode) "I love oil. Oil means shoes and cars and purses." This just in: the universe has an awesome sense of humor.
• Thanks, Mr.Hipster Record Store Clerk - Craigslist awesomeness.
• FCC allows DIRECTV and Dish to downconvert broadcast HD - *sigh*
• Full text of Obama's speech on race - I actually got kinda misty-eyed at the end.
• So THAT'S what happens when you press the fire button at a gas station... - Noted.
• Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi is the most hideous thing humans have ever created - "You want to defeat terrorists? Force them to drink Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi. I'm sure it would violate the Geneva Conventions, but they'd immediately tell you anything they knew, then hang themselves. Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi is torture in a 12-oz can."
• Beautiful Losers - Trailer for a documentary on the DIY/punk/genXers
• Apple announces iPhone SDK event - Hooray.
• Harlem rent parties and Fats Waller - Interesting bit on rent parties jazz era (all night parties thrown to raise money when short on rent)
• "GiFi": Short-Range, 5-Gbps Wireless For $10/Chip - About a year away from public release.
• Frances Bean Cobain is cool - 15 and already wise enough to realize, "These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything...People need to wait until I've done something valid with my life."
• John.he.is - A follow-up to Will.i.am's song for Obama. Kinda SNLish.
• The Beard Brigade - Damn straight. But, wait? Now that it's popular, does that mean I have to shave it off to stay cool? Oh. Right. Never cool.
• Exxon shatters all-time profit record - But hey, it wasn't an issue back in 2005 either. Nothing to see here, move along...
• Hype Machine's 2007 50 Best Albums - Raw data crunched. And even though I own 80% of these albums, I'd agree on their "choice" of exactly four among those 50.
• King Lines Trailer - Beautiful cinematography. Insane climbers. What else do you need?
• Laughter = Longer Sentence - Girl gets drunk, drives, kills bicyclist, then laughs and concedes when friend suggests she should get a medal and parade for killing a "'tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot.'"
• The Business of Being Born - You don't say? Money is involved?
• New material pushes the boundary of blackness - Goths rejoice. Finally a way to suck all light out of the universe while still looking br00tal.
• Food Pairing - Wonderful idea. Useful, definitely. [via]
• Inside A 'Batterers Program' for 'Abused' Women - Lengthy but worthwhile read. I used to volunteer at a battered women's shelter, so this touched me.
• Verizon opens up, will support any device, any app on its network - "Any application can run on any device from any developer and will have full access to Verizon spectrum, so long as it can properly connect to the network."
• Researchers Report Stem Cell Breakthrough - If this is as good as it is being described, this is a huge milestone.
• Detroit's woes augur ill for US - "Americans are worried that hard times lie ahead. But in Detroit, Michigan, they have already arrived, with a vengeance."
• Jay-Z as an economic indicator? - In his video for "Blue Magic," Jay flashes stacks of Euros instead of the lowly dollar... [via]
• New Lupe Fiasco video - I cannot wait for this album to drop.
• Google in talks with Verizon - How many years has the gPhone speculation gone one? Let 'er rip, Goog. Help shake up the industry.
• 15 awesome speaker designs - I've seen a few of these in person and they truly are just as impressive. Sadly, I didn't get to hear them, just gawk.
• De Leon + Primmer Architecture - Native Louisvillians move their firm home, redo the Yew Dell Gardens about 1/2 mile from my house. Exciting work. (Thanks Brad)
• Google Docs Mobile - I use Google Docs extensively, and was bemoaning the non-mobile version. Now I've got nothing to complain about. Well, I'm sure I'll find something.
• Apple announces iPhone/iPod Touch SKD in February - Ha! I knew it! Bring it on boys.
• This is the reason my grass is brown, not that I don't have a green thumb - I live in the "extreme drought" zone. Awesome.
• When Good Interviews Go Bad - Sigur Ros gives possibly the WORST interview. Ever. Wow.
• Scotch Maverick Reinvents a Once-Conservative Drink - Inventive blending of Scotches, ticking off the industry, making me thirsty.
• Beer industry homogenizes even further - How do you make a megaswill industry worse? Have two giant conglomerates each control 50% of the market share and sell you horse piss.
• 'Person everybody knows' at XU says bye - Ms. Dorothy, God bless her. She's finally retiring. I hope she goes to hang out with Ms. Edith. That lady was crazy!
• Iran So Far - From the SNL season premier. I can't believe they wrote and shot this in less than a week.
• ...You Too Can Break Free - Suck it people who dye their hair! Grey is where it's at. Ya'll just don't know.
• Pope Benedict Refused Meeting With Condoleezza Rice - El Papa gives Condi the ol' mano fica. Nice work, Benny!
• Envelope follower - When will this stop being acceptable in music? T-Pain I'm looking at you.
• Communication Arts is Out of Touch - "They’re content to pay only fractional attention to the world outside of their strongly liberal, technophobic, old guard, print-centric, myopic cocoon." Well said, sir.
• Volvo ReCharge Plug-In Hybrid Concept Car - Not totally diggin' the design, but loooove the concept.
• The Forgotten Lens - A nice article about the beauty of the 50mm prime lens. I'm smitten with my new one. [via]
• Thwock, Gulp, Kaching! Beer Pong Inspires Inventors - WSJ article on the "rising trend of beer pong." Um, trend? I guess we can count "the sun rising and setting" as a trend now, too? Awesome infographic.
• What's going on in Darfur? - A good infographic/cartoon that explains the terrible, ongoing, unfathomable tragedy.
• If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comments - NSFW due to language (read: get headphones). Simply awesome.
• Lupe Fiasco interview (video) - Lupe Fiasco has to be one of the most down-to-earth people in the business. Surprisingly interesting interview, despite the journalist's pathetic attempts to be cool.
• The dangerous disconnect between home prices and wages - A very plain-to-see illustration of what could likely turn out to be a very baaaad thing. *gulp*
• Bugatti Veyron Pegaso Edition - Absolutely stunning car. Granted for $1.2m it should be, but still.
• Jake Brown falls 50 feet & walks away - Dude kills the 720 and then has one of the scariest drops I've seen. Watch his shoes fly off.
• Romeo guinea pig causes baby boom - Play on, playa.
• New iMac keyboard? - A fairly drastic stylistic departure. Seeing as how it took me over a year to get used to the current white Apple keyboards, I would imagine that this would have a comfort curve to it as well. Definitely cool looking, though.
• Me and My Mac - John C. Dvorak finally stops bashing the Mac platform. Hell hath frozen right over.
• US States Obesity Map, 1985-2004 - Depressing, sobering but realistic. Watch the obesity rates change through the years.
• McDonald's brings back super-sized drinks - Meet "Hugo." 42oz, 410 calories for as little as .89 cents. Thanks, Ronald, for trying to sneak one by us.
• Fugees reunion canceled - Awww hell. Damnit, Lauryn, get your s**t together.
• Don't even try using a cell phone at a concert - That's as good a reason as any I could think of...
• Superdrag to (kinda) reunite - Six shows only. What, no Louisville?
• House Passes College Cost Reduction Act - Fantastic. It's about time that we start easing the unbelievable cost of higher education.
• Paleontologists honor The Far Side's Gary Larson - They named the spiked tail of the stegosaurus the "thagomizer," after the cartoonist's faux-scientific word.
• If architects had to work like web designers - "Make sure your estimate for this plan is no more than $2000. I have a 15 year old nephew who designs houses and he say he can build it for me for $1000." The entire thing is priceless, and sadly accurate.
• Are you 4Real? - No? Oh, wait. That's the baby's name? I can't imagine why they're not allowed to name it that. You've gotta be Prince or one of the dudes from PM Dawn for that.
• Math through the years - Probably not that far off from truth. The last example is damned near straight from an Integrated Learning math class.
• Presidential wardrobe malfunction - Whoa, really? As in, you purposely picked that outfit out? Nothing screams "Leader of the Free World" like shorts, socks with the presidential seal and Crocs.
• Judge suing dry cleaner cries over pants - "A judge had to leave the courtroom with tears running down his face Tuesday after recalling the lost pair of trousers that led to his $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner." No comment.
• Weirdest grave in America - Or at least I'd vote so. Engaging story behind it as well.
• Google Maps Street View culprit - I'm shocked. I've never seen any of these in Kentucky. Oh...right, It's Kentucky.
• Photosynth (by Microsoft): demo at the TED conference - Massive, multi-scale, high resolution image manipulation and metadata networking. Screw it, watch the short demo and see the coolness. [via]
• Proof that future men are already spineless - Endearing? Yes. But someone teach this kid that he can't bust out the "I'll do anything" line quite so easily. Third date is fine.
• This Video Contains All Of The Reasons Why Our Society Is Doomed- Title says it all.
• Microsoft getting into the multitouch game - Nice Popular Mechanics video explaining some of the (early) applications for multi-touch devices.
• Study of incomes for men in 30s: Dad had it better - My annual raise doesn't even cover the cost of living increase. You know you're jealous.
• Video: Sony's flexible OLED display - I got the word "plastic" from what she was saying. But the video is awe-inspiring.
• The Simpsons explains why Fox News, Fox Network are so different - Oh Lisa.
• Brilliant Parenting 101 - Young girl is a bully. Gets suspended. Mother makes a great punishment fit the crime. With photos!
• Bipolar: Over-diagnosing our children? - Frightening. Putting a 4-year old on that many drugs is just wrong.
• The history of the ironic T-shirt - "If you think about it, the act of wearing a T-shirt is a cry out for validation." Great article, awesome (giant) timeline. So true.
• 8 hours of sleep in 3 hours time - New machine triggers deep sleep cycles, ushers in era dominated by our robot overlords.
• Hedge fund manager earns $1.8b this year. Yes, billion. - I'm sure that somehow, someway, he can justify that he offered up almost 2 billion dollars in service to the citizens of this world. Surely. [via]
• Kryptonite is real! - Haha! Sucks it's not glowing green, though.
• Even Australia has messed up teenagers - Two girls murdered their friend "because it just felt right." Um....
• 7-year old tears up Clapton - This kid shreds. Almost to the point of looking bored. Total badass.
• Contronyms - Words that by definition are simultaneously their own syno- and antonyms. Nerd glory.
• How To Defeat an 8-Year Old - Bookmarked for later use. Much. Later. Use. [via]
• 102-year old woman nails a hole-in-one - Yet one more thing grandma can whip my ass in. Damn.
• "This Is Why I'm Hot" diagrammed and dissected - The number one song, in graphical review. Awesome.
• Chief Beer Officer?! - Bastard! What a lucky SOB... [via]
• Diets = Bad - This article is ridiculous. I'll give them the "diets usually fail" concept, but waiting until the last paragraph to explain that they didn't include any data on regular exercise is a joke. More justification for people to stop trying to be healthy. Boo!
• Cheney hiding in the shrubs - Um, Dick? What the hell are you doing? You weirdo...
• Helvetica Haiku: Honorable Mention - Awesome. I had forgotten that I even wrote a few for submission. Guess it was good enough for an HM :)
• Wireless power? - Um, these people stand to make assloads of money if this proves half as innovative as it sounds. Too bad I'm too stupid to know if it's feasible or not.
• American Idol be damned... - Show me one contestant that feels the music half as much as this homeless guy on Showtime At The Apollo and I'll stop making fun of it. Dude rocked it.
• Seeing eye horses? - If I ever go blind I am SO doing this. Holy smokes that's awesome.
• Study finds that women believe that men find size zero attractive - No. The only people that should be size zero are nine year old boys and Mr. Bones in your anatomy class.
• What's really in a McDonald's chicken nugget? - Wife? Are you reading? You wonder why I'm 5 years free of any fast food...
• Univ. of Nebraska to the RIAA: Pay us. - RIAA scolds the university for not retaining IP records over a month. School says "shut up and pay us, you're wasting our time." Sweet.
• The Collective Wisdom of Children - From The New Yorker. Hilarious rendition of conversations as how we perceive they should be or have been.
• Woman wakes after six years, speaks, goes comatose again - A concurrently sad and uplifting news snippet about a Colorado woman. Wow.
• The aye-aye to go bye-bye? - If I had received this in an email, I would have thought it was a joke. That thing is effed up looking.
• The Beauty Function - A group of Israeli computer scientists create software to make your mug more beautiful. All about the proportions and ratios. (article) [via]
• Clocky: the alarm clock that runs away from you - Absolutely brilliant. If only it displayed facial expressions while doing so...[via]
• Congress to FCC: You've got some splainin' to do - Hells yes! I'm especially interested in them getting their ass whipped over the broadband issue.
• Does your significant other ignore you? Read this, then go back to yelling. - I really hope The Wife sees this.
• Things to do at home when you're bored - Jonas is SO going to be The Squirrel before the week is out. [via]
• Mother supplies gun to teen for revenge kill - This makes me so sad. This can't be serious. Can it?
• Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock - 113db with shaking. I know quite a few people that could use one of these *cough, RAYMOND, cough* Though technically I think for best practice you'd want to strap the shaking mechanism to your face, just to be sure.
• Top 50 occupations in the coming years - Interesting...I don't see web designer on there. F&$#!
• Staggering book statistics - 80% of families did not buy or read a book last year?! Holy sh*t, we're screwed.
• VW Phaeton commercial with hand puppets? - This commerical rules. I have books about hand puppetry somewhere. Maybe at my parents house? Awesome. [via kottke]
• Ed Helms (of The Office) is a normal guy - Cool little story.
• Will Ferrell on dog training - Sadly, this is ineffective with Jonas. Apparently his sense of irony is too highly developed.
• Rage Against the Machine reunion?!? - Could it be? The Wu-Tang/RATM concert I saw in Detroit in '97 was indubitably one of the bestest shows ever. This would make my year!
• Subliminal McDonald's ads - Seriously guys, has it come to this? *This* is how you're going to peddle your crack cakes now?
• Scary 3D morphing - Whoa. Um, Hollywood might want to watch out, our robot overlords are coming!
• Colbert explains the AT&T/Cingular merger - Well that should clear it up quite nicely, Steven.
• Beautiful Chicago skyline photo - Mega mega pixels. How it was done. [via]
• World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion - Canadians! But ooh-ahh this guy draws a mean circle. Yikes. [via]
• Top 10 ridiculous things for babies - Whoa. Freaky. Though some are indeed hilarious.
• Apple iPhone - The rumors were true. And it's even better than I imagined. Never have I wanted a phone more than I do now...
• Plutoed: Word of 2006? - As voted by the American Dialect Society. It means to devalue or demote someone or something. Poor Pluto.
• Power-washing Suffolk St. - This is just how damned dirty NYC is...
• Water boiling in space - Huh, now that's interesting. Not what I would have pictured.
• The sex of your brain - Mine couldn't have been more ambiguous, scoring a 0 between the two genders. Next time I'm stabbing you with a q-tip, brain!
• This goalie is a scorpion - And that's not a reference to the '80s band, either (soccer video).
• The new iPhone perhaps? - I've resisted believing all the other mockups and fanboy hyping. But this looks completely on-brand and feasible. An iPod with phone capabilities...mmmm...
• Rachel Ray makes it into the dictionary - Few people's personalities annoy me as much as this Food Network personality. And her obnoxious over-use of "EVOO, that's extra-virgin olive oil..." is one of the main reasons why. Guess she's won this battle. Next time, Ray. Next time.
• Goldman Sachs is definitely in the black - $16.5 billion set aside for salaries, bonuses, etc. That's over $600,000 per employee! A bonus?! I'm in the wrong damn field...
• LCD price fixing - Awesome. As if paying $5k for a TV wasn't enough of a profit for them. Way to go, greedy bastards.
• Testosterone = competitiveness? - I thought this was a no-brainer. But apparently this study confirms that men with less testosterone are more likely to give up after failure.
• Moltov cocktail of health! - Not sure about taking a shot of vodka in the morning, but sounds (in theory) like this would be healthy.
• Wicked hockey goal - Are you kidding me? That...that is impressive.
• Lexus parking assist video - First thought before watching the video: Crap feature for lazy people. Second thought after watching said video: Gimme.
• Greatest high school sports comeback ever? - Whoa. (warning: annoying Texan announcers)
• Monks run 2 marathons a day for 100 days - Uh, no? What in the hell...!?
• 5'9 Nate Robinson blocks 7'6 Yao Ming - Short people of the world unite! Rise up against your oppressive, taller foes.
• Ben Folds pranks NYC - Improv Anywhere teams up with Ben to fool two New York City shows recently. Gotta love the guy's sense of humor.
• Teen Goes Nuclear - Kid achieves nuclear fusion in parent's basement. I say it's actually a disguised bong.
• Ready to give up sleep? - Could be a distinct possibility. Sooner than later?
• Splitting photons, going back in time? - Um, I'm not sure I feel so good about the possibility of this...
• Drug Doubles Endurance - Huh. So you're saying if I drink a lot of red wine I can run twice as far? I'm confused...
• DIY Flash Snoot - Awesome lighting DIY project from Photojojo. These guys continue to impress me.
• Interactive sketching - MIT video demonstration illustrating the power of live educational sketching. Makes my brain go wheeee!
• Free Hugs Campaign - [video] Pretty neat, touchy-feely video about a guy trying to break down social walls.
• LogoPond - Identity inspiration. There are some really great marks on the site. Hell, even the site's own is nothing to balk at.
• Insults of years gone by - They don't make them like they used to. Great quotes from some seemingly pissed off famous folks.
• Composite beauty - Article in Seed about what the ideal female face is based on composite data. Good to know beauty is so alarmingly normal.
• Tracy McGrady scores 13 points in 33 seconds - What an incredible comeback! Now that is an upset.
• Ben Folds covers "Such Great "Heights" - Solid, per usual. Best part is the totally random objects that are played in the studio as instruments.
• The 4 movie trailer guys in a limo (video) - Interesting to see what they all look like, and equally surprising the subtle differences in their voices.
• The kid who graduated college in one year - Wha...?!? He took 37 hours one semester. I thought I was going to off myself with 18.
• Five Years of Consequence - Beautiful information design by Ben Schott. Some staggering comparisons here (including gas going from ~$24/b to ~$74). [via]
• How many lightbulbs does it take to change the world? - Fast Company article about the new and improved CFL (swirly) bulbs that make quite a difference. The one on my back porch is astoundingly bright.
• House number design - An often overlooked but quite important aspect of home design/decor. Some beautiful examples here.
• Coming soon: Wireless HDMI - Great. Now even more time I should wait before buying a new TV.
• Iran's president challenges Bush to debate - He wants it to be unfiltered. How very schoolyard. Hell yes I'd watch.
• Electronic paper display - Unroll the screen on your cell/PDA! Interesting that Phillips chose this as the first implementation of the technology [video]
• Brazil's contribution to the drink world - Sounds sweet, but intriguing nonetheless. Hooray for limes!
• Touchscreen (multipoint) demo video - Exceptional potential to change our interactions with computing. Brilliant idea, execution.
• Very punk photo set (Defiance, Ohio) - Acousit-punk group (no longer from Ohio) in a prototypical basement-style show. Oi.
• Open Letter to Jon Stewart - Well articulated. And I agree. C'mon Jon, you're better than that.
• 30 Rock trailer - YouTube video promo for a new NBC show starring a bunch of SNL cast members. Looks hilarious.
• Baby Rock Records - Um, I don't think I want my newborn listening to Tool. Ever. Even if in lullabye format.
• Travis Pastrana nails the first double-backflip - Talk about stepping it up. He sticks it and then apologizes (to his wife?) for doing it.
• IQ & Income Correlation - NYT article about how children from families with lower income have lower IQs and vice versa [via]
• Sidewalks: Paying By The Stroll - A nicely written piece likening Net Neutrality to homeownership and other basic citizen freedoms
• Electric roadster! - Introducing the Tesla roadster. Hope this is serious...
• Life cycle of a party girl - From Best Week Ever's site. Actually, yea, they did. They nailed it.
• NYC apartment gets rooftop porch - Couple installs rooftop porch and gardens, complete with swing. Both awesome and kinda weird all at the same time. [via]
• Cell phone chargers to be standardized by 2010 - It's about damn time.
• Remaking Seurat's painting - 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' is one of the world's more famous paintings. A group of Flickr enthusiasts set out to recreate it via a photograph. [via]
• Photo of how Velcro works - Man they must have had to keep that camera really still...
• New Outkast songs preview - Once again proving they are perhaps one of the few left standing that understand what "pushing hip hop forward" means. Two songs to stream.
• The Swiss Valley - Breathtaking photo by Cameron Moll, web design master. And apparently he can add "talented photographer" to his conference introduction roll as well.
• The amazing lyrebird - Video of an unbelievable jungle bird that imitates 20 species of bird songs, chainsaws, camera shutters and car alarms. Yea well my dog can shake 20% of the time.
• Automatic braking by Volvo - Video and explanation of new autobraking technology from Volvo. Neat!
• US government pays $268 billion for photo of dead guy - If this is true, Canada here I come.
• Jupiter's Red Storm and Red Jr. could collide - The famous spot (storm) could slam into a smaller storm soon. I wonder what would happen...
• Sheep who thinks she's a dog - "'She comes in (the house) dead on time every day and knocks the door with her head if I've forgotten'."
• McDonald's "World Burger" - 40% larger (almost 700kcal) than existing menu burgers. Just what the world needs, Ronald. And just how does this celebrate the World Cup?
• Breathtaking Northern Lights photo taken from a 747 - One thing I'd love to see in person before I die. In or outside of a 747.
• Programmable Tattoos - Don't want to be stuck with just one for life? Program it nano style! (sheesh)
• Inaudible cell phone ringtones for teens - Can't be heard by most adults due to age-related hearing loss. +3 for resourcefulness.
• Wife 1.0 - Oh man, nerd humor. Classic.
• Pretty much the coolest dormroom ever - Kuhlman Sixth Floor would have gone bananas for this. Thank you MIT.
• BMW Night Vision - Using FIR cameras, the new 7 series shows realtime night vision. Creepy. Practical?
• Bad alcoholic monkey! - Study finds that monkeys, like humans, stumble and trip when inhebriated. They also drink more when stressed out from work. The picture alone makes the link worth it.
• Money Changes Everything - NYT article about how the gap between friends' economic/class situations is awkwardly expanding.
• Infrared NBA Photos - Awesome technique. I would have never thought of applying infrared to action shots. Some beautiful work.
• Steve Don't Eat It! - Maybe it's 'cuz it's Friday, but I thought this was hilarious. Language and humor alert. Thanks Andy.
• Incredible rainbow photographs - Yes, sounds lame by the title, but these are some incredible shots. Weird, we have the same camera yet his shots are better? Mine must just be broken...
• Woman has the Black Plague - Only in California. But I guess if you're going to have a life-terminating disease, that would be a uber retro choice.
• The Easter Bunny hates you - Hilarious video. One of the top 100 on Google Video. The taunting dance is priceless.
• Lazer Cats - Another SNL digital short.
• Ben Folds cab driver as concert special guest - Awesome. Not too many rock stars who would pull something off like that (or trust a complete stranger not to screw up a show).
• Great soccer goal compilation video - All lob shots. Makes me tingly.
• Next Prius to close on 100mpg mark - With 57% of Americans now claiming they would entertain the thought of a hybrid, this is a great thing. Now just make the batteries cheaper you bastards.
• Pharm companies making up diseases - Oh. Gee. Is anyone suprised that they're plundering for money by exploiting people?
• Take this quick test, smarty - Not as easy as you think.
• Hubble's view of the Orion Nebula - Normally not a space geek, but this is a beautiful image.
• Simpson's movie trailer! - This I'd see in the theater. And maybe even splurge for the $6 box of Junior Mints.
• Audi R8 prototype photos - Hot new pics of what looks to be a stylish new ride. That I'll never afford.
• New type of glass cuts LCD costs? - Good for the environment. Good for the consumer. Will it happen?
• True in-car PC (awesomeness) - Video of a demo of VWs tech lab prototypes. I rub my hands together maniacally here.
• FCC chief endorses extortion - Jerkoff Kevin Martin gave a speech that basically declares that telcos can charge/tier bandwidth for whatever they want. Bye bye Internet.
• How the Game Genie for your old S/NES worked - Neat look at the tech thinking behind the Game Genie. You know you used it to get 99 lives on Street Fighter 'cuz you couldn't beat it normally.
• VW and Google Earth (first pics) - First glimpse at what VW and Google have been working on. Looks slick.
• Create your own plastic molds - A nifty, low-temperature polymer that you can use to mold and shape your own parts, for whatever project you're working on.
• Hi-res government docs images - Get up close and historic with the national archives release of high resolution scans of the Declaration and other US documents.
• Biggest battery technology breakthrough in 200 years? - Lord knows we need some advancement in this field. My laptop now gets 45 minutes tops w/o being plugged in. Gah.
• Amazing photos of China - Beautiful. Very saturated, but beautiful.
• The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal - No suprise here. Big companies cheat the end user to fatten their wallets.
• Bill Gates too rich for IRS - Well, their normal computers, that is. Billionaire gets his data on a seperate box since he's so stinkin' rich. Yea I have that problem too.
• Broadband subscribers nailed by The Man - Toledo, OH residents (23 people) had their possessions seized, houses raided and face fifth degree felony charges for simply uncapping their BB modems. Overreact much?
• Badass drum solo - Dorky looking outfit, but the kids got chops. There's some beat in the middle that is incredibly familiar, but I can't grab it...
• Banned XBox 360 Ad - Exceedingly well done commercial. Too bad it was deemed too violent, as it's one of the more creative spots in years I think.
• A history of the "amen break" - One of the most popular breaks, used in multiple styles of music (a history and commentary on sampling law)
• Canon Rock on Google Video - This kid rocks the hell out to Canon in D, on electric guiter. Nerdy, but the kid has chops.
• Stores Hack GoogleMaps - Stores (like Target in the photo) are learning to get advertising out of GoogleMaps by painting their roofs. Smart AND helpful!
• Clerks II Trailer
  Awesome. Looks pretty good (even though I only saw the entire Clerks only recently).
• Track your packages visually
  UPS/FedEx/USPS packages can all be tracked, with data plotted to a Google Map.
• 21,000 University of Alabama students dropped at once
  Error in email system notifies all students of invalid prerequisites. Hilarious.
• I'm really f'ing tired of girls who like baby sh*t
• How to order wine without looking like an asshole
• It's A Wonderful Internet
• Chronic-les of Narnia SNL skit
• Hack a talking Santa! [be sure to catch the videos]
• Last statements of death row inmates
• Make a snowflake!
• America's Next Muppet
• Proof of the "internal alarm clock?"
• Teen dies from peanut allergy/kiss
• Video of Bush's failed fleeing of press conference
• How to get rid of hiccups
• Pixar's digital pen
• "Hot In Here" as done by an 8-bit Nintendo chip (MP3)
• Every Playboy centerfold 88-97, averaged (art)
• The probability that your real estate agent is cheating you
• Freeline skating
• The best paper airplane in the world
• Did Apple sabotage the ROKKR?
• Dialect map of the US
• Real life VS the internet
• TCP/IP Speakers
• Recording industry gets greedier
• Anxiety disorders proven by blood tests?
• Wallace and Grommit studio burns down
• ASIMO robot running at 3 km/hr
• Awesome Guiness Ad
• Office weapons
• Napoleon Dynamite ads for the Utah State Fair
• $10b Treasure Found
• Office slang
• HS Band plays DJ Shadow
• The world's first photograph
• Birth of the iPod Nano
• Bushy asks to go potty
• Sony robot dog dancing to Daft Punk
• Single concept neurons
• Lies Verizon DSL support has told me
• 850gb DVDs. Sweet.
• The ultimate office rubberband gun
• This makes my head hurt
• Engineering with pennies
• The Jetson's technology is here
• Driving on the left side?
• Cream reunites!
• Moss graffiti
• Self-cleaning glass
• Dutch pass iPod tax
• Waiting for fares
• Turn a coin into a ring
• Google Maps puts London tube stops online
• From graffiti to sculpture
• The Simpson's get new blood
• Rethinking high oil prices
• Finally, a good use for TV
• CR House Pricing Data
• How to cut stuff correctly
• Steak based initiatives
• Confusing the UPS drivers
• The art of free throw shot distraction
• The man who saved the world
• Oregon Trail t-shirt
• How to fold a t-shirt
• Busted for plagarism
• Art gallery takeover
• Human skin networking
• History of yelling 'Freebird!'
• Firefox commercial
• Pixar animators' studios
• New web typefaces!
• 25 years of skateboarding
• Color WWII photos
• I'm not much for tennis...
• Google calendar?
• Evolution of Mario
• Korn guitarist finds God
• Kottke goes full-time
• No Pants 2k5
• The Gates from satellite
• Glowing tablecloth
• Toyota staying green
• Collection of webcams
• 100 things we know this year
• That's not a Jeep, that's a dune buggy
• Lessons in communication
• Cartoon skeletal systems
• New York changing
• 2.5 gigapixel photo
• The design of The Incredibles
• Brita + cheap vodka =
• Making rock stars
• How many cookies in there, eh?
• How Bush won
• 10 Things China does better
• My peace tshirt for sale
• Pay what you feel
• Studying how people listen to music
• HDTV is like the Web
• Dave Chappelle reunites Fugees
• Lincoln photographic discussion
• Australian collaborative street art project
• Bears on bikes
• If Simpsons' characters mated
• Cool manhole and drain covers
• Fight Club star's home address
• Jaws will eat you.
• The alphabet via 117 5 year old's with cameras
• Muscular baby
• NYC commute photos
• Stealth wallpaper?
• iPods and Bimmers
• Visual MIDI search engine
• 3D graphical GPS routes
• Build a 1.2 terrabyte RAID fileserver for $1600
• The new Batmobile
• Sand mandala
• Nickleback recycles?
• The Village People's cowboy goes solo
• Bike graffiti
• Crouching Rumsfeld
• Glass concrete
• Chuck D and sampling
• Soccer and tornados
• Microsoft's art collector
• The truth about cicadas
• Volkswagen Phaeton
• Ice T + David Hasselhoff = Bad
• World's largest crossword puzzle
• The Payphone Project
• PJ Loughran illustrations
• The RIAA lies (duh)
• MP3.com redesign
• Comcast fires TechTV staff
• Doug & Co. redesign blogger
• Digital skin
• Critiquing kids' art
• 'Real World' blogs
• Robert Smith looks not so good
• Fred Durst's blog
• Paperclip sculptures
• Great photo
• Breathtaking
• The science of Lance Armstrong
• From the Word programmer
• The new 50
• Largest US cities
• Icon design (mozilla email client)
• Nice english paper, bro
• Baggy pants hurt no one
• 80's Rap Videos
• Yahoo's Soul Search engine
• Luke Chueh illustrations
• Non-wet liquid
• The music industry uncovered
• The RIAA is dumb
• Doesn't this hurt?
• NYC 2012 Olympic bid logo
• America's height: Not stacking up
• Speak & Spell simulator
• 10 things i never learned in design school
• Exactly what I've been feeling...
• Incredible view of Paris
• Again with Back to the Future
• Retractable Cables!
• Cheaper the better
• 120 Minutes playlist archive
• Etch Your CDRs
• Type set to music
• No more supersizing
• Microwave those new 20's!
• Friends or enemies?
• Calvin & Hobbes comic search
• Stunning Creative Commons movie
• No ability to feel pain
• History of telephone greetings
• Great piano rendition of Mario Theme
• First good Flash ani I've seen
• Back to the Future Tour
• Photos of NYC in the 70s
• I feel great.
• I haven't smiled this much in years.
• Whoa. I'd love a Phaeton, but i think it's a bit out of my price range.
• Hours of entertainment...
• Watch things explode slowly.
• ...the first horseman saddles up.
• That's a lot of *ahem* round spherical objects.
• Pretty neat.
• So much cooler...now if it would only minimize...
• I wish i had this in my meetings.
• Allow six to eight weeks for delivery.
• This registers high on the "stoopid" scale.
• My favorite is "Pre-Teen Hussies."
• The clothes still suck...but Annie L.'s photos rock!
• Whoa. Scary.
• Now all I have to do is find someone to pay for this...
• Whoa. There goes working today...
• What'll those crazy cats think of next...
• It's about time someone with a leg-up in the industry used their fame for something like this.
• Every kid's dream...pre-nintendo.
• ...and no, not all of us are thank you.
• Try it! It works great!
• How many shows have I been to, and thought this same exact thing?
• What is this "internet" that you speak of?
• when you were born?
• Pretty cool, eh?
• I want them all.
• This thing rips!
• ...please, no.
• Would he really?
• and....why?
• I love how Legos are growing up right along with our generation.
• crazy web designers...
• Tyler and Matt should be proud. (Thanks Andy)
• Sing it from the mountaintops
• I miss the days of yooth.
• I love the Mirror Project
• join the revolution.
• Some good ideas about the future of the music industry
• Do you know what 'uptarding' or 'manscaping' is?
• Because watching it just isn't enough...
• Who doesn't want ice cream in 30-seconds?
• What's your Wu-Tang name?
• I wish i had a dog
• Enjoy good reading
• Oh the digital culture