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Get this Party Started

Thank you Falah for bringing this to my attention. What a fun way to start the week.

Tthhee Ppaarrttyy by Falah & Jenni from Jenni Leder on Vimeo.

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Helvetica Plus Nirvana

What happens when you combine Helvetica font plus the audio going ons of Nirvana? Entertainment.

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52 Exercise Songs

The Art of Manliness blog has comprised a list of “52 workout songs to help you get bigger, stronger, faster.” While I’m a big believer in music being a positive factor when it comes to exercise some of these I’ll skip over. On the other hand there are some good choices there. Then again some of my tastes venture into the realm of cheesy.

14. “I Believe In a Thing Called Love” - The Darkness

22. “Feel Good Inc“ - Gorillaz

29. “D.A.N.C.E.” - Justice

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The Return of the Calling Card

In the west victorian style personal calling cards have been making a resurgence. In such a high tech world its a wonderful thing to see a low tech approach to a common problem of trading information without being bound by your business. The sad part is some people would try and list their favorite social networking profile as their primary homepage. The happy part is all the information one can include on it. Now the west just needs to embrace QR Codes.

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Why Hello There Edouard

Its coming right at the Lone Star. According to the news its suppose to be ‘near hurricane speed’ by tomorrow. Experience deems this statement to be watered down. Time for another hurricane party!

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Free EBooks Available at Tor.com

For a limited time Tor is offering a variety of free ebooks and high resolution cover art. Pick and choose. Cheers.

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UPDATE: The offer ends on Sunday! Act quickly.

Tofu Packed in Balloons

In another beautiful display of reducing the packaging of a product in an innovated way Kamakura-komachi is now storing tofu in balloons. A simple poke of a toothpick and the packaging ‘pops’. The world can take a lesson from Japanese companies on these notes.

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Tugg Speedman, Panda Celebrity

Oh what does Ben Stiller have in store for us now? Here he is portraying a celebrity for panda adoption.

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Every Joker Ever

Here is a pictorial list of every Joker portrayed on the small and big screen.

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Help Save Totoro’s Forest

The Sayama Forest was the inspiration for Totoro. The bad news is that it is under thread for development.The good news is that over 200 of the top international artists from print to animation are donating artwork for the cause. You, too, can help by donating. Besides, the site contains a wonderful gallery of works that have already been donated.

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The Hockey Organ

When technology gets hacked you have combinations like a casio keyboard which controls an old school tabletop hockey game.

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The Return of the Circus Maximus

Officials in Rome, IT are planning on reviving the Circus Maximus with chariot races. Ben Hurrrrrrrr!

“The races will last for three days, starting from October 17, 2009… Chariot racers from around the world are expected to compete,” Franco Calo, one of the promoters, said.

He said the races would be held at the Circus Maximus, an ancient chariot racing venue which is now a park.

Chariot racers are, understandably, far and few between, and anyone hoping to participate will have to take lessons before heading for the starting line.

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20 Hot Client Industries That Hire Freelancers

Are you looking for a new job or, like myself, looking for employment that is more your style? Well take this into account....

With the coming recession, I get a lot of questions about whether it will be increasingly difficult for freelancers to get new clients and, more importantly, projects that pay appropriately.

Over the past eight months, the following industries have proved extremely lucrative for freelancers. I categorize them into Spheres.

The industries in the extreme sphere are those that are currently crashing or booming. Why would a crashing industry be a good industry to find clients in?

If you’re a freelancer, you’re less expensive and easier to handle for a struggling entrepreneur or business than an employee would be. Additionally, if you provide marketing services or can help them secure a presence online, they need you.

A recent global study by McKinsey & Company demonstrated that online marketing drastically out-pulled traditional offline marketing in results. 62% of participants rated online marketing as very or extremely important to their company.

Struggling industries must invest in direct profit-producing services like marketing and online tools to survive.

Then it goes on to list said industries. Check it out.

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The Highest Popping Toaster in the World!

Meet the CO2 gas powered toaster. To the Guiness Book of Records it’s the highest popping toaster in the world.

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We’re Taking a Half Day and Tomorrow Off

For a microcosm of public health we’re taking the rest of the day off from posting. We’re also taking tomorrow off. See you on monday for more to come. Shareholders and all to be meeting with. 

50 Office-Speak Phrases You Love to Hate

Thanks to the global economy and virtual office space the lingo we hear around business meetings and thrown into email is, like everything else, becoming homogenized. This does have a benefit to where we can all complain about those ‘phrases we love to hate’.

5. “My favourite which I hear from the managers at the bank I work for is let’s touch base about that offline. I think it means have a private chat but I am still not sure.”
Gemma, Wolverhampton, England

32. “My least favourite business-speak term is not enough bandwidth. When an employee used this term to refuse an additional assignment, I realised I was completely ‘out of the loop’.”
April, Berkeley, US

38. “I have taken to playing buzzword bingo when in meetings. It certainly makes it more entertaining when I am feeding it back (or should that be cascading) at work.”
Ian Everett, Bolton

I’m in agreement that ’talking about it offline‘ is my least favorite of the 50.

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Make your bike UGLY to Deter Thieves

Although I wouldn’t apply this rule to anyone of dating material no matter how tempting it may seem, making your bike physically unappealing is a great way to prevent it’s theft. Make realized this as well publishing an article about it in volume 11 of their magazine. The concept is to make it look tacky with stickers and a bad paint job while at the same time pho-ing unkemptness issues like rust and mud. It might be a bit too much to fake the dirt since that is unavoidable, but if you live in an area with high bike theft this would be something to look into. Cheers.

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How to Nap

The Boston Globe has a great diagram up about the proper napping method for people. I’m not big on napping, but I love this.

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QuikMaps Makes Google Maps More Useful

Have you ever wanted to just modify a Google map instead of going through a long process of screen grabs and working in Paint or Photoshop? Well QuikMaps is a free mashup that allows you to do so. They also include tons of custom icons, text labeling, and other tools that makes it my new favorite map maker.

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Fish Fight

I love Japan for many reasons. One is portrayed in how creatively strange their music videos can be. What. The. Hell?!

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Firefox 3 is Released

Firefox 3 is out in the wild. Go download it within the next 24 hours to help set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in one day. Rock and roll.

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Canon Calculators Play Tetris

Put a code into most standard Canon calculators and you can play Tetris. Try it out.

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21 Leaf Clover Sets New Record

If it was naturally occurring there wouldn’t be a gray area around here about whether cross-breeding should break the rules.

A 21-leaf clover discovered on June 3 by Iwate prefecture farmer Shigeo Obara has shattered the Guinness world record for most leaves on a clover stem (Trifolium repens L.). The current official record is held by an 18-leaf clover that Obara found in his garden in May 2002.

The record-breaking clover’s 21 leaves each measure about 1 centimeter long and overlap each other like rose petals on a 3-centimeter stem.

Obara, a former food crop researcher, has been conducting independent research on clovers in his garden for over 50 years. He first became interested in clover mutations after discovering an unusual patch of 4-leaf clovers in 1951. Since then, Obara has been crossbreeding the plants in his garden to research the genes associated with leaf count, color, pattern and size.

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Cell Phones Used to Pop Popcorn

This is just everything I could quickly find on the topic. Can cell phones pop popcorn? Fake or Not? Entertaining?

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A blog post about it

Mythbusters forums

Finally Gawker explains the hoax. 

A Portal Affair in Permanent Ink

This is for two of my very good friends that introduced me to Portal a bit ago. Certainly taking it to this extent isn’t for myself, but I must say some people have quite the fanatical devotion to things that have made empires… and destroyed them.

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