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Austin Art Yards
http://www.austinartyards.com/index.htm
Flash implementation of a great old-school arcade game
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Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny - Photo | Japanator.com: anime news, original features, and weird stories from Japan, updated daily!
http://www.japanator.com/elephant/photo.phtml?post_key=8421&photo_key=4679#prevnext
Moo means moo
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An open letter to conservatives
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/a/m/americandad/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-conservative.php?ref=mp
Heavily annotated cliff notes on problems with conservatives
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Statistics Notes in the British Medical Journal
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/pubs/pbstnote.htm
I want to learn a little about statistics. This was recommended on metafilter.
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High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
Another reason HFCS is bad
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Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix
http://quixapp.com/
Pretty amazing. Acts like a command-line tool for a host of useful web services.
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Local Bicycle Resources
https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/~mcchris/Local+Bicycle+Resources
maintained by mcchris
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How to preheat your pan
http://www.houseboateats.com/2009/12/on-properly-heating-your-pan.html
The physics of pan-frying.
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No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing
http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing
So true for me as a translator
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Where was my bike made?
http://allanti.com/articles/where-was-my-bike-made-pg328.htm
Short answer: If it was inexpensive, China; if it was expensive, probably Taiwan
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GreenFax - Internet Faxing / Virtual Fax
http://greenfax.com/
Pay-as-you-go service. Good for me, especially since I just quit J2.
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Shorter Joe Stack
http://rimbosity.com/writings/joe-stack-translated.html
Much scholarship and weirdness
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Panoramic photos from Burning Man 2009
http://www.panomatics.com/nextgen/muc/burningman/
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Japanese public signage symbols
http://www.ecomo.or.jp/barrierfree/pictogram/picto_top.html
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A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/
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Trooperina
http://www.hotchickswithstormtroopers.com/2009/08/femtrooper-friday-82809.html
from the "Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers" blog
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10 Alternatives To Mininova
http://torrentfreak.com/10-alternatives-to-mininova-091126/
Just the thing for a living-room computer
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Handheld keyboard/touchpad
http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=1219
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Analytic Cycling
http://www.analyticcycling.com/
very clever. Write CSS-like code and expand it into the HTML it describes.
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Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/21/zen-coding-a-new-way-to-write-html-code/#more-16072
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Yarchive-Bike
http://yarchive.net/bike/
A hand-compiled and sorted list of useful Usenet discussions about bikes, mostly involving Jobst Brandt debunking folly
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Soma Ta-Bo Saddle
http://store.somafab.com/somatabosaddle.html
Overpriced knockoff of my favorite old saddle, the Selle Italia Turbo.
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Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie
http://www.xtranormal.com/index
Looks stupid but fun. Takes text and does text-to-speech, plus simple 3D animation.