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Du Hase
A two hundred foot long (20 feet tall off the ground) knit rabbit in the Italian Alps, made by five years of knitting by Gelitin and a whole bunch of friends.
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Jeff Goldblum 1952-2009
Apparently, New Zealand police have confirmed that Jeff Goldblum has fallen off a cliff to his death in New Zealand. To make this tragedy even more unexpected, it happened while Jeff Goldblum wasn't in New Zealand. Colbert reports, with a touching eulogy by someone who knew Jeff well:
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Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art
Professor Harbaugh of University of Oregon has gathered together the "world's largest extant collection of anatomically correct fabric brain art" to form the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art. The collection includes a really cool knit brain (the corpus callosum is set up as a zipper to unfold the brain and examine the inner ( Read more... ) -
Thank You Odetta
One of the voices from my childhood went silent today.
She was scheduled to sing at the Presidential Inauguration, but heart disease apparently had other plans for her. She will be truly missed.
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Interesting Video... But
I recently came across this interesting video, but it's clearly flawed. The bulk of the video appears to be a good and thoughtful introduction to some of the stupider aspects of the monetary system in this country. This is followed by an insufficiently thoughtful and detail-poor discussion of possible changes, and a foray into tinfoil-hat land ( ( Read more... ) -
Black Friday Body Count
Each year in the US, on the day after Thanksgiving, people literally risk life and limb in the pursuit of purchasing holiday bargains, or selling those bargains to the rampaging hordes.
Here are the incidents this year I know about so far:
"Blitz Line Starts Here": One employee was killed, and at least one other employee and four customers ( ( Read more... )
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