Mashup of the Day: The Appalachian clogging / “How We Do” mashup you knew was coming is now here.
Archive for December, 2010
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Dec. 29, 2010
Know This:
- Empire Strikes Back among 25 films added by the Library of Congress to the National Film Registry.
- Actress set to play Arachne in Spider-Man musical leaving show following string of injuries.
- Bernard Wilson, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes vocalist, dead at 64.
Read This:
- Today’s Big Read: “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die” by Patton Oswalt.
- Thread on airliners.net discussed passenger planes striking the WTC nearly a year before 9/11.
Look At This:
- “Has the legendary chupacabra been found?” Nope.
- io9’s “Bad Science in Movies” report card from 2008 is making the rounds again; still pretty bad.
- Zip Tie Snow Tires: The Cheapest Way To Blizzard-Proof Your Bike.
The Other:
- NewsFeed: Stranded Above the Slopes: Ski Lift Derails at Sugarloaf Mountain.
- Tea x Time List: Project Censored’s Top 25 of 2011.
- Above: Recycle your crayons with the Crayola Crayon Maker. (via.)
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Dec. 28, 2010
Unusual Jewelry of the Day: “Plug rings” by Brooklyn-based designer Casey Perez. One for you, and one for your significant plugger.
[design-milk.]
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Dec. 28, 2010
Sad Puppy Is Sad of the Day: Rebel, an 8-month-old German shepherd, found himself in a tight spot after getting his head stuck in a block wall near his home in Desert Hot Springs.
County Animal Services officers spent 30 minutes rocking the pup back and forth until he was released safe and sound, if slightly less rebellious.
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Dec. 28, 2010
I, For One, Etc. of the Day: Education officials in the South Korean city of Daegu have launched a pilot program aimed at teaching local children English with the help of a special English-teaching robot named “Engkey.”
According to AFP, the robot, which is programmed to read books, sing songs, and play games, will be controlled remotely by English teachers based in the Philippines.
“The kids seemed to love it since the robots look, well, cute and interesting,” a Daegu city education official is quoted as saying. “But some adults also expressed interest, saying they may feel less nervous talking to robots than a real person.”
What could possibly go wrong?
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Dec. 28, 2010
This Looks Shopped of the Day: Photographer Henry Hargreaves transforms snow-walloped Williamsburg into the Hothiest planet in the Hoth system.
More here.
See Also: Andrew Cremeans’s Blizzageddon.
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Dec. 28, 2010
Tee of the Day: “Dradis Inc” by Lusky.
The Galactica’s DRADIS picks up something other than frakkin’ Cylons for a change.
(RAA: One day only!)
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Dec. 28, 2010
Kickass Clip Compilation of the Day: A thoroughly entertaining compilation of clips featuring Tonight Show-era Conan O’Brien performing various stunts with professional stuntman Steven Ho.
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Dec. 28, 2010
Satellite Imagery of the Day: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shares this “particularly cool view of the US East Coast” as captured by the GOES-13 satellite during yesterday’s snowstorm.
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