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• Lunar Legalism

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  The upshot, Pop argues, is that the moon is currently a commons: anyone can use it, but nobody can own it or any part of it. Pop predicts that the commons approach will erode as soon as someone starts digging into the lunar soil for profit. Indeed, he favors this: he suspects the likeliest way for humanity to unlock ...
  2 hours ago

• Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533)Hey thanks for the painting...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533) Hey thanks for the painting Hans but what’s with the skull? Not cool man.
  16 hours ago

• "Shooting the Pillsbury Doughboy commercials in 1989 was the first time I used a Video Frame Grabber..."

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  “Shooting the Pillsbury Doughboy commercials in 1989 was the first time I used a Video Frame Grabber and it changed everything. Now I could compare the frame I was working on to the 2 previous frames. 2 was the maximum frame storage at that time. But that was enough to determine if the puppet’s movements were ...
  18 hours ago

• Welcome to KELVIN.com!

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  Welcome to KELVIN.com! : Lots of fun stuff here. I’m gonna by some stuff for an upcoming stop-motion project.
  18 hours ago

• Developers trying to buy seats on county council?

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 544
  Bryan Sears has an article on fundraising efforts being led by two attorneys with ties to Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith.The attorneys, Michael Paul Smith (son of the County Executive) and David Gildea (former law clerk to Smith when he was a judge), are setting up $1,000 a head fundraisers for county council ...
  2 days ago

• Anupam Kher’s dream comes true, meets Topol

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Subhash K Jha“Fiddler On The Roof’ legend Topol loves Raj Kapoor. And when Topol met Anupam Kher in Israel this week he bombarded Kher with his questions on Raj Kapoor and yes, Amitabh Bachchan.There were two international cine-persons that Anupam Kher wanted to meet or work with.“And by some quirk of faith I ...
  2 days ago

• When Anupam Kher met celebrated Israeli actor Topol

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Subhash K. JhaMumbai, Dec 13 (IANS) It was a dream come true for actor Anupam Kher to have met “Fiddler On The Roof” legend Topol recently.There were two international cine-persons that Anupam Kher wanted to meet or work with.“And by some quirk of faith I managed to work with Woody Allen and meet [...]
  3 days ago

• Just in Time for Christmas: Pride and Prejudice and 30% More Zombies

  
  Jane Austen Today — Authority: 465
  Have you wondered what Sir William Beecheys portrait of Maria B. Fox looked like before she was zombified by Quirk Books? Check out her image on the left and on the deluxe edition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on the right. This new leatherette edition boasts 30% more zombies in its expanded ...
  5 days ago

• blakewhitman:schlomo:maxsilvestri:joemande:situationist:...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  blakewhitman : schlomo : maxsilvestri : joemande : situationist : Selling-in Reggie Watts is the best. This is great because I am always accidentally leaving my Reggie Watts on in the car overnight. Reggie Watts = Instant Reblog I agree with Schlomo, intant reblog. Come see the man himself at ...
  5 days ago

• I’d like to create a language meter that could be placed...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  I’d like to create a language meter that could be placed in subway cars to show people how retarded they sound. It would need a mic that runs to a speech-to-text analyzer, then a program would pick out keywords from the transcription. If there are more than 3 N-words per minute, a red light comes on and says ...
  5 days ago

• Sonic subway warfare

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  On the way back through Brooklyn on the F today, there were some thuglets playing really bad rap music loudly from their phone. I started blaring Fleet Foxes from my Blackberry as a countermeasure, but their phone was louder than mine and I don’t think they really cared. So I’m thinking about getting one of those ...
  6 days ago

• Scientology Sucks [A Contest]Anoncontest.org is giving out cash...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  Scientology Sucks [A Contest] Anoncontest.org is giving out cash prizes for the best video pranks on the Church of Scientology. This is probably a bad idea.
  6 days ago

• pterodactyls:My dad called this morning to tell me that a...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  pterodactyls : My dad called this morning to tell me that a snowstorm was delivering a thunderous wallop to Buffalo and that all of the schools were closed so I shouldn’t go to work. He then asked me to talk like the announcer on Unsolved Mysteries. He must have taken this picture, because there’s no way mom ...
  6 days ago

• Hackett Designer Menswear - Look 9 (via Hackett London)Going...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  Hackett Designer Menswear - Look 9 (via Hackett London ) Going suit shopping tomorrow. I like this style. Either this or gray flannel.
  6 days ago

• Speculation that this is a Russian rocket, but the Russians deny it. Astronomers say with 99% certainty that it is

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  Speculation that this is a Russian rocket, but the Russians deny it. Astronomers say with 99% certainty that it is : Incredibly weird spiraling light in the sky. Thanks @dltq and @trine for the translation and explanation. Weirdness abounds in Scandinavia.
  6 days ago

• "EARS DID DIED"

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  “EARS DID DIED” - Comment from Ezekielpurger on  YouTube - Wreckrolled (Rick Roll)
  6 days ago

• ryanjpointer:colinmeloy:Paris, 1962.  Amazing flickr set...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  ryanjpointer : colinmeloy : Paris, 1962.  Amazing flickr set here .
  1 week ago

• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

  
  A Bookworm Reads — Authority: 132
   It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (320p, Quirk Books, Isbn-1594743347) , an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our ...
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• Geek News Roundup for 11/29/09 -- Facing The Music

  
  Damage Control — Authority: 125
  For those of you in Canada, the card that came with this CD is full of hypocrisy.  Read on... A couple years ago, I watched Alvin and the Chipmunks in a theatre in Colorado (and yes, Im looking forward to the Squeakquel) and I couldnt help but notice how much it seemed to criticize the music industry, without ...
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• mikehudack:jamiew:The Boxee Box.(via courtneyc)Great...

  
  WRECK & SALVAGE — Authority: 474
  mikehudack : jamiew : The Boxee Box . (via courtneyc ) Great concept, not so great design. I don’t want a black and green plastic toybox in my living room. I definitely want what’s inside it though.
  1 week ago

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