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04 May 2009 10:11

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Offbeat, Tech: Oh, and related to URL-shortening, fun fact of the day

  • Did you know that TinyURL‘s founder is a unicyclist? His name’s Kevin Gilbertson and he started the service in 2002. He wanted to link the unicycling newsgroups easily. He had a problem, solved it via code and created a new business model. Genius. source
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02 May 2009 12:18

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Biz, Offbeat: Got your goats: Google tries avoiding mowing the hard way

30 goats hang out around the Google headquarters for a week, eat, fertilize and go away. Sounds like a great job! source
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21 Apr 2009 10:57

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Offbeat: Best way to describe this house: “Slide slide, slip and slide!”

This house wears its frame like a piece of clothing. We’re impressed. But we’re also easily impressed. source
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24 Mar 2009 22:34

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Offbeat: If you’re gonna die today, it might as well be by komodo dragon

It’s sad that someone died in Indonesia after a dragon attack. We get that. But they’re awesome! We’d totally let one kill us. source
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19 Mar 2009 10:26

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Culture, Offbeat: BSG has officially jumped the shark. It did so at the U.N.

The cast of “Battlestar Galactica” came to the U.N. to talk about human rights, and, uh, Cylons. source
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27 Feb 2009 10:56

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Offbeat: This new frogfish is a real trip, man! Oooh, the colors …

This psychedelic fish looks – and acts – like an acid trip gone wrong. source
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