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28 Aug 2009 17:46

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Offbeat: Mythical Creatures deserve their own awesome chart

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28 Aug 2009 10:50

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Music: That Bob Dylan Christmas album now has a cover

Bacon in a can

This cover looks like the kind of cover Bob Dylan would use for a Christmas album – traditional, with the air of a tongue implanted firmly in cheek. May we just say that we're actually excited about the prospect of "Christmas of the Heart" (which hits in October)? It has that appeal that the Scarlett Johansson album of Tom Waits covers did for us. source

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28 Aug 2009 01:31

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U.S.: Phillip Garrido hid his tracks well in the Jaycee Lee Dugard case

  • There were zero signs of kids living there. Only him, his wife and mom.
  • Antioch, California Sgt. Diane Aguinaga • Describing the utterly bizarre conditions that they found when they discovered long-missing child Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two daughters recently. Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender as far back as 1971, allegedly hid the children in a backyard compound behind a fence. Few stones were left unturned – the lair was soundproofed, even. Incredibly disturbing. • source
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27 Aug 2009 20:26

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Politics: The Glenn Beck ad boycott isn’t killing him; it’s making him stronger

  • 33 boycotts of Glenn Beck’s show by major corporations – just three major advertisers and a bunch of infomercials are left source
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24 Aug 2009 21:09

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Tech: Jakob Nielsen, usability’s stickler, makes the perfect Tweet

  • LAS VEGAS (October) and BERLIN (November): venues for our biggest usability conference ever http://bit.ly/UsabilityWeek
  • The Perfect Tweet • So designed by five rounds of Jakob Nielsen and his usability nerds. With this tweet, Nielsen considered everything: Wording, timing, the capitalization of letters, the number of characters, the visual impact of the line of text, the use of a bit.ly URL, and so on. We think he’s crazy and needs to throw in some hashtags. • source
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24 Aug 2009 11:18

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Offbeat: Lego + 8-bit pixels: This poor guy’s getting eaten by his childhood

  • The guys who made this spent 1500 hours (!) putting it together. And, oh my freaking god, it shows. Michel Gondry, hire these guys. Stat.source
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23 Aug 2009 12:13

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Culture: Awesome: Snoop Dogg goes on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”

  • Fo shizzle, ma nizzle, he’s playing for charity. Here’s Snoop Dogg with Regis Philbin doing his “Millionaire” thing last week. Because he’s awesome.source
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14 Aug 2009 11:33

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Offbeat: We do this all the time when we’re at hotels, guys

  • He was a bit surprised that there were two people in his room and he was butt naked.
  • Sergeant Steve Watt of the Queenstown, Australia police • Describing the scene after a drunk, naked man barged into a hotel room that wasn’t his own and fell asleep on the bed. Sounds like someone had an interesting night. Charges weren’t pressed, by the way. • source
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12 Aug 2009 21:19

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Politics: Crazy town hall moment of the day: Rosa Parks + ripped poster

  • The video
  • The recap A black woman is sitting at a town hall hosted by Claire McCaskill yesterday. A reporter, whose interest has been piqued, checks out her Rosa Parks poster. Some guy sees the poster, steals it from the woman, and rips it up. Guess who gets booed and taken outside? Obvious question: How is this not racism? At some point, you have to watch these videos and shake your head. This is democracy? This isn’t people just being jerks? source
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12 Aug 2009 11:28

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Offbeat, Tech: Two nerds figured out a way to get nerds to exercise more

  • You pedal the bike, the Internet goes faster. It’s a total carrot on a stick thing. Or at least a really entertaining viral video of a technology we’d never use. Just think, though, if this showed up in gyms, people would use it.source
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