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links for 2007-11-19

• D.A.N.C.E. featuring Mos Def and Spank Rock | RCRD LBL
  (tags: music remix mp3 rcrdlbl)
• NASA - High Definition Video Gallery
  couple nice HD clips. wheres the 1080p?
  (tags: video hd science)

links for 2007-11-18

• Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones - WSJ.com
  "Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that's far from the limit of the Internet giant's wireless ambitions -- which could include running its own mobile network."
  (tags: spectrum google 700mhz)
• Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock [leopard]
  (tags: leopard osx dock mac stacks howto tips apple)
• OMG Desktop Client for Flickr
  just screenshots (its in private alpha)
  (tags: applications flickr osx)
• Gotcha Gift Box: Visorganizer :: Onion Store
  awesome fake gift
  (tags: funny theonion)

links for 2007-11-16

• RCRD LBL
  Peter Rojas' new record label
  (tags: music startup advertising)
• Wu-Tang Clan's RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song
  (tags: music rza wu-tang movies culture sampling)

links for 2007-11-14

• The Power of Green | New York Times Video
  (tags: green nytimes friedman)
• Miro vs. Joost - Head to Head Comparison
  (tags: video joost miro opensource comparison)
• Box.net Blog » If the Web is the platform, then Box is the file system
  (tags: onlinestorage box)
• Kid can dunk
  (tags: KadourZiani basketball)
• War costs could total $1.6 trillion by 2009
  "The committee calculated the average cost of both wars for a family of four would be $20,900 from 2002 to 2008. The cost for a family of four would go up to $46,400 from 2002 to 2017, the committee said."
  (tags: iraq war $)

links for 2007-11-13

• Give one, get one
  one laptop per child give one get one is now on...
  (tags: laptop charity activism)
• YouTube - Android Demo
  demo of google's new open source mobile platform called android
  (tags: android google mobile)
• Greenwater EcoMercs on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  the war on depletists
  (tags: greenwater funny future)
• Saudi Prince Dropping $475 Million on Airbus A380
  (tags: rich insane airbus airbusa380 a380)
• Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins to save the planet
  Twelve of Kleiner's 22 partners now spend some or all of their time on green investments.
  (tags: algore kleinerperkins vc investing environment)
• taggedhype's bookmarks on del.icio.us
  check out this interesting mashup of hype machine delicious and last.fm
  (tags: music mp3 delicious hypem del.icio.us)
• The pics from French Polynesia are up!
  (tags: FrenchPolynesia Tahiti Flickr photos photography)

links for 2007-11-12

• picurls
  like popurls but for pics
  (tags: photos pictures images aggregator)
• Shark Ate Amphibian Ate Fish: First "Food-Chain Fossil"
  About 290 million years ago, Earth's lakes were a shark-eat-amphibian-eat-fish world, new fossil evidence reveals.
  (tags: interesting science fossil)
• bookr
  (tags: blog flickr photography photobook flash)

links for 2007-11-10

• TED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)
  (tags: copyright video ted creativity technology law culture lessig)
• Is Jay-Z signaling a recession?
  Jay-Z flashing euros in a new music video. heh. via kottke.
  (tags: music funny jayz lol hov)
• Water gun umbrella
  awesome
  (tags: awesome funny design)
• getmooh.com [get Me Outta Here]
  Escape a Date, Escape from a Meeting, Escape People
  (tags: cellphone cool freeware funny)
• Think it. Jott it. Do it.
  speaking off cool phone apps. too bad the cdn 1800 doesnt work properly for me.
  (tags: applications apps cellphone productivity jott mobile)
• FreeRice
  (tags: charity games vocabulary free rice)
• Spam One-liners - a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: spam art typography flickr humor)
• YouTube Releases Multi-file Uploader, Raises File Limits to 1 GB
  (tags: youtube video)
• BSOD Strikes The Bay
  world's largest BSOD?
  (tags: image funny photo toronto)

links for 2007-11-09

• Radiohead Economics
  Chris Anderson the the new radiohead album...
  (tags: music business longtail radiohead)
• The Nata village blog: Your donations help out Tebogo
  (tags: nata africa blog natavillage botswana)

links for 2007-11-07

• Engadget Explains Google's Android Mobile OS platform
  (tags: google android)
• The Superest
  The Superest is a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple: Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.
  (tags: art awesome awesomeness superpowers)
• Call of Duty 4 2007 Trailer
  this looks rad
  (tags: callofduty4)
• Drop.io: Simple, Private Storage & Sharing
  (tags: storage filesharing tools free online sharing apps)
• Google Transit For Vancouver
  (tags: google tools transit vancouver web)

links for 2007-11-05

• Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Want Change - washingtonpost.com
  (tags: news politics)

links for 2007-10-24

• Raging Calif. Wildfires Force 1M to Flee
  still no word on my mom's house
  (tags: fires california)

links for 2007-10-23

• VBS.TV
  fantastic video content. horrible ui etc.
  (tags: tv video culture entertainment vice videos)
• GERMANY WINS THE 2007 SOLAR DECATHLON!
  "The German University, Technische Universität Darmstadt is the winner of this years Solar Decathlon competition! In order to win this prestigious design competition, the German team had to beat out a whole slew of American universities on U.S. turf"
  (tags: solar environment architecture design future germany power interesting photovoltaic)

links for 2007-10-22

• 891 Moments of Zen | The Daily Show
  (tags: thedailyshow)
• Google. Who's looking at you?
  "It wants to know everything about you. It wants to be your best friend — or your Big Brother. Are your secrets safe with Google?"
  (tags: google search privacy future)
• UK secondary school tests RFID embedded uniforms - Engadget
  (tags: rfid education uk arphid ugh)

links for 2007-10-21

• Send a personalized voice message to your friends from Optimus Prime!
  brilliant marketing. via jon
  (tags: transformers fun advertising geekery)
• Average price for Radiohead's InRainbows Album? About $8 USD
  (tags: distribution music inrainbows radiohead)
• Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik
  now just add video plz. thx.
  (tags: flickr tool)

links for 2007-10-20

• Jay-z Roc Boys (and the winner is) [MP3}
  HOV! via Sean
  (tags: jayz mp3)
• Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages
  Flickr is launching “Places Pages,” which are dedicated pages that provide users with specific information about places.
  (tags: flickr photography geotagging)

links for 2007-10-19

• Viacom to offer all clips Daily Show episodes online
  The ads are very annoying. I'll stick with torrents thank you. BTW why is the seed to peer ration always better on the Colbert Report?
  (tags: thedailyshow)
• No Shirts at Improv Everywhere
  (tags: funny improveverywhere culture)
• The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory
  (tags: cars racing cannonball)
• 32 Hours 7 Minutes
  (tags: cars cannonball yourmom)

links for 2007-10-18

• Nata clinic gets internet access!!!!
  welcome to the internets!
  (tags: natavillage africa natavillage.org)
• My Google Maps 'Profile Page'
  (tags: googlemaps)
• Other People's Money
  by Cory Doctorow
  (tags: CoryDoctorow forbes future scifi)
• Sergey Brin and Larry Page @ Zeitgeist '07 - [video]
  (tags: sergeybrin larrypage google interview video youtube)
• Google Docs Mobile
  Read only? wtf?
  (tags: mobile googledocs)
• theradblog.com | Jon Rawlinson: Blog Action Day - A huge success!
  jon has a wrap up of blog action day
  (tags: blogactionday)
• A comparison of the Last.fm chart and the official UK...
  via kottke
  (tags: music radiohead last.fm statistics inrainbows)

links for 2007-10-17

• 'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away
  (tags: astronomy science life)
• iPhone's hazardous chemicals
  Greenpeace responds to Apple's response to Greenpeace's iPhone toxic chemical results...
  (tags: apple greenpeace iphone)

links for 2007-10-16

• e²: the economies of being environmentally conscious
  I've purchased all of the available videos and they're all fascinating.
  (tags: energy pbs video tv design architecture documentary)
• No Impact Man: What No Impact feels like after ten months
  "If the results of the No Impact experiment are anything to go by, not only is that an approach that would help cure our environmental crisis, but it would also help cure our unhappiness."
  (tags: environment inspiration green blog impact)