http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55807 Kansas Outlaws Practice of Evolution: “Violators of the new law may face punishments that include jail time, stiff fines, and rehabilitative education and training to rid organisms suspected of evolutionary tendencies.” 23:25
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This month: 11 entries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_without_an_
army Iceland is about the only proper country on the list. 08:13
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061204ta_
talk_surowiecki James Surowiecki: Nintendo is #3 in the console game, but is making solid profits. Do you need to aspire to be #1? 08:01
http://www.zeldman.com/2006/11/27/safari-beats-firefox/ Not sure I’m inclined to take Firefox font-handling criticisms seriously when it comes from someone who’s unconcerned that the italic text and the Roman text on their site come from different fonts… There’s a reason italic body text is almost entirely absent from apple.com! 00:02
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/who_wants_to_be_
a_cognitive_ne.php “A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.” 08:01
http://www.toygers.org/ Domestic cats, bred to look like tigers! 07:58
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/nyregion/11train.html Oh no! Darius McCollum, serial appropriator of New York public transit equipment, and subject of a long, loving Harper’s piece, has been arrested again. 07:37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows-Wheeler_transform Super-sexy data transformation algorithm, useful for data compression. 07:33
http://www.craigslist.org/about/pages.and.peeps.html The ten most visited sites on the net, and how many employees they each have. Craigslist gets by with only 23 employees (although it’s true that none of the employees are engaged in producing magazines or feature films, etc.) 22:54
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1937529,
00.html Interviews with the actors who dub movie stars into other languages. (It’s usually done by the same actor across the star’s career.) “It is hardest with black actors like Eddie Murphy and Will Smith. They are not only very funny but they speak very, very fast. Trying to street talk quickly in Hindi is extremely tough. After two days your mouth gets really tired.” 22:45
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes/sets/346406/
Photographs of iconic scenes, with street-vendor postcards and trinkets substituted for the real thing. (Makes more sense when you see it.) 23:49