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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/heroic_secret_service_
agent_takes “Heroic Secret Service Agent Takes Question Intended For Bush.” 22:55

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_motofone_f3-review-134.php Review of the very interesting and very cheap Motorola MOTOFONE F3. It’s designed for developing markets, and has a mostly sealed case, long battery life, an unusual black-and-white screen (calculator-style capitals-only font; the display is retained even when the battery is removed), and minimal SMS functions. It also is very thin, and looks really cool. 22:04

http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/downloads/Buddha_machine_
WAVfiles.zip The Buddha Machine’s loops, in .wav format. (Not as good as the real thing, but …) 02:18

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6485483.stm Launching the PS3 in Europe and Australia: “In Sydney Sony and retailer Myer staged a [midnight] launch event at which customers were also outnumbered by the media. Danny Zarka, the first Australian PS3 owner, was at the front of the queue despite only turning up after 9pm.” Uh-oh! 12:55

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html#4124612517891658489 Awesome hair! 21:55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06wDn3XsZE Impressive continuously-shot fight sequence. 22:37

http://searchwithkevin.prodege.com/ Kevin Federline-branded search engine. Geekologie comments: “Apparently he felt Google just wasn’t doing it well enough and thought he’d throw his hat into the ring.” 22:36

http://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Protected_deleted_
pages Pages that have been deleted, and then protected to prevent re-creation. Unusual assortment. 22:13

http://ketchupart.com/top10 Oh, internet, how I love your eccentricities so: pictures drawn with ketchup. 22:07

http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/forreal.mp3 Okkervil River, “For Real.” (more) 01:45

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72933-0.html Reflections on the importance of race in your choice of online gaming character. 09:53

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/
03/19/8402321/index.htm Glowing account of Apple’s retail stores. “The interiors, too, have been distilled to a minimum of elements. ‘We’ve gotten it down so there’s only three materials we’re using: glass, stainless steel, and wood …’” 23:54

http://www.newyorker.com/ The New Yorker has redesigned! Some notes:

• overall, much cleaner, nicer and more modern (though it does feel a lot like New York Magazine)
• cartoons are incorporated in stories
• there’s a search by author
• and official RSS feeds (going by the URL, the very first feed seems to include everything, though this isn’t obvious from the description)
• it’s designed for a wide screen: the site itself if 1024 pixels wide (there ’s no gutter to take into account dock, etc.)
• the only ads appear to be for various bits of New Yorker merchandise
• the special “online only” section has animated cartoons—did these exist before? (And is this one appropriate for the New Yorker?!)
• most of the links are broken; of the 91 newyorker.com pages I’ve linked to in my blog, 79 now 404.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2006.html Warren Buffet’s entertaining 2006 Chairman’s Letter. Chattily discusses the future of the newspaper business (not good), his search for a successor (the main problem is finding someone who’ll stick around), CEO compensation (he’s somewhat puzzled that as a board member of other companies, he always gets outvoted when he tries to limit executive compensation, even though in the 42-year history of Berkshire Hathaway, not one CEO of his companies has left because they thought they were compensated poorly), the declining fortunes of Blue Chip Stamps (from sales of $170 million in 1970, to $25,920 in revenues last year—“Ever hopeful, Charlie and I soldier on”), his favourite foods (“It’s amazing what Cherry Coke and hamburgers will do for a fellow”), his strategy for beating an 11-year-old girl at ping pong, and finally a few pages of advice and information about the annual meeting, which he describes as “Woodstock for Capitalists.” 22:37

http://adage.com/article?article_id=115287 The unfortunately named “(RED)” campaign for the Global Fund has raised just $18 million; up to $100 million is estimated to have been spent advertising it. 20:11

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2007/03/zidane_a_21st_c.html Loving review of Zidane a documentary that follows Zinedine Zine over a single football match. (Lots of stills.) 21:14

http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/03/03/lets-just-get-
rid-of-tenure/ Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, argues against tenure. “What does tenure do? It distorts people’s effort so that they face strong incentives early in their career (and presumably work very hard early on as a consequence) and very weak incentives forever after (and presumably work much less hard on average as a consequence).” 11:33

http://ftrain.com/simpsonsglot.html Links to snippets of YouTube’d Simpsons episodes in various different languages. 02:15

http://www.firstandthird.org/tables/club/history.shtml More Oxbridge institutional naming shenanigans: the rowing club of Trinity College is called the “First and Third Trinity Boat Club.” As this page explains, the name came about after second boat club folded, and the first and third decided to merge, resulting in a screw-up of a name rivalling that of New College, Oxford (founded 1379). 01:34

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/070305ta_talk_collins Restauranteur Jeffrey Chodorow, upset at a poor Frank Bruni review of his restaurant in the Times, took out a full-page ad defending himself. (He’s apparently offering a trip to Seattle to any employee who simply prevents Bruni entering his next venture, a restaurant with a Pacific Northwest theme.) 18:25

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1btt7_snickers-stop-and-
go Snickers ad involving a rumble between the little green men and the little red men of pedestrian traffic lights. 16:49