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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6244616.stm Legendary speed-eater Takeru Kobayashi, who recently lost his hot dog-eating world record, has an arthritic jaw, and can only open it a little way without pain. 00:12

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html Whole Foods in Manhattan uses a bank-style single line checkout queue that feeds into as many as 30 cashiers. (My problem with single line systems is that you continually need to shuffle along, which is especially if you need to move luggage or packages, such as at airports.) 23:11

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_re_us/century_
old_whale_6 Caught whale found with fragments of a 19th-Century weapon buried in its blubber. 08:26

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6657663.stm Surprisingly thoughtful and introspective piece from F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen on what goes on before and during a F1 race. Also: not having a drinks bottle in the car is calculated to save four seconds over the race, so if it’s not hot he doesn’t bother. 00:11

http://www.slate.com/id/2168127/ Google on identifiable people appearing in Street View images: “Street View only features imagery taken on public property and is not real time. This imagery is no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street.” Well yes, but a difference in quality is a difference in kind… I’m guessing this problem will sort of fix itself eventually when their image stitching software improves to the point that it can merge together multiple images of the same scene taken on different days, automatically eliminating non-permanent features like people and traffic. 20:55

http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9249262 Overview of recycling, from which countries recycling the most to where the recycled materials are used. (1) In most places, kerbside recycling isn’t self-financing (i.e. it costs more to recycle material than to dump it; absent full-lifecycle (environmental) arguments there would be no point to it). (2) A large amount of automated sorted is now possible. (Surely won’t be long until the techniques used are able to separate recylables from non-recyclables—?) 20:43

http://www.prankplace.com/psychoshowercurtain.htm “Mad Mother Psychoshower Curtain.” 08:33

http://www.factoryfilms.net/films/quicktimes/FuyijaMiyagi_
AnkleInjury.mov Music video: Fujiya & Miyagi’s “Ankle Injuries” in dice-style pixellation. 08:19

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs Pretty morph through a few dozen famous portraits of women. 00:01

http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/projects/ Some interesting UI research projects. e.g. a way to increase speed and accuracy when using a finger on a touch-screen UI (YouTube video). 23:57

http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/31785/ Review of photographer Andreas Gursky’s showing at Matthew Marks Gallery. “The biggest picture at 22nd Street is F1 Boxenstopp III … They’re reportedly priced at $750,000 per imate (the gallery won’t confirm that figure). Maybe it doesn’t matter, but that’s $18 million altogether. 23:45

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/06/movable-
type-4-beta.html Movable Type 4 will be GPL’d, right about the time no-one uses Perl anymore. Once upon a time I tried Movable Type (I even contributed a small patch), but the fact that it wasn’t free was a deal breaker for some reason. (It’s not like I don’t use commercial software.) 23:36