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http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/367672638.html Weirdly long, eloquent, and informative Craiglist post about friends and the Australian concept of “mateship” that I somewhat endorse. 00:09

http://www.slate.com/id/2171099/ Chinese sportswear companies without distributors in the US are, among other unexpected marketing moves, sponsoring US athletes (and North Korea). 13:51

http://www.letour.fr/ Not saying this is a bad thing, but is the Tour de France the biggest/highest-profile sporting event without an equivalent womens version (or women being able to compete)? (The Women’s World Cup is fairly high profile, and is also run by FIFA.) 08:14

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/the-numbers-behind-life-
expectancy-152/ How life expectancies are calculated, and why Michael Moore’s and CNN’s figures are (slightly) different. 08:57

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2129615,00.html Lightly-amended first chapters from Jane Austen’s are rejected and unidentified by publishers. (Rejected a big deal? Constable wouldn’t get much respect today either.) 21:57

http://www.elevatefilms.com/NOW_Watch_p/watch-001.htm The NOW watch: “The most accurate time piece ever invented!” 20:31

http://www.marcowens.co.uk/avat.html The Avatar Machine: a frame holds a camera behind your body, and you “see” through goggles that display the image seen by the camera. (Other projects.) 12:47

http://www.ministryofgadgets.com/gogadget/view/shop/product/
product_name/Tetris-Tower-3D Real-life Tetris game! 13:24

http://archives.canneslions.com/media/2007/tv/high/2007_
024_211_high.mov Prize-winning commercial: “I think I was er, always misunderstood. People just didn’t seem to like me... I think I annoyed them, I got on their nerves. I don’t know why...” (More information—watch the video first!) 00:42

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2120376,00.html Nicely-written Review of Günter Grass’s memoir. “This lifelong silence, and the manner of his breaking it, have hurt Grass’s reputation in ways from which it will never recover, and which, depressingly, he seems not even to have understood.” 22:38

http://philippekindelis.net/freetransport.htm “A guide to [London’s] free bus routes.” a.k.a. an official-looking map of the bendy bus routes, where tickets aren’t checked on entry. 16:05

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/apples-little-problem-
with-ripping-off-artists/ Apple’s ads—and the artists and commercials they ripped off to get them. 21:32

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/04/business/naver.php Improbable news from the IHT: Google handles just 1.7% of Korean web searches—a search engine called naver.com (which apparently delivers Google Answers-style hand-written answers first) handles almost 80% of all queries. Also, Mauritanian women with money eat to get fat. “Selma's sisters, now 20 and 14, were less fortunate. Mohamed said that she spared them the ‘old-fashioned’ techniques that made girls she grew up with scream in pain. ‘But to tell the truth, I did take them to the cows and made them overdrink,’ she acknowledged. ‘I did overfeed them, just a little bit, just so they could look like real Mauritanian girls. Forty days was enough to get them in the shape I wanted.’ ” 17:45

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmcp/sets/72157594294355299/
detail/ Really cute teeny cardboard models of synthesisers. 14:36

http://www.macintouch.com/iphone/faq.html Good iPhone FAQ. 11:43