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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world%27s_most_northern The world’s most northern things. (Splendidly idiosyncratic.) There’s a lot less stuff in the south. 13:29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer One Trappist beer, Westvleteren, is regarded as one of best beers in the world, despite (or because of?) being available in very limited quantities (one case per car, no reselling allowed). 17:51

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060622-F-5040D-
162.JPG “An F-18 Hornet (left), B-2 Spirit (center), and two F-16 Fighting Falcons (right) sit on the flightline [tarmac?] at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.” (via Wikipedia) 15:31

http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336 How to Avoid Huge Ships (2nd ed), by Captain John W. Trimmer. 18:32

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw Head tracking via the Wii Remote to simulate 3D—relatively straightforward, and seems to work pretty well (skip to 2:40 for the demo). 08:40

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ Stuff white people like: recycling, expensive sandwiches, knowing what’s best for poor people. 14:03

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html Story on a well-placed semi-colon on some MTA signage is currently the most frequently emailed story at the Times! 21:03

http://www.google.com/search?q=homosexualsex Why do I have the third result for homosexualsex? Google you suck. (Not even remotely NSFW.) 00:45

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10cox.html Differences in consumption per person are much less dramatic than differences in income (in the US): “If we look at consumption per person, the difference between the richest and poorest households falls to just 2.1 to 1. The average person in the middle fifth consumes just 29 percent more than someone living in a bottom-fifth household.” (nice graphic) 17:10

http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Projects/38/Delta-Shelter Nice building: small weekend cabin in Mazama, WA. 09:39

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/case-study-faulknerbrowns-
identity/ Creative Review Blog on the new identity for the architects FaulknerBrowns. 09:38

http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama Barack Obama’s official LinkedIn profile. I hope he keeps this updated if he becomes President. That would be amusing. 10:12

http://www.old-town.co.uk/index2.htm Strange little shop making and selling 1930s-style clothes. 22:24

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/soehartos-unsung-legacy/
2008/02/01/1201801032980.html?page=fullpage Paul Keating, a former Australian Prime Minister, on Soeharto’s legacy. Keating was well-known for being friendly to Indonesia, and it’s interesting to read his account of its recent history (especially Timor), and his own personal involvement in it. (In 1998, two years after he left office, he went to Indonesia (evidently at the urging of Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong), to try to convince Soeharto to give up power gracefully. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen.) 14:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo Improv Everywhere’s “Frozen Grand Central.” (report) 12:23

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_
drink/article3261523.ece The British Library is hosting a futurist dinner, with recipes from Marinetti’s 1932 cookbook, La Cucina Futurista. “Typical Futurist dishes included meat broth sprinkled with champagne and liquor and decorated with rose petals, or the deliberately obscene-looking porco eccittato, a whole cooked salami upended on a plate with coffee sauce mixed with eau de cologne.” 00:47