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ikea hacker: ikea hacks make joes fabulous car room a reality

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/01/ikea-hacks-make-joes-fabulous-car-room.html Car nerd transforms his basement into testosterone cool lounge. The drop-down slot car track is awesome. Oh, to have hacking talents with which to indulge my hobbies!

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Telegraph.co.uk – Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph – Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IZYDJV5GXV0OLQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/02/02/wroman02.xml Residents of a remote Chinese village are hoping that DNA tests will prove one of history’s most unlikely legends – that they are descended from Roman legionaries lost in antiquity. Scientists have taken blood samples from 93 people living in and around Liqian… They are seeking an explanation for the unusual number of local […]

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IN THE ATTIC WITH MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, PETE AND RACHEL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKFys9CGUoY Martha Wainwright and Pete Townshend in a heavenly jam of her song “Factory”. For someone without even a modicum of musical talent, this is both sublime and incredibly frustrating to watch.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVpfzAV-Dg YouTube again shows its depth, by dredging up a video I didn’t expect to find. I recorded this performance about 15 years ago (albeit from the CBC, which is mercifully staffed with commentators far less inane than the Americans on this clip) and it has mesmerised me ever since. Gary Beacom was a Canuck […]

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stránka nenalezena | Reptárium

http://www.reptarium.cz/kontakty.php?cid=585&page=0&id=4136 Look closely at the lighter-coloured leaves! I don’t accept Intelligent Design, the theory, but this is some damn intelligent design, lowercase.

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Motorola KRZR TVC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcejnYsgif4 Fear not – the thumbs up for this Motorola ad is not for the product or the ad itself. Instead, it’s for the ad company’s choice of song. Anyone who has ever experienced the awesomeness that is Grand Rapids, MI’s indie band, The Icicles, is revelling in the double-awesomeness of their Sugar Sweet being […]

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This is Indexed

http://indexed.blogspot.com/ Brevity really is the soul of wit, as proved by this new-to-me blog, which has me floored.

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http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=17677 Some stellar aerial photography here, cribbed from the yannarthusbertrand.org website. I’m ashamed that the parallel I draw to some of these views is to the animated earth in SimCity; it’s proof that my mind isn’t big enough to take all this in on its own terms.

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http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=17677 Some stellar aerial photography here, cribbed from the yannarthusbertrand.org website. I’m ashamed that the parallel I draw to some of these views is to the animated earth in SimCity; it’s proof that my mind isn’t big enough to take all this in on its own terms. \

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