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Sep 30, 2007

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Murphy’s law application for antigravitatory cats – Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

“In order for the equilibriated cat to escape its inertia one must attach a propulsion device.” “When the gluing dispositive and the cat are in the same tetradimensional space, the cat dissappears.”

(tags: articles cats physics theory wiki)
Institute for Play The Patterns of Play

“The National Institute for Play unlocks the human potential through play in all stages of life using science to discover all that play has to teach us about transforming our world.”

(tags: games psychology theory organization)

Sep 29, 2007

links for 2007-09-29

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Flickr: Mr. Bento Porn

(tags: food photography)

Sep 26, 2007

Akathisia

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Akathisia, or Acathisia, n. A sensation of inner restlessness; the inability to remain still.

Sep 24, 2007

I am not like you

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A: How old are you now?

B: I’m 38.

A: So, you’ve wasted 20 years of your life.

B: Yeah, maybe. But, I don’t have the mustache of an alcoholic gigolo nor the laugh of a retarded monkey. So, I can be satisfied that I am not like you.

links for 2007-09-24

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Democracy Now! | Dorothy Day and Catholic Worker

“Thursday, December 25th, 1997″

(tags: articles reference CatholicWorker)
The Folklore of the Wild Hunt and the Furious Host

“by Kveldulf Hagen Gundarsson, from Mountain Thunder, Issue 7, Winter 1992.”

(tags: pagan folklore history articles)

Sep 23, 2007

Yanni is to Greece as Borat is to Kazakhstan

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Something overheard:

“Oh, Greece! I want to go there. Do you know Yanni? He’s Greek. Ever since I started listening to Yanni, I’ve known I had to go to Greece.”

links for 2007-09-23

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Sep 21, 2007

links for 2007-09-21

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Strange island: Pacific tribesmen come to study Britain – Independent Online Edition > This Britain

“So what happened when a group of South Pacific islanders spent a month in Britain to study our own odd little lives?”

(tags: articles anthropology culture UK)

Sep 18, 2007

links for 2007-09-18

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Lights Out San Francisco

“Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event on Oct. 20, 2007.” But, also to reclaim the starlight, yeah?

(tags: Activism environment Green SanFrancisco)

Sep 17, 2007

links for 2007-09-17

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greengeek Â» home

(tags: olympia Resources)
Freegeek Olympia: Homepage

(tags: olympia Resources)

Sep 16, 2007

links for 2007-09-16

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Abecedarian: I Found a Penny Today, So Here’s a Thought

“No, I’m the eldest.”

(tags: articles illustration folklore)
Welcome to NFMC

“Neighborhood Free Medical Clinic”

(tags: olympia Resources)

Sep 14, 2007

links for 2007-09-14

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Go Ape Shirts – 018 – The Zombie of Oz by Dean Fraser

(tags: clothing shopping wishlist WizardofOz zombies)
Brickfilms.com

(tags: animation art community creativity howto)

Sep 9, 2007

links for 2007-09-09

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Write a perfect email / Wired How To’s

“Since itâ€™s such an important and often overlooked component of our online lives, Iâ€™m going to step away from preaching about the web for a moment and focus on simple steps to make your email discussions more effective.”

(tags: communication howto internet productivity)
Video Game Podcast and Geek Culture Blog: The Weekly Geek

(tags: games videogames podcast blogs sometimes)
Austin Sketch Squad: Wizard of Oz

(tags: WizardofOz illustration blogs)

Sep 7, 2007

links for 2007-09-07

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Olia Lialina: Vernacular Web 2

“The relationship between ordinary users and the Web of the 90s is a very interesting subject to study, because itâ€™s a relationship filled with love, hate, all kinds of drama …”

(tags: design culture history internet webdesign articles)

Sep 6, 2007

links for 2007-09-06

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Serenity

Various Serenity/Firefly tee designs

(tags: clothing shopping Firefly)
Download | Vaguely Disreputable | Mayer Brenner

“The books of The Dance of Gods are being posted on an ongoing basis, along with earlier versions and potentially other materials.”

(tags: books CreativeCommons scifi)

Sep 5, 2007

links for 2007-09-05

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International Year Of Polytheism [monochrom]

“Freed from the servitude of monotheism and the fraternal strife of the trinity, the world would be redeemed in a chaotic baptism of multiplicity.”

(tags: art culture philosophy religion spirituality)

Sep 4, 2007

links for 2007-09-04

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Distributed Constructionism

“This paper introduces the concept of distributed constructionism, building on previous research on constructionism and on distributed cognition.”

(tags: academic papers constructionism internet education technology)

Sep 3, 2007

links for 2007-09-03

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Terra Nova: The Image of the Undercity

“While the main take-away of the comparison should come as no surprise to readers here (MMOG architecture is much more spatial that RTS architecture), the paper provides a nice explanation of exactly how and why that is so.”

(tags: academic architecture landscape VirtualWorlds theory)
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS)

(tags: academic Research Resources Social science society)

Sep 2, 2007

links for 2007-09-02

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New research challenges previous knowledge about the origins of urbanization

â€œUrbanism does not appear to have originated with a single, powerful ruler or political entity. Instead, it was the organic outgrowth of many groups coming together.â€

(tags: archaeology history articles)

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