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As much as I tend to rip into CNN, every so often they carry something that I just have to share. Today their site features a video of a guy who jumps out of airplanes and flies around with a jet-powered contraption that looks like it was made in his basement.
Maybe it’s because I […]

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I came across this video quite a while ago, after falling head over heels for the brilliant piano piece called “Every Day” that accompanies it. The music is by Brooklyn-based Carly Comando, whose Myspace page lists over 380,000 plays for this song despite the fact that she doesn’t seem to have released a CD […]

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Artist Brad Emerson has turned some of his old home movies into moving, living, breathing impressionist paintings, using some funky software that I’m not quite geeky enough to understand, though I almost wish I were. Gorgeous, gorgeous stuff.
Story and photo via Boing Boing.

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The house was on Inman Street, near Cambridge’s Central Square. Peter Woit recalls the morning he came downstairs and found his roommate obviously upset.
“John, what’s wrong?,” he asked.
Have you seen a dirty pink laundry bag?” came the response.
“No, why?”
“There was $80,000 in it.”

According to an Xcomony write-up, those are the words of John Chang, a […]

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There’s a reason President Bush almost never appears before members of the general public: They really don’t like him.

That’s Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post, and after seeing Bush get booed mercilessly by a stadium full of baseball fans as he goes out to throw the season’s ceremonial first pitch, you can’t help but think […]

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Some of these Lego stop-motion videos are a little cheesy, but some are absolutely fantastic. At the top of the list is a Lego re-enactment of Eddie Izzard’s excellent Darth Vader cafeteria skit. So funny I almost peed myself.
Others include Lego versions of the music videos for Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the […]

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This is hilarious if you know and love Montreal and/or can understand the lyrics. Though I live here, I’m admittedly not cool enough to know if this is the latest dance craze, but I gotta say I’m leaning towards no. Also, I think my leg would get really tired, really fast.
The Urban Dictionary […]

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