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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/31/08 … please enjoy:

Mad Magazine's Fold-Ins, Past and Present | The New York Times

Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.

Circuit City Tries To Install Navigation System, Causes $12,119 Of Damage To Your Car | Consumerist

Circuit City caused $12,119 worth of damage to VTECnical's 2007 Honda Civic while trying to install a Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation system. Honda later declared VTECnical's car a fire hazard and told him it was unsafe to drive

Seder caters to blacks, Jews with collard greens, sans ham | Palm Beach Post

Besides the traditional bitter herbs and sweet wine, a Passover seder on Thursday will include unexpected treats: collard greens and sweet potato pie. The idea is to recall the shared struggles of Jews and African-Americans, said seder organizer Eunice B

Lightning Review: Electric Socks | Gizmodo

In honor of the upcoming Tahoe reader meetup on April 5th at Alpine Meadows, I'm going to be doing end of season review of some outdoor gadgetry that's been floating around the cabin. First up, these electric socks originally designed to keep North Atlant

Hachiko: The World's Most Loyal Dog | Gimundo

The most loyal dog of all. Hachiko the Akito's master, Ueno, died of a stroke while at university. Hachiko didn't realize that he was gone, and so the dog returned to the train station every single day to await his master.

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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/29/08 … please enjoy:

The web-cam-stop-motion-thing | Piterwilson.com

Turn your Webcam into stop-motion animated gifs!

WrestleMania’s lead-in: ‘Nipplegate’ | OrlandoSentinel.com

Anyone who’s ever seen a pro wrestler knows their bodies don’t look like most folks’, but the wrestlers shown on a sign in Orlando look even more unusual. They’re missing nipples.

Yep. John Cena, Triple H, Randy Orton and even Big Show. All nipple-less.

Sign Language: Marilyn Manson’s “New Shit” | YouTube

Wait till the song begins to form an opinion… instant classic.

How to Speak Hip | Skeyelab Music

How to speak hip, you dig?

Man killed while beating would-be robber | Baltimore Sun

Facing the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun, Roland Scott fought back. He pulled out a fake handgun and stole the gun away from his attacker. Then things get odd, starting with Scott making the attacker strip naked, ending with his accidental death.

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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/28/08 … please enjoy:

Legs manual wins odd title prize | BBC NEWS

A self-help guide called If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs has been voted the oddest book title of the year. Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said of the winner: “So effective is the title that you don’t even ne

The Accurate Watch Reminds You Of Unavoidable Death | OhGizmo!

The only things that appear on the face of this watch are a simple second hand along with hour and minute hands that read ?remember you will die.? Seriously, how morbid is that? I don?t think anyone is really going to forget the fact that they will

John McCain’s First Presidential Ad | YouTube

With such a head start (and such a good ad), I have a feeling Democrats will have a very hard uphill battle this year.

Alien Sociology | Space.com

According to Hollywood, Earth is surely one of the galaxy’s “top places to visit before you die.” Cinema aliens come here often enough that the State Department should probably set up passport control. Of course, that’s fiction. But in the last hundred y

Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips | Boing Boing

“We have a medical transcriptionist on staff who has been using the same keyboard for the last 8.5 years. My co-worker replaced it yesterday, and when he first showed it to me I thought someone had taken a blowtorch to it! The most frequently used keys ha

Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly | Wired

Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. These solar windstorms have been

Make Ur Lolcat Famous Contest | I Can Has Cheezburger?

From the site: “Jones Soda wanted to put a lolcat on their clever soda bottles across the country. So we asked if we can run a contest to find that special lol. (It?s like American Idol, but we don?t has to listen to ur singing voice.)”

Made You Look | Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe’s new Photoshop Express… 2 GB of storage space, a gallery, and an online version of Photoshop. Oh, and it’s free. Could you ask for more?

MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes flat | Engadget

At PWN 2 OWN, famed iPhone hacker Charlie Miller showed the MacBook Air who its daddy really was. Miller visited a site which contained his exploit code which then allowed him to seize control of the computer.

What worms, virus and spam attacks look like in 3D | Vallywag

On April 7, the Varnish Fine Art gallery and bar in San Francisco will host an exhibit called Infected Art. The works represent what worms, virus and spam attacks such as Storm, MyDoom and Netsky look like when put through a “computational art” algorithm.

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These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/27/08… please enjoy:

How to Survive in New York on 99 Cents | New York Times

When I heard that the food you can buy at 99-cent stores is more diverse than you might imagine, I decided to conduct an experiment. I?d make dinner every night for a week using mostly ingredients bought at these stores and then, on the eighth night ?

How Many Escalators Are There In Wyoming? | Wonkette

Have you ever wondered how many escalators there are, total, in Wyoming? “Scott” certainly does, and so he e-mailed the governor of Wyoming to ask him directly. Responding to this e-mail was ever-so-slightly beneath the governor of Wyoming’s job duties,

X-Files 2 Trailer Leaks to the Web | Google Video

The X-Files 2 Trailer has leaked to the web… see it here!

Lower Back Tattoos Now Available at Toys R Us | Cockeyed

Great news to all you kids out there, and just in time for spring break! No longer will you have to hitchhike out to a sketchy part of town to get your lower back tattoo… they are at Toys R Us!

22-Year-Old Awarded $300 Million Contract To Arm Afghan Forces | The Huffington Post

Since 2006 the American military has relied on a fledgling company, led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur, to arm Afghan forces. Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decompos

Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows | The Register

Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than “a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.” This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you’re violating the license.

Musical Japanese road | Make

Here’s a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan…

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