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After seeign the Spider-man easter egg on my new X-men DVD, I was excited to see what other easter eggs my DVD collection has. Well, thanks to the good ole' Web I found this page wich documents them all!
posted by DragonBoy at 10:28 PM PST - 7 comments

The Polynesians were, undoubtedly, the greatest navigators of the ancient world. Using outrigger canoes, they were able to colonize lands spread as far apart as Madagascar and Easter Island and as far south as New Zealand. But where did they originally come from? Jared Diamond demonstrates how, by using linguistic and archaeological evidence, it's possible to reconstruct their journey from China and Taiwan to the Philippines, from there on to Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea and out to the Pacific one way and Madagascar in the other. As an exercise, try comparing the numbers 1 to 10 in all Polynesian and Indonesian languages, to see how the language gradually changed as they hopped from island to island.
posted by lagado at 8:45 PM PST - 4 comments

Something just a bit different in a kidnapping: the victim suffers from polydactyly. If someone you know has suddenly come up with a newborn baby with one extra finger on each hand, let the FBI know. (No joke.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 4:46 PM PST - 7 comments

Nader recommends a coin toss for Bush/Gore - sounds good to me
posted by gluechunk at 1:58 PM PST - 6 comments

A Pie Speaks for Itself - another good photo for today (safe to click, no porn, etc.)
posted by gluechunk at 1:00 PM PST - 4 comments

This Picture Speaks For Itself - I don't know if any tag-line or comment about this picture would increase its initial stand-alone effect. You can try, though (safe to click - no porn, etc).
posted by Hankins at 11:58 AM PST - 10 comments

A study of the effects of celery on loose elastic. This is the reason I love the web. A site dedicated to the peculiar stylings of Art Frahm.
posted by amanda at 9:51 AM PST - 9 comments

"They appear to have been skilled workers capable of stupendous productivity under harsh circumstances. When they failed, it was not from lack of inventiveness, but because of poor leadership, bad luck or the inherent instability of all-male commercial ventures."

It sounds like the writer is describing the typical failed dot-com. Actually, he's writing about 17th Century commercial colonization of North America. The similarities are quite amusing. Read on...
posted by ratbastard at 6:49 AM PST - 1 comments

Overpaid, anal-retentive web usability expert puts himself out of a job? Or perhaps engages in second-round of funding to maintain astonishing levels of frankly unfathomable self-publicity? You might think so, but I couldn't possibly comment.
posted by barbelith at 5:26 AM PST - 26 comments

A 7 to 13-metre rise in sea levels is now inevitable, according to a draft IPCC report leaked to the New Scientist (via Robot Wisdom).
posted by Mocata at 4:05 AM PST - 6 comments

The gopher manifesto. This is actually an idea I've been toying with for some time - bringing content back to gopher sites. My love of gopher was rekindled the day I got a WAP-enabled phone. I realized the new wireless web was nothing but menu after menu of hierarchical information. I know for a fact that Blogger can publish text files for gopher sites as well. I'd still love to launch a gopher site for essays and the like, if I could ever find a decent gopher server for windows or linux. (stolen from /.)
posted by mathowie at 12:54 AM PST - 20 comments

This Thanksgiving, get the whole family around your monitor to read Patrick Farley's Thanksgiving Special. It entertains as it informs.
posted by mathowie at 12:08 AM PST - 4 comments