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Need advice? Ask Pud. Having apparently created a good income for himself, Pud will tell you how to do it too. And let you know what his kit's like. And brief you on the future of your career in the IT industry. And give you a tip on street food in NY. And tell you the quickest way to learn French. And he gets to the point about chickens and eggs pretty quick too.
posted by iffley at 11:25 PM PST - 13 comments

The Astronomy Nexus. Including the Encyclopedia of Suns, Virtual Messier Objects, and the 3D Universe.
posted by Johnny Assay at 8:52 PM PST - 4 comments

Dean Campaign and Revival of Community. Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone charted the decline of communities in America, arguing that people tended to no longer to meet others outside the family for common interests or causes. The NYTimes Magazine argues that the Dean Campaign derives its popularity from reviving such communal connections. [More Inside]
posted by gregb1007 at 7:40 PM PST - 45 comments

Basho: Many old places brought down to us through poetry, but landslides and floods have altered paths and covered markers with earth, and trees arisen generations gone, and hard to locate anything now, but that moment seeing the thousand-year-old monument brought back sense of time past. One blessing of such pilgrimage, one joy of having come through, aches of the journey forgotten, shaken, into eyes. - Cid Corman's tr. of Basho's Oku no Hosomichi. 4 translations online.
posted by chymes at 7:32 PM PST - 6 comments

It's the end of an era. On Dec. 31, the Jennicam shuts down for good.
posted by PrinceValium at 6:17 PM PST - 45 comments

After viewing this incredible video (.wmv) from China I am folding laundry like a pro (via Linkfilter)
posted by stbalbach at 5:46 PM PST - 30 comments

A pattern map for a conservation economy [Flash.] "The pattern map offers a visual guide to the sustainability patterns that provide a framework for developing a conservation economy." [Via WorldChanging.]
posted by homunculus at 5:05 PM PST - 8 comments

Got Lesbians? Every once in awhile I think "gee, self. I don't have enough lesbians in my life." Now there's a service just for me: LesbianPhoneCall. To quote their site they "deliver[s] you a phone call from a genuine lesbian!" You get to choose from Choose from a variety of lesbians, from militant bulldyke to on-the-fence lesbian (VERY popular). It even details what each type of lesbian is liable to talk about. Super! (via MonkeyFilter/UncoolCentral)
posted by answergrape at 3:28 PM PST - 34 comments

NRA Seeks Status as News Outlet Deciding that laws regulating campaign spending are simply in their way, the National Rifle Association thinks out loud about buying a radio or TV station and then filing a lawsuit so that money limits no longer apply to them. As we all know, federal gun regulations are a near-certainty without this effort.
posted by billsaysthis at 3:13 PM PST - 23 comments

'Just Bring 'em In From Space' • An interview with Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, co-creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and former writers for Space Ghost. "If talking food is a tool, it's one typically seized by a businessman/evangelist desperately grasping for 'funny' — and using the first inoffensive, seemingly comic concept he can find. But Adult Swim mainstay Aqua Teen Hunger Force may be enough to singlehandedly rehabilitate the genre."
posted by dhoyt at 2:44 PM PST - 14 comments

Fire Paste (now with Diet Coke) - It looks like Project Grizzly's Troy Hurtubise, whose bear suit was recently referenced in The Simpsons, is at is again.
posted by boost ventilator at 2:10 PM PST - 11 comments

Welcome to the Hotel Infinity! A narrative description of Cantor's ideas of infinity.
posted by Orange Goblin at 1:32 PM PST - 9 comments

Free Flight (Flash, via Blue's News)
posted by WolfDaddy at 11:42 AM PST - 10 comments

Egg Shell Carving.
posted by moonbird at 10:23 AM PST - 16 comments

The real source of the word "Octothorpe"
posted by riffola at 9:03 AM PST - 13 comments

Transdniester. The unrecognized Moldovian breakaway republic is your one stop shopping solution for black market arms.
posted by srboisvert at 7:40 AM PST - 12 comments

"With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them" We can finally stop using the "we had to destroy the village to save it" quote when discussing controversial measures in Iraq. The new quote by a US Army officer is a whole lot more appropriate.
posted by miguelbar at 7:06 AM PST - 110 comments

Language tree rooted in Turkey.
posted by the fire you left me at 6:48 AM PST - 28 comments

Snow Removal
posted by jeremias at 6:11 AM PST - 9 comments

The Museum of London.
posted by plep at 4:17 AM PST - 7 comments