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Grammys: Good lord, Nicki Minaj.
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Mead, also called honey wine, is an alcoholic beverage that is produced by fermenting a solution of honey and water.
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Ticklish Achilles’ Heel of the Day: Have you ever been tickled so hard that you passed out?
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This week, I’m starting a weekly book review post. Look for it this Wednesday.
- God Bless America - the red band trailer about a guy who decides to stop the stupidity
- Top 100 strange, odd, perplexing, and other vintage valentine cards
- Rosetta Code - programming chrestomathy site
- Sh*t Burqueños say, and Part 2
- Buenos Aires - Inception Park
- The Arcades Project: Martin Amis’ Guide to Classic Video Games
- The Biblical View That’s Younger than the Happy Meal
- How Companies Learn Your Secrets (and what data mining can tell us)
- [Above] Sketches from Behavior Gap (and the book)
- Heidi Klum’s Dead Body Costume. It’s not fashionable.
- This guy is boycotting the upcoming Avengers movie
- LayerWise build’s world’s first complete low jaw implant (RP)
- How do robots see the world?
- Creativity Agency - PressPausePlay
- The GOP thinks there’s news with Santorum gaining delegates
- Tracking the Internet Troll
- Disneyland in 1957
- Watching “The Clock” (by Christian Marclay) for 24 hours
- Double Fine Adventure raises over $1M on Kickstarter; also Kickstarter’s best day so far
- A narrative on Infographics
- Some upcoming news on Online Courses
- The 25 Documents You need before you die
- Best Times to Buy
- Jay Smooth on “Until Abortion Ends (dot) com”
- Solve for X - Google’s Technology Talks
- BBC documentary (from the late 60s) Civilisation in 13 parts
- Kelly McGonigal on Willpower
- [Above] What to actually buy at Costco
- Working at Twitter, The Future is You
- Incredible Ball boy catch
- Transportation Library Menu Collection: Old Menus from Airliners
- Introduction to Chess Tactics
- Regrets of the Dying
- Dangers of Hydraulic Fracking
- 10 Commandments for PhD Failure
- Things to do to be productive when avoiding work
- Excellent Excel VBA tutorial
- My favorite thread from AskMeFi: Single Book Introduction to your Field of Specialization
- On Creativity: Web design
- Make Love Not Porn
- BriTANickdotcom: Eagles are Turning People Into Horses
- Photography Project: Sexually Abused Victims
- Train Your Brain to Focus
- Making Horchata/Rice Milk
- Chip Conley @Google, also Alton Brown @Google
- 20 Common Grammar Mistakes
- The story of Trip-Hop
- Food52 Project
- Are We Happy?
- Last Surviving Member of the SAS dies
- Time waster: Pixelhate
- [Above] SciFi Art History
In the spirit of the best of series of this blog, I must release 2011. It’s a bit late, but I hope you find this as interesting as I write this.
January
TV Shows by State
February
Cell Phone chargers in a Chris Jordan Work of Art
March
The Wall of Beer: It’s much more vast now.
April
Oh gosh, there’s one video that I can’t stop laughing at. Little Chefs.
May
I’m not going to explain this one.
June
Very strong sign.
July
My stay in Munich: this picture is of the Mary Column.
August
Somehow, in 2011, Star Wars is still strong with references.
September
Sometimes being awkward is funny, and sometimes it isn’t.
October
This is how my roommate described his current life as.
November
Carving that Thanksgiving Turkey.
December
I really didn’t post much in December, except for songs around Christmas time. So I did an about me post instead.
And don’t forget that I do link roll posts. They have tons of gems.
- Musaic Box: cool game with a puzzle element to music
- Diary of an Author: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5
- Bassnectar explains Dubstep; Also, who killed dubstep?
- Watch last year’s ‘Austin City Limits’ online
- Failed Simulation - explaining how to get into Stanford with B’s
- Why I’m against Government mandated Condom use in porn (A porn performer talks about misguided mandatory enforcement)
- This guy makes great graphical literature (I call them infographics)
- Why hasn’t anybody told me about this before? University of Reddit
- What do those marketers know? WSJ analyzes it.
- Learning a language with the mimic method. Except they only have Spanish 101.
- Hi Res picture directory from Reddit
- “In which I fix my girlfriend’s grandparents’ wifi and am hailed as a conquering hero”
- Jazz isn’t cool anymore.
- Music Subreddit of the Week
- Mario is so mainstream
- [Above] Everything You Know About Corsets Are False
- Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe-Out Track
- Well, my roommate didn’t shut up about it: Zooey Deschanel’s Divorce Details
- TV Tropes of the show Community
- Vinnie Jones on hands-only CPR
- Vi Hart joins Khan Academy
- How long it takes for electricity to fail following a zombie outbreak
- Don’t click here unless you want to waste time: Cat Gif Page
- Why you will fail to have a great career
- “Resolution” a reddit version of zombie apocalypse
- Hostess files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (Twinkies maker)
- Ethnic Studies in Arizona schools pretty much cut due to banned books
- Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo!
- George Lucas makes his last (?) Blockbuster
- Who cares? Mark Wahlberg says he could have prevented 9/11
- [Above] Beer Battle Ship
If you live or are visiting the SF/Bay Area, here’s a helpful guide (From the SF/ Bay Area Couchsuring Group site)
People In Plazas - free musical concerts in San Francisco public spaces.
The List - great list of concerts, gigs, shows in the area.
FuncheapSF.com - one of my favourites! Cool stuff on a budget.
San Francisco City Guides - Free walking tours of San Francisco.
Seward Street Slides - A hidden urban playground in the Castro.
SF Bay Guardian - a cool and useful local newspaper.
Free Museum Days - a list of free entry days in the Bay Area .
Audium - Sound sculptures are performed in darkness in this theatre.
7x7 - an “insider’s” guide to some of the best of SF.
Laughing Squid - art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond.
Bay Area On The Cheap - free and affordable things to do in the San Franciso Bay Area.
SFArts.org - a comprehensive guide to SF arts.
First Thursday Art - on this day every month many galleries in SF hold a casual open house.
SF Station - San Francisco’s City Guide.
Upcoming - a list of local events.
Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Website - oddball gems and cheap stuff.
Plant Trees SF Listings - yes, another listing of local events.
Lilycat’s listings - even yet still more events!
Going SF - for people who love to go out to clubs and events.
The Cheap Bastards Guide to San Francisco - pretty self-explanatory!
Indybay - news and happenings in SF and the Bay Area.
Really Really Free Market - it’s a market and it’s FREE!
SF Critical Mass - go for a ride with hundreds of people through SF. Last Friday of the month.
The Bike Hut - bike rentals, repairs and sales near the ballpark.
San Francisco Stairways - some of the best stairs in SF.
Free Entrance Days in the National Parks - if you want to explore parks in California or other states.
- An archive of Lots of Things across all fields (Jason Scott)
- Archive of Appropriative Technologies | Lots of documents
- Lots of Worldwide Creative Classrooms
- Memrise: Learning Languages and Words, another method
- Tricki - The wiki-style site for mathematical problem solving
- Swap.com is the ultimate bartering website
- Vassal is a game engine for board games and card games
- Free circuits textbook, which includes problems and answers
- Open Source Ecology is a project to build the main machines that build a small, sustainable civilization
- Game Theory Made Easy, includes free articles to get you understanding
- Blogger to follow: Zach Holman
- That song sounds like…
- Excellent company that makes infographics
- Currently reading: The Information Diet
- Cabin Porn: Actually SFW
- Mr. Plinkett’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull review
- You got to be kidding me: Bad Ass, the movie about Epic Beard Man
- To-Goware, reusable cutlery
- What it’s like to understand advanced mathematics (Quora)
- The sad story of Supergirl
- Massage for dummies
- It passed? National Defense Authorization Act (2012)
- [Above] Kammok
