The New York Times > New York Region > A Last Look at ‘The Gates’ Before They All Come Down: “Out of a side-door compartment, she fished a saffron-colored Band-Aid tin, and from the tin snatched a cigarette. An assistant came to the window with a report: Someone had cut hearts out of the fabric in four gates. It’s always something; a few minutes earlier she pointed out a brand new gate, a replacement for the one that was hit by a taxicab. Was there much vandalism?

‘Vandalism?’ she repeated. ‘Cutting out hearts? It annoys us, but I can’t call that vandalism.’”

It’s too bad aliens don’t think this way.

Maybe we’ll have a Keroppi and Badz Maru next.

Wow, this is amazing. I hope neither of them falls off the side. I could never play up that high without a huge safety net.

World’s Top Tennis Stars Practice at Burj Al Arab, Dubai

Found via boing boing.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Global blogger action day called: “The global web log community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.

‘I hope this day will focus people,’ Curt Hopkins, director of the Committee, told the BBC News website.”

There, I spent my 10 seconds to help change the worl. heh.

Matt posted over on PolySciFi Blog about Amazon.com Yellow Pages

This is an awesome service. It still has bugs, but a lot of potential. Case in point. I went to this club the other night in NYC: Amazon.com: Yellow Pages: Flow It has no signage whatsover. But this site shows you that it’s on the corner next to the starbucks. We had a fun time finding that at night, let me tell you. Of course, ideally the car would’ve turned the corner, but like I said it’s a little buggy. For those keeping score at home, this is where I had brunch on Sunday: Amazon.com: Yellow Pages: Life Cafe

I also noticed that “Some data provided by Acxiom, © 2005″. Acxiom is the largest datamining company in the world.
You can find out more here: frontline: the persuaders: introduction | PBS

I can’t wait til they digitally photograph Outer Mongolian Starbucks…

I read this the other day: O’Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr and I just had to join. If you’re into digital photography at all, I highly recommend it. One of the really sweet things are the Folksonomic tags. You can browse the 150 most popular tags here or my tags here. e.g. Flickr: Photos tagged with boccioni (You’re the only person who has used “boccioni” as a tag.)

Also, check out the groups where users pools their photos. A thematic one called squared circle is pretty neat and makes for a great slideshow.

NintendoRecords.com

My faves are: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!
Can you drop Don Flamenco in less than 14.97 seconds? (that’s the in game clock, btw)

or how about
Super Mario Bros. in under 5 minutes. And if you say the warp zones are cheating, try to beat every level in 18:58 or less.

Here’s Super Mario Bros. 2 (J)

This is really sweet. Kinda like a mix of 70′s funk, that Manzarek organ on “Riders on the Storm” and Richard Strauss. The link may be down soon, so if you need a fair use snippet, let me know. The Number One Songs In Heaven: Boogie Friday

Here’s Deodato’s site: http://www.eumirdeodato.com/