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 [...]

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Over on PolySciFi Blog, Jody has a post about how John Paul II has jumped the shark. Well, I looked him up on Jump the Shark and this is how the voting is going so far:

First Show
1978

Last Show

Genre
Drama

Network
CTV

Slot Day
Sunday

Slot Time
10 am

Jumped The Shark when…
Votes

Never Jumped
31

Starts hanging out with [...]

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It’s too bad aliens don’t think this way.
Maybe we’ll have a Keroppi and Badz Maru next.

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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.

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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.
The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers’ is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on Tuesday to the ‘Free Mojtaba and Arash Day’.
Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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“Folder” by Plastic Operator lyrics
That’s why I copy and pasteInto your folder, folderWith your nameIt’d be more than I could takeIf I just told you, told youWhat I feel
That’s why I copy and pasteInto your folder, folderWith your nameIt’d be more than I could takeIf I just told you, told youWhat I feel
That’s why I [...]

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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 aboutSuper 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)

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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/

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