Archive for September, 2005

Barack Obama’s Podcast

Posted in September 25th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in audio, podcast, politics

I’ve recently joined Odeo to help manage my podcasts and Barack Obama’s was a featured one the other day: Odeo: U.S. Senator Barack Obama Podcast.
While not the first U.S. Senator to have a podcast (that distinction belongs to Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, he is the only individual Senator with a podcast tagged on the site […]

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Bush responding to the bathroom break note

Posted in September 15th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in politics

This is pretty funny, but I hope people realize that he’s obviously responding, (note the different handwriting samples) to a request from one of his aides:
Yahoo! News Photo
I may not have voted for the guy, but I’m pretty sure he can take a bathroom break whenever he feels like it.

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Hey, video games are big over there.

Posted in September 10th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in Uncategorized

We interrupt the coverage of the Bush administration’s virtuoso display of incompetence in New Orleans to bring you…news of a draft deferment thanks to video games.

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r e g a l n o m i c s

Posted in September 8th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in art paintings, artists

For all your mylar/canvas abstract painting needs, visit the art site: r e g a l n o m i c s.

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Lost in Translation

Posted in September 8th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in language

Here’s a site that will automagically translate your English sentence(s) back and forth between 5 languages:Lost in Translation
The results can be quite entertaining:
Original English Text:I look at you all, see the love there that_s sleeping, while my guitar gently weeps.I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping, still my guitar gently weeps.
Translated […]

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StumbleUpon

Posted in September 6th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in collaborative filtering, stumbleupon

This is the best browswer plugin I’ve ever used. You choose the categories of sites you want to see, click the Stumble! button and voila, a new one appears. You can rate any site, whether you got there by stumbling or not and it uses collaborative filtering to suggest new sites. It’s definitely worth checking […]

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Italian Flash animation on how to drive

Posted in September 6th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in flash, video

“Dyseducational” drivingliikenne.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Very amusing.

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Long Island Medical Center

Posted in September 6th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in across from the medical center, gmaps, long island

long island medical center Originally uploaded by heyrog.
If I’m ever in New Hyde Park, NY and I need some medical care, I’m going to the Long Island Medical Center, which contains the Long Island Jewish Hospital. For more information please check out their website: Long Island […]

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Fonts from Famous > Various | dafont.com

Posted in September 6th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in fonts, typography

First came LogoBee, now we can have FontBee!.
Seriously though, there are some kickass fonts in there.

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Kanye West fallout: A flood of words

Posted in September 5th, 2005

by nanoAdmin in cornelwest, kanyewest, katrina, media

A flood of words:
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Perhaps the most striking evidence of this came on Sunday during CNN’s ‘Late Edition’ when host Wolf Blitzer quoted West when asking Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson whether the response to Hurricane Katrina has been racist. Thompson, a Democrat, said the government had failed and ’someone has to be held accountable.’ He cited […]

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