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Apple’s newest iPod ad features Wynton Marsalis, fresh colors, and is in my opinion, hands down, the coolest one to date.

Wednesday 11 Jan, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Art/Design + Film/TV + Music
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Ever wonder what would happen if a power transformer failed and exploded?

What If I told you it’s actually home video of me going Super Saiyan?

Wednesday 11 Jan, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Physics + Technology
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Andy Serkis, the voice actor and CGI model for Gollum/Smeagol and King Kong, was on Conan recently and acts out a fight between the two.

Wednesday 11 Jan, 2006 at 3:32 am
Film/TV + Humor
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I promised ninjas a year ago and by god I will deliver.

Enter the hilarious series and video podcast Ask A Ninja, from Beatbox Giant Productions.

Wednesday 11 Jan, 2006 at 2:54 am
Humor
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An Ikea TV spot by Spike Jonze that won ad of the year at the International Cannes Lions Advertising Festival in 2003. A little older, but new to me.

Sunday 8 Jan, 2006 at 11:30 am
Film/TV + Humor
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Newsvine is a new social news aggregator which combines live Associated Press content and user submitted articles. It’s in a similar vein as CommonTimes [previously] and digg, with all kinds of extra functionality like the ability to view your news submissions as a column, and earn revenue from ads on your column page (ads will be added once Newsvine goes public).

Saturday 7 Jan, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Internet + Technology
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“Fueled by a surging economy (…), China will soon be home to the world’s largest airport, the world’s first fully sustainable city, and the world’s highest outdoor observation deck, to name just a few of its innovative architectural feats.”

Saturday 7 Jan, 2006 at 3:40 am
Architecture + Environment + Technology + World
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“I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.”

Friday 6 Jan, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Biology + Humor + Science
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Plug in some headphones and listen to the following recording. You’ll hear a match being lit, then a matchbox shaken and moved around you — behind and in front, then above and below. I’ve heard clever effects like this before, but nothing so realistic, and nothing that captured vertical space with just left and right channels. You can almost see the sound moving about — but only with headphones — speakers will simulate planar movement but not the full 360 degrees.

Wednesday 4 Jan, 2006 at 4:34 am
Music + Physics + Sound + Technology
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Every year since 1998, the Edge Foundation has published one question, and the answers to this question from esteemed scientists and thinkers from around the world. This year’s question is “What is your dangerous idea?”, with 117 original essays in response.

Tuesday 3 Jan, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Biology + Philosophy + Politics + Science + Technology + World
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