June 30, 2009
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June 29, 2009
Sir Cliff Richard, who famously led a sing-along in the rain with the Centre Court crowd in 1996, was on court but was not asked to provide a repeat performance - possibly another reason why the roof is a welcome and valuable addition to the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament.

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June 26, 2009
Critics say the bill, a key election pledge of President Barack Obama, will cost jobs and raise prices.

This week in “Geez, what dicks!”: Critics are dicks.

BBC NEWS

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The blue and the green spirals are actually the same colour (I’ve measured them, because even a scaled down image looks the same - RGB of 0,255,150). Explanation here.
(via Phronk via Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine)

The blue and the green spirals are actually the same colour (I’ve measured them, because even a scaled down image looks the same - RGB of 0,255,150). Explanation here.

(via Phronk via Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine)

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June 24, 2009
The narrowest toilet in the world? And it’s not on the ISS.
Seriously. I couldn’t go there.
The Thinnest Buildings In the World Come with Toilets to Match

The narrowest toilet in the world? And it’s not on the ISS.

Seriously. I couldn’t go there.

The Thinnest Buildings In the World Come with Toilets to Match

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Oh, this is something special. Not only great design, not merely also practical, and not just additionally also very very clever with the multiplug concept later in the video, but also a wonderfully endearing foreign accent with very slight grammatical problems - anyone who grew up with The Muppets and Björk will appreciate that.

Buy shares in this right now.

(via Gizmodo)

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In 1982, Bill Gates and Andre The Giant were sparring partners. Steve Jobs was just a small man auditioning for a live-action Where’s Wally/Waldo adventure show…
The Life of Steve Jobs - So Far

In 1982, Bill Gates and Andre The Giant were sparring partners. Steve Jobs was just a small man auditioning for a live-action Where’s Wally/Waldo adventure show…

The Life of Steve Jobs - So Far

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June 20, 2009

Interesting. I apologise that it’s blatantly a commercial for something, but when it’s this fun and frankly unobtrusive, I don’t care too much (if you just see a green block, it’s still loading - it can take a while - and there’s music at the bottom right of the moving pictures).

And their logo is basically the same as the Design Within Reach one. Blatantly, basically the same.

Click here for a bigger version.

(ThxB2 Kathleen)

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Hodgman questions the presidents credentials as an earthling and ribs him on bridging the gap between Jocks and Nerds.

Full 14 minute speech here.

Thanks be to Phronk & Hodgman.

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The Amazing Treat Machine (via AmazingTreatMachine via Lloyd)

[Apologies that this is strictly dog related, but this is as much a test for the facebook Tumblr app setting to see if it stops insisting you install the app in your facebook account as anything… Oh, sod it, ok, let’s make some commentary about this video…]

Ah-hem-hem… This is an interesting product for a couple of reasons, but at least one of them is outside the realm of dog ownership and that is the open-source nature of the thing. Despite advertising it through video and the website (amazingtreatmachine.com, which I’ve just realised is ATM, which is brilliantly appropriate for this - dog puts in card… er… tennis ball, gets money… er… treats out), the site also includes instructions for making this at home and recognises the temporary, destructible and so recyclable nature of the thing.

I like this. Buy it if you want to support the developer, but hey, it’s shareware…

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I know this is old. I’m sure you all know about it. But it’s new to me, and this is my website and this just made my day…
Stupidiotic DVD Rewinder

I know this is old. I’m sure you all know about it. But it’s new to me, and this is my website and this just made my day…

Stupidiotic DVD Rewinder

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Thanks be to Giles.

Read more about this (with a curiously small video embed) here.

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June 19, 2009
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