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random links, thoughts, etc.

Phineas Gage – Unravelling the myth - Vol. 21, Part 9 ( September 2008)
Django 1.0 released!
no dreamz too big
Walter Benjamin's tips for writing
Some of the World’s Strangest Fences
Alec Baldwin’s disappointment, undimmed by success.
Long, excellent interview.
10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble
The Turnaround Artist - Chicago Magazine
For years, Laurence Booth, one of the city’s most widely acclaimed architects, championed low-scale buildings and decried “antihuman” high-rises. Now he has designed three towers and has a fourth under construction. Why? “We have to make some huge changes in this country,” he says.
The Old House and the Sea - NYTimes.com

Our future home.
With Oil Demand Down, Prices Are Leveling Off
Americans drove 12.2 billion fewer miles in June 2008 than in June 2007. BILLION.
Fruit-infused vodkas
Fellow Consumerist Tests Coffee Grounds Tips So You Don't Have To
Railroad Tattoos
Nose Shower Gel Dispenser
11 Good Reasons Why Coffee Grounds are Worth Keeping | Life Hackery
Writings on Architecture: Dead Mall Walking
Saturday, economy be damned, throngs of shoppers still surged like a teeming river along the sidewalks of North Michigan Avenue, Chicago’s premiere shopping boulevard. Flowing past Chicago Place, the vertical mall at 700 North, it’s unlikely they could imagine the strange world that awaits them on the other side of the large, self-powered revolving door that now churns impotently, stripped of its power to suck in passers-by.
A Skyscraper So Tall Builders Can't Use Walkie-Talkies
If you want to build a skyscraper 2,275 feet tall, you will face engineering challenges comparable just because its sheer size. One of them is communications. When the unbelievable Burj Dubai started…
Death Of Print: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web
Each tale ends the same way: A promising start, shuttered amid fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
timhunkin/illegal engineering
How Safecracking Works

pictures

photos of mine from flickr

Clouds
Studying
Gross
Yoshi is my friend
Zit Poppin
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Fjord bjorn
Blue Plexiglass
Cotton candy tongue
Terabyte
Me and Yoshi sharing a fry