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The Hoff and Hagar, together at last

The credit crisis, visualized. This is so amazingly good [via tiffehr but not reblogged because Vimeo pwns YouTube, luzrz!1!]

Mike D reminded me of this oldie but goodie

Climate friendly dining

It turns out that beef, especially grass-fed, is a major contributor to global warming and reducing our consumption of it would have a major impact on reducing carbon emissions.

[via thedailywhat]

Dubai is a place for the shallow and fickle. Tabloid celebrities and worn out sports stars are sponsored by swollen faced, botox injected, perma-tanned European property developers to encourage the type of people who are impressed by fame itself, rather than what originated it, to inhabit pastiche Mediterranean villas on fake islands. Its a grotesquely leveraged version of time-share where people are sold a life in the same way as being peddled a set of steak knives.

—David Galbraith hasn’t much good to say about Dubai [via kottke]

Here’s the thing though. This kid “camped out” for months for that ticket, for the opportunity to get painted up, to cheer on the might Blue Devils in their heated rivalry. He’ll cherish the memory of that one night, in mid January, when he took down, like, half a pint of Goldschläger and totally almost hooked up with that one girl. You remember - the one, from that class. At least he thinks she was a girl - it is Duke, after all.

The Kindle’s text-to-speech feature is illegal according to the Authors Guild

Just when you thought asinine applications of stupid copyright laws couldn’t get any dumber.

Geoff Barnes accidentally started a meme trying to make a joke about Buddhism. Kind of a koan in itself. I love these kinds of stories.

Cessna. Because only pussies are fiscally responsible.