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• Check out what your carbon impact is on the environment, then do something to offset it
• More cyborg attack-critter technology revealed – I’m sure there’s a lot of good that can come out of this but the first thing I think of is using these as vehicles for IEDs, chemical attacks, biological weapons and nuclear devices. imagine steering a highly infectious animal into the city center, a bird, rat, etc. lovely.
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  What’s the most unethical thing you’ve ever done in business? What’s the most unethical thing that’s been done to you? Confess Yourself or Read some confessions over at ethicscrisis.com.

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  Three computer scientists from Israel have developed a software program called Beauty Function. The program scans a human face and then produces an image of “a slightly more beautiful you”.

• Fair Use bill introduced in Congress to amend the broken DMCA bill
  BoingBoing.net has more
• the face of Jesus. for real. it is.
• seriously, quit sending your crap computer equipment to developing countries…unless of course it’s a hard drive, with Linux…or maybe a flatscreen, or your iPod…everything else though, stop. seriously.
• want to win the office Oscar pool next year? use the Hollywood Stock Exchange
• Storysquared, kind of like a story wiki for fiction
• the open source cell phone…yay!

• The Professor Brothers (video – nsfw)
• Obama: “When Dick Cheney Says It’s A Good Thing, You Know That You’ve Probably Got Some Big Problems”
• (via overheardinnewyork.com)
  

  Guy: Can I get some cigars?
  Attendant: Yeah, are you over 18?
  Guy: Yeah.
  Attendant: That’s cool. I’m only 17. I’m just really high.

• Up To Five US Generals Ready To Resign If Bush Admin Orders Iran Attack
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  —–Email Message—–
  Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:54 PM
  Subject: re: te quiero, mateo.

  Te quiero, Julio.

• if you haven’t heard of Microsoft’s Photosynth, you will – it’s one of the most innovative things to come out of Microsoft in a while
• New Peter Bjorn & John Video – “Objects Of My Affection” Youtube
• 30 minutes of 80′s cartoon Openings
• a little talent on the green line
• all the songs in iPod commercials
• a lot of people blow of etiquette, in favor of being “real” – well, try putting it in economic terms and you may reconsider.
• wal-mart break dancing – why not? (YouTube)

• Inside and outside conversations:
  

  Yuppie kid: Mommy shaves her hoo-hoo!
  Yuppie dad: Okay, honey. Look, do you want your book?
  Yuppie kid: I came in the bathroom this morning and asked Mommy what she was doing and she said shaving her hoo-hoo. Mommy shaves her hoo-hoo!
  Yuppie dad: Dylan, remember when we discussed at-home conversations and outside conversations?
  Yuppie kid: Yes.
  Yuppie dad: Well, this is an at-home conversation.
  Yuppie kid: Okay, daddy. [Sings to herself quietly] Mommmyyy shaves her hoo-hooo…
  Black lady: See, home conversating, outside conversating — that’s bullshit. My kid says shit like that, I smack him. He won’t say shit like that again.
  Yuppie dad: Okay, thank you, but I think our method works just fine.
  Yuppie kid: Lady, do you shave your hoo-hoo?
  Black lady: Oh, yeah, that shit is workin’ just fine. She’s all kinds of polite.
  Yuppie dad: Okay, Dylan, this is our stop.

• My Morning Jacket at the prom
• Amazon-ify your web site, I’d do it if I could figure out how
• From Treehugger – Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-Hours a Year…ok, looks ugly, here’s the next best thing.
• Park your car with a little web help
• don’t have enough porn music? a little more here
• Stabbing at Leia’s 22nd Birthday Party (video)
• Chris Jordan photography, amazing images

• for idiots. priceless
• topless women of NYC (not safe for work)

• SXSW 2007 Showcasing Band MP3s torrent
• help the camel book mobile bring books to nomads in Kenya
• 3DLiveStats
• Marketocracy
  

  U.S. investors have $4 trillion wrapped up in equity mutual funds, but our decisions about which funds to invest in are almost always made on the fund’s past performance, or vague guesstimate about how it will do in the future — which is a pretty flawed strategy. In fact, individual fund managers are the ones making the investments, driving the fund’s performance, yet there’s almost no way to track their track records. If a stellar manager leaves a fund, we don’t usually find out about it. A fund’s performance is made of decisions made by several professionals, typically one manager and two analysts. These professional can come and go, and a team can unfairly carry the stigma of bad decisions made by a team before them, or enjoy the reputation of a great team preceding them. Moreover, if the fund is mandated (by its prospectus) to invest in real estate, it’ll invest in real estate even if it sucks at the time…That’s where Marketocracy comes in.

• what a great freaking idea! a shared contact manager
• This sounds more like a disorder than a political movement…common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:
  - Fear and aggression
  - Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
  - Uncertainty avoidance
  - Need for cognitive closure
  - Terror management
• 419 scammers get scammed…har har har(YouTube)
• gorilla laser(Video)

• it’s about time, social networks open up
• RFID so small you can breath it in, choke on it, die. yay.
• When Wikis Inform Legislation
• How much would Michael cost Dunder-Mifflin if he was a real person, screwing up really big, in real time
• still getting telemarketer calls? even though you’re on the “Do Not Call” list? Read this
• making money from garbage

• I’ve got a couple of extra tickets for the DC show on March 12th. Interested?