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December 19, 2008

Shared Items – December 19, 2008

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last week:

"I Love You, Man" trailer: Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. I’m not sure that any sensible film fan needs more info than that, but watch the trailer nonetheless.
urban knitting: the world's most inoffensive graffiti: I may have to learn how to knit.
Dilbert Comic for December 13, 2008: Is Scott Adams following the Irish pork crisis?
Jason Lee Totally Looks Like Ryan Reynolds: I’ve been saying this for years. Pictorial evidence proves it better than any amount of my “You know the guy from Mallrats? No? Have you seen Van Wilder?”–style floundering.
Attenborough receives honorary degree at Trinity: Nice to know that while I’ve been slogging over getting some work finished by tonight’s deadline, just down the road people are getting to hang out with David Attenborough, Terry Pratchett, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, among others (I regret to admit I have no idea who the other two mentioned are).

December 12, 2008

Shared Items – December 12, 2008

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last week:

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes | Overthinking It: Now let’s all jump up and down punching the air…

December 4, 2008

Shared Items – December 4, 2008

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last week:

Real Advice Hurts | 43 Folders: “A subscription to a magazine about taekwondo will only be as useful as your decision to drag your fat ass into a dojo and start actually kicking people. Over and over. Otherwise, you’re just buying shiny paper every month.”
Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' gets second death sentence: Awesome headline. I guess the last execution didn’t stick?
AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book: Sync your Facebook contacts to your address book (OS X only). Great little app.
Does the broken windows theory hold online?: Jason Kotke ponders the application of the broken windows theory to websites like blogs and forums.
Oldest Ever Lolcat Found *gasp* (Iz From Teh 1905): I hope she now has her dinner.
For the first time in history…: “For the first time in history, a Panda volunteers to mate in captivity.”
Louis CK on Conan O'Brien: “You’re sitting in a chair… in the SKY!”
New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior | The Onion – America's Finest News Source: “With Stacker, the player interacts with an environment full of boxes—lightweight, uniformly brown boxes with rounded corners—and uses diligence and repetitive hard work to complete his mission.”
Cute Cat Picture with No Annoying Caption: The last one on the Internet?

November 27, 2008

Shared Items – November 27, 2008

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last day:

The Large Hadron Collider: Shedding Light on the Dark Universe by Prof. Rolf-Dieter Heuer: Sadly this lecture had no more tickets available by the time I asked for them, but the whole thing is now online.

November 26, 2008

Shared Items – November 26, 2008

A brief list of interesting things, culled from the items I shared in Google Reader in the last day:

YouTube – Chicken Head Tracking: Video demonstration of chickens’ awesome ability to keep their heads stationary while moving their bodies. I for one welcome our new chicken overlords.

November 25, 2008November 25, 2008

Shared Items – November 25, 2008

Apologies for the formatting of this post. I’ve installed a new plugin to automatically post my Google Reader shared items and it’s suffering some teething problems as I sort out the correct style to present everything.