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Thursday, 29 March 2012
quote [ "I always felt like Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball. He is the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be." ]
[music] [by unga-bunga@1:54pmGMT] [+10 Informative] [10 comments] |
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011
quote [ Works submitted to Squawk Back, whether officially or unofficially copyrighted, will remain the full intellectual property of their authors. We are far less interested in exploiting emergent literary voices than providing them with a slightly louder box with which to squawk. ]
Site dedicated to publishing amateur short stories (that's amateur writers, not, ahem, actors.)
[literature] [by unga-bunga@2:07pmGMT] [+5 Interesting] [238 comments] Some are good, most are not. Still managed to waste a fair amount of time here. May you have the same fortune! |
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Saturday, 24 February 2007
quote [ A video blog takes over a young man's life. A continuing interactive web series where subscribers' comments can affect the story.
Episode One: I feels someone watching. ] I normally don't go for vlogs, but this one is quirky, thoroughly addictive and built around an interesting idea.
This should appeal to the voyeurs on SE, even if there is no bewbs. Links to all available episodes in the extended. [by unga-bunga@9:28amGMT] [+7 Interesting] [5 comments] |
quote [ No Washington contractor pursues government money with more ingenuity and perseverance than SAIC. No contractor seems to exploit conflicts of interest in Washington with more zeal. And no contractor cloaks its operations in greater secrecy. ]
It's a long (8 page) article, so get yourself a cup of coffee and get comfortable.
[politics] [by unga-bunga@8:16amGMT] [+7 Interesting] [15 comments] |
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Saturday, 17 February 2007
quote [ The MP3 DJ mixes available for free download on this page are not located on our servers so we are unable to ensure there speed or availability. ]
Many different types of dance mixes: Trance; dirty house; hard techno; progressive; hard trance; acid; NRG; schrance (?!?); breakcore; hardcore; etc.
More in extendito. [music] [by unga-bunga@1:21pmGMT] [+4 Good] [24 comments] |
quote [ Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species. ]
Holy crap!
[by unga-bunga@11:03amGMT] [+10 Good] [29 comments] Blatantly ripped from luluchan's largest drainhole. (Man that was fun to type!) Just wanted to make sure it wasn't missed. |
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Saturday, 20 January 2007
quote [ Halifax-born singer-songwriter Denny Doherty, who achieved his greatest fame as a member of the Mamas and the Papas folk group in the 1960s, has died. ]
Doherty died on January 19, 2007 at his home in Mississauga, Ontario from an abdominal aneurysm.
I guess he "Got That Feelin'" [music] [by unga-bunga@4:09amGMT] [+6 Informative] [4 comments] |
quote [ Kona has embarked upon what could be the most important bike the company ever developed. Konabiketown.com tracks the design, development, and delivery of Kona 's AfricaBike to African home health care workers. The bikes will aid home health care workers in the delivery of ARV drugs to HIV/AIDS patients in a variety of African countries. ]
Buy a bike for a good cause? That sounds like a win/win situation to me!
You can also "adopt" a bike, but riding your own is more fun. More in extended. [by unga-bunga@3:50amGMT] [+7 Good] [9 comments] |
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Sunday, 7 January 2007
quote [ an international team of scientists has assembled a three-dimensional map that offers a first look at the web-like large-scale distribution of dark matter in the Universe. ]
For those of you who, like me, are into this sort of thing.
[sci&tech] [by unga-bunga@5:40amGMT] [+10 Interesting] [27 comments] |
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So apparently Doc is still alive, thanks to Hugh E. for pointing that out.