My friend Steph made this really cool tote bag from an old bird seed sack.

Fantasy football not your thing? Skip over the usual alternates of Fantasy baseball, golf, hockey or fishing. How about joining a Fantasy Terrorist, Fantasy Congress, Fantasy Superhero, Fantasy Fashion, Fantasy Music, Fantasy Porn Star, Fantasy Moguls, Fantasy Anime, Fantasy Husband, Fantasy Video Game, Fantasy Celebrity, Fantasy Weather, or a Fantasy Hurricane League!

Here's another new sport for your amusement, Urban Sprinting. via buzzfeed

How can a game that requires one team to wear sombreros not be fun? Presenting Whiffle Hurling for your amusement.

Here's another study showing that a unprocessed diet is better for you than a low carb, or low fat diet or any other type diet out there. In fact, it may even prevent type 2 diabetes altogether. The more your body has to work to get the nutrients out of the food, the more calories are burned. If you let a machine in some factory do all of the work for you, your body will end up storing those calories as fat. And you don't get the side benefit of the flavonoids, trace vitamins, minerals and, of course, fiber in raw food.

This is a link to the wonderful 10 hour 1985 documentary that looks at why we are who are. The Day the Universe Changed should be required viewing for everyone. Haven't you ever wondered why certain things are important, that when you look at them closely, don't make a whole lot of sense? Watch and be truly enlightened. James Burke actually says "telecommute" in 1985! Amazing, simply amazing insight.

Cruisin' on my scraper bike!

Ever wanted to know where a ship is? Well now you can know instantly.

Tired of the same old send your kids to boring old summer camp in the middle of the woods somewhere? Would you like your offspring to learn the important skills on canvassing, polling, and organizing fundraisers? Then Camp Obama is for you! And if they do well enough, they too could even end up as a Whitehouse staffer and eventually in front of a Senate committee not remembering meetings with people that they see everyday!

It puts the lotion in the basket...the tribute song.

As some one that has done a fair amount of ceiling painting recently and has some more in the next month, I am excited that Glidden has come out with a new ceiling paint. Painting ceilings is so difficult because you can never tell that you have completely covered the ceiling with new paint. You can usually only tell after the paint is dry and by that time you have moved on to the walls or trim. But this new paint is pink when you first put it on. It will then dry white. So if your ceiling's 100% pink, you're done. This reminds me of another pink'ed product, DAP spackling compound.

16 Words. via William Gibson's Blog.

How pop stars are manufactured. Great documentary preview.

What is Circuit Bending? Interesting short about the hacking of new sounds through everyday common electronic circuitry.

From 1950-2000 the earth was in relative stability. Two camps controlled most of the power on the planet. But less as a result of the weakening of the Soviet Union and more result of the globalization of trade, the old ways are showing to be ineffective in the new world order. This paper is an interesting insight into this potential new future. And it certainly works with the ominous opinion of Peggy Noonan back in this 2005 article. What I find disconcerting is how quickly it is unraveling. I am fear, as our current leadership has shown, that governments are unable to understand the radical changes taking place. When we look at the changes being made to our liberties, it becomes quite apparent that the West has decided that Totalitarianism is the way to go. But as Dr. Albert Bartlett explained, "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." All of the systems are beginning to fail and I am afraid we are in for some very interesting times. Totalitarianism will fail just as it has done in the past. I just hope that humanity can survive another global conflict in one peace. Or will this be the breaking of the world?

Absolute proof that everyone in Hollywood is an idiot hack without an ounce of creativity. But alas, they do light up the sky.

Boobies!!!

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No more secrets.

Björk introduced this really amazing new electronic instrument called a reactable on SNL last week as well as at Coachella. Check out this video to see why it's really amazing. It reminds me of some sort of alien interface. via bOINGbOING

The real reason everyone hates IT support. While this ordinary and every day call was made to HP, this could have been almost any company that has phone support for their customers. I cannot say that our helpdesk is any better. via Digg