I was just chatting with james, and he sent me links, which I will share with you here. Others are mine.

• We choose the moon. A recreation of the moon mission from back in the day. Presented by the JFK museum and LIBRARY.
• Vibram 5-fingered (toed?) shoes. Yeah, you'll look like a freak. But this is the way of the future, man. embrace it.
• Project Tuva. Bill Gates buys the video rights to Richard Feynman's physics lecture from back in the day. He calls them inspiring. They are free.
• Don't even reply. letters from an asshole. This guy responds to classified ads and acts like a dick. It's funny.
• Also funny is http://ncbirofl.blogspot.com/. Ridiculous research.
• I spend a lot of time listening to podcasts, since 2 hours of my day are in the car. I can highly recommend Spark from CBC, which I just started listening to. (and RadioLab, but I think I've talked about that already). You can google those, since I'm feeling lazy.
• I'm totally going to virgin fest if I can get tickets, since it promises to be the last show NIN plays in Canada for a long time, if ever.
• Yes, I know these aren't links anymore. I like saying 'from back in the day' when I can't be bothered to find an exact date.

They are supersizing their snacks.

Behold!

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As my Boss, A E-J, mentioned on twitter, one of the best parts of the unveiling is getting the unfiltered feedback from the community. There's a little feedback widget that floats on every page, and users can submit their feelings directly from that page. Without quoting directly, feedback tends to veer towards the 'angry' end of the spectrum when users find that their tried-and-true methods of doing things don't work anymore. They say stuff like 'awful', 'this sucks', and 'the feedback widget is all over the screen and is annoying'. My favourite is the person that told us that he ran the website through an HTML validator, and it showed all kinds of errors. Now that's my kind of user! Every feedback message means a lot to us, though.

Truth is, the website still needs a lot of work, and is essentially useless in IE6 (damn you, IE!!). We're working on it, and we promise to do some useability testing too.

Thomas Hickman drove through New Mexico, police say, until his Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo ran out of gas. Then the 55-year-old North Richland Hills man walked into a field, tied helium balloons to a gun, covered his mouth with duct tape, and shot himself in the back of the head, according to New Mexico State Police.

That determination is a far leap from what authorities first suspected when Mr. Hickman's body was discovered March 15 near Santa Rosa, N.M., about 100 miles east of Albuquerque. Authorities initially thought the Red Lobster executive had been kidnapped and slain...
Read the rest (Tiara M. Ellis - Dallas News, July 16, 2008)

• Travelling? Hypochondriac? Epidemiologist? Check out HealthMap.org to find out what you should lie in bed worrying about contracting.
• Most people, at one time or another, have said to themselves, "I want to be able to do 100 push-ups". An admirable goal. As someone that does 100 push-ups daily, I can attest to its attainability. But maybe you need a little help? Hundredpushups.com

"I hate dreaming. Because when you sleep, you wanna sleep. Dreaming is work, you know - there I am in a comfortable bed, the next thing you know I have to build a go-kart with my ex-landlord. I want a dream of me watching myself sleep."

Anyway, linkdump time:

• Stuff White People Like. You might think that this kind of racial stereotyping is wrong, etc. But, then, you see the truth in it, and it is funny. (See #81: Graduate School)
• Muxtape. = Internet Mixtape. Travelling fast and furious around the internet right now, so you may have heard about it already. Popular because it's a good idea.
• Remember Mad Magazine's Fold-Ins? Amazing that Al Jaffee, at 84, is still making them.
• Awful Plastic Surgery. and/or Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery. Like driving by a car crash. Disturbing, guilt-inducing, and hard to look away from. Also: makes you feel better about not looking like a celebrity. Guess what? They all do it.

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