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A quick fyi, you can catch live streams of the Olympic Games via the web.
If you live in the US, you can watch at NBCOlympics.com,
If you live in the UK and Europe, you can get the stream at BBC TV Olympics
If you live on China’s Mainland, you can see the games at CCTVOlympics.com
And for Australian [...]
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A little summer randomness. It’s actually quite beautiful …
(And, no, I’m not sure if this is technically a tsunami.)
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1200 people live in Antarctica during the summer, and about 200 in winter. Assuming that you’re not among them, we’ve posted this time lapse video to show you what you’re missing:
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What can you say about this? A quick trip back to the 1950s… File this under Random …
(For foreign readers, all you need to know is that The Flintstones was a classic American cartoon.)
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When completed in Dubai, this “dynamic building” designed by David Fisher will be in constant motion, always changing its shape, and also generate its own electric energy. You can reserve your apartment today, or wait for similar buildings to get erected in Moscow and New York. The whole concept feels a bit Las Vegas-esque. But [...]
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Appearing at the TED Conference, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman sums up “what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.” As you may notice, some of Bittman’s comments echo the [...]
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Perhaps this is a little off topic, I know. But it’s fairly wild. And it’s the start of summer.
(For more good robot videos click here and here, and for more substantive musical podcasts, click here.)
via Matthew Yglesias
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Since we highlighted a free audio book of George Orwell’s 1984 earlier in the week, it seemed worth posting this bit from BoingBoing TV — a nice puppet deconstruction of Orwell’s classic. What a way to start the weekend.
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File this under “Random” …
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Just when you’ve thought that you’ve seen it all … Fake or real? I am guessing it’s the latter.
(PS This has nothing to do with things cultural.)
via The Daily Dish
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