Reposted from Boingboing, just cuz:

Wondering about Tuva? Here’s the Google Maps perspective, centered on the Tuvan capital city of Kyzyl.

Anyone know if that singing is linguistic, or just musical? In either case: Woah!

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(Shoutout to J. Stone for this one)

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(Blame Manous for this sage advice)

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http://www.getfirefox.com

In honor of the Firefox 3 release today, this site will unerringly crash Internet Explorer. Try it and see!

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Good stuff:

 –f8 is generally the aperture that provides the sharpest point of focus on lenses. That doesn’t mean you should always shoot at f8.
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–Rules were meant to be broken, yes, but it feels much better if you know what the rules were in the first place. Picasso started as a realist. Once he had that down he could paint whatever he wanted. Be like Picasso. He got laid a lot.
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–Never be ashamed to take a picture. It’s not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. You’re not soul-snatching, you’re soul-preserving. Also, is there a picture you really really want to take of someone? Just ask nicely and confidently and 90% of the time they’ll say yes.

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Deadly Sins-themed wine glasses!  Brilliant! Compelling! Capacious! In some cases, downright impractical! Pictured: Lust. Link

via boingboing

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More excellent photos here

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I think it is for exactly this sort of thing that we created the Smart Art category (if by “think” I mean “blindly speculate” and by “we” I mean “Ennui”):

dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?

Great idea! Be sure to drop them a postcard, nextime you’re engaged in something general.

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(from Qnonymous)

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Check out the latest in a long line of flash games you just can’t stop playing! In this one, you draw shapes in an old-school mspaint-style interface, and you use the shapes which acquire gravity and momentum, and use them to collect flags. Screw you, Productivity! Link

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A CATHOLIC priest who floated away under hundreds of helium balloons in a bid to raise money for his parish is missing off Brazil.

See video here of him taking off here.

Only pieces of the party balloons have been found by searchers looking for Reverend Adelir Antonio de Carli off the coast of Santa Catarina state, the Associated Press reported.

Mr de Carli, 41, lifted off from the port city of Paranagua yesterday afternoon wearing a helmet, thermal suit and a parachute.

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(via Arbroath)

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“The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page.”

– Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, notorious thought-provoker

Huh. He says “reflected”, but I wonder to what extent it was caused by the printed page?

(from the @marshallmcluhan twitterstream)

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For a generation raised on cardboard box forts, what could be more awesome than modular load-bearing self-assembled cardboard architectural units? These suckers (single unit pictured left), like big cardboard pixels, snap together to make furniture, partitions, shrines, gazebos, sweatlodges, arsenals, or whatever your imagination can concieve of. Perfect for the urban loft-dweller unwilling to commit to a floorplan, or to any former lego enthusiast who always wanted to take their snap-together legerdemain to the next level. Link

(via TechCrunch)

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because gapingvoid is the XKCD of drawing cartoons on the back of business cards.

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Nice! The lost intersection of art and technology. It looks like it should broadcast locator beacons in subspace or something, or maybe project miniature holograms within itself, or magnetically suspend a quantum singularity. I want one of these when someone starts selling them. Link

(via Boingboing, despite many vows to the contrary)

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Writtenonthecity.com is a collection of graffiti photos from cities around the world, complied by the mad geniuses at Tiny Gigantic. Think of it as a visual companion to such sites as Overheard in Athens. The photo to the left was taken in our overbearing sister-city of Atlanta.

To the two or three people who still read this blog, I say: you now have a mission to submit pictures of Athens graffiti to this site. This town has some of the most intelligent/pretentious graffiti devised anywhere, and far be it for us to stand lower than Atlanta in an international graffiti photo compilation.

That being said, Link!

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(image stolen from here, and thanks to Tiny Gigantic for the link)

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Today is the 4th Anniversary of the first post on Bored Athenians. Here’s to four years of shared malaise!

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…and also has a blog.

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Like drama masks for the modern era.

Photo apparently taken at NAFTA protest, discussed here.

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“…We live well back from the windshield of the present moment as it’s encountering the wind of the future.”

- William Gibson

from fascinating interview here.

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Here today, gone tomorrow tattoos. Brilliant! The perfect way to say, “I’ll love you as long as this lasts.”

New Tattoo Ink Makes Skin Art Removable

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