June 8, 2013 Merry, Mary and Marry, one of the 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other. Or at least, certain words. May 22, 2013 We all love the Singing Spaceman but didja know Andrew Kolb recently made 'Space Oddity' into a childrens' picture book? May 12, 2013 How To Be German: Part 1 and 2 New 'Electric Sheep' by Patrick Farley (wiki) -- Steve and Steve do WWIII, part one (but note, we did not "Dude" back in 1973. '83, maybe) Dash-cam captures 747's Last Seconds Before Bagram Crash in Afghanistan two weeks ago -- NPR article with embedded video and follow-ups More recent videos, Youtube and Vimeo: Stoopidtall bicycle ride, and you are there via helmet-cam; Alan Watts, What if money didn't matter? Unrelated, we made Coca-Cola transparent and colorless with a filter; and finallly, stop-motion construction, Segmented Walnut and Maple Bowl April 15, 2013 The Fundamental Units -- extreme close-ups of some '1' coins 2004 American City Flags Survey, 150 rated best-to-worst by the North American Vexillological Association. More fun at the Bad Flags blog April 11, 2013 I've always wondered about this, if a very strong person might shake an egg vigorously enough to scramble it in-the-shell. Seems it's easy, with a sleeve and the right technique. March 17, 2013 Photos of children from around the world with their most prized possessions More photos of the Ukraine Love Tunnel Recap: as the Smithsonian's series nears completion, here's their index to The Jetsons at 50 Using now my fifth computer, a Thinkpad T60 replacing the almost-identical T41 which, when it chooses to boot up, still works fine, but only for a few minutes. Really good to have a new (well, newly refurbished) system running the ol' reliable XP with very similar look and feel of the early days on the Win95 Monorail. February 22, 2013 London -- the view from the Shard, incredible detail The Buffalo Beast's 50 Most Loathsome Americans. 'You' are way down this year, at #32 January 27, 2013 Amazing off-the-grid houses The Guardian reports on how, up unitil now, Russian soldiers have worn portyanki foot-wraps instead of socks Ryan Estrada explains, manga-style -- Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes Why Everyone Films at Potemkin places like Wu's in "Men In Black 3" instead of 'real' Chinese restaurants (in NYC) Janaury 9, 2013 RIP Huell Howser, lovable doofus, California voice. All his shows are archived by Chapman University so, finally, watching his Ridge Route tour which I could never find at the library. You can read my own notes of driving that road back in the archives, scroll down to October 25 2004. Photo here was somewhere along the way.
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Last films seen: (in-flight or at-home videos don't count!)	"The Great Gatsby" "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" "Kokuriko-zaka Kara" (Up On {Coquelicot} Puppy Hill)
Current reading:	What I Saw  by Joseph Roth and The Virgin And The Gypsy  by D.H. Lawrence
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