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A-Ha’s video, remixed so that the lyrics just describe the action in very literal, concrete terms.
Science Buzz Get your whole DNA make-up mapped next year for the low, low price of $5,000. Doesn’t it seem like we’re living in the future sometimes?
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_come...
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s amazing series of aerial photographs — which reframe your perspective while also being totally beautiful — is coming to the U.S. in 2009.
In these troubled times, what is better than gold? Alcohol.
An Op-Chart from the New York Times breaking down the height/weight comparisons of the last 100 years of presidential contenders.
Politics Buzz John McCain’s role in the Keating Five corruption scandal has finally entered the ‘08 election. Obama’s campaign has put together a web site and a documentary focusing on McCain’s role in the scandal, which was a part of the Savings and Loan Crisis of the ’80s and early ’90s in which Savings and Loan institutions lost billions of dollars after making risky investments and had to be bailed out by taxpayers — sounds eerily familiar, right?
A video of the images.
Science Buzz XDRTB is an extremely drug-resistant form of TB, for which there is no reliable cure, and it’s spreading. The site showcases the work of photographer James Nachtwey, who’s been traveling around the world documenting the rise of XDRTB. Scary fact: one in three people in the world carry the dormant TB germ.
I finally won, using Palin. Her blade-to-the-crotch technique is unparalleled.
http://www.atom.com/spotlights/kung_fu_election/
It’s Team McCain vs. Team Obama in a Mortal Kombat-style Flash game. Beware Palin’s deadly hockey stick/shotgun weapon!
A clear sample of the decline of public discourse.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/apple-s-steve-jobs-rushed-...
An article on CNN's iReport claims that Jobs was rushed to the hospital earlier this morning with a massive coronary. This is almost as embarrassing as CBS's drunk womens post — yay citizen journalism!
Science Buzz We’d like to inaugurate a new holiday in memory of Rupert the deer, who passed away yesterday. Rupert, we hardly knew ye.
If candidates were operating systems.
Culture Buzz Though it’s still listed as “100 Skills Every Man Should Know,” these are universal skills for life. Take the quiz first if you already think you’ve got it, Mr. or Mrs. Know-It-All.
Sports Buzz Via eBay, you can have your very own, 1-of-a-kind Kimbo Slice action figure. How does somebody make a 1-off action figure?
The AFP photoservice ran an image taken from Tina Fey’s SNL performance last weekend as an actual picture of Governor Palin.
Celebrity Buzz The actor who plays Don Draper on Mad Men is cursed by good looks and talent, and is also funny. How sad for him. Just as he’s becoming one of this era’s defining sexual/social icons, we also learn that he can make you laugh — he’s pals with a lot of the L.A. comedy scene and he’s hosting SNL in a few weeks. Life can be so cruel sometimes, right?
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