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Ever the gim­micky city Port­land, OR—at the behest of our fear­less leader, Mayor Sam Adams—is going to try for the world record for the longest game of tele­phone in a move that Port­landi­ans hope will sway Google into giv­ing us the […]

The Story of Bottled Water

From the ani­ma­tors who brought us The Meatrix, Store Wars, and The Story of Stuff, comes a new chap­ter in The Story of Stuff saga: The Story of Bot­tled Water.

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If you haven’t already watched the 20-minute long “Story of Stuff” you should.  It’s pretty good, and the pay­off in […]

Video: This is easily the coolest thing I've seen an iPhone do this week.

Ummm… Yeah. I have no idea how this works. Which nat­u­rally makes me immensely curi­ous about the whole thing.

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via Video: This is eas­ily the coolest thing I’ve seen an iPhone do this week.

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MacUpdate Bundle worth it for Parallels 5

mupromoMacUp­date has a soft­ware bun­dle up with 10 apps for less than the retail price of a sin­gle app! A la the much-disputed MacHeist. The MU bun­dle may be worth it for the $20 break on my new fave vir­tu­al­iza­tion soft­ware : Parallels 5.

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Make: Online : Adult Fans of Lego - a Blocumentary

AFOL stands for Adult Fans of Lego accord­ing to Brick­wiki.  And now AFOLs have their own documentary—er,  blocumentary…

If you ever played with Lego, then you will enjoy this.

Heck! If you even just know what Lego is then you will still appre­ci­ate this 30 min­utes of nerdery.

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As an added Lego-bonus, check out Gizmodo’s exclu­sive tour of […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from March 11th through March 18th:

Same­point Social Con­ver­sa­tion Search Joel Brock | Social Men­tions –This one comes to me via my Google Alerts. It’s a social con­ver­sa­tion search engine, show­ing you not only where­abouts on the inter­net your name appears, but also […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Feb­ru­ary 16th through March 9th:

Neil Dawson’s Horizons

Neil Dawson’s Hori­zons « We got more bounce in Colum­bus. –Car­toons invade the third dimen­sion. This sculp­ture makes delight­ful games out of real­ity.
My City vs. […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 30th through February 2nd:

Send a FAX by E-mail –

Yes, thats right. SEND a FAX by EMAIL! No reg­is­tra­tion, no cost. Just fol­low the easy instruc­tions on the page. I love this, it’s like the blu-ray ver­sion of […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 7th through December 16th:

Dive Into HTML5

Great ref­er­ence mate­r­ial on HTML5. If you’re into that sort of thing.

WhoSam­pled — Dis­cover and Dis­cuss Music Sam­ples and Cover Songs –

This is actu­ally a really cool music-nerd web­site. Search songs, find the samples, […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Novem­ber 25th through December 6th:

Browse fonts | Typekit –

Type­kit brings together the @font-face CSS selec­tor and freely avail­able open-source fonts to allow the REAL web­de­sign to begin.

Type­kit serves up the font files to your web­site in a secure way, and ensures that you […]