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Morphing history of female portraiture
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 31, 2007
David Pescovitz: This beautiful video morphs through 500 years of female portraits in western art. Link

A couple must-see YouTube vids.
First, a trailer for an upcoming movie about a very special date: 5-25-77
if you’re not geek enough to get it, it’s the day that Star Wars premiered. Looks awesome.
And for a few laughs, here’s a fantastic compilation of some of the worst movie scenes ever. I think I’ve seen [...]

I’ve always been proud of my linguistic abilities, but there are a couple here that I’m completely clueless about. How’d you do?

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla's Personal Weblog by Joey deVilla on May 28, 2007

According to the folks at [...]

From a pure geek perspective, I gotta try this stuff. Not that I really need an excuse to drink more pop, but hey, now I can take a little pride in it!

HOWTO make OpenCola
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 24, 2007
Cory Doctorow: Wiki-How has a page up today on making OpenCola, [...]

There’s something cool about reading a book and being able to identify the setting… of knowing exactly what the place they’re talking about looks like because you’ve been there. It puts you in the story on another level. And one of my favourite cities on the planet (one that I’ve spent a bit [...]

I noticed a couple interesting “How-To” type links today, one on starting a book club, something that Dreamgirl and I have been talking about (it’s tough coming back to the city you grew up in, suddenly all your friends that you assumed would be right there like old times are gone or married!). Figured [...]

Now that Susie’s OS is all clean, shiny, and new, it’s time to see what new and wonderful things I can do with her! As I said before, I’m being very picky about what goes in here now, but lists like the one below are good places to start.

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Mac [...]

I know that Microsoft finally started catching up to the stuff that Firefox was doing years ago, but they still suck at it. Give Firefox a try, not only is it a heck of a lot safer, but all the addons and extensions they have, not to mention the little tricks mentioned below, make [...]

This is sheer genius… the best explanation of how copyright laws work that I’ve ever seen. And the way this guy did it. Wow. You have to see this.

Fair(y) Use Tale: AMAZING video cuts up Disney to explain copyright
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 19, 2007
Cory Doctorow: [...]

With my dear iBook (Susie) getting a tad… mature… I’m looking for every little boost and optimization I can give her.

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Mac OS X tweaks
via Lifehacker on May 18, 2007

Mac OS X is a great operating system out of the box, but a few simple customizations can make it [...]