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An old Sesame Street song to start the day

A cat playing the piano - somehow intoxicating video

Invisible Bookshelf How To

tutorial on Instructables for making an invisible book shelf. (via Apartment Therapy)

Beer Goggles Explained

British scientists create a formula to explain beer goggles. 

An = number of units of alcohol consumed

S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0  clear air; 10 extremely smoky)

L = luminance of 'person of interest' (candelas per square metre; typically 1 pitch black; 150  as seen in normal room lighting)

Vo = Snellen visual acuity (6/6  normal; 6/12  just meets driving standard)

d = distance from 'person of interest' (metres; 0.5 to 3 metres)
(Via BuzzFeed)

Really nice essay about dressing and image

In this nice essay a 40ish professor tries to dress like a hipster and gets some very honest responses from his students. 

Green gift selection

Solio - solar powered charger for portable devices. Got this from idealbite's green holiday picks. This is a great thing.

nice quote about networks

"...do you find humans at all odd?"
"Not really", replied Ashley after a moment's reflection, accelerating the globe and moving round into the midday region of the planet to make a full orbit before returning home, "but your obsession with networks takes a bit of getting used to. Still, it's understandable."
"How do you mean?"
"Because networks are everywhere. the road and rail systems, the postal service, the Internet, your friendships, family, electricity, water - everything on the planet is composed of networks."
"But why understandable?"
"Because it is the way you are built - your bodies use networks to pass information; your veins and arteries are networks to nourish your bodies. Your mind is a complicated network of nerve impulses. It's little wonder that networks dominate the planet - you have modeled your existence after the construction of your own minds."" - Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear (pg. 295)

Very funny captioned cat photos.

Some morris dancing for B

My cat is a sphere

Fez not to be outdone by a rabbit.

TGIF Video

via B - Thank you!

RIP Harriet, a living link to Darwin has died

Harriet, a tortoise that Darwin brought back with him from his travels to the Galapagos has died at the age of 176 of a heart attack caused by the excitement at Australia's getting through to  the second round of the World Cup.

Two places in the Garment District to watch the World Cup

I've found two places near my office to watch games or parts of games as is more often the case.

Stich - A sports bar of sorts with so so food on 37th between 7th and 8th Avenue - closer to 8th. Lots of televisions and a projector and screen over the middle of the bar. I'm amazed by the number of people who are showing up and, also by the number of people who seem to live in the neighborhood at least I think they do since they are wearing shorts and flip flops.

Lazarro's - The odd pizza place located on the second floor of a small building on 38th and 7th - closer to 7th.  very good thin crust pizza which you order by half or whole pie. They have a small bar/counter with three stools where you can eat and stare at the small television broadcasting the games in Spanish - Gooooooal.

Any others?

Group of Death - explained

Thank you Wikipedia for explaining to me why Group C (Holland, Argentina, Ivory Coast, Serbia & Montenegro) was called the Group of Death. Here I was thinking it had to do with politics and history and not the fact that they are in a situation "where all the teams present in one group are considered to be roughly equal in skill, or one or more of the 'underdog' teams could prove to
be a 'banana skin' for the favourite (or favourites) to proceed. Thus, due to the small difference in quality between the members, any team could plausibly qualify and any could plausibly be eliminated. It is, in other words, the most unpredictable group of the tournament."

On the subject of death - There is a really great article, written by a myster writer,  in the July/August Atlantic about "The Monster of Florence" a series of unsolved murders in the hills of Florence spanning from 1964 to the present day.

Wasn't it filled with dentists?

I have to admit that I missed the entire conversion of The Williamsburg Savings Bank One Hanson Place into luxury condos. Now it seems it will have a Borders books. Of Course once Ratnerville gets built the views won't be quite the same. (via Curbed - who has detailed the whole thing)

Gooooaaaaal

A link to the full  schedule of World Cup Games for US audiences. (via NYT World Cup soccer blog as is the link to the clip of Zidane’s goal for Real Madrid in its 2-1 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 Champions League final. )

       

Neil Young - Living with War finding a working link

So I want to hear this album! I read the NY Times article and went to Neil Young's site where I found "tickers" with the song lyrics but no song. Frustrating! But thankfully the Huffington Post had a link that started the album right up. I'm a happy happy head-phoned man right now.

Of course this being a blog about media and the Internet, I can't help but say that while the "ticker" idea is nice it would have been very easy for them to create a way for people to take the code and cover the my space and the blogosphere  with the lyrics to "Impeach The President" or "I'm Living with War" or "America The Beautiful", as not everyone will take the time to look at the source code and figure out how to rip it out.

A List of the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes .

Links for Wed.

Updated account of Cindy Sheehan's arrest for wearing an anti-war t-shirt to the State of The Union Address.

Cindy Sheehan's account of what happened. No banner unfurled, just a shirt with a number.

PaidContent transcribes some rally interesting comments by the brilliant Esther Dyson on community, social media, and cell phones at the SIIA conference.

Satire is hard. I'm listening to WNYC and their State of the Union slam. Not so funny.

Article about the fact that auto publications have been made nearly obsolete by the Internet. Has music also made music publications obsolete? Possibly. So I guess the question is wheter these brands can leverage their names online. Can RollingStone compete with MySpace, independent music blogs, and livefm and Pandora, etc.?

Terrapass - Helping your car grow green

Clicked through an ad on TalkingPointsmemo and arrived at Terrapass. Very interesting concept - you figure out your car's CO2 emissons and buy a terra pass the monies from which are then put into projects that offset your emissions. Interesting.