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Why Bicycle Shorts are always Black? - Funny Cool Stuff

Why Bicycle Shorts are always Black?

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Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World) « chartreuse (BETA)

I’m amused by Paris Hilton.
If Madonna was Marketing 1.0 then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0.
She’s a real life version of what value is and how it is created today.
Every web developer should pay attention to her.

Some interesting thoughts.

Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » “Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines

The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet.

Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords - CyberKnowledge Blog

Some passwords were terrible, and others were decent. A lot of them are simply “password”. An odd amount of them also contain the word “poop”.

I’m amazed that 20,000 people fell for the phishing scam. I hadn’t even though to go looking at the sites to see what kind of data they have collected. I wonder if phishers are just stupid, or if they leave it accessible so they can fetch the data easily later.

Unorthodox Taxidermy

Seuss embarked on an ingenious project in the early 1930s as he evolved from two-dimensional artworks to three-dimensional sculptures. What was most unusual for these mixed-media sculptures was the use of real animal parts including beaks, antlers and horns from deceased Forest Park Zoo animals where Seuss’s father was superintendent.

immense world: MATHEMATICS GENIUS
MATHEMATICS GENIUS

Pink Tentacle

The Iwase Bunko Library has in its possession a document entitled Hyouryuukishuu (”Tales of Castaways”), which was printed during the late Edo period (1603-1868).

The document recounts the stories of Japanese sailors who find themselves in foreign lands after becoming lost at sea, as well as castaway foreigners washed ashore on the beaches of Japan. To the Japanese people, who at the time had been living in a prolonged period of national isolation, these exotic tales must have seemed very fantastic.

Feline Mignon! :: Accordion Guy

It’s “The Other White Meat” taped to “The OTHER Other White Meat”.

Why British cellists may no longer fly to New York | csmonitor.com

For more than 30 years, Ralph Kirshbaum bought two airline tickets for his trips. The world-renowned American musician, who lives in England, bought one seat for himself, and the other for his strong, silent companion - a priceless 250-year-old Montagnana cello.