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This is pretty cool – The Internet Sacred Text Archive

– archives of religious, spiritual, and mythical texts.

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The Washington Post had a contest; submit instructions for anything, written in the style of a famous person.

The winning entry:

The Hokey Pokey (as written by W. Shakespeare).

O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke — banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, ’tis what it’s all about.

— by William Shakespeare (Jeff Brechlin, Potomac
Falls)

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They build things like this.

My projects tend to look more like this.

…This is what happens.

Ah, it was about time to update my old wallpaper anyway.

Apparently, ‘bú’ if it’s Hungarian.

Animal sounds by language

(I think I’m gonna need a category just for cow items.)

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Jesse Ventura has a rival.

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Honda’s amazing Accord ad apparently took 606 takes.

I don’t care. I’m still impressed.

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If legit, this is really cool! Oil and gas from just about anything carbon-based.

(sorry, lost the attribution)

Compaq finally lets you know where to find that darn key!

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Cute! A Flash animation of Tom Lehrer’s
Elements song.

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Sony has trademarked the term Shock and Awe

Bizarre! What next, “Bud Light ™ proudly presents the Fox ™ -Halliburton ™ America’s War on North Korea! Now with 10% more cluster bombs!”

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EMI is selling copy-protected ‘CD’s that dont’ play in some CD players, like the XBox, since the ‘CD’s don’t comply with the standard for audio CDs developed by Philips and Sony.

Be careful when buying CDs, if they’re copy-protected, they may not play on all CD players.