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Youtube HD: David Bowie – Blue Jean (Live 1987, Glass Spider Tour)

Also: China Girl, another Blue Jean (Live on The Tonight Show in 2003, A Reality Tour).

How to Avoid Gmail’s Sponsored Links/ads

“…include a sentence or two that mentions catastrophic events or tragedies [...] After extensive testing I’ve discovered you need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words in the rest of the email.”

[via:Waxy]

Handerpants: Underpants For Your Hands!

[via:humble.fool]

Disney developing “Epic Mickey”, a video game set in a dystopian steampunk Magic Kingdom

“The project [...] is being headed by former Deus Ex designer Warren Spector, whose studio was acquired by Disney in 2007″

[via:Waxy]

14-year-old Australian girl forced by mother to reveal being raped on radio show with lie detector

Scientists create transparent form of aluminum

[via:Charris]

Kirja-arvio: Timo Harakan “Luoton loppu”, “lennokas” pamfletti finanssikriisistä

Lisäys: Harakka ei halua Suomen Pankin johtajaksi.

Recension på svenska i HBL.

Dan Ariely on irrational decision making

An important video for those of you who worship the illusions of choice and free will. More about the speaker. #

EDIT: another Ariely talk on cheating and stealing #.

[via:ath]

A collection of intentionally confusing and rude e-mail replies to classified ads

Oikeusministeriö muuttamassa lakia, joka estää yhdistysten vuosikokouksiin osallistumisen netissä

“…oikeusministeri Tuija Brax (vihr) myöntää, että “kansalaistoiminnan perustuslakia”, yhdistyslakia, on pakko muuttaa nuorten yhteiskunnallisen aktiivisuuden nostamiseksi. [...] Piraattipuolueen puheenjohtajan Pasi Palmulehdon mielestä netin ja myös sähköisen äänestämisen salliminen yhdistysten vuosikokouksissa olisi pitänyt toteuttaa jo vuosikymmen sitten.”

Person responsible for most food-related illness and death in history appointed US food safety czar

Make believe Change.

[via:No Agenda]

Russian business lobby wants to ban Skype to protect “national security”, telecom industry

[via:Slashdot]

The importance of automatically updating an illustration of the Sun’s life-cycle every 10,000 years

Serious business.

[via:ath]

Associated Press to try stopping web users from quoting and linking to their articles for free

l bet they’ll try rendering all text as image files and blocking http referrers. Linking is theft!

[via:Waxy]

Richard Stallman on the Swedish Pirate Party’s potential negative impact on Free Software

See also: rms

[via:IDG.se]