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Eat your vegetables …
… or your vegetables eat you. Link
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Our Blogiversary
It’s our birthday. Our first one. We didn’t say anything earlier, because, well, we didn’t want to make you feel like you had to find a cute e-greeting card to send us. As of today, we’ve been blogging a whole year. Go, us! (Also, thanks to Chip’s tendency toward OCD, we’ve had a post every…
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She Branded Me with Science
For something a little more original than “Mom,” check out this collection of science-related tattoos. (There’s even a squid!) Link (via Cynical-C)
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Quick! To Woot!
This most awesome “Squidbucket” shirt is only available for this price today! shirt.woot Many thanks to Myst for turning us on to this lovely! Fortunately, for those who are don’t obsessively check this blog for new content every 15 minutes,* if you miss today’s squid you can always pick it up at a slightly higher…
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Space Hotel to Open in 2012
A hotel called “Galactic Suites” is slated to open as early as 2012. Travelers will use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod-room walls and will be able to see the sun rise 15 times a day. All for a mere $4 million. Link SF Signal also lists 6 Secrets of the Space Hotel: If…
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Too Bad They’re Mildly Evil
The Google guys definitely have a sense of humor. Check out these Google Easter Eggs: 11 Google Search Results Pages You’ve Never Seen Before
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Interesting Body Mod
Thomas Martel is a “big guy,” and he has trouble using the increasingly-small user interfaces on devices like his new iPhone. So he did what any complete nutjob reasonable person would do and had surgery to make his thumbs thinner. The procedure involved shaving down his thumb bones, carefully altering the muscles, and modifying the…
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Well, It’s Supremely Logical
SiteLogic founder Matt Bailey likes to use Star Trek to teach analytics. Besides not beaming down, another factor that showed to increase the survival rate of the red-shirts was the nature of the relationship between the alien life and captain Kirk. When Captain Kirk meets an alien woman and “makes contact” the survival rate of…
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Sulu and the Hugos
“Nippon 2007 is pleased to announce the participation of noted actor George Takei at the 65th World Science Fiction Convention. Mr. Takei will be attending the Worldcon to unveil and present the newest fan production of Star Trek New Voyages: World Enough and Time. He will be signing autographs both before and after the screening…
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Cory Doctorow Yard Sale Tomorrow
Tomorrow (Saturday) I’m throwing a yard sale to get rid of all my beloved junque — stuff I can’t possibly lug home to my teensy London flat. If you’re in the LA area, here’s more info and the address.