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1906 San Francisco traffic video, shot from the front of a streetcar
San Francisco in 1906. My brother sent a link to this historical footage, writing, "Things like this fascinate me." Me too. It's Market Street in San Francisco as filmed from the front of a streetcar a few days before...
February 6, 2010 4:07 pm
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Wild music, public art: Birds on electric guitar
40 wild birds play a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Here's the installation, which the BBC thinks is "very Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who started the conceptual art ball rolling nearly a hundred years ago. " YouTube - Céleste Boursier-Mougenot...
February 4, 2010 10:42 pm
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Another reason to dislike the Colts: Bad Super Bowl party food
Breaded and deep-fried pork tenderloin sandwich is a Hoosier specialty. For Patriots fans, it's a lackluster Super Bowl. The best we can do is root for the Saints. But while oyster po' boys aren't our idea of easy munchies,...
February 4, 2010 9:34 am
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'State of the Internet': Who's here, how fast
Key statistic: U.S. Internet speeds are really slow. The State of the Internet. from Focus Research. Data is presented with colorful, easy-to-digest graphics. Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they...
February 3, 2010 12:36 pm
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Live TV Web cam on a nesting Va. bald eagle, egg
Eagle Cam by WVEC.com documents bald eagles nesting at the Norfolk, Va. Botanical Garden. First egg laid Sunday, Jan. 31 It's quite amazing, TV-quality. When I first came on it, the lens was zoomed up close; it has since pulled...
February 2, 2010 5:02 pm
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Drawing a woman from the inside out
It's gotten 20 million pageviews and more than 15,000 comments since it was posted in 2005 to a Russian Flash drawing site. How to "draw a woman from the inside out" starts with a skeleton: You see -- and can...
February 1, 2010 2:40 pm
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Digital painting by an artist whose day job is game developer
Daniel Lieske, The Journey Begins, 2006. (enlarge). "The image was created in 2006 for the 19th CG Challenge 'The Journey Begins' on CGSociety.org and it eventually won the second prize in this competition," Lieske write on a page entirely...
January 31, 2010 8:42 am
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