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Old 12-01-2010, 09:10 PM   #1
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I cannot argue with you there.
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Old 12-04-2010, 03:07 PM   #2
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Make your own snowflakes - virtually

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Old 12-05-2010, 10:28 PM   #3
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Time's list of the 25 most powerful women.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...iid=moreontime
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Old 12-06-2010, 07:39 AM   #4
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Scriv, that's pretty cute. I'm setting in aside for my G-daughter's next visit.
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Old 12-06-2010, 07:47 AM   #5
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Sky, that list deserves a thread of it's own.

(I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know Virginia Wolfe was a real person. The name, for me, was just a of play made into a movie )
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Old 12-06-2010, 11:31 AM   #6
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Sky, that list deserves a thread of it's own.

(I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know Virginia Wolfe was a real person. The name, for me, was just a of play made into a movie )
At least you can say that you were never afraid of her.
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Old 12-06-2010, 11:49 AM   #7
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Old 12-06-2010, 05:51 PM   #8
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That's ok Lamp. Madonna caught me by surprise.
I still am a little surprised.
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Old 12-08-2010, 07:46 AM   #9
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Virtual Fortune Cookie!

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Old 12-15-2010, 07:27 PM   #10
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Mapping every city, every block.

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Old 12-15-2010, 08:46 PM   #11
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amazing ^


Some Christmas lights around the world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...lights-festive
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Old 12-16-2010, 03:27 PM   #12
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This is a hoot!
Political cartoon slide show.
http://www.politico.com/wuerker/index-drawings.html
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:27 PM   #13
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You could end up pissing away hours, make that days, at this Google Labs site, comparing the appearance frequency of words and phrases used in books, from 1500 to date.

I warned you.
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:56 PM   #14
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You're right ! I just spent about 30 minutes there

It's interesting to see how some words have peaks and valleys,
and then try to imagine why.
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Old 12-22-2010, 08:37 AM   #15
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Vit-D

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/vitamin-d/

In fact, the whole damm website is pretty cool.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

this was good too... drugs:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne.../high-society/

And a great collection of graphs from his Flicker account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2554102...n/photostream/
Map it:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...ize-of-africa/
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