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Mars Rover to be TURNED OFF - due to BUDGET CUTS at NASA!

To save money, NASA will switch off Mars Rover Spirit for the Winter. What a disgusting fate for so intrepid an explorer!! What if it won’t wake back up?? Please DIGG this - maybe we can pressure them to restore the $4 Million to JPL. After lasting 1490 days into a ‘90 day mission’ - […]

Zigtag - Social bookmarking, but sooo semantic.

A good find by Scoble on one of his many product highlights. The cool thing about this is that the tags are defined for you from a mined database. Similar to the approach facebook has taken to make a more accurate social graph, this provides more accurate tags and bookmarks - with a semantic […]

You thought you had a bad day?

Viral… enjoy.

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SXSWi 2008 Sketchnotes: Great Design Hurts

SXSWi 2008 Sketchnotes: Great Design Hurts

Originally uploaded by Mike Rohde

Great stuff here. Mike Rohdes of Rohdesign has put together a fantastic collection of Sketchnotes from SXSW this year. While far from that land of design and collaboration in my daily life - […]

New fly pattern demo…

I’ve completed work on the Doubleback Chironomid - video at YouTube.

Hook: Partridge Klinkhamer Extreme
Tail: Short emu barbules
Body: (underbody) Thread (midge colour - tan/black/grey/olive)
Overbody: Clear midge Liquid Lace
Back: Pearl mylar
Wingcase: Swiss-straw
Throax: Rabbit / simi-seal dubbing
Gill: Emu barbules. (optional)
(Link to video)

Do’s and Dont’s with Baby

Do’s and Dont’s with Baby

What more can I say.
This is the book they all talk about when it comes to raising a child.

The Charleston

Seems that the farther we get from history - the sooner it repeats itself.
I thought Timberlake had moves…

(YouTube video)

Eclipses?

Photo: Brad Grier

So - February 20th we took the opportunity to view the last total lunar eclipse visible in Canada until 2014.
What a sight… and what a site.
My driveway was littered with scopes, binoculars, video, people, tripods, and doughnuts - and while we shivered outside - the moon disappeared to a very 3 dimensional reddish […]

Freeze.

Flash mobbing is just one of those ‘What the fuck…’ activities we don’t see enough of in this part of the world (though I did participate in a GeoCaching flash mob event - good fun!)
Check out NYC Grand Central Station in this one…

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Truth and the internet?

And never the twain shall meet…
( from Cracked.com )