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{ Monthly Archives } January 2009

Old Jews Telling Jokes

They just started, there are only a few so far. Let’s hope they keep it up! via boing boing Related posts No related posts.

2009 01 31 squidocto oy Comments (2)

Hungry cat

var sid=134;var vid=12636; OK, this is NSFW. But Crushinator’s bro-han* thinks this astounding. And it kind of is. === * Bro-han is the formal version of Bro.** ** credit: Matthew McConaughey Related posts No related posts.

2009 01 31 crushinator Guest
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Boston, Then and Now: Sheesh!

I’d always heard that a lot of Boston was landfill, but sheesh I didn’t realize how much. Here’s a big Brit map from 1775. And here’s the present-day google map. Barely recognizable. And here’s a little animation showing the progression of the landfill over the years. Related posts No related posts.

2009 01 30 squidocto History
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Random Childhood Recollection

My grandparents lived on this triangle of land in Stonington, Connecticut. We went there for holidays. I would leave the house and head South into their woods, exploring and playing. Being as it was close to Interstate 95, they were, on several occasions, offered large sums of money by oil companies for the lower half [...]

2009 01 30 squidocto History
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Drexel Girls Rifle Team of 1925

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2009 01 30 crushinator History
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Acoustic Ecology – Soundseeker

The proponents of Acoustic Ecology concern themselves with the modern soundscape; listening, discussing, recording. There’s a World organization, a US chapter, and of course an NYC chapter. The New Yorkers seem quite active, with meetings, a radio station, and, most interesting to the novice just checking them out, soundseeker: a googlemap with hot spots of [...]

2009 01 27 squidocto NYC
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Big Meteor Over Scandanavia

“On Jan. 17, 2009, at 1909 UT, a meteoroid of unknown size hit Earth’s atmosphere over Scandinavia and exploded with a thunderous, rumbling boom. The fireball was so bright it turned the nighttime sky blue” VIDEO!!!!!!! From spaceweather.com, via scienceblog. Related posts Revolver (3)

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2009 01 24 squidocto science Comments (0)

There’s No Animation Like Space-Based Animation

The National Weather Service kindly put the entire GOES satellite picture archive of the 2008 hurricane season into an animation. It is the prettiest thing you’ll ever see. Here’s a link to the intro page; the animation itself is over 100MB and it wouldn’t be polite to link to it directly (or are we beyond [...]

2009 01 22 squidocto Maps
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I am not a number

RIP Patrick McGoohan, aka Secret Agent/Danger Man/#6 A photo via Daniel of Portmerion, circa 1985, when we good little nerds made our pilgrimage. Related posts No related posts.

2009 01 15 crushinator art
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I Want to Be Evil

Eartha Kitt, RIP. Related posts No related posts.

2009 01 15 crushinator Sound
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Abandoned Wire Sets

An exploration of the abandoned sets for “The Wire.” Via Kottke. Related posts No related posts.

2009 01 06 crushinator art
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