Category — Cool Stuff

Back to the playground – The Boston Globe:
American children, overprotected and overprogrammed, have ever less time and space for play. But an eclectic collection of advocates is fighting back, designing bold new playgrounds that are manifestoes on the importance of fun.

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let them go play!

Global Incident Map Displaying Terrorist Acts, Suspicious Activity, and General Terrorism News:

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another interesting mashup.

Kurt Vonnegut – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007[1])

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a sad day.

FanTent » Rap Covers by Professional Non-Rap Musicians:
Rap Covers by Professional Non-Rap Musicians

Posted April 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am by DoorFrame under Other

Rap music has traditionally been about depicting what life was really like in the overlooked American inner-city.

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there are some great songs, i’ve always liked the nina gordon cover…

Today is Penguin Day!:

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Ten lessons:
Ten Lessons I wish I Had Been Taught

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some good thoughts here.

And the panda goes to… « Social Sim:
First of all, thank you. Thanks to the people who came out in droves to vote for the panda avatar I’ll wear for my 24-hour long virtual marathon in Second Life.

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Aleks is going to be a panda in relay for second life. her team the Guardian is looking for participants and sponsors.

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Hulk Respect Process!:
The Hulk would be good.

FACULTY: This is intolerable! This is an affront to academic freedom! This is tyranny!

HULK: Puny human! Hulk fair! Hulk respect process! RAAR! [Hulk crumples a nearby Toyota into a wad]

FACULTY: Eep!

HULK: Hulk college budget being cut? RAAR! Where capital? RAAR! HULK LOBBY! HULK LOBBY!

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some great responses:_

Second Life Herald:
When I first came to Second Life, the idea of a virtual relationship never even occurred to me. SL was a strange landscape of bizarre places to explore where I could be anything or anyone I wanted. But then after a week something happened that completely changed my view of the virtual world. I was walking around a Welcome Area with a helmet head of hair and a blank newbie face stumbling into other blank newbies all wearing the same Linden issued clothes when through the crowd, I saw a beautiful female avatar like I had never seen before.

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this is the funniest sl article i’ve read in a while.

dbpedia.org – Using Wikipedia as a Web Database:
dbpedia.org is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia
and to make this information available on the Web. dbpedia allows you to ask
sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web
to Wikipedia data.

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is this the structured web? no, i think not. just a more free … freebase