Unsought Input

Some quick links for you.

The Pinky Show. Cats talking politics. Cats making sense of politics. They are so cute it hurts.

Sugar cubes used to be the “in thing”. Now it’s honey cubes.

Geek Apparel. Check it out.

Monk caught being human, looking at porn.

Guy wins jackpot at casino, employee unplugs machine just in time to save company 5.5 mil

Peep research underway. 

Why our generation, or anyone who enjoys music, shouldn’t enjoy being a pirate and how to change the industry:a comic.

http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html

A response to the above comment about the folly of micropayment.

http://www.nothings.org/writing/upay.html

And, I heard that this is terrific:

http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/beta309.gif

Interesting links we found today:

• moblog: The Windows Shutdown crapfest » How to take a bunch of talented UI designers and developers and end up with the confusing mess that is the Windows “shut down” menu.
• Traffic Wave Experiments » How one driver can calm traffic and stop bottlenecks on the highways.
• Evolution of a web design » Time-lapse of how a web design is created. This is a great illustration of how standards-based, HTML and CSS designs are done - start with some content, mark it up semantically, then create the visual presentation.
• Flickr: Camera Finder » Graphs of the most popular cameras used on Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website. Really cool use of data collected incidentally.
• Improv Everywhere Mission: Ben Folds Fake » Ben Folds, caught lip-syncing! Also, what happens when you hit a crowd of 3000 with a 10Hz ‘brown note’?

• Japanese director plans “sushi western” - Yahoo! News » a spaghetti western by Miike Takahashi? Awesome

• Police blotter: Child porn in Web cache OK | CNET News.com » Note to PA residents: it’s OK to have child porn in your browser cache as long as you don’t know your browser has a cache.

Interesting links we found today:

• Weather Bonk - Live Weather, Forecasts, WebCams, and more on a Google Map (Baltimore, Maryland ) »
• Weather Forecast Accuracy for Baltimore, Maryland »
• MLA-Academic and Research Libraries Division »
• 50 Ways to Cut Your Health-Care Costs - November 1, 2006 »

• BBC NEWS | UK | Sir Elton: Ban organised religion »

Interesting links we found today:

• Dave’s Long Box: Election Day 2006 - Whose Side Is Your Favorite Superhero On? » Did you know that Spider-Man is a Democrat, and Iron man is a Neocon?

• Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers »
• Keeping Up How-To Guide »

Interesting links we found today:

• YouTube - Antworks Time Lapse (to the song Popcorn) » Great video of ants digging tunnels. Not everything has to be political today.
• Philadelphia Daily News | 11/01/2006 | Jill Porter | GOP ‘robocall’ tactics make me sick » Here’s a new word for the dictionary: Robocalls. In some districts the Republican party has unleashed a torrent of auto-dialed phone calls that sound like they are from the Democrats. The basic idea is to pretend to be a Democrat and then annoy the piss
• Obama’s Stock Rises Among Democrats - Forbes.com » Barack Obama is a really interesting candidate for the Democrats for 2008. I wonder if his lack of military experience will be an issue. It somehow wasn’t an issue for Bush against McCain or Kerry…
• An Iraqi Exodus » Great map graphic from The Atlantic showing the numbers of refugees from Iraq into neightboring countries. Nice design.

• National Priorities Project: Income Tax Chart » See where your federal income tax money goes.

Interesting look at the best submissions to Reddit, a social bookmarking site.