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USB Pinkie Drive
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My favorite thing in my All-Ett these days is the impossibly tiny Kingmax 2-gb Super Stick. The dimensions? 1.3″ x 0.1″ x 0.5″. Two gigabytes. That’s more capacity than my high school desktop PC. And it’s made of reinforced steel or something, honestly. Best part? It costs $16.

Why hasn’t this device taken over the world yet?

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Hogzilla
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Nothing you can tell me will convince me this is real. Nothing.

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US Map of the World
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This map displays US states renamed as foreign countries with similar GDP. California, for example, is re-christened France (whose GDP is $2.15 tril), Michigan becomes Argentina, and Texas becomes Canada. As the footnotes on the map indicate, it’s not a straightforward comparison, because it doesn’t include population. But it’s a pretty darn interesting visualization nonetheless.

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Threadless for Bumper Stickers
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Ha! I bet you thought I was posting an actual link to a site that was, in fact, Threadless for bumper stickers. But if such a thing exists — which it must — I’m not cool enough to know about it. Enlighten me, o ye crowd-wisdom.

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links for 2007-05-25
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Brain-Hurt of the Day
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From Elizabeth Kolbert’s lovely article about CERN’s giant Hadron Collider:

It is one of the paradoxes of particle physics that fundamental particles, though pointlike and indivisible, are also generally unstable. In fact, the heavier particles are so short-lived that even to speak of their having an existence seems faintly ludicrous; a top quark, for example, is estimated to last no more than 1

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A Glimpse of the Retro-Future
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Jarah blogs what may be the best headline of all time, courtesy of Wired’s Malcontents.

(Note: This blog post is essentially Jarah’s blog post, with an additional layer of attribution. I love how recursive blogging can be. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen a blog post retain the entire meme trail of an item before. How awesome would it be to see “Wired via Jarah via Matt via” at the end of a post? Can you guys think of anything like that?)

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2007 National Magazine Award Finalists
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Neglected to post about this: This year, ASME posted all the links for the NMA finalists all on its own. I’d like to take some credit for this.

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BASIC 2.0
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Hackety Hack makes Ruby sort of like BASIC. From the fellow who brought you Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, it’s a downloadable program (basically the Ruby language, the Gecko browser, and some helpful libraries) designed to introduce geek wannabes to the world of programming. For a slightly less kid-oriented approach, check out Try Ruby, which is a browser-based version of the same thing by the same guy. (MetaFilterrific.)

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Horse. Damn!
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I think Eagle vs. Shark deserves to be the next cult classic. Please patronize it when it comes to a theater near you.

(PS: you don’t actually have to wait for the movie to buy the wonderful music of the band that composed its soundtrack, The Phoenix Foundation.)

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