Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
the world’s first wrong phone number
I was just think about this great scene from Family Guy about the world’s first wrong phone number phone calls. It is rather clever.
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
digest: happy b-day atm, living in dubai, hiv theory is wrong and more!
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
the lighter side of football
Here is a quirky clip that I found on youtube that is a compilation of comedic moments in football/soccer.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
arts and letters daily gets talked up
The National Post swoons over the substance and technique of Arts & Letters Daily (a truly great website):
Since 1998, A & LD has been searching tirelessly for online articles that should be known everywhere, providing the links that make it possible for us to put them on our screens with a single mouse-click. The editors […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
how to organize recipes
Delicious Days, a truly delicious blog, has a smart article on how to organize recipes. Yummy!
Some of my most precious recipe notes date back to the 70s, were written by my mum or grandma and - more often than not - leave me a bit puzzled, because important information like actual title or “minor details” […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
ian pooley featuring esthero ‘better life’
Catchy song and a great video from a number of years back…
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
congo cancels contracts to preserve its forests
The Democratic Republic of Congo is taking steps to cancel a large number of timber contracts in order to protect the world’s second biggest tropical rain forest.
Congo issued a five-year moratorium on new logging contracts in 2002 in an effort to stem rampant deforestation aggravated by the conflict. That measure went largely unheeded and companies […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
digest: replacement sushi, tmz.com and mustang cologne
- With the depletion of tuna stock in the world’s waters, Japanese sushi chefs must adapt.
- A man loses a 13 year court battle with his claim that he invented Trivia Pursuit.
- A New York Times profile of TMZ.com and the brains behind the site.
- Ford Mustang is the highest selling cologne at Sears in […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
fifa pays mastercard $90m
FIFA, the world football (that’s soccer to us North Americans ) governing body is paying US $90M to Mastercard to settle a dispute over World Cup sponsorship.
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
digest: tainted food, does a public sphere exist in Europe, bossa nova Belgium and more!
-A 16 year-old student got some of his friends to pull a heist and steal his report card with his bad grades (do not ask me why Yahoo put a picture of Korean students next to this story).
-The hotest bossa nova music is coming from Belgium. Yes Belgium.
-Tainted food is a common problem in Asia.
-Yahoo’s […]
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
i’m from barcelona - collection of stamps
I just love this group! I’m From Barcelona are a Swedish pop music collective, with 29 members, who put a strong emphasis on catchy song writing and fun. Here is the video for ‘Collection of Stamps’, which was a rejected name for the group. If this song does not make you smile, well friend, you […]
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
activitybook goes warm & scratchy contest is over…
We have a winner! Congrats to “DL” who wins the Warm & Scratchy prize pack. Thanks to all of those who entered.
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
digest: iran, buying watches, bono & crowded house
- The Iranian government’s crackdown on anti-Sharia law and dissenting activities rounds up 150,000+ citizens
- How to buy a watch
- Bono guest edits the latest issue of Vanity Fair
- Crowded House are making new music and LA Weekly has four new songs up for listening
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
lcd soundsystem’s ‘all my friends’ X2
Check out this wicked video for LCD Soundsystem’s catchy song ‘All My Friends’, which is off of the latest album Sound of Silver.
Franz Ferdinand have already covered this song and it will be a b-side some issues of the LCD Soundsystem single. Here is the video of FF’s cover.
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
CONTEST: win great stuff from William Street
THE PITCH
So the folks behind William Street, those genius purveyors of cartoon insanity that comprises much of the Adult Swim block on the Cartoon Network (think The Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Aqua Teen Hunger Force) have done something even more genius. They are providing one lucky reader of Acitivitybook with an […]
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
bits and bits of post worthy things
Cool Hunting is out and about in Antwerp. Here is part 1 of their escapades.
Good Magazine profiles the Gardens in Transit project going on in NYC that will paint flowers on every one of the city’s 13,000 cabs.
Chewable birth control?
Do-it-yourself fluorescent printing!
Sports Illustrated has released the top 50 list of earning American athletes. Tiger […]
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
those ‘peppy’ mars rovers are still roving
Space.com has a nice article on the two rovers that are still going strong on Mars.
Those peppy Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, continue to make tracks as they wheel about two diverse locales on Mars – far outstripping their original warranties of 90 days of lifetime and a target of roughly 2,000 feet (600 […]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
manu chao’s ‘me gustas tu’
Manu Chao is one of the biggest artists in the world - just not in the English speaking world. Hell, even Robbie Williams has covered him. Well, Manu is busy getting ready to release his latest album at the end of the summer. Check out his website for full details and to listen to a […]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
female shark reproduces without mate
Scientists in Norther Ireland are stumped after discovering that a female hammerhead shark has reproduced without mating. The offspring appears to have no paternal DNA.
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