Around the Web
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Racist Camera! No, I did not blink… I’m just Asian!
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The World’s Most Important 6 Second Drum Loop
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Youtube video from mobius32 explains, “This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the ‘Amen Break,’ a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hip hop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip…
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5 Tips for Effective Delegation
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From Ian’s Messy Desk: Define the task and identify the outcome, not the process. The process that works for you may not work for others. Maybe you’ve been doing a job one way, because that’s how you were taught 20 years ago. When delegating, describe the successful outcome and let the person to find their…
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Photo in Curbed SF
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Look, my photo was used at Curbed SF. Cool!
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It’s Twenty-ten, not Two-thousand and Ten
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Glad to be back from St. Louis. Happy New Year everyone! Say the year “1810” out loud. Now say the year “1999” out loud. See a pattern? It’s been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just ended) instead of saying the number the long…
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Improv Everywhere: Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce
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For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, a 13-member hand bell choir provided some unexpected accompaniment for a Salvation Army bell ringer in Manhattan. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes on what they call the Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce.
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China’s 56 Ethnic Groups
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The vast majority (over 90%) of Chinese are Han Chinese. The remainder is distributed among 55 other ethnic groups. This diversity was displayed during the opening ceremonies of the last Olympic games where fifty-six children from the 56 Chinese ethnic groups clustered around the Chinese national flag supposedly represented the 56 ethnic groups. It was…
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15 (ish) Things Worth Knowing About Coffee
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Tetris on Freeboards
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Everyday
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Medical Afflictions of the Cartoon World
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This tickles my psychology fancy. Also found here, here, and here.
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Gmail Fail
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I was trying to send an invite to Derek and it wouldn’t go through to his gmail account for some reason. Then I couldn’t check my work email either, which uses google apps. All I got was this: Then I checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and saw this: Then I headed over to Twitter to see what other…
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It Pays More To Do Nothing
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PhD Comics
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Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
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Wow.
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Missing!!!
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high five.
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Death Star over San Francisco
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Slip n Slide Jump
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Edit Aug 14, 2009: Check how it was REALLY done! Oh my goodness, this guy LAUNCHES!
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How to pick a video game system
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“Do you have any friends?” Haha… From The Best Article Every Day.
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Taylor Swift meets Coldplay – Piano & Cello
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A shout-out to Stepho for the link.
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Kids Sing “Eye of the Tiger”
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High-five to Garrett.