Sack of Hammers

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Seen Elsewhere and Noted

Sunscreen : Too good to be true, apparently.

The Bad Apple : Group Poison

The Nerd Handbook : A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff.

The Abominable Snowman vs Seasonal Depression : The Abominable Snowman is a beautiful creature

Videogame Aesthetics : The past, present and future

Baghdad Year Zero : Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia

The Sucker List : Also for suckers

Having your cake and eating it too? : Taking a 90cc trailrider on the voyage

Argle Bargles (and other beasts) : A field guide to modern enemies of rational debate

The Long Tail : Just Enough Piracy

Cory Doctorow : Why Digital Rights Management is bad and won't work anyway

When is a kilobyte a kibibyte? : Looks like they've finally figured out how to distinguish 1000 from 1024

Doc Searls on Powerpoint : And how to keep it from screwing up your presentation

Interstate '76 Love : "Hey Taurus, how 'bout a poem?"

Tetris 1D : Tetris made simple

Piercing the p2p myths : Amid the claims of industry losses, the industry failed to make the case that music downloading is significantly harmful to Canadian artists.

Fractional Rig Offers Advantages Over Masthead Rig : A comparison

Dunbar's Number : Social networks max out at about 150 people; much fewer if there's anything the group needs to accomplish

Endangered Gizmos : A look at some of the devices that have been killed, threatened, and saved from extinction

Suspended Spherical Home : Kind of kooky and neat

The Daily Oliver : Often fantastic photographs of Dean's Weimaraners, tragically saddled with a comments section

WiFi-SM : "You have the impression that the disasters of the world do not touch you anymore? You feel vaguely sorry for other people's misfortunes but you don't feel the inner urge which used to make you help your neighbour? WiFi-SM is the solution!"

Bartosz Milewski : What's wrong with C++?

Jon Stewart : "I didn't realize - and maybe this explains quite a bit - that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity."

Cooking For Engineers : “Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!”

governing.com : “Governing is a monthly magazine whose primary audience is state and local government officials: governors, legislators, mayors, city managers, council members and other elected, appointed and career officials.”

The Naked Face : An article about the work of Paul Ekman, the guy who first catalogued the range of human facial expressions

Go away Rock Paper Scissors : RPS isn’t the game balancing panacea it has been trumped up to be

Streetwars: Killer : A round-robin, all city, 24/7 water-gun assassination tournament

Collision Detection : VoIP spam looms on the horizon

Palm Beach Post : Woman molecularly bonds with sofa

Game Girl Advance : The Perils of Scripting

Movie : “I’m George W. Bush and I approved this message. In fact, I think it is awesome.”

Lacuna Inc : Do you dwell on negative experiences from your past?

Surgeons Who Play Video Games Err Less : What can I say?

Court Rejects Music Lawsuit : Moments like these make me proud to be Canadian.