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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Take some time to watch the entire I Have A Dream speech from 1963. You’ll find a chronology of King’s life here.
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A computer has decoded dog communication. Oh great, wait until the dogs hear about this; they’ll be asking for steak and beer ALL the time!
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Experiences Beat Possessions: Why Materialism Causes Unhappiness. Someone will always have a better pair of shoes, but the memory of that summer at the beach is all your own.
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Bunnies in Prison is a collection of surreal animations about the misadventures of a couple of incarcerated bunnies. The site is in Japanese, but the videos have no dialogue.
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When gamers David and Elly got married, their friends designed a personalized video game for their wedding. You can watch it as they first played it.
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RoboPult. How to make a vision-guided fireball-throwing catapult out of an ordinary industrial robot. Fun for the entire family!
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Philosophy in a sequence of drawings. Kinda makes you feel small, doesn’t it?
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Helicopter Parents. How to make sure your kids never learn to make decisions or deal with failure.
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The Bunnies in Prison website is pretty cool. Surreal describes it well. The bottom left hand side of the site suggests that it is a property of MTV. Good to know. I guess?
posted by Deas on 1-21-2008 at 4:33 am
The Philosophy drawing sequence is from a picture book called “Zoom”
posted by Keeker on 1-21-2008 at 11:47 am
I was thinking the philosophy drawing sequence was from a book. Each picture reminded me of a book I looked at in the library as a child.
posted by Reggie on 1-21-2008 at 8:01 pm