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Morning Cup of Links: Roomba Pac-man
by Miss Cellania - November 10, 2009 - 4:04 AM
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Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won’t End in 2012. This list will be handy when someone you know gets a bit too nervous about the doomsday predictions.
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It makes perfect sense to play Pac-man with a team of every cat’s favorite vacuum cleaner, Roombas. However, it take some creative programming skills to pull it off.
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The New York Times has an interactive graph that plots the jobless rate for different groups of Americans compared to the average for all those who are unemployed. Mouseover to find lines for different races, ages, and levels of education. (via Metafilter)
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Have you ever wondered how they put really big boats in the water? According to this video, they just shove them in and hope they will float upright.
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Human beings develop social bonds when giving and receiving gifts. Our natural sense of reciprocity is keenly upset by the system of anonymous organ donation.
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20 of the Worst Men’s Hairstyles. Some of these look funny; others have just worn out their welcome.
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7 Super-Sized (And Somewhat Insane) Soviet Projects. Those wacky Soviets, always trying to outdo Texas.

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Comments (4)

  1. Recently there was a news story about a kidney donation “chain”. For example, a woman chose to donate one of her kidneys to an unknown recipient after her husband had received an anonymous donation. Maybe this “pay it forward” gesture fulfills the desire to reciprocate.

    Here’s a CNN article I found about one of the incidents:
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/11/kidney.ten.transplants/index.html

    posted by Nerak on 11-10-2009 at 4:27 pm

  2. The 20 worst haircuts article was really funny :D

    posted by Kagami on 11-10-2009 at 4:37 pm

  3. I thought the 20 worst hairstyles article was lame. They ruled out every single hairstyle I’ve ever seen, save for a butt-cut (eww) or a completely shaved head.

    posted by DYMongoose on 11-11-2009 at 1:41 pm

  4. That’s what people said in other places about the hairstyles article. Funny, men in my age group have three basic styles, corporate, bald, and ponytail, and none made the list. It’s an age thing.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 11-11-2009 at 8:49 pm

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