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For the love of… seriously? No wonder I can’t understand the email I receive.

Google’s Street View, famous for the tempest in a tea cup of daring to show photos of idiots you could see by driving the street yourself,  has launched for, among others cities, Detroit. And the race is on to find a crime in progress on the streets of Detroit via Google Street View. (Just to get started: Comerica Park, Joe Louis Arena, Tiger’s Stadium, Detroit Opera House)

Street View Images for Dallas, Detroit and Other 6 Cities

I can’t believe I missed this.

TubaChristmas!

You just don’t need this much computer to play WoW.  Now, for Crysis….

XPS M1730 World of Warcraft^®  Edition

• 17″ HD widescreen notebook complete with World of Warcraft backpack
• Illuminated speaker grills and faction specific Honor Badges
• Back-lit keyboard stays awake as long as you can
• Track your stats with the world’s first built-in notebook Logitech^®  GamePanel^TM  LCD
• Enhanced graphics with NVIDIA^®  SLI^TM  technology and AGEIA PhysX^TM  Mobile Technology^TM
• Pre-loaded with World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade and all major game patches
• Golden Ticket for a custom FigurePrint^TM  of your actual in-game World of Warcraft character with your actual armor and weapons
• World of Warcraft Beta Club Key Card with a key to future World of Warcraft beta tests
• World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition Account Upgrade Certificates
• Exclusive desktop background artwork and screensavers
• Additional loot like a behind the scenes DVD, soundtrack, Warcraft novels, strategy guides, trading cards, etc

Aside from the PhysX technology, it’s sporting Duel Core 2.2 Ghz chip, Vista Ultimate, 2 GB of RAM (that’s it?), and 160GB hard drive. No Blu-Ray or HD-DVD (for the HD screen). Luckily, if you buy this laptop, Blizzard already owns your soul so Dell can’t ask you for that.

Slashdot | Dell’s World of Warcraft Laptop

“Chickens lay eggs,” Kunselman said. “I want fresh eggs. It’s just a simple ordinance change.”

“I want to have fresh milk,” Rapundalo said. “Let’s change the ordinance to allow cows or goats.”

Yes, because the equivalent of an easily confined, flightless mammal is a medium to giant-sized, free-roaming one. Is this seriously the slippery slope that Ann Arbor City Council fears? Chickens are a starter animal for larger, more insidious animals? Warning, Councilman Rapundalo, many people in Ann Arbor legally own dogs; this, to me, implies it’s legal to own an armored polar bear. Looks like ryan doesn’t have to worry about parking downtown anymore.

Mich. councilman pushes chicken law

Epic review of the Creation Museum, the nauseating edifice to the Creation “story”. With it’s accompanying photo gallery, the review of the Creation Museum is scathing, pointed, and hilarious all at once. Even Christians should be laughing at the absurdity of the assertions put out at this place. To wit:

But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah. Because, look, that’s something you really have to sell if you want anyone to buy it. It’s one thing to say to people that God directly created the dinosaurs and that they lived in the Garden of Eden. It’s another thing to suggest they lived long enough to harass the Minoans, and do it with a straight face. It’s horseshit, pure and simple, but that’s not to suggest I can’t admire the hucksterism.

Thanks to titled: some amusing blog pun for the article tip. (Aren’t neighbor-y people great for info?)

This is embarrassing.

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a collection of simple network graphs illustrating how the flavor components of 250 different food products relate to each other, as a tool to inspire the creation of original recipes.

Very interesting idea sent to me by a co-worker. The site is a little light on how the flavors were paired (or I may have missed that in my 45 seconds of skimming), but something to come back to and look at in detail.

FOODPAIRING

Some are a little off-colour, but I like these (disclaimer: I’m Dutch-descended)

Q: How was copper wire invented? A: Two Dutchmen fighting over a penny

Q: What does a Dutchmen do when The Netherlands win the soccer world cup? A: He turns off his playstation

reddit.com: Ask Reddit: What’s your favourite joke?

A fascinating look at both the history behind one of the most famous photographs in history (Roger Fenton’s photo “Valley of the Shadow of Death” in the Crimea) and Errol Morris’ obsessive journey to lay to rest the controversy surrounding its creation.

Which Came First? (in three parts): 1, 2, 3

(warning for dial-up or underpowered users; pages are very large)