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Aug 19 / 5:03pm

Powernotes

Old St. Petersburg Times article on Senator Bob Graham's notebooks:

Graham, 66, has filled nearly 4,000 notebooks since he first ran for governor in 1977. The entries -- in ballpoint ink in Graham's meticulous cursive -- provide a unique glimpse into the life of a senator/grandfather/raisin bran eater.

The notebooks are little spiral pads  made by North Carolina Paper Company. When the were discontinued in the 1990s, Graham bought out the remaining supply.

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Aug 15 / 10:05am

Fashion ampersand

Via Ampersand, the "lightning bolt ampersand."

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Aug 15 / 7:31am

Dangerous Women

Dangerous Women, the summer show at DFN Gallery, NYC.
Although it sounds like the lurid title of a Jim Thompson crime novel, Dangerous Women is curated within the tradition of female figure painting, photography and cinema - where even the tamest representation of the female form can be a loaded image. While a few of the images exhibited are more obviously "dangerous" or risqué as in Alyssa Monk's Press, or Heather Morgan's Hello Kitty, none are passive and most run askew if not counter, to the literal meaning of dangerous women.

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Aug 15 / 4:24am

Lego PC

When PC Magazine needed a LEGO PC for the cover of their magazine, I was happy to help out, and created a colorful PC out of LEGO bricks. The folks over at PC Magazine liked it so much, they decided they wanted to have a contest where they gave away a working PC built out of LEGO bricks. Oh what fun.

More pictures at Brickartist.

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Aug 14 / 2:06pm

Notes and Queries, #1, Nov 3, 1849

Can any man, in his wildest dream of imagination, conceive of anything that may not be--nay, that has not been--treated of in a note?
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Aug 13 / 12:27pm

Quote on PC surveillance software

The makers of the Spector360 will tell you that their product will "significantly reduce the amount of goofing off that has grown common in most workplaces (one hour per day per employee, on average)." What they won't tell you is that you're a jerk. If your employees are watching "Funny Cats 3" all day long, the problem isn't unfiltered access to the Internet. The problem is that your workplace is boring, and probably very sad.

--Michael Agger, "Spying on other people's computers", Slate
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Aug 13 / 12:08pm

Available on Amazon.com

That's good eats.

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Jul 25 / 1:51pm

The Lives and Times in Duckburg

The history of Duckburg, as laid out in the comic books of Carl Banks and Don Rosa. You remember, Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, the Beagle Boys, the Money Bin. Extensive bibliography.



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Jul 25 / 8:56am

Kirtland's Warbler

Picture of Kirtland's Warbler, one of the rarest birds in North America. 5,000 Kirtland's live in a small area of jackpine forest in Northern Michigan, though nesting pairs have recently been discovered in northern Wisconsin.

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Jul 24 / 12:04pm

Berlin holocaust memorial

Berlin Hidden Places on Gunter Denmig's Memorial tablets:

Gunter Demnig has laid more than 50 paving stones, covered with sheets of brass on the footpaths in front of former residential buildings where Jewish residents lived in Oranien and Dresdener Strasse. Their names, dates of birth and of their fate are engraved in the metal and are a reminder of their persecution during the Third Reich. The art and memorial action was part of the exhibition titled "Artists search for Auschwitz," organized by the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin (New Society for Fine Art in Berlin) in 1996 and is still incomplete today.

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