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“It’s very cold tonight, so we played with bubbles. If you blow them upwards enough they have time to freeze on the way down.”

freezebubbles

I would love to try to make these sometime, they look spectacular!

Found via Boing Boing!

Go on, see if this T-Mobile commercial doesn’t make you smile. They did a good job in making it look organic and building to greater and greater coordination. Great commercial…it shows exactly what mobile phones are for.

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In case you missed Challenger the Eagle at the “We Are One” inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial, here’s the awesome picture that they posted on Flickr.

Internet, I’ve made it to the directory of directories: I am on IMDB!

I wanted to put up a wonderful picture but apparently, I need to pay for such a privilege, so no thanks.

Now I just need to do something noteworthy enough to have a Wikipedia page, and have nerds argue about its contents.

Dear members of the press,

I’ll get right to the point: Can you please stop telling me what Sarah Palin has to say? She isn’t making news, she’s just babbling and you’re enabling her by passing it on to me, the daily news watcher!

There are a great deal of very important things going on in the country and the world and Sarah Palin is not one of them.

Thanks,

J. Abad

I’m catching up on Boston.com’s The Big Picture from the end of last year and ran across these pictures of the flooding in Venice.

While most of them are fairly normal for a flood, some of them were.. not so normal.

I’m mightily impressed with the Palm Pre. Folks are saying things like “Palm’s hail mary” and “Palm’s iPhone killer” and they’re definitely heading in the right direction!

Until today, I was thinking that I’d probably move to an HTC Touch Pro/HD later in the year but seeing the ideas that are in place in the Palm Pre is definitely making me keep an open mind to switching to Sprint to get on this phone!

First, the shape: touch screen with arched slider to a portrait keyboard. Looks comfy and I’m already used to the portrait keyboard.

Second, their "webOS” and Synergy system to synchronize calendars, contacts and messaging so that you can see everything in one place. One contact holds the information from Outlook, Gmail, IM services and phones and it keeps it together. Apparently, the messaging is such that you can start a conversation via text and finish via IM or vice versa!

Third, apps run in the background and you can easily switch between them, whether they are multiple apps or multiple webpages.

I’ve been on AT&T for so long that I don’t even know if Sprint coverage is good enough for me. Oh well, neither pricing nor availability have been announced so there’s time for these things to work themselves out! 

At first, i read the headline Gu Gu strikes again! Panda attacks zoo visitor and thought “Gee, they should probably secure Gu Gu a little better…” but then I read the story and apparently, the guy climbed into the habitat in order to retrieve a toy that his son dropped. Same with the guy who was previously attacked by the bear! Climbed in for some stupid reason.

I’m sorry, but what do they put in the water there that these guys think “oh, i’ll just climb into this wild bear enclosure and i’ll be ok!”

I’m kind of amused that the first guy fought back by biting the panda’s back. Like that’s not going to piss it off even more!