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Fire tornado in Hawaii

09.02.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A terrifying combination of strong winds and brush fires created this “fire tornado”. State officials captured this video last week of a fire caught up in a swirling twister on the Big Island. (Aug. 27)

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Today’s office window

08.24.2010

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Charles Bukowski on people

08.13.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And some of my best friends have told me I’m the most negative person they know. Via M.

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California surfer films great white sharks circling his board

08.12.2010

Gnar gnar. Via GrindTV: The last thing most surfers would want to see is a great white shark circling their board. But when two of the notorious apex predators began swimming around Chuck Patterson earlier this week off San Onofre in northern San Diego County, he saw opportunity. Patterson, 41, who lives in nearby Dana [...]

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A tour of the Googleplex in 200 seconds

07.23.2010

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What does a fox sound like?

06.04.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Just got back with the dogs. Recorded this on an iPhone 3GS in the dark at White Point Preserve, San Pedro CA. Turn up your speakers.

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My right eye

06.02.2010

Just went to the optometrist for the annual exam. They recently got a new machine in back that takes a photograph of the back of your eyeballs, allowing the doc to take a more thorough look at things without burning holes through your retinas if he did it live. I snapped a couple photos of [...]

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Most epic 2010 home lunch of 2010 so far

06.01.2010

Lamb chops and baked potato; farmers’ market tomatoes and sparegrass.

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Sunset at the end of the tunnel

05.28.2010

San Pedro CA, 05.27.2010

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Frog jumps in super-slow motion

05.24.2010

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Mad Men base camp, 05.05.2010

05.05.2010

After doing lunch at the fish market, we walked across the parking lot to take a gander at the Mad Men base camp. They’re shooting some stuff for Season 4 down on Paseo del Mar. We totally contemplated raiding this wardrobe and making a run for it. Ports O’ Call, Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro [...]

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Griffith moon

05.03.2010

A model. Not the real thing. Look closely and you can see the seam around the equator. Griffith Observatory, 05.02.2010

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Albert Einstein’s desk just hours after his death

04.22.2010

Pictured: Ralph Morse’s photograph of Einstein’s office in Princeton, taken hours after Einstein’s death and captured exactly as the Nobel Prize-winner had left it. =full story=

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The Internet in 1969

03.31.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A 1969 vision of how the Internet would’ve worked. Not too far off.

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Today’s typing speed: 93 wpm

03.10.2010

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Twitter Code Swarm

02.10.2010

Radical. Via the Twitter engineering team’s blog, an animated visual of Twitter’s explosive growth — personnel, code base, and popularity — from April 2006 to January 2010. Icons represent developers, and particles represent files added or modified. It doesn’t cover prototypes or contributions to open source, so it isn’t exactly scientific, but it still goes [...]

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