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This 19 year old kid in Michigan made a music video for Pyramid Song:

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

This is my new toy:

It's also been the cause of many late nights over the past few months as we worked to provide all the core functionality of MySpace on a mobile platform. Now you can read and send messages, bulletins, comments, and blogs, browse and upload pictures, and make and accept friends on your phone. Sorry, you won't be able to check out the WPBT Group on MySpace.

Helio is a brand-new mobile phone company, an MVNO joint-venture between Earthlink and SK Telecom. With all-you-can-eat data-inclusive plans, high-definition screens, and features like MySpace Mobile, they're going after the kids who want more from their mobile device than voice.

And no, I didn't shell out the $250 for the Kickflip. :)

This is his profile:

And these are his videos:

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I swear to Tom we didn't have anything to do with this. We're not that clever.

Fastr is a fun five-minute game where you try to guess the keyword that brings up a series of photos on Flickr. Photos appear one at a time--the faster you correctly guess the keyword, the more points you get.

These are aerial photos that look like miniature models:

Very cool. More at Metropolis. Linkage from Curbed LA.

Link: OverCompensating

There are 75 bands in this photo. Can you find them all?

Click the image for the large version. Feel free to put your answers in the comments, but one band per comment, please!

For the geeks:

More at the American Currency Exhibit.

You can also find this gem:

"Science Presenting Steam and Electricity to Industry and Commerce."

American Currency Exhibit: Artistry and Imagery: Allegories

By demonbaby.

Ramen.

This is hands-down the coolest thing I've seen in a while.

Google Map API + Craiglist housing ads = One Supercool web app

They're just too easy to parody...

Thanks to eight23 for the link.

The British are odd.

Am I late to this? This is freaking awesome.

OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD

And I love Wikipedia: Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.

My friend Jake is apparently making his acting debut in a play that is being put on in a bar in West LA. I can't tell you if it's good or not, but here's what Jake says:

Ever want to pinpoint where the moon missions landed? Now you can with Google Moon.

And don't forget to take Google Earth for a spin.

Super-cool satellite imagery program. Download it now at Google Earth.

I recommend Terraserver if you want to check out satellite images of American cities. Higher-res images and no additional software required.

Probably better than Episode III.

And if I were to do that, I'd build my own:

Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC

Thanks to Geek Goes Meow for the link.

From the latest issue of Wired:

Shockingly Small Change
It unleashes 10,000 megawatts of instantaneous energy .... [Inventor] Basura ... usually focuses all that juice on a US quarter. When he does, the coin doesn't melt or vaporize. Instead, with an ear-shattering crack, its molecules rearrange and nuzzle closer, shrinking the coin's circumference to that of a dime.

...the last resort of a grad student who doesn't much like his design class.

Wil Wheaton turned me on to Overheard in NY:

A large bearded black man is holding a big white sign that reads: NINJAS KILLED MY FAMILY. I NEED $$ TO LEARN KUNG-FU AND GET REVENGE.

Drunk yuppie: Ha, ha. So dude, are you really going to become a ninja?! Ha, ha!
Black guy: Nah, man. This is just for humor. This ain't for real.

--Broadway & 76th

Overheard by: M-Co

BandToBand.com lets you trace the family tree of your favorite bands. It's really not that interesting, but the geekier amongst you might like it.

The Whisky Store has a great illustrated description of "The Making of Bourbon Whiskey."

And here I thought it was simply a gift from God.

Well, well, well... Dysart finally got his act together and threw up a website.

Dysart's a comic book writer and bum who I haven't seen in months.

The National Archives: When Nixon Met Elvis:

"I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good."

Indeed.

Get your own.

Time for you to pick up Bring It On, Donnie Brasco, Donnie Darko, This is Spinal Tap, and Vanilla Sky for under $9 each at Buy.com. Get an extra 10% off. Free shipping on orders of $25 or more. And no, this is not a shill.

It's too bad I paid full price for Cabin Boy last week.

I don't play a lot of video games these days, and haven't really for years and years. But two of the games I will always remember from my NES days are Metroid and Kid Icarus. Great, great games.

One of the things that made these games memorable was the great music by composer Hip Tanaka. The games these days have rock soundtracks and great sound effects, but the NES basically gave the music composers three channels to work with, and Tanaka made the most of them.

Feeling nostalgiac yet?

Download the actual NSF sound archives at Overclocked Remix. You'll need Meridian Prime to play 'em back. The sound archives are just that: archives. So hit forward and reverse to hear the different tracks.

Additional Fun NES Links:

Super Mario Theme on Guitar

Super Mario Theme on Piano

Mario Twins

Good news, everyone. Our local public radio station (KCRW) is now podcasting its locally produced content. Being the big public radio dork that I am, I once considered getting the Samsung MP3 player instead of the iPod since it could record audio files directly from FM transmissions. Ultimately, the fact that it was ugly as sin, not as easy to use, and bigger (remind you of any poker sites?) made me settle on the iPod. Size matters.

But that's partially a moot point deprived of practical significance / made abstract or purely academic* now that you can get these podcasts. Here are my three picks:

The Treatment - film and culture interviews

To the Point - current events roundtable

Final Curtain - radio obituaries

As for all the NPR and PRI shows that take up the other 75% of KCRW's news/talk programming, I'll have to settle for being tied to the network for their RealAudio streams, or shell out for the somewhat pricey Audible.com** downloads.

* See DuggleBogey below.
** Audible.com likes to give your session a unique ID and include it in the URL as you browse, which means that I can't link you directly to their TV and Radio section. Their internal links also use JavaScript. Both measures will likely confound both the search engines as well as users who want to direct people to specific categories or products. Why are they so ass-backwards?

Domo Kun meets Donnie Darko. Domo Darko. (Real Video).

More stuff at FNord HQ. More sounds at Gary Jules. More images at pixelgirl.

NPR has the stream: 'All Songs Considered' Presents Wilco in Concert.

Some odd stuff here.

Ladies and gentlemen, the world's tallest road bridge:

Wow.

The BBC has the full story and some more photos.

Some crazy .nl guy has some photos of the bridge as well as some other things he saw on his motorcycle trip through the mountains over the summer. Like an explosion!

And a Malaysian has posted a photo of it on his blog as well. This photo shows the old route at the bottom of the valley. Hmm.

I'm not sure I can explain it, but there's a grocery bag full of candy sitting on top of my fridge. Leftovers from Halloween, I think. So feeling the urge for some cheap candy, I open a bag and find a box of something called Cherryhead candy. Cherryhead? Hmm. Wait, this box says Ferrara Pan! This used be to be called Cherry Chan! Why'd they cha-- oh... hey, I never thought of that. And I'm Asian, for Chrissake.

For those of you who never spent a quarter with the neighborhood ice cream truck, here's Cherry Chan:

Wow. The nostalgia. The borderline racism.

Unfortunately when they changed the name to Cherryhead, I think they changed the formula, too. I recall these being chewier on the outside, with more sour on the inside. But maybe I'm confusing them with Lemonhead candies. And what's this crap about Cherryhead being a "fat free food" and containing "real fruit juice?!" Seriously, who gives two shits about whether a twenty-five cent box of candy is healthy or has real ingredients?

By the way, I found that image over at The Candy Wrapper Museum (Don't you just love the Internets?), which also has this great candy packaging image:

Wow. That's not kosher by any standard. I wonder if Candy Crafters' Inc ever had Darkie Licorice Chews or Spicy Spic Jumping Beans?

Oh, and I just opened a box of Lemonhead candies, and they are exactly the way I remembered them. Thank God. Though they, too, apparently, are a fat free food made from real juice. Good Christ.

Ooh, one more thing. A real life example of inflation at work. Notice the Cherry Chan box says 1.05 oz? Guess how much candy the Cherryhead box holds? You guessed it: 0.8 oz! Man, a quarter just doesn't buy you much these days. Then again, I used to empty the whole box into my mouth sometimes, so this may be a good thing.

Slate Explainer:

The $28K Sandwich That Grew No Mold - How the Virgin Mary's grilled cheese stayed mold-free for 10 years.

With a winning bid of $28,000, the online casino GoldenPalace.com won the auction for one of eBay's most coveted oddities: a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich, one side of which bears the Virgin Mary's image. The seller, Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla., claims that the sandwich never sprouted a single spore of mold, despite having been stored in a less-than-airtight plastic box. Is it possible for a decade-old sandwich to remain mold-free without divine intervention?

Thanks to braichu for the link (Flash required).