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April 28, 2006

Nintento Revolution has been renamed 'Wii'. Doubleyou eye eye. Wii, pronounced 'wee'. A hard to pronounce term that invokes World War II. For me, anyway.

YShout: A PHP & AJAX-powered shoutbox for your website (slick and easy to implement - i jsut set it up for one of my projects)

Elwood Carlisle Superstar will appear on Jay Leno tonight, 4/26. (friends of mine filmed this documentary about Elwood, who decided to become an actor at age 74. I designed this website for the film)

Disney Clones (pictures on this Russian site show cells copied from one Disney film to another, i.e. characters in Jungle Book walking exactly like characters in Winnie the Poo. Anything to save hand drawn cell animation time, I guess.)

AtariAge - Have You Played Atari Today? (nice atari blog, with cartridge scans and trading post)
Moneydick : A Scientific Approach to Myspace’s Failure (hilarious and accurate look at the many spelling and moral errors of myspace's masses)
Cool Hunting: Sycamore Farms - "When artist and fourth generation farmer Matthew Moore found that farmland his family sold was slated for a housing development, he recreated the subdivision in crops on neighboring property."

Apple Improves Recycling Plan (in time for earth day, free disposal of old computer, disount on iPod)
SMASHING PUMPKINS set to record new album next summer

Plymouth Cultural Council (note to self: get funding for something artsy)
MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save The Internet (please please help preserve Network Neutrality. We can't allow money determine what information is easy to access)
Go Carbon Zero (donate to plant trees that will offset your personal Carbon Dioxide Emissions footprint)

Mike Davidson: Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace (awesome work)
Writers and editors - Greg Knauss and Kottke on referential vs. experiencial blogging. I think I historically fall into the experiential category. In fact, why am I bothering with this effing links sidebar? I guess it fits in somewhere.
Kool Keith returns for a New Dr. octogon Album, guest-starring Pricess Superstar
Claude Monet's Impression Sunrise (color vs contrast)
A Meat Eater Bigger Than T. Rex Is Unearthed

Pink (Adidas spot by director / photographer Charlie White that you should ahve seen by now)
Earth On Empty (Over a million tickets served to SUVs in 500 cities and 48 states)
Alliance Against Urban 4x4s

one red paperclip (this guy is making trades to turn one red paperclip into a free house)

Interactive Realm (crazy cheap fancy webdesign templates that will put me out of business)

Best and Worst Places to live: "Zurich is the city with the highest quality of life in 2006, while Baghdad, for the third year running, has the lowest."
Hannibal.net: the only known video footage of Samuel Clemens, shot by Thomas Edison

"The Lazy Drinker quite simply is a computer controlled mixed cocktail dispensing device. It's designed to hold 16 ingredients and multiple units can be chained together to get more."