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Ok, which of you is Simon? The kitty in the videos is definitely our evil overlord.

Web Side Story

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Kinda makes you want to leave LI even more...

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Plant a Tree!

Odwalla is planting trees in state parks and all it takes on your part is to visit their site and click the state you live in. My click got the 711th tree for NY! Pass the word.

Clamshell Packaging

via Gizmodo

Happy May Day, Happy Beltane

Map of Evil

Geographers have now mapped occurrences of the seven deadly sins for the US. Not surprisingly, the East Coast seems to be a hotbed of evilness, and the Midwest, a hotbed of goody-two-shoes.

Geek-box prodigy

I must confess - I have a strange fascination with unlikely music being played on the accordion (really, any instrument that just seems to clash with the idea of the music, like Star Wars on a harp or on bagpipes, but I digress). Now, normally, I would keep this fascination to myself, but I enjoyed this video so much, I had to share. This is an amazingly wonderful rendition of one of my absolutely favorite pieces of music ever, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Enjoy!

They know how to have fun in Belgium!

Breaking out in (not so) spontaneous dancing in the middle of a train station.

It made me laugh, so I hope it brings some brightness to your days too!

April first was two days ago...

...but I have trouble believing this article isn't a delayed April fools article.

Headline: Russian wizards seek trade union: report

Quote: The report added that Russia's "extrasensory" practitioners -- psychics, faith-healers, witches, magicians and so on -- had reported an increase in their workload in connection with the global economic crisis.

via Dave Barry

Expidite

ex⋅pe⋅dite
-dit⋅ed, -dit⋅ing, adjective
–verb (used with object)

1. to speed up the progress of; hasten: to expedite shipments.
2. to accomplish promptly, as a piece of business; dispatch: to expedite one's duties.
3. to issue or dispatch, as an official document or letter.
–adjective
4. Obsolete. ready for action; alert.

Synonyms:
1. quicken, push, accelerate, hurry.

Antonyms:
1. delay.

My Next Vacation Destination

Fortunately for me, Expedia is having a huge sale on this trip, a new destination for them, in fact, and the sale is today only, so I might just have to book my trip soon!

Cell Phones

Apparently I can't move to Chicago either because of "the talk'n'walk" "People who are talking and walking seem instead to act out the ebbs and flows of their conversations in a kind of especially insufferable interpretive dance."

Which would you rather be: a hedgehog or a fox?

This New York Times article talks about the role of expertise in successfully predicting future events. And while I was surprised about the results at first, the explanation for it makes total sense.

I also particularly enjoyed the description of a study that pitted Yale undergrads against a white rat and the outcome of that competition.