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#FridayFive: Monopoly Properties

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Babies with Laser Eyes is a website featuring exactly what you think it does.
Someone with plenty of free time on his hands compiled a list of the thirty most important cats of 2009.
The Mariana Trench is very, very, very deep.
Do you remember life before Google?
Make sure to view Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something. And then take a look at Greg Rutter’s Second Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet Unless You’re A Loser or Old or Something.
URL-shorteners have become quite popular lately. You’ve probably heard of (or used) TinyURL, a service that lets you convert really long web addresses into shorter ones for use in Twitter posts or email messages. ShadyURL is sort of — but not quite — totally unlike that. It’s a service that takes a web address and converts it into one that looks suspiciously like spam or a virus link. Why anyone would ever want to do that is a mystery.

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Runmeter (iTunes) looks to be a very slick iPhone app for tracking runs. I can’t run the LA Marathon this year because it conflicts with Kelly’s bachelor party in Las Vegas, but I’ll probably grab this for training for the 2011 race.
Speaking of iPhone apps: The guys at AppAdvice really are on the ball. So far it’s the best blog I’ve found for discovering new apps. They write terrific reviews and always find the gems hidden in the glut of the tens of thousands of applications and games currently available in the iTunes store.
I have become completely addicted to Ikariam, a web-based Civilization-style game. It’s free to play, though I guarantee if you start you’ll quickly get hooked and want to pay for the premium features. (I’m on the Ny shard if you decide to give it a try and want to look for me.)
If you’ve been thinking about building a laptop-controlled robot made with LEGOs that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 12 seconds, just give up. It’s already been done.
Kottke.org has a cool post with video showing a slew of television shows that you probably never would have guessed were shot on a green screen. Did you know that The Mentalist (allegedly set in Sacramento), Monk (allegedly set in San Francisco), and CSI: Miami (allegedly set in Miami) are all mostly filmed here in Los Angeles?
Have you subscribed to The Impossible Cool yet? Once or twice each week this blog posts a fantastic (and rarely-seen) photo of a cultural icon. Check out this killer image of Sean Connery. See also: Iconic Photos

#FridayFive: Awesome Spaceships

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#FridayFive: Favorite States That Don’t End with the Letter A

View the Friday Five from February 12th, 2010

If you are (a) a man or (b) a woman, you should read Kay S. Hymowitz’ Love in the Time of Darwinism: A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.
Fascinating facts can be found with a statistical analysis of graffiti found at the University of Chicago Library.
I never knew there was a name specifically for the edges of uncut book pages.
In 1959 the Santa Susana Field Laboratory suffered a partial radioactive meltdown, leading to the contamination of the neighboring hills in Canoga Park. Now a group of Oak Park tenth-graders — Teens Against Toxins — are trying to reverse that contamination with a bake sale. (The cities of Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, and Chatsworth all have extremely high rates of cancers similar to only one other place in the world: Chernobyl.)
There are literally hundreds of t-shirts in my closet, and I swore I wouldn’t get any more. But I must have this one. (Maybe I will have one of my other ones turned into a sleeve for my MacBook Pro.)

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I’d like to see these foods do battle in some sort of Clogged Arteries Marathon: Deep Fried Butter and Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers vs. KFC’s new Bacon and Cheese Wrapped in Fried Chicken Breasts sandwich
Did you think the Super Bowl ads were too sexist? The Google Search was my favorite, but it’s tough to not love the Letterman/Oprah/Leno one, too. (The story behind it is great.)
I happen to think it’s pretty sweet that the highest-paid employee in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a bus driver.
Seeing a space shuttle launch in the night sky is truly epic. It’s much more awesome — and I mean that with the full force of the word — than a daytime launch. If you never got the chance, you probably won’t.
Curious men could count soon count their sperm from home. Good times!

2024-10-03: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

#FridayFive: Favorite Magazines

View the Friday Five from February 5th, 2010

Check out Slaughterhouse 90210, where erudite literary quotes meet TV screencaps!
“There are more possible chess games than the number of atoms in the universe.” — from a fascinating article by Garry Kasparov on the topic of playing chess with computers
If you’re addicted to Twitter, there are a bunch of tools you can use to monitor trends and (your own) statistics.
Terri Carlson is 45 and was born with a genetic immune disorder C-4 complement deficiency. She’s currently on COBRA health insurance but it runs out in a year, so she says she will marry you for your health insurance.
Probably Bad News is just like the Jay Leno “Headlines” bit. I saw a good one today: Homicide victims rarely talk to police.
Psssst! You can buy ten ampersands for $9.99 if you’re into that sort of thing.

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#FridayFive: Monopoly Properties

#FridayFive: Awesome Spaceships

#FridayFive: Favorite States That Don’t End with the Letter A

#FridayFive: Favorite Magazines

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