Friday, August 20, 2004
- Jets, and copters, and boats, oh my! The Chicago Air and Water Show takes place along the city waterfront this Saturday and Sunday [via Chicagoist]
- Outfoxed opens in Chicago today at the Loews Esquire on Oak Street [via Gapers Block]
- Surprise, surpise: Exorcist IV - The Beginning really stinks [on Rotten Tomatoes]
- I love Japanese product packaging: so do the folks at FuckCorporateGroceries.
- How to make your own attractive origami-style folded circular gift box
- What's for dessert? Language laughs n' gaffes at Engrish.com.
- The GMail notifier pops up an icon on your system tray when you have incoming messages, and an unusual gallery of primate portrait photos by Jill Greenberg [via BoingBoing]
- MYMO makes an adorable kitten-shaped cell phone for U.K. kids (that only dials 5 numbers pre-programmed by parents) [via Gizmodo]
- A Ringo Starr imposter cons Florida media outlets, WordCount artistically ranks the 86,800 most popular words in the English language, and the World Famous Farting Nun Organ™ [via RubberNun]
- Great web tips and tricks on A List Apart
- "Show me your papers" Part II: a look at the national ID card debate on Vastly Important Notes
- White House Press Secretary calling for restrictions on political speech? A disturbing excerpt from a recent press conference on Volokh Conspiracy
- New Scientist reports that 1400 tonnes of submerged WW-II era bombs inside a Thames River shipwreck could cause one of "the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever"
- Feel like a heel? The Washington Post [reg. req.] declares:
"These are the sorts of shoes that tempt a woman into recklessness. Like scoundrel boyfriends, vodka-soaked olives and flourless chocolate cake, the shoes have little redeeming value other than a delicious, fleeting pleasure." [via Crescat Sententia]
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