Friday, September 10, 2004
- Read: "Tomato Love," a short story by Cynthia Potts that reminds me of O. Henry's classic Gift of the Magi, only with a sweeter ending - and more Vitamin C.
- Register: to vote, that is, if you haven't already. All you have to do is download your state's mail-in voter registration PDF form [not available for ND and WY residents], mail it in, and you're done. What could be simpler? [via Locussolus]
- Click: This IS Grand and Darkroom have teamed up for the first TIG: Tales from Chicago Transit photo contest [click for details].
- Remember: Aaron, author of the blog Uppity Negro has died, an apparent suicide. R.I.P. [via Sour Bob]
- Chicago to become vanguard Big Brother city, as Mayor Daley annouces unprecedented citywide surveillance-camera plan [via Gapers Block]
- Tvindy shows you how to make quick-and-easy stained-glass windows, with spray foam insulation and Milk of Magnesia™ bottles. Cool.
- Werd! place to keep all those utterances and neologisms when people tell you, "that's not a real word!" I'd love to play Scrabble™ with The Dicshunary
- An illustrated how-to - turn your old Nintendo into a PC! [via Boing Boing]
- If you've got 14k to spare, there's a 288-round-per-second paintball Gatling gun with your name on it, on eBay [via Gizmodo]
- Straight out of the most futuristic manga, explore the Discovery Channel's interactive model of Tokyo's planned 3,330 ft.-high Sky City
- Another one for the size queens: Berlin's AquaDom, the world's tallest (5 stories high) vertical glass aquarium, with an elevator running through the middle [via Boing Boing]
- Personally, I love the way Anil Dash has redecorated his blog
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