Battle of Surfaces

Don't know how many of you are tennis fans, but I meant to post this awhile ago. Pretty cool idea and it happens soon, though it appears the main site is down.

here's the basic idea though

My money's on Federer.

Spy Games

CIA sneaks hostages out of Iran. link

Random links

So it turns out the Japanese are actually dumber than Americans. link

Here's a cool map of the world in relation to countries that supply WalMart's products.

Bee art. I don't if you guys heard, but bees are disappearing.

That Was The Desk I Chose To Die Under

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041802824.html?hpid=to

I'm a little late on this, but fantastic journalism.

The Kaye Effect

TED Talk

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92

I came across this on one of my podcasts on the drive back from Charleston. -Zach

Lending to the Poor

I don't know if you have heard about the book Banker to the Poor. The author, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, won the Noble Prize this past year. It is about Micro-Lending and why it is a good idea. It is is on my list of books to read.

Anyway here is a website where we can actually help out:
http://kiva.org/

Random

An optical illusion:
http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html

Also a nice Snoop Dogg quote explaining how he's different from Imus

"It's a completely different scenario. [Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about hos that's in the 'hood that ain't doing shit, that's trying to get a nigga for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them muthafuckas say we in the same league as him."

Best Job Ever

Here's a great article on climbing redwoods. I bet it's so much fun.

Oh State "Grads"

http://thebiglead.com/?p=2139

Mario Williams -- 200 mph on I-40. Genius.

Finally, I've met my equal...

http://deadspin.com/sports/beer-pong/beer-pong-has-its-lebron-james-252409.php

-Win

David Blaine Street Magic Hilarious

1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxu_MQSTTY

2
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1753653

hilarious...must watch

plays the shooter wrote

rare posting, i know

these are two plays that the VT shooter wrote in his class that made his peers think he could be a school shooter...

Richard McBeef

Mr. Brownstone

Give me four beers

the embedded player didn't work....try this

They hire dogs to burn down hospitals

A Man Among Wolves

A poor man's Grizzly Man...still very interesting.

"Maverick researched Shaun Ellis raises abandoned wolf cubs and teaches them by example how to survive in the wild."

Link to website, has videos

Monday April 16th at 9 PM on the National Geographic Channel.

I will be in Chapel Hill this on Monday night, so maybe we can all watch this together.

There will never be another Grizzly Man.

Human Giant

There is a show on MTV called Human Giant, it is really funny. Human Giant is actually a group of 3 guys that have been working together for a while.

One of the 3 cast members is this guy Aziz Ansari, who I have been following on the stand-up comedy/improv scene for a few years. I feel bad that he sold out to MTV, especially because he was doing improv and standup at some really cool bars in NYC.

Even though he did sell out to MTV, the comedy is still great.

I found a few youtubes, hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhNDrBN3_Uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xckVwxVjG4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkE58BwiMqs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sedQiRwtSJk
there are more but you can look them up

Troy Hurtubise

The back story: http://outside.away.com/magazine/0597/0597grizzlies.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CzYw5-qdA&mode=related&search=

Current day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mngefPbBEFY

There's a documentary about this guy that I'd like to watch.

There and Back Again

I travel a lot and found this interesting...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_paumgarten

Web 2.0

Google Earth adds conflict info: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/04/10/google.genocide/index.html
They show mountain top removal as well.

Due to the fact that my job requires many hours of mindless pipetting I've started downloading podcast (which I think work for poeple without ipods). I've really gotten into TED talks http://ted.com/tedtalks/, but there's a ton of stuff out there (all of it free). I haven't tried this out yet, but UC Berkeley does podcast for their courses http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978417. I think this could be a really neat way to learn.

Also, I've been playing around with Google Reader. It's pretty damn cool. Everyone should check it out.

Cannibal! The Musical

Chances are I've extolled the virtues of this movie to you all before, but I have recently been re-enlightened as to its genius. Having now said that, I'm confident none of you will watch it and those that do will hate it. But hell, you guys like Southpark, so give it a chance.

Clip

Back Story

Music/lyrics

Good article

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8956457

Pretty interesting piece about using bacteria to treat depression (and other things).
-W

Are humans hard-wired for faith?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/04/neurotheology/index.html

Zach and I had a class on the philosophy of religion in which we discussed the possibility of humans being hard-wired to believe in a higher power. If you find this article interesting you should really google the topic because it really is fascinating.

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Here's an article along those same lines, but goes into greater detail. -Zach

http://richarddawkins.net/article,688,Darwins-God,Robin-Marantz-Henig-NYTimescom

What Really Ruined Baseball

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/opinion/02bradbury.html

"It's just a style."

hope you guys saw this before youtube pulled it yesterday (well, pulled the last thirty seconds about doggy style, which was absolutely fucking hilarious). the international trailer is actually better, too

Free Wireless Internet from Google

http://www.google.com/tisp/