Feed Sift (05/22/2015)

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WEBURBANIST.COM -- Old New Jersey Factory to House Earth’s Largest Vertical Farm

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- Elevator Walls Show the Evolution of New York’s Skyline as You Ride to the 102nd Floor of 1 WTC

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ENGADGET.COM -- Researchers Can Now 3D-print Nose Cartilage in 16 Minutes - Weird, but cool

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LIFEHACKER.COM -- How to Recover From an Unproductive Day Like It Never Happened

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SETHGODIN.TYPEPAD.COM -- Demand Higher Standards - Yeah!!!!

Feed Sift (04/24/2015)

Hooray, Friday! Have a read, have a look, hopefully you find something cool - I thought they were all cool.

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WEBURBANIST.COM -- Adaptive Architecture: 12 Transforming & Convertible Buildings

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TECHBLOG.NETFLIX.COM -- Netflix Hack Day - Winter 2015

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ENGADGET.COM -- Underwater Aussie wave farms pump both power and water

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TWISTEDSIFTER.COM -- Iron Man Delivers a Real Bionic Arm to 7 Year-Old Alex

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DESIGNFILE.ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM -- Alfresco

Worth Repeating: Allan Savory

“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And it's happening to about two-thirds of the world’s grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert. More on TED.com...

Why I'm posting this: This is phenomenal - turning desert into pastureland.  Not just theory, he's doing it.

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1. LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- I Need to Get Paid For This

2. INHABIT -- Yunak Evleri Is a 5-Star Hotel Built Into Ancient Caves - including photo gallery. wild. I want to go to there.

3. MASHABLE -- 3 Things Brands Must Do to Reach Millennials Online

4. UNCLUTTERER -- Pursuing the Life You Desire

5. LIFEHACKER -- Drag and Drop Files Into Chrome to Upload Them Faster - small but brilliant tip

6. CLICKER -- The World is Watching: The State of Online Videos

7. CHOW DOWN SEATTLE -- Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars - these look good.

8. LOSE IT! BLOG -- Lose It! 3.5 Available in App Store - some great updates, including the ability to share foods and recipes (and lots more)

9. CNET NEWS -- Blockbuster laughed at Netflix partnership offer

10. ENGADGET -- Chevy Volt starts shipping to customers, most of whom forgot they ordered one last decade

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1. LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- Have I Turned a Little Grinchy?

2. ANDY SERNOVITZ -- Give Microsoft a Break

3. MASHABLE -- ViddyJam Is a Pandora for All YouTube’s Music Videos - disclaimer: haven't tried it myself, just sounds really cool

4. LIFEHACKER -- Adopt the 30/30 Minute Work Cycle to Increase Focus -- Interesting idea for students and freelancers

5. CROSSCUT -- Financially strapped Seattle Center is owed more than $1 million in back rent

6. GOOGLE VOICE BLOG -- Santa's Calling (Note: right now, it says "Virginia" if you select "Washington" - I've let them know.)

7. SETH GODIN -- Where's Your Platform?

8. INHABIT -- Earthworms Could Be Used to Clean Up Hazardous Toxins in Soil

Kawah Ijen by Night (The Big Picture)
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9. ENGADGET -- European carriers want content companies and smartphone makers to pay network usage fees - boo!

10. THE BIG PICTURE -- Kawah Ijen by night (photo of a crater lake of sulfuric acid - ON FIRE!)

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1. LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- Tardiness

2. THE PUGET SOUND TRAIL -- PLU Sets Example with Composting Program

3. FIREFOX LIVE -- Firefoxes (aka Red Pandas) -- adopted by Mozilla (makers of Firefox) - live streaming cameras

4. RAZOO -- We Take Water for Granted

5. SEATTLE TRANSIT BLOG -- Beyond Unbrellas

6. SETH GODIN -- Living With Doubt

7. ANDY SERNOVITZ -- Career Advice: Learn to Edit

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1. LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- Home Sweet Home

2. SETH GODIN -- Your Noise is Still Noise

3. ENGADGET -- MIT developing smart adaptive LED lighting system to reduce energy use by up to 90 percent

4. INHABIT -- Forget Black Friday, Could You Give Up Shopping for a Year?

5. SEATTLE TRANSIT BLOG -- A Glimpse of a More Sustainable Seattle

6. SEATTLE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION -- Design Concepts for Elliott Bay Seawall Project

7. NEWS ON A UNNAMED PORTAL -- Online Feedback May Boost Weight-Loss Success

8. tvjames x blog -- Word - yes, self-referential, but I need more comments and likes on this one. That was a lot of work and I'm especially proud of it.

9-10. Videos - Fun with math and a giggling two-year-old

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1. LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- Indulgent Breakfast Recipe

2. INHABIT -- Abu Dhabi Announces Green Hotel For Wildlife Resort

3. FURTHER DISPATCHES -- I’m on “How I Met Your Mother” Tomorrow - old news now, yeah.

4. ENGADGET -- Hack turns Kinect into 3D video capture tool - this is pretty cool. Now he just needs multiple ones so that he isn't as two-dimensional.

5. LIFEHACKER -- A Menu with Healthy Options May Make You Choose Unhealthier Meals

6. SETH GODIN -- When You Criticize My Choices...

7. I, CRINGLEY -- The Decline and Fall of Email

8. MSNBC -- One scientist's hobby: recreating the Ice Age

9-10 - Videos - Mario but not where and how intended and T-Mobile welcomes people home

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LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- Potpourri

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CROSSCUT -- Piling on: City Council set to vote on new electricity rate increase

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ENGADGET -- Mercedes-Benz SLK gets Magic Sky Control roof, turns transparent at the touch of a button

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FUTURE DISPATCHES -- No Matter What Toys I Buy…

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INHABIT -- Gold Nanoparticles Could Transform Trees Into Street Lights

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LIFEHACKER -- Nutrition Professor Loses Weight on Twinkies; Cutting Calories Still Gold Standard of Weight Loss

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MASHABLE -- Will “Daily Beast” Merger Save “Newsweek”?

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MSNBC -- Companies yank cord on residential phone books

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NEW YORK TIMES -- The Special Pain of a Slow Disaster

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SETH GODIN -- I Spread Your Idea Because...

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The Inhabit Edition...

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INHABIT -- World’s First Wireless Electric Car Charger Launched In UK -- So they're still trying to design car charging stations and someone comes along and says "Nah, all we need is a parking place." Nice.

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INHABIT -- Creating Roads From Sand and Bacteria Instead of Oil

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INHABIT -- Massive Solar Serpent Winds Along the Santa Monica Freeway

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INHABIT -- Clay Birdhouse Shingles Turn Your Roof Into a Roost - haha. funny.

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INHABIT -- The Urbee Hybrid is the World’s First 3-D Printed Car

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INHABIT -- MIT Unveils Portable Solar-Powered Water Desalination System

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INHABIT -- Amtrak To Buy 70 High Speed Electric Trains For $466 Million

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Lightning GT

INHABIT -- Painting Wind Turbines Purple Will Save Wildlife

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INHABIT -- Lightning GT Electric Supercar to UK Streets in 2012 -- it looks like a toy in this photo, but there are other cool photos

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INHABIT -- An Elevated Highway Farm to Feed Chicago

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LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- Who, Who, Who Made This Owl?

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INHABIT -- Poo Power: Chicken Manure to Power UK Homes

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MSNBC -- SF supervisors pass 'Happy Meal' regulations

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I, CRINGELY -- Act Two: The Cringely Startup Tour Gets Back on the Road

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ENGADGET -- Driverless electric van cruises 8,000 miles from Italy to China without stopping for directions

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UNCLUTTERER -- Unitasker Wednesday: Doughnut To-Go - cool. A doughnut carrier!

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MASHABLE -- Did Facebook Popularity Predict Election Results?

-8-10- Videos after the break... Amazing Lego-work, Keyboard Cat joins a big name band, a guy fixes computer problems during a presentation

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LAST PERSON BLOGGING -- The Big 4-0

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THE NEWS TRIBUNE -- New life begins for Hylebos Creek

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ENGADGET -- Mount Everest now 'wired' for Internet, ready for Starbucks

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LIFEHACKER -- Keep a Constant Flow of Electricity to Your Printer to Save Ink and Even Electricity

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I, CRINGELY -- The Chinese Decade but Indian Century

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MSNBC -- Pontiac shifts into park after 84 muscular years

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SETH GODIN -- Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart - cool

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GOOGLE APPS -- Version 3.0 of the Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes tool is now available <-- this one's for my colleagues Pepper and Rebecca. I'm just sayin'. -9- SEATTLE DAILY PHOTO -- West Seattle Mailbox - cool. Me and M.B. Miller once made a ferry for small cars. It had hinged ramps, railings strong with wires.

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INHABIT -- Nespresso Batteries Made from Used Coffee Capsules

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GOOGLE -- The World is Full of Interesting Things - 120 slides of videos and websites and art and stuff. (Plan some time before visiting this link.)

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CNET NEWS -- Empire State Building refaced for savings

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MASHABLE -- What Kind of Geek Are You?

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INHABIT -- Microbes in the Gulf May Eat More Gas Than Previously Thought

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HOLLAND AMERICA -- Sweepstakes for a 7-day Alaska cruise (does mean requesting a copy of the Alaska vacation planner)

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CROSSCUT -- Checking in on Seattle's Giving -- Seattle (at 7) is one of 15 cities worldwide with more than 5 charities in Chronicle of Philantropy Top 400.

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ENGADGET -- Bus that travels over traffic longs for US embrace, designer seeks stateside collaborators

-8-10- Videos after the break... Bashed bumblebee, mimic robot and lego creation builds lego creations

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MASHABLE -- Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years

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ANDY SERNOVITZ (expanding on **** MY DAD SAYS) -- “Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile... - yeah, coarse, but a good point

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IMHABIT -- Ultra-Compact “Near House” is a Small Space Marvel in Japan

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FRANK CHIMERO -- How to Have An Idea - possibly one of the coolest things I've shared.

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SEATTLE TRANSIT BLOG -- On Bicyclist Safety - more bikes = safer roads

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CNET NEWS -- Facebook offers one-time passwords

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WOOT -- Snohomish-Style Sportsmanship

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I, CRINGELY -- License to Print Money

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UNCLUTTERER -- A place for everything, and everything in its place

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BASIC INSTRUCTIONS -- Something that mocks Oregon or something

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MASHABLE -- “Zoolander” to Make a Comeback as Web-Based Cartoon - really?!?!? Why??!!?

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INHABIT -- San Diego to Unveil Nation’s Largest Wind-Powered LED Light Show

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ANDY SERNOVITZ -- What if you fired all the average performers? - woah

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WEEPLACES -- Cool Foursquare Visualizer - I haven't traveled enough since joining Foursquare.

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SETH GODIN -- Change and its constituents (there are two, and both are a problem)

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LIFEHACKER -- “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with." - something to think about

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WANDERFLY -- Want to get away? Cool site. Plug in a departure location, price range, length of stay and it finds suitable destinations.

-8-10- Videos after the break... All about the quick fun -- color-shifting anime, some fancy tea-work and endless micro-machines.

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INHABIT -- Skylifter Balloon Can Lift Entire Buildings and Put ‘Em Down Gently - too bad we're going to be completely out of helium soon

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CROSSCUT -- Giving time instead of doing time, offenders save the city $65,000 - misleading headline. One project saved was $65k. Overall, program seems to have saved $2mil.

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FACEBOOK -- More Ways to Stay Secure

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ANTHROPOLOGIE -- Street Scene - Not a site I regularly visit, but one of the blogs I read mentioned the interesting way they're showcasing some clothes and I agree. Kinda neat.

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SMITH FAMILY JOURNEY -- A Smack in the Face (In a Good Way)

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GOOGLE -- The Wind Cries Transmission - explanation of the offshore mid-Atlantic wind farm that Google's investing in

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ENGADGET -- Television networks block Google TV from accessing web-based content - old media still doesn't get it.

-8-10- Videos after the break... a parkour dog, a boxing cat and volunteer MP3 drones...

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MASHABLE -- - 65% of people think President Obama is out of touch (and other facts)

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INHABIT -- Ancient Italian town completely powered by renewable energy - has allowed it to eliminate local taxes, among other things.

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NICE ONE -- Flight and Expulsion - cool interactive guide to citizenship changes - especially the "Connections" tab

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LIFEHACKER -- What "Free Public Wi-Fi" is and why you should avoid it

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SETH GODIN -- Heroes and Mentors

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SEATTLE TIMES -- 'Walking school bus' is on a roll

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CNET NEWS -- Amazon launching mini e-book section: Kindle Singles

-8-10- Videos after the break... surfing fail, The Depressions, self-driving car.

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MASHABLE -- Americans Consuming More News, Thanks to the Internet

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INHABITAT -- Wave Power Lights Up U.S. Electrical Grid For First Time

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ENGADGET -- DARPA's Transformer TX 'flying Humvee' project gets off the ground and Flying Humvee a step closer to reality, still seems like a really bad idea

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TV BARN -- Countdown to Coco: Why Max really left, test shows, new ads

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I, CRINGLEY -- Spies Like Us

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MASHABLE -- 92% of U.S. Toddlers Have Online Presence

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LIFEHACKER -- Schedule Your Work to Avoid Choking Your Calendar with Interruptions

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CNET -- Cars: The Next Hacking Frontier?

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And they only had two rehearsals. (There's about 200 people involved.)



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Autotuning the dog. Funny.

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MASHABLE -- 11 Astounding Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True

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INHABIT -- Google Invests in Shweeb’s Peddle-Powered Bike Monorail

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ENGADGET -- Jaguar C-X75 is the 780bhp electric supercar we've all been waiting for, likely to keep us waiting

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CROSSCUT -- Why is transportation in the driver's seat?

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THE HIGHER CALLING -- At Least - two very pointless words

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MASHABLE -- Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Cinema Edition - Wow - a treasure trove - card tricks, cell phone movie trailers (one with Jack Black), some of the earliest color movie tests from 1922, an awesome "making of" short from Goonies, Charlie Chaplin in a lion's cage, Lord of the Rings Bloopers and more.

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INHABIT -- NYC Mayor Bloomberg Announces Green Roof Initiative

-8-10- Videos after the break. Pizza!Pizza! (and pizza and pizza and pizza and pizza and pizza), a curvy escalator and a hillarious Power Rangers fail that you'll watch multiple times...

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CNET -- Hotel to guests: Pedal for electricity, get a voucher

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INFINITE FRONTIER -- (via Skip) NASA 747 pilot shares experience carrying the space shuttle - there are a bunch of comments suggesting this isn't true, but still a great read

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WASHINGSTON STATE HIGHWAYS -- Washington State Route 106

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MASHABLE -- What Types of People Raise Money for Web Startups?

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CROSSCUT -- The Texas model vs. the Seattle model

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INHABIT -- NYC Dumpster Pools Make a Splash with All Ages!

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CHEAP mumble CONDOS -- SoHo Townhomes (Atlanta Ga.) - I love that CSC is gaining notoriety beyond Seattle for its critiques of bad condos.

-VIDEOS- After the break... some great graphics on an iPhone, a racing video game recreated in the physical world, a new NASA robot