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Kiss your morning goodbye.
We posted the link this morning, but I am so addicted to it, I felt the need to share again. The visual in this post gives you a bit better idea of what you’re about to get sucked into.This is too cool. Hoopism.com broke down every NBA slam dunk contest (1984 to 2010) by dunk, year, and score. You can see video footage of the actual dunk by clicking on the circles in the graph.
The coolest part of the interface is being able to quickly get to any dunk without having to search through hours of video.
You don’t leave the page to see the videos. Click the pic and check it out.
Ben Franklin’s 200+ Synonyms for “Drunk”
We’re going to go ahead and say that “He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone” is the best Revolutionary term for drunkenness.
Ben Franklin turned 305 today! To celebrate, here’s a list of expressions meaning “inebriated” that Franklin first published in…in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737.
The Drinkers Dictionary
A
He is Addled,
He’s casting up his Accounts,
He’s Afflicted,
He’s in his Airs.
B
He’s Biggy,
Bewitch’d,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz’d,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss’d in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock’d,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He’s Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He’s kiss’d black Betty,
He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
He’s Bridgey.
Girl Talk is Awesome (and featured in NYTimes Magazine)
If you havent downloaded the new Girl Talk album, drop everything you’re doing and get it now. (photo link below)
Sunday’s NYT Magazine had a great profile on Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis).
Imagine old, bald Pete Townshend shuffling gingerly onstage as a synth burbles up behind him — “Let My Love Open the Door.” Now imagine the rapper Pimp C already on that stage, in a white fur suit and hat, holding up four fingers to show off his bling. A kick line of girls in black minishorts walks it out for DJ Unk, who’s rapping about a kick line of girls, then Levon Helm appears on a drum riser to chirp out “The Weight.” Also onstage: Jay-Z, Black Sabbath, Rick Springfield, Kesha, Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus, the Ramones and Tupac and Biggie Smalls (both back from the dead) and hundreds more. In the audience are a few thousand fans jammed together beneath a blinding light show, waving their arms as rolls of toilet paper and explosions of confetti fall around them. You sense they’re feeling the same freedom, daring and camaraderie that they might at a house party when someone’s parents are away. This is pretty much the state of affairs at a Girl Talk show these days.
Girl Talk is the stage name of the 29-year-old Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis.
In November, Gillis and his label, Illegal Art, released the fifth Girl Talk album, “All Day,” as a free download. Within 24 hours, several sites had posted annotations of “All Day,” cataloging the samples on the album —there are 373 of them. Download traffic was so heavy that MTV News ran the headline “Girl Talk Apologizes for Breaking the Internet” — hyperbole, but not far from the truth. Illegal-art.net reports that “All Day” was downloaded so often that the servers crashed. In Girl Talk’s honor, Pittsburgh declared Dec. 7, 2010, “Gregg Gillis Day.”
Take a moment and think about that. 372 samples. THAT’S INSANE. It’s truly a remarkable album. So clever. So well produced. Here’s something almost as cool. A visualization of each sample looped in realtime. Mind. Blown.
Gmail Priority Inbox is a game-changer. It’s just awesome.
From the Gmail blog….
People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn’t outright junk but isn’t very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we’ve evolved Gmail’s filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this “bologna” from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.
Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:
As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the 
or 
buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. (You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.)
After lots of internal testing here at Google, as well as with Gmail and Google Apps users at home and at work, we’re ready for more people to try it out. Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so. Once you see the “New! Priority Inbox” link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.
100 greatest insults.
A well-spent ten minutes.
indeed it is.
Since it’s hot outside, let’s kick it up a notch.
Vanity Fair has a lovely interview (and photo shoot) with America’s sideline princess-Erin Andrews.
I cannot wait for the college football season to start again. I’ve been missing Erin’s brilliant analysis.
These Are the Oldest Photons In the Universe
This is the entire view sky as seen from Earth, taken by the Planck observatory during a whole year. In the center, the microwave radiation of our galaxy, the Milky Way. But that’s not the important part.
The image, which has been created using data covering the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 to 857 GHz, shows something more important than our home galaxy. See those yellow dots over dark red? These are the oldest photons in the universe, which scientists believe formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when things started to cool and atoms started to form.
That noise is called Cosmic Microwave Background, “the primordial radiation emitted during the very early stages of the Universe, and its tiny temperature fluctuations, reflecting the seeds from which cosmic structures would later form and subsequently evolve.” [ESA]
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