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I just came across some very cool mash-ups of old-school video game characters integrated into photographic images at Retro Gaming on real backgrounds, care-of the fubiz blog. For example:

I’d like prints of these. I could mix them into my home’s collection of framed travel and family photos…

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From John Mauldin’s Outside the Box: The Geopolitics Of China:
China has placed itself in a position where it has to keep its customers happy. It struggles against this reality daily, but the fact is that the rest of the world is far less dependent on China’s exports than China is dependent on the rest of [...]

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/mro20080303earth.html

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I would have liked to have this. The original source of 2600 Hz found in a cereal box. (And the cereal is pretty good, too.)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110255449502
Thanks to Donn Lee for pointing it out.

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Joe sent me yet another good link, to an article on GigaOm: Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation. It pretty much describes the way I work.
I recall when I was 16, my first IT job… I went to work because I wanted to play with routers and servers but I just couldn’t afford to buy [...]

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Today Cisco announced a small change to their corporate Internet Postings Policy. The change states that Internet postings that discuss topics relevant to Cisco’s business must include a statement of affiliation (i.e. the poster works for Cisco) and a disclaimer that the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Cisco. Overall this is a reasonable [...]

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“Maybe netizens are too busy enjoying the new social and cultural freedoms offered by the internet to care about politics.”
-from The Economist, as quoted in this post to the Intelligent People mailing list

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