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The Stardust Casino was imploded at around 2:30am, and I was watching from about 1,000 feet away when it happened, with a clear view. I have some pictures, but the video of the actual implosion didn’t come out – whatever, good video should be available in the morning. Pictures and details to follow.
(0) #3/13/2007
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The Stardust casino, most known for its somewhat fictionalized depiction in Martin Scorsese’s film Casino , [](<br) “http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6188154”>will be imploded tonight sometime between 1am and 5am. The four-hour window certainly makes it that more difficult for me to watch it go down.
(0) #3/12/2007
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The US Postal Service is putting out a line of R2D2-shaped mailboxes in honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars. Hopefully, they won’t enable mail fraud by revealing small parts of private messages to unintended recipients.
(0) #3/9/2007
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The US Postal Service is putting out a line of R2D2-shaped mailboxes in honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars. Hopefully, they won’t enable mail fraud by revealing small parts of private messages to unintended recipients.
(0) #3/9/2007
Henderson, NV is not walkable
Once again, I’m befuddled by Prevention magazine’s list of the most walkable cities. Last year, they comically put Las Vegas in the top ten, and this year – after perhaps being ridiculed for Vegas’s inclusion – they slipped in Henderson, NV at number 6.
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Name the 192 UN member states in 10 minutes. I got 101.
(0) #Don’t forget full names.(via kottke)3/5/2007
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Informational world maps, where statistics, such as alcohol consumption, determine how large a country appears in the map.
(0) #3/5/2007
The Boring Store
Dave Eggers and the *826 organization, who run a pirate supply shop in San Francisco and a superhero supply shop in NYC (I’ve only been to the former), are now opening a Chicago location: The Boring Store. The Boring Store is a purveyor of “openings, aperatures, punctures, perforations, pits, cavities, ditches, craters, crevices and just plan hollows.” It is not a secret agent supply store. (via kottke)
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Ed Burns and David Simon, the creators behind HBO’s now-recognized-as-the-best-show-ever The Wire , are developing for HBO a seven episode scripted miniseries following Marines in the early days of the Iraq invasion. I hope they bring the same subtly and complex realism that they’ve carried The Wire on. (via aicn)
(0) #3/1/2007
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Dave Eggers and the *826 organization, who run a pirate supply shop in San Francisco and a superhero supply shop in NYC (I’ve only been to the former), are now opening a Chicago location: The Boring Store. The Boring Store is a purveyor of “openings, aperatures, punctures, perforations, pits, cavities, ditches, craters, crevices and just plan hollows.” It is not a secret agent supply store. (via kottke)
(0) #3/1/2007
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A hippie talking about what seems like a far-fetched movie idea. Watch till the end – it pays off. (thx, jk)
(0) #3/1/2007
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“This is an extraordinary development,” said Dr. Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization’s AIDS department.
Heheheh. I generally consider myself an intactivist, but this one gives me some pause. Still, I think I lean on the side of scaling back abstinence-only education, coupled with a large birth control public relations campaign, before resorting to body modification. (thx, lorelei)
(0) #2/28/2007
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Free on Google video: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a 40-minute documentary interviewing Richard Feynman. (via bb)
(0) #2/28/2007
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I missed the beginning of last night’s Oscars ceremony, so I tracked down Errol Morris’s short interviewing the nominees on the official website. Poor, poor Peter O’Toole.
(0) #2/26/2007
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As cheesy as you might think the Oscar ceremony gets these days, nothing could be worse than this duet between Rob Lowe and Snow White at the 1989 Academy Awards. Nothing. (via scanners)
(0) #2/24/2007
Kucinich: "No strings!"
I watched some of the Democratic forum – hosted by AFSCME and held in Carson City, NV – on CSPAN yesterday while working. I laughed when the crowd booed George Stephanopoulos for “mispronouncing” Nevada, but I’ve been checking YouTube every few hours to see if someone posted my favorite part. Someone finally did:
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William T. Vollmann has a new non-fiction book coming out this month, Poor People -- an anecdotal “meditation on the nature of poverty,” spanning countries as diverse as Thailand, Russia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, the U.S., and Mexico.
(0) #2/21/2007
