Archive: March 14, 2005

Monday, March 14, 2005

1. Welcome to GIANTmicrobes!

   We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes—only a million times actual size! Now available: The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, Cough, Ear Ache, Bad Breath, Kissing Disease, Athlete's Foot, Ulcer, Martian Life, Beer & Bread, Black Death, Ebola, Flesh Eating, Sleeping Sickness, Dust Mite, Bed Bug, and Bookworm (and in our Professional line: H.I.V. and Hepatitis).

   Check out the Black Death and other calamities. Notice the utensils on the flesh eating bacteria. Too funny. Via Katie.

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2. lgf: Hundreds of Thousands Protest Syria. Wow. The thing they did with the tile flag is so cool.

   Publius Pundit has a ton more.

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3. Interview with Donald Knuth | Lambda the Ultimate (to listen!). Not sure I knew that Knuth is a Christian.

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4. WHEDONesque: X-Men 3 Director named - Not Whedon. Sigh.

   Also, for more Whedonverse stuff, this Julie Benz interview (via) was fun. I have to link to it half because Julie Benz is gorgeous.

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5. POPjisyo.com - Dictionary Translation Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Kanji/Hanzi. Pretty awesome.

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6. Rosetta Stone for Unix, "A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator"

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