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…snorkeling rocks!... my first snorkeling expedition ever. At first, I was blown away at the clarity of what I could see under the water and the ease with which I could breath (I expected to swallow a lot of water). Then, I was completely freaked out at the shear number …

*David Pescovitz: This person assembled mechanical logic gates from Lego [via]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"}* [Boing Boing]

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*Advertising Ridiculum Does anybody remember when magazines used to put the table of contents just inside the front cover…Is there a limit to how much magazines are willing to annoy their readers to please their advertisers? via* Eric.Weblog()

The answer is “No, there is not a limit.” The …

A giant swell has rolled in and the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is on, with 20-ft. plus waves (that means wave-faces of 30+') in Waimea Bay! Checkout the action. I'm on deadline, otherwise I would have burned up some Hawaiian Airlines frequent flyer miles to jump over to Oahu …

It's the guy in back that makes the photo.

I'm not even going that I'll get around to reading A history of the first multiethnic upwardly mobile society in America, but the NY Times Notable Books of the Year are out. Here are the fiction ones that look good to me (basically, this is just a reminder to myself …

[The Mountain of Worthless Information] mentioned this but their link was wrong. Important paper.

Ritchie WetNotes are fantastic. They're waterproof paper. So waterproof that you can use them SCUBA diving. So there are some reef-fish whose fieldmarks are really hard to remember, and I have computer notes and drawings. So I thinks to myself, “Self,” I thinks, “I wonder if you can use your …

Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons is better than I expected. It's not Bonfire of the Vanities or A Man in Full, but below-average Wolfe is still better than 90% of the stuff being passed off for literature nowadays, such as the execrable The Rule of Four which would never …