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kim jong-il looking at things

An entertaining and bizarre photo blog that is exactly what its title says: kim jong-il looking at things

NBC Sports snags Major League Soccer

The deal covers 45 games. The majority of the games will be on cable, but NBC will broadcast two regular-season games and two playoff games as well as appearances by the U.S. men’s national team. via latimes.com I’m not sure if todays announcement by NBC adds credence to the growth of soccer in the States or [...]

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Michael Bay’s letter to projectionists

FIlm

A letter from Michael Bay to movie theater projectionists is floating around the internet today. Bay is the second director (see also Tree of Life director Terence Malick) in recent weeks to communicate publicly and directly with theaters in regards to projection practices. Transcript of the letter: Hello I’m Micheal Bay, Director of Transformers – [...]

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Mexico eats USA in Gold Cup Final

Football

The US Men’s National Team suffered a sobering 4-2 defeat to Mexico in the Gold Cup Final on Saturday night. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA was host to over 90k soccer fans. The Good the first 20 minutes freddy adu national awareness of soccer The Bad clunky, predicatable playing style tim howard defensive line [...]

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The average color of the NYC skyline

Web Design

Neat web site nskyc.com/ represents the average color temperature of the New York City skyline via a colored tile. Every five minutes, a new photo is snapped and a color calculated. Mousing over the tiles reveals the color in hexadecimal format.

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WOOT NY Sales Tax Coupon Code

shopping

Ive been complaining about this the month Woot starting charging us NYers tax. There is no excuse for not disclosing this in the total cost first order screen. After all Woot, knows our zip code so they should just factor it in. Only on the last order screen does the tax show up. By that [...]

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