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+ Sat, July 31

→ The 1984 Presidential Results – 525-13, WOW

+ Fri, July 30

→ So this is why Gill Sans never looks good when I use it…
→ Handy: Very informative NYTimes guide to the elections – They will update until the election also.
→ Will Ferrell as George Bush in White House West
→ Of Montreal’s cover of The Shins’ “Know Your Onion!” – Kevin Barnes is the new James Mercer
→ New heart pumps to drop support for “The Human Pulse”

+ Thu, July 29

→ Ed Helms is not Matt Haughey

+ Wed, July 28

→ Ozma, 1995-2004

+ Tue, July 27

→ Turn your iPod into a remote control – Extraordinarily cool
→ 99 Red Balloons, German & English compared – Not as different as people say
→ From the Ridiculous Headline Dept: Magpies set to sign Butt
→ A good look at the similarity of various site designs

+ Mon, July 26

→ Damnit: MT 3.1 comes out just as soon as I get on the 3.0 bandwagon
→ Cameron Moll and wise design sense
→ Swifty the Democratic delegate donkey
→ Technorati redesigns – And Tantek explains all
→ Real Networks coerces iPod to play its proprietary format – This could be really awful for Apple.  We’ll see about the kicker: ease of use.
→ Salon’s cliff notes to Donnie Darko – Definitely reading this next time I see the movie.
→ The ranked 86,800 most common words in the English language – With #86,800 being a Spanish word.
→ Mike Davidson has some interesting Apple predictions

+ Sun, July 25

→ Canadian Music Industry out-does RIAA in terms of Bastardosityness.
→ RIAA satisfies settlement by giving libraries hundreds of cd’s no one will listen to – Thankfully, they’re surely acting in the interest of the consumer.  Willenium, anyone?
→ ESA tests tracking Tour de France riders from space via GPS – Interesting followup (and a movie) found here

+ Fri, July 23

→ Seti@home predicts detection of aliens within 20 years – Looks like I’m going to break 10,000 units after all…
→ You Have Bad Taste In Music – Music bigotry taken to all new — and all hilarious — levels
→ Bono: We’ll release new album early on iTunes if it’s leaked to the P2P networks
→ Typographically swearing

+ Thu, July 22

→ Ars Technica review of Airport Express – 8/10 for the little music streaming wifi hot spot from Apple.
→ Beautiful images from Apollo 11
→ 9/11 Commission: Outline of the plot
→ This is my boss’s great uncle – “Murder, Inc.”, “Chief Executioner”, “lifelong devotion to homicide”
→ Monkey almost dies, walks upright – Check out that picture, what a shot.

+ Wed, July 21

→ An election predictor that pulls data from state polls

+ Tue, July 20

→ Jenna Bush, future US delegate to the UN trying out daddy’s tricks
→ Beautiful fireworks photos – From the ever-talented Jason Zada
→ The now-ubiquitous This Land movie
→ Build your own iPod speakers with playing cards and an Altoid case