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• words and rice
  Here's a way to increase your word power [attention scrabble lovers] and help feed the poor: free rice. It's linked to poverty.com. Thanks to Zachary for the link.
  
  
• rhino party
  The rhino... actually the neorhino party is back. Or maybe I'm just a little jaded with our and political system... but you have to love a party with a platform that includes:

  Replace soldiers’ weapons with paintball guns;
  Create a national gas-barbecue registry; and
  replace the Defence Department with a Ministry of Laughter.
  
  Like the old Rhinos, the party has no clear political ideology except for two deep beliefs: something’s seriously wrong with the state of modern politics, and Canadian public discourse could use a lot more fun.
  
  "We are a Marxist-Lennonist party - based on the philosophy of Groucho Marx and John Lennon,” said party president Francois Gourd.
  
  Beneath the thick veneer of gags, the party raises a serious point: people are so disenchanted with politics that almost 40 per cent of Canadians no longer bother voting in federal elections.

  via bene diction blogs on
  
  
• Style
  Jason Salavon's Field Guide to Style & Color, a reproduction of the 2007 Ikea catalog with everything but the structure and color excluded.
  
• Map
  A graphic representations of who has the oil.
  
  
• hypercube
  

  This is too freaking kewl. A tesseract--that is to say--a hypercube. It's the four dimenensional analog of a cube. That is, it is to a cube what a cube is to a square. And this is a 3 dimensional projection (it's shadow) being rotated. It's hard to get your head around becase we not only have the fact that we're trying to imagine the 3 dimensional shadow of a four dimensional object, but we also have the fact that we are attempting to portray that 3 dimensional shadow on your two dimensional computer screen. Someday, I suppose, assuming we find fixes for peak oil and global warming, among other things (peak water?!!?) maybe we'll have holo-monitors for our computers. But not yet. 8-cell-simple.gif
  

  via oxymoronreduncancy
  
  
• bluetooth
  A great video clip on how to deal with annoying bluetooth phone guys