Thursday, March 4, 2010

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When the Army stopped Niagara Falls. - io9
The pictures from 1969 are amazing.
A Programmatic Approach to Perfect Happiness - Escape Pod
A really interesting podcast about what it means to want what you want. NSFW
Detroit Board of Ed Chairman is a functional illiterate. - Detroit News (Laura Berman)
He even admits it too.
Random junk pieced together to make a city-wide WI-FI network - Gizmodo
"On the surface this is a tale of some clever University MacGyvers, a small place in Afghanistan, and a makeshift Wi-Fi network, but the greater idea is that people came together to provide a new method of communication to an area where Skype calls and quick Google searches weren't a common luxury. Sure, now the area is exposed to time wasters and Internet porn, but it's also been provided some new opportunities to learn and explore." How cool is that?