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BBC Radio iPhone Streams

'the stream addresses of BBC National Radio stations, so that you can listen to the BBC on the move using an iPhone or iPod Touch.' Not sure this works for people outside the UK, but I'm really excited to find it. Now I can listen to the cricket on my phone… genius!

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Leah Evans Textiles

Quilts with map designs. via MAKE.

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Penguin Photography » Antarctica Among the Penguins

'Photographing penguins is at once ridiculously easy and frustrating. My 300mm lens is, often, too much magnification. I keep backing up, and the penguin I’m concentrating on keeps following me, so we chase each other around the colony.'

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Tesla_coil_sparks

fun with sparks!

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LRB · Donald MacKenzie: End-of-the-World Trade

Good article in the LRB explaining some of the reasons why the world's financial system has gone into spasm. Every time I read another article about this stuff I feel I'm a little bit closer to understanding, but also that there's a whole world of complication out there the surface of which I have barely scratched.

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PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Masato Seto: The Sweet Allure of Betel Nut Beauties

A glass kiosk stands at the side of the highway, covered in gaudy neon lights. Inside, a young woman with her body more exposed than covered sits at a glass table, making something…. Today, Seto introduces us to the hidden world of betel nut (bīnláng) stands.

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YouTube – Kitten LOVES Broccoli

cute!

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BibliOdyssey: Day of the Dead – Papercuts

"In Mexico, papel picado (perforated paper), refers to the traditional art of decorative cut paper banners…. Many papel picado are made especially for the Mexican festival of the Days of the Dead and include skeletal figures engaged in the everyday activities of the living."

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