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These are my delicious links for July 29th through July 31st:

• Feral Homes – James Griffioen has a haunting collection of photos of homes and buildings being overtaken by vegetation in Detroit. I can't imagine walking the streets with these buildings, must be surreal.
• Photos of Chicago from the top of a Crane. – Ken Derry, crane operator for McHugh, has taken some amazing pictures of the Trump Tower during its construction.
• 202 Star Wars T-Shirts – A grand list of 202 Star Wars Shirts. Not ranked, just a missive listing.
• I'm pretty sure I stopped growing up in my teens and have been faking ever since. – One of the best XKCD's I've seen in a while.

These are my delicious links for April 27th:

• A crossbow to end all crossbows. – You want a crossbow that you can mount a grenade launcher too? One that will scare the person you aim it at so badly they'll pee themselves then die of fright? Want to pretend you're Snake-Eyes? (Because this is TOTALLY the crossbow he'd use. ) This is the one for you.
• First Deep Blue, now Watson. – I, for one, welcome our A.I. Overlords.
• ExpanDrive: Ridiculously simple SFTP and FTP drive access on your Mac – Mount your drives like a USB drive. Going to have to check it out.
• A total bad-ass Epitah. – I wish my Epitah could be one tenth as cool as Robert Allisons.
• Tim Dowling on how to tell an Iranian sniper from a Wookiee – Over the weekend Iranian snipers marched in the annual Army Day parade in Tehran in full camouflage, looking less like crack combatants and more like Wookiee extras from a forgotten Star Wars spin-off.
• Magnets are cool. – What happens when you drop a magnet super-slowly through a copper tube? Cool shit happens is what.

These are my delicious links for April 6th:

• Have you seen this cat? – I wish I've seen that cat.

These are my delicious links for March 23rd through March 24th:

• I need me some Lucha Keys – Brilliant key holders. Give your keys that same macho, heroic image you strive to achieve for yourself.
• Vintage Supermarket Photos – I particularly like the rack of hats, and all the various font treatments on the signs.
• best of craigslist : Survival Of The Fittest – I never really was aware of the M & M breeding program, and that the Blue M & M’s are genetically weak, but now I know.
• Lego: 52-pound Lego Mon Calamari Star Cruiser – If this 7-foot long model of the Mon Calamari flagship from Return of the Jedi—complete with integrated lighting—doesn’t impress you on first sight, consider this: It uses 30,500 bricks valued at $5,500.The stunning Lego model—created by Thomas Benedikt—was created to scale from the official Lego Star Destroyer, which is an impressive 3,104-piece beast on its own. According to Thomas, the ship was almost impossible to recreate in Lego because of the difficulty of its surfaces: There are no right angles at all.

These are my delicious links for March 2nd:

• English Poem, all about pronunciation. – If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be
  speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
  world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of
  hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

These are my delicious links for February 19th through February 20th:

• Why is my private folder visible in / ? – Mac Forums – I had this problem turn up the other day. Rather annoying, but a simple Terminal command will take care of it. "sudo chflags hidden /private" (the /private is the folder you want hidden).
• If you watch it backwards. – If you watch the Brady Bunch backwards, you find out they killed Oliver, and the grief over his "disappearance" caused the family to split with the mom taking the girls and the dad taking the boys.
• Cool Tools: NeoCube – A 6×6x6 cube of 216 small neodymium-iron-boron magnetic spheres which can be arranged into an amazing assortment of geometrical and non-geometrical shapes. You can create various polyhedra, even Buckyballs, and all kinds of familiar shapes, too. It's basically a 3D tangram on steroids.
• Tiny Art Director – Bill has been doing art based on the direction of his little girl, who then critiques the hell out of it. It's immensely hilarious, and well worth spending some time browsing his art.

These are my delicious links for February 11th through February 13th:

• Petzal: The Rules of Gunfighting | Field & Stream – 1. Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the ammunition you think you could ever need.

  2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap – life is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is cheap – funerals are expensive

• Star Trek Inspired Corset – Wow. Now I need myself a Capt. Kirk outfit to complete the role-playing experience this will entail. But certainly the most fun you can have playing Star Trek, I can guarantee you that.
• Shuron Eyewear – These are some eyeware frames I can get behind. There are about 5 I'm seriously looking at. The retro feel of them just appeals to me.
• Paper-Based Visualization Competition: The Winner and More … – Winners chosen for the Paper-Based Visualization. Some very nice entries, worth browsing.
• Mindfuck Movies – "Some movies inform. Some movies entertain. And some pry open your skull and punch you in the brain."
• Japanese Bladesmiths – A unique behind-the-scenes visit of the crafstmen who hammer out the best and most expensive kitchen knives in the world in the city of Sakai, Japan.
• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Arctic unicorns' in icy display – Nice video of these Narwhal. They're just odd. The BBC filmed the whales during their summer migration, as they navigated through cracks in the melting Arctic sea ice.

  The team believes this aerial footage, which forms part of the BBC Natural History Unit's new series Nature's Great Events, is the first of its kind.

• A House that Takes Outside/Inside to the Extreme | Design & Innovation … – I like this (in the proper climate). California architects of the 1970s were a big force in popularizing the idea of indoor/outdoor living, with houses that featured huge patios and glass-walled living rooms. But a new villa in Germany pushes the idea to its logical extreme.
• Phantom Corsair from 1938 – Boing Boing – Wow. Why don't they build cars like this? This is super-mega-fantatically-awesome. Seriously. Build this and jetpacks, so I can die happy.
• Surprising stories behind 20 Muppet characters – CNN.com – Fascinating. Did you know Oscar the Grouch was originally an alarming shade of orange. In Pakistan, his name is Akhtar and he lives in an oil barrel. In Turkey, he is Kirpik and lives in a basket. And in Israel, it's not Oscar at all — it's his cousin, Moishe Oofnik, who lives in an old car.

These are my delicious links for February 2nd:

• Sharpie Lamborghini – Impressive. They took a Lamborghini, painted it white then took a Sharpie to ALL of it, then painted a clear gloss coat over it to protect it. I love the effect. Very nice.
• Kurt Vonnegut Motivational Posters – True Terror is to wake up one morning and discover your high school class is running the country.

These are my delicious links for January 17th through January 18th:

• Dailymotion – Chance, a video from titounetsan. Chance, Compilation – Nice collection of "wouldyoulookatthat" moments.
• Please enjoy the stone sculptures of Hirotoshi Itoh – Very nice sculpture. (via Metafilter)

These are my links for September 18th from 18:02 to 18:23:

• 50 Greatest Charles Barkley Quotes – ROBERT LITTAL PRESENTS THE … – "Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full."– Barkley yelling to 300-plus-pound Houston Rockets teammate Stanley Roberts
• Don't tile your floor, draw on it. – Brilliant solution using cheap vinyl contact paper to liven up a kitchen.