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Posted by papi on May 31st 2009 in Outdoors
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Video of a recent glissade down the Avalanche Gulch face of Mt. Shasta with my climbing buddy Igor. Mt. Shasta is steep enough and well enough covered with snow, that the descent can be accomplished by just sitting down and sliding on the snow, arresting yourself with an ice-axe or hiking pole when necessary. Conditions are not always this good - when it’s icy, sliding can get dangerous, and when it’s too slushy, it’s hard to pick up speed. But this time everything fell into place, and we had a grand time.

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Posted by papi on May 19th 2009 in Agriculture, Disease, Food & Wine, Journalism, Movies, Politics, Science
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If we are what we eat, then it’s definitely worth watching this movie to figure out what we’re becoming.

Two of the main contributors are Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, both bestselling authors whose recent works have helped cast light on the greasy innards of our food supply machine.

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Posted by tafkap on April 17th 2009 in Art, Computers, Games, web2.0
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Our most controversial post.

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Posted by Suman on April 16th 2009 in Internet, Raves
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I just found out about the Wordle site, which allows you to create “word clouds” out of text passages (or web sites), with the most frequently occuring words showing up in the largest font. For example, here’s a preview of what my solar energy blog post’s word cloud looks like (click image for full-size view on the Wordle site, where you can create your own):

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Posted by papi on January 17th 2009 in History, Politics, USA
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Posted by anupcs on January 06th 2009 in History, Humor, web2.0
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Creative tweeting from a historical perspective. More at historicaltweets.com. Hat tip to @sreenet.

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Posted by wolfgang amadeus on December 18th 2008 in Comics
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. cough cough… BOOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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