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80s videos:

“80s videos - a huge list of links to 80s videos on Youtube. Not just mainstream stuff either, lots of neat alternative stuff. [via]

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MyTunesRSS:

“Filed under: Audio, Internet Tools, iTunes, Podcasting

MyTunesRSS turns your copy of iTunes into a podcasting machine. But Scott, I hear you say, iTunes already does podcasts, stupid. Yes, iTunes received podcasts but what if I told you MyTunesRSS can take your iTunes library (MP3’s and unprotected AAC’s) and create an RSS feed with enclosures (aka a podcast). You can podcast your entire library, or playlist by playlist. Pretty sweet.

I’m not sure how useful this is, but it is very cool.’ You can make your very own podcasting radio station. MyTunesRSS is written in Java, is cross platform, and is donationware.

[via Scripting News]

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10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers:

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How much is your domain worth?:

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We’re not sure how accurate it is, but LeapFish.com’s Domain Name Resource Center can estimate the value of any domain name.

‘This question is asked by many, but very few get a solid answer. This is because domain names rely entirely on demand and therefore the only indication as to value is what somebody will pay for it. Here at LeapFish, we have created a rating system which is based on various factors and ratings you may find individually for a domain name. This system is called a CVS (Combined Value Score). The CVS is created by compiling a score derived from several different factors and running them through our formula to end up with a number. This is your score.’

Lifehacker’s score is 239, giving an estimated actual value of just over $85,000. But we all know it’s priceless right?

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Senate Votes To Make English The Official Language of America:

“The vote was 63-34:

After a emotional debate fraught with symbolism, the Senate yesterday voted to make English the ‘national language’ of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already guaranteed by law.

The measure, approved 63 to 34, directs the government to ‘preserve and enhance’ the role of English, without altering current laws that require some government documents and services be provided in other languages. Opponents, however, said it could negate executive orders, regulations, civil service guidances and other multilingual ordinances not officially sanctioned by acts of Congress.

Here’s a bright idea. Instead of wasting time on ’symbolic’ measures, why doesn’t Congress do something about the millions of illiterate Americans who can’t read or speak English (and no, Rep. Tancredo, I’m not talking about Mexican immigrants).

Last year, the National Assessment of Adult Literacy found that 11 million adults were nonliterate in English. Another thirty million adults were literate only at the most basic level, meaning they had only the most simple and concrete literacy skills. ‘What’s the point of a law mandating all government papers be in English when millions of Americans still can’t read or comprehend the document anyway? Oh yeah, I know the point. It’s call midterm elections.

If Congress cares so damn much about the English language and having Americans learn English, maybe they should drop ’symbolic’ measures and start giving our educational system the attention it deserves so that we may finally rid ourselves of this scourge of illiteracy that is plaguing our nation.

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Really Bad Tattoos (Community and Lifestyle):

“Does it get any worse than a Clay Aiken tattoo? Some NSFW.”

Amazon Map:

“The Map Amazon Java applet allows you to see the Amazon books divided into topic clusters. You can use the scroll-wheel to zoom from a general level like ‘Technical’ down to the individual book level (where the applet gets pretty slow though). I want to see Google — or someone else — do this for the web… [Via Information Aesthetics.] (Full post)”

Creepy McDonalds ad in India:

“This one is from boingboing.com”

Old time swing dancer video set to hip-hop:

“Cory Doctorow:

This video shows a pair of extraordinary gifted swing dancers from some black-and-white era set to modern hip-hop with a lot of eerily serendipitous synch-ups between the music and the video. The dancing is nothing short of amazing and set to the contemporary music, it’s even nicer.

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(Thanks, Alice)

Update: AV sez, ‘If I am not mistaken (and I might be) that type of dance is called ‘Lindy Hop’ and those two dancers are Al Minns and Leon James.’

Update 2:A reader writes, ‘This one is Big Apple rather than Charleston/Lindy Hop.’

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Lenovo Waterproof Keyboard:

“Intern Travis just hates it when he spills the water from his smoking paraphernalia on his keyboard, and honestly, so do we. Lenovo demonstrated that their new keyboard technology can take a whole cup-full of water and keep on clacking.

After reading all those lame comments on Fark—lol omgz you owe me a keyboard!!11eleven!!111—we think there’s a huge market for this.

Lenovo water-proof keyboard [AVing]

How To Play Spoons:

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A quick guide to splaying the poons. Playing the spoons. What did we say? Anyway we’ve wondered about this since that Spoonman video from Soundgarden fifty billion years ago, but now that we know how to do it we’re still hard pressed to tell the difference between the sound of a trained spoon player and, say, throwing a buncha spoons in the clothes dryer.

David Holt — How To Play Spoons

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Sarah Freis sent in these signs she spotted on the L Train this morning. Has anyone seen any others?

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Trailer Doors Confuse Model and Cause Fall:

“A trailer transporting models to a fashion shoot became a trailer of near death, as one model fell onto the Gowanus Expressway at 50 MPH after accidentally opening an exit door. How did such a mistake occur? Tatyana Simanava had been using the trailer’s bathroom, which has two doors, one back to the trailer and one to the outside, useful for shoots once the trailer is safely parked. She apparently was ‘disoriented’ about which door she entered through and chose the wrong door to exit, dislocating a shoulder and suffering numerous other injuries in the process. A police source says ‘She could have easily gotten run over’ by other cars or the trailer itself, but luckily the driver of the trailer saw her fall out. That’s pretty scary - we guess the doors weren’t labeled or that the door to the outside wasn’t locked. Maybe these coaches need ‘adult locks’ the way cars have child safety locks.

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Video of the Day: Best Buy Invasion:

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Charlie Todd and his ImprovEverywhere agents invaded the 23rd Street Best Buy with eighty people dressed in employee uniforms– blue shirts and khaki pants. Hilarity ensued. Check out a bunch of other clips at Vimeo, or read the full acount at Charlie’s site.

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Map of the Day: Ghostbusters!:

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The guys at IronicSans have put together the best movie mashup we’ve ever seen: all the landmarks from the Ghostbusters movies! All of your favorite locations are there: the reading room at the Public Library, Dana Barrett’s apartment, and the Ghostbusters HQ on North Moore Street in Tribeca. Be sure to click the tabs on each spot to see the photographs. [Related: the script of the original movie, Harold Ramis interview where he talks about the plot for the never-made Ghostbusters 3: ‘Ghostbusters Go To Hell.’]

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