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Quotes of the Day

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“First, you are drunk. Second, this is not a waltz; it is the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman; I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima.” – response given to George Brown, an English Labor foreign secretary in the 1960’s, after he stumblingly(i.e. drunkenly) invited a guest in flowing purple robes at a reception in Peru to dance.

”It’s so interesting to me that people talk about late-night comedy being cynical. ‘What’s more cynical than forming an ideological news network like Fox and calling it ‘fair and balanced’? What we do, I almost think, is adorable in its idealism. It’s quaint.” – John Stewart, on his program “The Daily Show.”

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The GeigerPod

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This GeigerPod, an iPod inside of a Geiger counter, is simply fantastic. I love when people hack one device and make another one out of it, like when people turned their XBox’s into Linux machines or when Chris made a rechargable iPod battery out of an Altoids tin. Check out the entire Flikr set of the retrofitted counter. I say well done JavaMoose!

Via Slashdot