Ecuador has a new president. Lucio Gutierrez, a former coup leader, won in a runoff today. More info and photos here.
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“Bizarre Behavior Is Clouding Michael Jackson’s Future” (New York Times; free registration required). An article about the King of Pop’s descent into weirdness.
Googling everything
Imagine if you could search information from your past–old emails, conversations you had years ago, documents you wrote–as easily as you query Google. It might be possible one day.
Update to the turducken update: the dish in question, of course, is a cooked chicken inside a duck inside a turkey. Well, I propose to take it to another level–to kick it up a notch or ten. Provided I can obtain the proper materials, this Thanksgiving I shall be preparing a CaribouAntelopeSheepHogTurDuckenRabbitGuineapigSquirrelDove.
Turducken update
Turducken update: the spectacular turkey/duck/chicken dish can be bought here and here. Wanna make your own turducken? This guy did.
Space elevator plans
Another great link from my friend Colin: plans are under way to build a space elevator.
My holiday season will simply be incomplete unless I’m somehow able to sample the turducken (New York Times; free registration required). God bless American ingenuity. (Thanks to Colin R. for this exceptional find.)
Top 100 albums of the 1980s
Insert postmodern link here
Float pens
Float pens are cool.