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Brand-spanking-new jam from Citizen Starcrusher -- aka Hans - and happy birthday to him and his dad Johnny this week!

re-flip of the flying birds sample, over intricate drums from mccoy tyner's 'trident'

The first "Related Video" cracks me up :D

Also the melancholy phrase of the day:

"At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all."

From Contact (1985) by Carl Sagan.

"I don't mean to brag. I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast." - Beastie Boys, "The Move", off of Hello Nasty. So stuck in my head this morning.

Bwa ha ha:

TwitVim is a Vim plugin that allows you to post to Twitter and view Twitter timelines.

"The geeky-awesome sensors are off the charts, captain!"

New version released last week.

See also:

• Twitvim on Twitter

Via reddit.

"BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels" by françois vautier

An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott's legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982) This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels). It was made with 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner'.

Via Metafilter.

William Gibson op-ed in the NY Times on the omniscience of everybody's favorite benevolent data-dictator: "Google’s Earth" --

“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? I believe that we do, though with some rather complicated qualifiers.

Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do. HAL 9000, in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” will forever come to mind, his advice, we assume, imminently reliable — before his malfunction. But HAL was a discrete entity, a genie in a bottle, something we imagined owning or being assigned. Google is a distributed entity, a two-way membrane, a game-changing tool on the order of the equally handy flint hand ax, with which we chop our way through the very densest thickets of information. Google is all of those things, and a very large and powerful corporation to boot.

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(Photo: "Google street view camera visits Peak District".)

The Torontoist (from, oddly, Toronto) reports on a great idea for a new business: "New Board Game Café Welcomes You, But Not Your Laptop"

Ben Castanie's new Koreatown café, at 600 Bloor Street West, just east of Palmerston Avenue, will emphatically not have free Wi-Fi. In fact, laptops and their attendant air of isolation are completely counter to what Castanie is trying to do. "I just don't want people sitting staring at their screens," he says. Then he starts explaining the system of categorization he'd used to organize his café's library of 1,500-plus board games.

Snakes and Lattes, as the café is (pretty cleverly) known, opened for business earlier today.

Via Reddit

Closer to home, I'm pretty sure Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside has a selection of board games for customers, not to mention books. And free WiFi. ;)