(works best in chrome but it’ll work in safari too)

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A guy named Ola in Norway is collecting one million giraffes and he needs them by the end of the year to win a bet. He’s got 824,025 of them so far (probably more by the time I click the “publish” button). The only rule is you can’t use a computer to make your giraffe(s). Here’s a video of him explaining why he wants a million of them. Anyways, I just sent him these two!

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Edible Paradise is a blog about cooking seasonally from farmer’s markets in Monterey and Santa Cruz that I just added to my RSS Reader.

One of my favorite things about living in Bernal is that I can walk or ride my bike to the Alemany Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning. For less than $20 I can stock up on food for the week! I have my favorite vendors for various things. Like the mushroom stand…and the egg stand…the jumbo eggs from Alemany are so big that they have to wrap rubber bands around the recycled cartons they use to keep the eggs from falling out. I don’t know really know where these eggs come from though and was just thinking today that it would be nice if there were a site for Alemany where you could find out about all the different vendors and farms at the market. Some of them I think have been selling at Alemany for several generations!

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I don’t think I’d want members of the royal family lounging in my teacup but still, these tea bags are ingenious! At least they are wearing clothes.

And while we are on the subject tea, this yellow submarine is also brilliant. I think the beatles would approve.

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The Literary Platform is a new blog “dedicated to showcasing projects experimenting with literature and technology.” Ever since I got an iPad I’ve been using it read webcomics that I used to read on my computer. Web comics are much more fun when lounging on the couch. I can’t wait for more interesting graphic novels to be available!

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The other 162 bots live over here. (Like all of us, TikiRobot has a crazy uncle too…)

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Hooray! Google Maps now tells you how to get to places by bike!

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This is going to be at the Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday and Thursday. It looks awesome. We should go!

Here’s a list of films that are playing (though I’m not sure which films are playing on which night).

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How adorable is this font?! It’s designed by Denise Bentulan and you can download it for free over here.

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I just found out about the Khan Academy in the news earlier this week and I think it’s one of the most inspirational projects I’ve seen in a while.

Salman Khan is a former hedge fund manager who single handedly created a whole library of YouTube videos to explain all manner of mathematical and scientific topics to kids in a way that’s easy to understand. He started doing them as a way to tutor his nieces and nephews. Now

…his 800-plus videos are viewed about 35,000 times a day, forming a virtual classroom that dwarfs any brick and mortar school he might have imagined. By using the reach of the Internet, he’s helped bring education to the information-hungry around the world who can’t afford private tutors or Kaplan prep courses.

I watched a few of them and I’m totally hooked! When I was in school I always learned just enough math to do well on tests, but then I’d promptly forget what I learned after a test was over. I wished I had someone like Salman Khan as a teacher…someone who made math relevant and interesting beyond a test and who spoke in plain english instead of abstractions.

He’s also got a series on economics and the financial system that I totally plan on watching since I know so pathetically little about how it all works.

There’s more about his project over here.

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made by my friend carrie. happy thanksgiving everyone!

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I still haven’t figured out what I’m supposed to do in this game but the artwork in it is stunning, so for now I’m having fun clicking on random things and watching them move.

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Since pressing all the buttons on the laptop below did not produce any tasty edibles (just beeps and burps), Zara has decided to perform for her treats!

(acrobatic maneuvers were choreographed by Manuel Morillo of perros y perritos :)

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Limited prints are available from 3 Fish Studios here in San Francisco. They also offer linocut printmaking classes!

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These are teh cuuuutest sandwiches I’ve ever seen. The creators are hoping to publish a book showing you how to incorporate new foods into a child’s meal by distracting them from what they’re actually eating.

I dunno, I think I’d be a little afraid to eat winnie-the-pooh. That could lead to years of bad karma.

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Another lovely thing made with a sharp blade and something inexpensive. Betsabee Romero carved these intricate rubber stamps out of old tires.

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Look what can be done with some paper, an xacto knife, and glue! By Helen Musselwhite

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I’ve pinged a bunch of people about this but there doesn’t seem to be an easy solution. I’d love it if the Terminal app went from looking like this

To something like this…

Just a few font changes…it seem like a simple request, but alas, it’s not. Surely I can’t be the only one who wants this?

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I made myself a tshirt a couple weeks ago on Spreadshirt. They’re awesome! A lot better than any other print-to-order service I’ve tried like Cafe Press and Zazzle. The shirt is based off of this one that I saw a friend wearing. I didn’t like what it said though so mine says something different :-) You can’t see the whole phrase in the photo above but you can see it below (in a different font).

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This weekend I went up to Downieville to race in the Downieville Classic which is the biggest mountain bike race in CA. It was so much fun! I’m happy to report that I still have all 4 limbs that I started with and they are in their proper place the last I checked. I shot the video above of the River Jump championships which happened after the cross country race on Saturday. I didn’t do that. These guys were nuts.

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Tips from Lardee the milk toof. Especially useful for people with purple thumbs like me.

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some crazy amazing stunt work in this video! if only i could hop a curb. sigh

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This is a cute illustration by Alex Noriega. I don’t know if TikiRobot and this robot would be compatible as friends, since TikiRobot is likely to be making mai-tais or tossing frisbees to dogs instead of eating people…but maybe he wouldn’t mind break-dancing.

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