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PLEASE NOTE: the purview of these links and tidbits now belongs to The Urban Sherpa Annex. That list is updated much more frequently than the one below.

1. Potato Battery Could Provide Inexpensive Power For Developing World And when it's drained, you can make french fries.
2. WiFi Coming to New York City Subways So now we can gripe on Twitter when they cancel a train and transfer us to a shuttle bus.
3. Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting The artists discusses her brand of post-modern abstract expressionism.
4. Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain If seafood from the Gulf now comes with built-in degreaser, does that make it low fat?
5. Throwaway fashion culture means poverty for millions They sweat. We shop.
6. If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged If your parents could afford a computer in the 1980s, that's a product of class privilege, not your innate geekiness.
7. Monkeynomics Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions.
8. For Air Safety, 400 Prospect Park Geese Are Killed After the genocide, the geese were double-bagged in non-biodegradable plastic and left at a landfill. Nice.
9. The Long Haul "At a certain point, the writer asks herself, How do I keep doing this? And the related question, Why?"
10. What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D Among so many other things...
11. Treasure Found at The Strand David Markson's heavily-annotated personal library is an archivist's dream. But it's currently on sale, piecemeal, at The Strand.
12. The awesome secret behind the Inception score An interesting compositional twist is hidden in the Inception score.
13. DRM Buster FAQ: What It Means For You How big of a deal is this? A very big deal.
14. Is Your Career Path Mapped in Your Gray Matter? One's optimal career choice could be divined from peering inside his or her skull.
15. Ruling Allows Jailbreaking of iPhones Court puts some limits on the (ridiculous) restrictions written into 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
16. U.S Nuclear Launch Codes From 1968 to 1976, the secret code for U.S. nukes was 00000000.
17. Dude, Where's My Kombucha? Continued fermentation means booch becomes hooch.
18. Walmart To Put RFID Tags In Your Undies Anything that makes it easier to find clean underwear in the morning is OK with me.
19. Sheep Attack Tour De France I'm sure this will somehow be turned around into an allegation that Lance Armstrong uses drugs.
20. Scottish beer packaged inside dead rodents "PETA has yet to weigh in," the article claims...

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