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The Birds of America is a remarkably beautiful site. there’s so much to click on and experience here that it’s almost too much.

Why oh why did I click on that link? The South Park Banana Phone Remix is going to be stuck in my head all damn day now.

This Movie combines the worst of all possible media players. You get the WMV file that can’t be played as an embedded movie in Mozilla for the Mac for reasons I’ve never worked very hard to figure out.

So, I switch over to Safari, which will at least offer to pop it out of the page and play it in Windows Media Player. But then, I get the buffering headaches that normally goes along with Real. On top of that, I’m pretty sure the song they’re playing in the background is Xanadu.

Still, the effect of somebody poking their finger into a video file and changing the view from day to night is really cool.

Getting To Done: Roll Your Own Business seems to have some good advice.

25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself is a PDF manifesto. I almost didn’t download it because what’s the point of PDF when it could just as easily be a web page.

It’s pretty (though I don’t think it needs to be a PDF to be pretty), but more importantly, the content is pretty good. It is worth downloading and launching an alternate application to read it (even if I don’t think you should have to).

When robots sing, they sing of Pi.

The Hogwarts Dancers (Google video). I’m not sure I get it, but I’m pretty sure it must be awesome. Thank you internet.

An Esquire writer outsources his personal and business life to a few firms in India in the story My Outsourced Life. It starts out dry, but gets pretty funny. I need to find myself a Honey K. Balani.

Some good thoughts in How to Start a Startup.

It seems like I’ve read The Guy I Almost Was before. I may have even linked it before, but I couldn’t remember for sure, and I didn’t feel like searching. So, here it is (again?).