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Books that Breath

[vimeo 2376275]These amazing breathing books that look like some prop from the Harry Potter movies were created by Edith Kollath.

Subplot to this exhibit is how her books were detained by the TSA at Newark airport when she tried to return to Germany with them for another exhibit. The books were held for three months.

Read the artist's recount of the whole experience with our security apparatus here.

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NASA Thanksgiving at the International Space Station

This is a bit out outdated, but while those of us with our feet firmly planted on earth enjoyed a feast on Thanksgiving, the astronauts residing at the International Space Station had the following irradiated  and freeze dried meal:

A week before Thanksgiving, NASA gave reporters a taste-test of the astronauts' holiday dinner. The smoked turkey was slightly stiffer than deli meat, like after it has been left in the refrigerator a week past its expiration date. The candied yams had a syrupy sweetness outside that dissolved into blandness in the middle. The green beans with mushrooms tasted like they have been frozen and then microwaved to an inch of their life.

The saving grace was a sublime cranapple dessert. There was a tartness to the apples and sweetness to the cranberries mixed with pecans and syrup in a dish that resembles cobbler filling.

It's still better than a turkey sandwich from your local deli.

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Dubai Then and Now

Dubai in 1990.

Dubai now.

A common question on people's minds is how the world financial crisis will impact this booming city in the gulf. New York Magazine writes:

The conventional wisdom now is that what ultimately safeguards Dubai’s future is not its near-mythical energy and savvy but its oil-drenched sister up the coast. When credit began to tighten around the world, and skeptical stories about Dubai began to appear in the financial press with headlines such as a long way down, Abu Dhabi helped stave off panic by injecting $6.8 billion into local banks. This surprised some; there’s a long-standing rivalry between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which considers its neighbor, in the words of one American, “like the obnoxious, overspending brother-in-law.” Yet it has become abundantly clear that Abu Dhabi still considers Dubai family and that no matter what crises occur, it will come to the rescue.

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Weekend Update: Thanksgiving Edition

Here's the condensed recap and photos from last week's Thanksgiving holiday spent in Delaware. Pooja, her cool brother Chirag and I took the Bolt Bus down to Philadelphia where Kaizar picked us up. As we were loading into Kaizar's car the floats in preparation for what we presume to be the Philly Thanksgiving parade passed by us!

Group photo!

Oooh!

Aaaah! Wait, worst parade float ever. A freakin' ladder! Haha.

[Insert dork humor about Twitter]

The ladies in the kitchen...

...making food for the men.</male chauvinism>

This cookbook kind of freaked me out.

Interneting dorks.

Munira and Chirag having fun with the medal that Kaizar received after running the San Francisco marathon earlier this year.

Hahaha.

I have no idea what's going on in this photo. Someone else snapped these photos with my camera while I was too busy playing with the new Google phone. Geeks say what? What.

TUUUURRRKEEEEYYYY!!!!

So much delicious food cooked all by Kaizar's mom. Yes, even that pink dish in the middle of the table was da' bomb.

We also played a LOT of games during that weekend like celebrity, pictionary, celebrity again, mafia, mafia again, and again.

[flickr video=3082604645] Here's a video of Chirag and Kaizar during round three of celebrity which involves charades.

Pooja and Mariya discussing their extra face flab..

[flickr video=3083430856] Mariya learns how to do the running man.

[flickr video=3082610649] Mariya's heroic attempts that frequently ended in epic bowling FAIL.

The winning bowling team!

Note the 121 high score. Yea, that would be ME.

[Censored photo of elbow.] Ask Pooja for details.

[flickr video=3083448634] On the last day of our stay Munira's brother and sister in law arrived with their (politicized) kids in tow.

The End!

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Get Your Gmail Stickers

Nifty gmail stickers produced by the gmail product marketing team at Mountain View.

To get your own set of these stickers while supplies last, send a self addressed stamped envelope to the following address:

Send me some Gmail stickers already P.O. Box 391420 Mountain View, CA 94039-1420

Update: People, I am not the person to request these stickers from. Again, send a self addressed stamped envelope to the address listed above.

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50 Years of Popular Songs Condensed into Single Sentences.

The latest McSweeney's hilarity.

The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

I want to do it with you.

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Marvin Gaye, "Let's Get It On"

I want to do it with you.

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Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Love"

I want to do it with you.

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James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"

I want to do it with you.

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Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back"

I want to do it.

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Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog"

You're doing it with everyone.

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R. Kelly, "I Believe I Can Fly"

I believe I want to do it with you.

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Patsy Cline, "Crazy"

I want to do it with you so much I'm going fucking nuts.

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Frank Sinatra, "Strangers in the Night"

I'm drunk and I want to do it with you.

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The White Stripes, "My Doorbell"

Using metaphor, I want to do it with you.

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Little Richard, "Good Golly Miss Molly"

I'm doing it with Miss Molly, and she's totally into it.

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Duran Duran, "Rio"

I'd love to do that chick dancing on the sand.

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The Beatles, "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"

I'd like to do it with you right now.

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Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"

We used to do it, but then you did it with someone else, and now I'm not going to do it with you, although I wish we were still doing it.

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Pulp, "Common People"

I once met a stuck-up European who wanted to do it with me.

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Radiohead, "Creep"

I'm filled with self-loathing, and, though outwardly I hate everything you represent, I want to do it with you.

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Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights"

I'm an 18th-century fictional character and I want to do it with another 18th-century fictional character.

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Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind"

The Man is currently doing it to you.

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Elvis Presley, "Jailhouse Rock"

Incarcerated men will on occasion do it with each other.

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Meat Loaf, "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"

Hey! You won't believe what this one chick said while I was doing it with her!

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Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire"

I did it with you, and now it hurts when I pee.

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Céline Dion, "My Heart Will Go On"

Even your death has not stopped me wanting to do it with you.

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AC/DC, "You Shook Me All Night Long"

We did it yesterday.

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$30k Added to Sarah Palin's Clothing Tab

Remember the fiasco surrounding the $150,000 clothing bill that Sarah Palin and her family ran up during the election? Add another $30,000 to that bill. I almost have to admire her hustle. Git paid, girl. Git paid. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

Update: Here are some of the stores where they went shopping according to the RNC post-election report.

Dick's Sporting Goods, The Limited, Foot Locker, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and Victoria's Secret

It's like the dream shopping spree for suburban moms everywhere.

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