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  • Read Print

    Online books, poems, short stories.
    “Read Print, your free online library.
    Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.”.

    My choice: James Joyce, A Painful Case.

    “He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor her voice touch his ear.
    He waited for some minutes listening.
    He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent.
    He felt that he was alone.”.

  • Miranda warning

    “You have the right to remain silent. Do you wish to talk to us now?”.

    Miranda warning card:
    “virtually indestructible, includes the five rights as well as the waiver.
    Front printed in English, back printed in Spanish. Price: $3.99.”

    Ready to buy?
    (®Chief Corporation)

    Miranda warning
  • The Hipster PDA

    43Folders presents the Hipster PDA:

    “…The Hipster PDA is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work.
    Let’s make one together:

    1. get a bunch of 3″ x 5″ file cards
    2. clip them together with a binder clip
    3. there is no step 3

    From the 43Folders Wiki* :

    “There are a number of benefits to a Hipster PDA over a digital PDA:

    • Cards can be arbitrarily resequenced, given away, and writing by hand is freeform and unrestricted
    • Won’t run out of batteries
    • More durable
    • Cheaper
    • Information doesn’t get lost in there; when something’s no longer relevant, you throw it away

    See also D*I*Y, where Douglas Johnston explain how to build, tweak and boost your Hipster.

    *This is a 43Folders Wiki content, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. license.

  • JCB

    JCB Well, I’m rumblin’ in this JCB.
    I’m 5 years old and my dad’s a giant sitting beside me.
    And the engine rattles my bum like berserk
    While we’re singin, “Don’t forget your shovel if you want to go to work!”

    JCB, a song by Nizlopi.

    “A lot of people have wondered about the content and origins of Nizlopi’s JCB song,
    particularly as it seems to strike a chord with so many people.”.

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  • Book-A-Minute

    “We here at Book-A-Minute have come up with a solution.
    In just one minute, you can read entire books and learn everything your teachers will expect you to know.”.

    Here an example, Don Quixote ultra-condensed by Scott Kvizdos:

    Don Quixote: “Chivalry demands I destroy that evil thing.”

    Sancho Panza: “No, master. It is something ordinary and harmless.”

    Don Quixote: (falls down)

    THE END

    “We cannot be held responsible if you write a book report or research paper using our site and don’t get a good grade.”.

  • Lulu, print on demand

    “Lulu is an on-demand publishing tool that lets you publish and sell books, ebooks, music, images, and calendars.”

    From the Knowledge Base:

    “Print on demand (POD) is a method of producing books or other media (such as CDs and DVDs) one at a time.
    With print on demand, a printer produces hard copies of a book from a digital file.
    That way, the book is only printed when someone buys it.
    With Lulu, an author gives us a digital file of the book and we create a print-ready version of the file.
    When a customer buys that book from Lulu, our printer prints that copy (or copies) and ships it within days.”.

  • Benzin

    It flows through my veins
    It sleeps in my tears
    It leaks from my ears
    Heart and kidneys are motors

    Petrol

    Benzin (Rammstein, 2005) . Industrial metal.

    Translation © Jeremy Williams. Extract from Herzeleid, the number one source for Rammstein.
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  • Unemployment burger

    “The unemployment burger is something that just happened when I was unemployed.
    It’s a cheap and tasty version of a hamburger when to make ends meat.”. (Jakob for Instructables)

    Hamburger, anyone?

  • The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less

    “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”. (Ray Bradbury)

    The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less, by Eric Schulman.

  • Vectorman, the soundtrack

    The Videogame Music Archive has over 20.000 MIDI files of video games
    (Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Atari, and more).

    Among these, the Vectorman soundtrack (Sega Genesis, 1995):
    Ocean Level (XG Remix), Port Level, Title Screen and Disco.

    A delight in 50Kb.