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Ezra Klein is a liberal blogger and, according to Google, pee expert.

The Big Red Button. Via Tess.

Via Dave Slusher, a deeply bizarre and wonderful flash animation in the Schoolhouse Rock style by those wild and wacky folks at Hitachi, of all places, about their new “perpendicular” hard drive technology: Perpendicular Animation. A must-see.

Update: They are giving away 230 “Get Perpendicular” t-shirts (230? Because they have achieved 230Gb/sq.in.). Enter here by 2005-05-06.

Via Bill Roper, How to Kill a Mockingbird, an amazing, hilarious, very-hard-to-describe Flash animation thing. You just have to see it. It features pirates with laser swords riding flaming, flying sharks, and things weirder than that.

Think your neighbor has too many decorations up? Check out uglychristmaslights.com. Also, learn how important a tripod is when taking pictures at night—and they reject the really shaky ones!

(Via The Pagan Prattle Online)

If you aren’t reading Spamusement (Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!), then you are really missing out. Go check it out now.

I’ve been listening to the Dawn and Drew Show (website, RSS 2.0 feed or Atom feed) and for some reason I like it. It’s kind of hard to explain. I have tried listening both during the day after drinking coffee and late at night after drinking wine, and the latter does work better, perhaps because they record it late at night, sometimes while drinking rum. It’s not really the kind of show that will teach you valuable information, but it is more entertaining than just about anything on TV.

I just listened to the IT Conversations recording of the talk Wil Wheaton gave at Gnomedex 4.0.

Wil, of course, played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and even I knew that, though I was never too interesting in Star Trek. I was vaguely aware that he was doing the tech-geek convention circuit these days, but basically hadn’t paid much attention. I’m not a Trek fan, so ‘guy who played Ensign Wesley’ didn’t really attract my attention. I listen to all the IT Conversations stuff, though, and once I heard his Gnomedex talk, which consisted largely of readings from his books, I got a lot more excited. Fantastic performance. I’m going to have to get his books now, of course. (Sigh, more stuff for the reading queue…) You ought to listen (or watch, since video is out there, too).

Via 90% Crud, I found the hilarious The Apple Product Cycle.

I’ve put up a web page with photos and audio from Milwaukee’s MacArthur Square, a park atop an underground parking garage that is not at all a peaceful place to be due to the huge ventilating fans that the park benches were thoughtfully placed near.