Tuesday Link Trippin’
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Written By Reprise Media | December 13, 2005 | Share This
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Some news stories are of great social and historical import. These are not those stories.
Nice Lobes, Baby: Bypassing your usual pin-up fare, a fundraising calendar by the University of Illinois features actual brain scans of overachieving students, staff and administrators. CNET has the scoop.
One Map to Rule Them All: A fun satire piece on “Google Middle Earth” appearing on Canadian humor site The Toque combines Google Earth goodness with Gondor in “the new lord of the satellite imagery-based mapping products.” Nerd out now. (link via addict3d.org)
Smileys in the Land of the Rising Sun: Different languages mean different emoticons and some crazy interesting reading. See a list of Japanese emoticons and their associated meanings here. (link via digg.com)
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