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1. Webcomic: Zero Suit Samus Googles herself for the first ... and last time. Via.

2. Three fairly lackluster reviews of SVK by Warren Ellis and BERG.

3. "There are two lessons here. The first is that Gatorade is a waste of money. If you really want to improve performance, gargle with something that actually tastes good, since it was the activation of reward areas that allowed the cyclists to exert maximum performance."

*Buy Metroid toys at eBay.

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1. Lamborghini is apparently going to stop making manual transmissions.

2. Emily Shur talks about photographing Sarah Palin for Newsweek.

3. Recipe for Coffee Bean's Sunrise. Is there a recipe for their Black Forest?

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1. Johnny Depp has apparently made $350 million from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

2. The Netherlands is apparently the world's third largest agricultural exporter, despite having little land, thanks to hydroponic agriculture that uses computer-controlled feeding of high-quality chemicals. (Presumably such techniques could be applied elsewhere if there was a serious danger of food shortages.)

3. For Los Angeles residents, if there's a police helicopter hovering over your house, you can call 213-485-2600 to find out why. (I had need of this today.) Via.

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1. Cookies N’ Cream Cake recipe.

2. Mike Krahulik's positive comments about playing The Old Republic for a month.

3. Signalnoise logo desktop and iPhone wallpapers.

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1. Incredibly cute guinea pig. Via.

2. How to make a cheap Frappuccino. Also, how to make a frappuccino on a stick. Via.

3. FYI, Tenacious Toys has in stock for $40 my favorite vinyl toy. (I liked it so much, I made my own miniature version before buying the real thing.)

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1. Read this if you want to feel better about not eating vegetables.

3. Tenacious Toys has Doktor A's Humphrey Mooncalf figure in stock.

3. You can now claim your free games, movie rental, etc from Sony. It's not a smooth process and if your download doesn't start, go into account management>transaction management>services list>SCEA Promotions to download the games (I had to do this). Via.

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1. Great article at Wired. Here's the start:

James Scott encountered that scent for the first time a decade ago in a town called Lakeshore, Ontario. Just across the river from Detroit, Lakeshore is where barrels of Canadian Club whiskey age in blocky, windowless warehouses. Scott, who had recently completed his PhD in mycology at the University of Toronto, had launched a business called Sporometrics. Run out of his apartment, it was a sort of consulting detective agency for companies that needed help dealing with weird fungal infestations. The first call he got after putting up his website was from a director of research at Hiram Walker Distillery named David Doyle.

Doyle had a problem. In the neighborhood surrounding his Lakeshore warehouses, homeowners were complaining about a mysterious black mold coating their houses. And the residents, following their noses, blamed the whiskey. Doyle wanted to know what the mold was and whether it was the company’s fault. Scott headed up to Lakeshore to take a look.

When he arrived at the warehouse, the first thing he noticed (after “the beautiful, sweet, mellow smell of aging Canadian whiskey,” he says) was the black stuff. It was everywhere—on the walls of buildings, on chain-link fences, on metal street signs, as if a battalion of Dickensian chimney sweeps had careened through town. “In the back of the property, there was an old stainless steel fermenter tank,” Scott says. “It was lying on its side, and it had this fungus growing all over it. Stainless steel!” The whole point of stainless steel is that things don’t grow on it.

2. Broccoli Gratin recipe.

3. Negative review of the new Games Workshop resin finecast miniatures.