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This might or might not be “something:”

The Dumpster (2006: Golan Levin, Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg) is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has “dumped” another.

Via my Reader feed and danah’s blog apophenia.

From Improv Everywhere comes this map of group freezing from around the world, all based on this previously completed Grand Central Station stunt.

For reasons not worth going into, I spent some time playing around with Google analytics tonight and I learned a couple of fun facts.

• My old blogs are still getting more hits than this new one. I guess just because there is a lot more content there.
• Top hit on the academic blog? “Period Trick,” which has to do with resizing periods in a word processed essay to create the illusion of a length. Note this wasn’t my tip– just a link.
• Five of the top ten picks have to do with searches having to do with “flip video sample” and other related terms, which inevitably brings up this video of our dog Sophie playing with a ball.

Thank God I offer my thoughts on the state of academia for all to read.

Though I probably won’t have time to do this, Radiohead is making the key tracks for their new single “Nude” available via iTunes so that fans can buy them and remix their own versions. Radiohead is going to post them on their web site, too.

Via Lifehacker comes this list of April Fools Day jokes from Google (and others, I think) around the world. I like the one where every YouTube link goes to this video instead of what you want.

It isn’t so much a video as it is an extract from a podcast, but The Ricky Gervais Show is worth sharing in any format. I present to you a brain boiling (et al) urban legend:

From Improve Everywhere, a “mission” involving desktops being mobile:

On a less humorous note, I do sometimes wish I could/would do this. I’m working on a desktop now and will switch to a laptop soon to go and do some work elsewhere, and I know I will inevitably forget something….

Via Stephen’s Web, I came across the site “Software Essentials for the Modern Educator.” I think “essential” is a bit of a stretch (I have never found it “essential” to have a software that can edit perl scripts or python) and it is very windoze-centric, but a useful list nonetheless.

This looks like it could get quite a bit more interesting before any sort of deal is actually made:

“Yahoo! and the future of the Internet,” from the Official Google Blog.

Update:
Microsquish responds. I tried to read it, but then I remembered why I didn’t want to go to law school after all.