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More song charts..

[found at kottke]

LQTM, hank.

Wow… it really is like the week of super nerd-dom or something… Google announced the launch of their Google Charts API today, which is really kind of cool. You can make simple charts by simply passing a bunch of variables in the query string.

This reminds me of my favorite Venn diagram ever:

Hehe..

Anyway.. although the API is very straightforward, its not *that* easy to whip up a Venn diagram of your own… So, because I heart Venn diagrams, I’ve created a handy Venn diagram creator for your convenience.

C’mon.. make me some witty Venn diagrams please.

Back like almost 10 years ago now, my appendix decided to burst, and the nice doctors took it out. I don’t really know where it ended up, it’s probably in some landfill in bencia or something. Not that I’ve missed it, since it’s supposedly vestigial — but it looks like doctors in the UK now theorize that the appendix is used to “reboot” the gut during times of extreme GI distress… Apparently, it serves as a safe harbor for good bacteria until the bad juju passes. Hmm.. oh well, I don’t got one anymore, I guess I should really avoid amoebic dysentery then…

keke. i love this guy.. he’s back.

[Thanks Marcy!]

burger + hot dog + cheese + bacon = SUPER BURGER CHEESY DOG.

Wow.

I am so making these at my next bbq.

[Thanks Joon!]

So, Barry hit 756 tonight..

When I heard about it, I checked it out at Yahoo! Sports, and saw…

I thought to myself… Whoa.. really? Yahoo! is gonna start the whole * thing with this one? Firing shots over the bow immediately.

Well, about 10 minutes later, I reload the page, and see:

Hmmmm.. I guess they thought again about stirring the controversy or something..

Just yesterday, there was an interesting article about how Barry has an unfair mechanical advantage due to the armor that he wears (granted, a little strange that it was published in Editor & Publisher)..

So yah.. I dunno how I feel about the whole steroid controversy and all.. But yah.. 756 is 756 more home runs than I’ve hit in the majors, so like.. congrats and stuff.

Update: Baseball Prospectus published an article rebutting the mechanical advantages that his armor gives him, but it’s behind a paywall. Lame.

This is rad. And by “rad” I mean omg what a super nerd I am.

The Konami Code works on Digg.

And by “works” I don’t mean it gives you 20 lives, but it expands all of the comments, which isn’t the cool thing — but the fact that it doesn’t anything at all is really rad.

Hmmm.. I wonder if the Konami Code works on like ATMs, now that would be super duper rad, for reals.

Douggates: you need patience for the first 50 seconds.
Douggates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq–Nw

[thanks Doug (obviously)]