• Twitter lists, creators vs curators, and who owns the meta-data? (Laughing Meme)
• List of Cats With Fraudulent Diplomas (Wikipedia)
• Graffiti. It’s Good for Blight. Or Is It Bad? (NY Times)

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Forget about fixies, Grand Rapids, MI design company Jruiter has created a really cool prototype for a minimalistic inner city bike. The design is so simplified to the point that it doesn’t even have a chain, instead the pedals directly drive the back wheel. Of course the next logical step would be to remove the brakes.

Our project, simplicity in inner city bicycling, was at first glance a fun aesthetic opportunity in new trends, color, and materials. Our target lived / worked in an inner city environment with minimal space. Bicycling at this level can be more about fashion and culture than speed and performance.

After the first few brainstorm sessions we knew there where bigger opportunities. The project ended up rethinking what a “frame” meant, getting ride of basic key components, and creating a new type of compact bicycling. Inspired by the first the “hobby horse” from it’s simplicity and secondly the cafe race scene. Each is an exercise in stripping something down to its core.

via Core77

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Videogum has created a really great montage featuring scenes from movies where the actors are saying the title of film they are in.

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• Full Stack Web Developer (Nerd Merit Badges)
• Yelp Fights Make Leap To Real-World Violence (Valleywag)
• Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Popular Science)
• Backblaze for Business Launches
• Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets (TechCrunch)
• The San Francisco Panorama (McSweeney's)
• Sheldon Dorf, Comic-Con Co-Founder Has Died

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Madrid based illustrator and comic artist Carla Berrocal created an awesome 8-Bit Wedding Invitation for one of her clients that was inspired by 1980’s Atari games.

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The Big Picture is featuring beautiful photos of Martian Landscapes shot from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

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“I Love Lunch! The Musical” is the latest mission by Improv Everywhere, where they staged a spontaneous musical during lunch in The Atrium at Trump Tower in NYC.

The mission was filmed as part of a segment for The Today Show, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at how it was was planned.

If you look closely, you’ll see that Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd is wearing a Laughing Squid t-shirt during the rehearsals.

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Kevin Evans tipped us off to a wondeful archival video of The San Francisco Cacophony Society on news segment called “Eccentric Avenues” produced 1990-91.

The video features many of our friends including M2, Louise Jarmilowicz, Winston Smith, John Law and the late Dave Warren, including footage of him breathing fire to ignite the Burning Man sculpture at Burning Man 1990, the first year it was in the Black Rock Desert (Cacophony Society Zone Trip #4).

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• NIMBY Funding Campaign to Pay City Permit Fees
• Interview with Sam Jinks Who Creates Hyper-Realist Sculptures (Australian Edge)
• Sex::Tech Conference 2010
• Basketball Jones (Merlin Mann)
• 8 Days and 3,700 Miles on the Oregon Trail (Drawn!)
• ELIMINATE from ngmoco:) // Bring it. Anytime. Anywhere
• Letter of Romantic Intent (EDW Lynch)
• Grilled Cheese Specialist Shop Headed to South Park (Eater SF)
• Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 (Spots Unknown)
• Mauer Mob, 33,000 People Recreate The Berlin Wall
• Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction
• Group Rope Jumping (English Russia)
• Functioning X-men "Pyro" Costume Flamethrower Appliance (Make)
• Review: AT&T 3G MicroCell (Paul Stamatiou)
• Twitter Testing Out New Tweet Notifications To Keep Users Engaged (TechCrunch)
• Kurt Russell's Awkward Han Solo Audition Tape (io9)
• New LED Hanukkah Menorah Kit (Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)
• Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different (Cult of Mac)

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Eclectic Method made a really cool remix of the band Phish’s list of “99 Albums”. The video premiered at their Festival 8 Halloween show in Indio, CA.

Taking Phish’s brilliant viral “99 Albums” online promotion to the next level, the London born/Brooklyn-based trio sourced content from all 99 albums, and remixed them into a single, profound, beat-driven AV collage, screened to the tens of thousands of fans in attendance just before the band took stage to perform their Halloween ritual of covering an iconic album.

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In their episode “The Invasion”, the Renaissance Faire web series comedy All’s Faire deals with the tricky situation of Romulans showing up at a Renaissance Fair.

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Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia with her stunt double in slave girl outfits sunbathing on Tatooine during filming of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

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“Headphone Wall”, a hard rocking ad for the NYC electronics store J&R.

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Oakland Local is a new non-profit community resource for news and information about Oakland, CA that was recently launched by Susan Mernit.

Our site combines original investigative and feature reporting with community news and information about Oakland non-profit organizations, community groups and engaged citizens.

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In order to improve transparency, Google has just launched Google Dashboard, showing what data is stored on the various Google services that you use.

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Laughing Squid is now the proud sponsor of the back of Frank Chu’s infamous sign that he diligently carries all around San Francisco. Frank has had a long history with Laughing Squid and has even spoken on stage at some of our previous events.

Earlier today I put out a call for photos of the sign, since I had not actually seen it yet. criollo was the first to get the shot.

If anyone else is able to get photos of Frank with our logo, let us know.

Special thanks to Kevin Mathieu for the tip and Signographics for making the sign.

For more on Frank Chu, check out the excellent mini documentary “Lunch Inside The 12 Galaxies” by James Dirschberger (Eighty Four Films).

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photos by Jason Lentz

Over the years Jason Lentz has been creating various versions of a giant cardboard robot suit that he wears around to various events and locations.

Here he is trying to fit into the elevator at the Gazillion Entertainment offices.

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• August Coppola, Arts Educator, Dies at 75 (SFGate)
• Dodge Viper Logo Is An Upside-Down Daffy Duck (Boing Boing)
• Journey to the End of the Night Halloween 2009 (Geeked Info)
• Car Finder iPhone App Uses Augmented Reality To Find Your Wheels (Cult of Mac)
• Toby, Dave & Ian Explain XKCD
• Parents Find Love Notes From 6-Year-Old After Her Death From Cancer
• Google Friend Connect, Now More Personalized
• Chip Conley, Burning Man & Social Media (HR Lori)
• Last Days of Gourmet Magazine
• Five YouTube Clichés That Need To Be Banned (Urlesque)
• Review of Mad Men, The Grown-Ups (TIME)
• The Story of Phoot Camp

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The Electrobite Olenoides is a wonderful metal trilobite vehicle that you can ride around on, build from an electric wheelchair . It was created for Burning Man 2009 by our friends Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate of Form & Reform, the same guys who made the SS Alpha Fox and Golden Mean Snail Car.

The Electrobite is featured on latest episode of Boing Boing Video, which was shot in September during Dorkbot SF #47 at TCHO in San Francisco.

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“I Be Au Sm”, a Threadless t-shirt by Lawrence Villanueva that celebrates geek pride.

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