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Oxfam Unwrapped America
Oxfam Unwrapped UK

This song so vividly taps into memories of being a foreigner in a new city, a new bar, a party… feeling that apprehension and timidness, sitting alone for hours, watching people together, waiting for something… or someone who’s known me all my life to walk in and sit by my side, or someone who wants to…

Air – Alone in Kyoto

Track via MusicWarship

Thanks Albear!

Brilliant Earth
Fine Jewellery from only ethical sources.
Today you can get 10% off pre-selected earrings and pendants by entering IDEALBITE in the reference code field at checkout. 5% of our Brilliant Earth’s profits are donated to African communities on various programs like the innovative Green Diamonds Project.

via Ideal Bite.

The one laptop per child project has now officially launched and for $399 you’ll send a laptop to a needy child as well as to your own less-needy child! The laptops are pretty cool, have everything from a web browser to an RSS reader and they run on Linux. The project has to be one of the most innovative charities I’ve seen in a long time.

Via Freelance Switch

We hope you’re having all sorts of fun!

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Thanks Ken!

Free People
I LURVE this store. Not only is it the most beautifully designed and laid out clothing store Ive ever seen, their clothes leave me completely and utterly wanting! Its not often you can find such a huge selection of highly unique gypsy/hippie clothing that isn’t at all baggy or up its own butt in the boutique $$$ range. All their clothes are tailored with a sexy cut, layered with dazzling colours and hand sewn textures, and every piece is guaranteed to get noticed. I’m particularly inspired by their take on Winter this year – still great figure hugging shapes despite the layers and the cold. Here are a couple of very special pieces I have loved and lusted over for a long time:

Including some retired classics I never owned but can never forget, and the most beautifully tooled leather wallet I’ve ever seen…

Green Maven – this Google-based search engine yields results from green-related websites only.

via Ideal Bite!

From HouseHoldHacker.com

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BBC News: Appearances can be deceptive
A sexy swing of the hips may attract admiring glances, but it is not a covert sign a woman is ready to breed.

Surprising new research shows that women subconsciously alter their walk to conceal their peak ovulation period from males other than their chosen partner.

The women who were most fertile at the time of the experiment walked with fewer hip movements and with their knees closer together.

They also brought in some interesting theories about how this ties in with monogamy.

Though not strictly vegan…

LifeGem
A certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life.

Inspired by an article and a test in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author.

After pasting in a long blog post made a while back the genie determined I was male:
Female Score: 869
Male Score: 1071

I tried it on another long post with the same result. I’m not that surprised.

“Whoever kills an innocent person, it is as though he has killed entire humanity.”
~ The Koran

From THE ISLAMIST by Ed Husain — the first time an ex-member openly discusses life within radical Islamic organizations.

Wi-Fi Straitjacket

Found by ken-le-pen

Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

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“The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.”
~ Adolf Hitler

BBC Radio 4
The untold stories of the wives left behind during the Apollo Space programme.

The Moon Jar is also available on ThinkGeek.

AHAHAHAHA!!!

Oh… oh my. Japan, a country that never fails to blow my mind, has just seen the release of, according to Google’s hilariously inept machine translation, the “Hello Kitty transformation set”. It’s basically a hat, bib, collar and carrying bag to turn your cat into the saddest, most ridiculous-looking cat on the block.

Here’s the original post translated from Japanese.

If you ever need to grab files off your home computer or set up file sharing on a friends computer, you need Leaf.

It’s a small and simple peer-to-peer app that creates simple VPN connections between machines, and its FREE. It doesn’t encrypt the stream so its not suitable for sharing sensitive information, but its a quick and easy way to share files, printers and network drives.

All you need is Windows XP or Vista and the Microsoft .NET framework. Leaf for Linux is coming soon!

Download Leaf here

via LifeHacker

HELLTOWN USA, Centralia, Pennsylvania
The Centralia Mine has been on fire since 1961. Above, an eerie shell of a town remains.
via Just For The Record

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More pics at RoadsideAmerica.com and offroaders.com