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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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Wednesday's perusals

Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:28 PM by Will Femia

Whoa, TinySong is like TinyURL in that you enter a bit of data and it gives you a nice little URL to make sharing easier. In this case, however, what you enter isn't a long URL but a song title. It gives you a few choices from its search results and spits out a short URL. The link then takes you to a place called Grooveshark to listen to the song for free. It didn't find songs that were too obscure but still, cool trick. (Stuck in my head all day today for some reason. And this one's been in my head all week because it's whistled almost subliminally in the Toyota commercials that have been playing on MSNBC.)

Speaking of sharing music, the Reddit community discusses the best background music for programming. Good to pick through for things you've never heard of.

Speaking of things I'd never heard of, ever heard of focus fusion energy? This item makes it sound pretty promising and includes a process description I won't attempt to summarize here.

Speaking of new green ideas, Student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags - The description of the experiment is nice a clean. The question I had was about the waste because my understanding is that degraded plastic is not necessarily environmentally sound. But: "The only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide -- each microbe produces only 0.01 per cent of its own infinitesimal weight in carbon dioxide, said Burd."

World’s first Live Holographic Video Feed from California, USA to Bangalore, India - You only need a few seconds of the video to get it. I mean seriously, do I have to make the "You're our only hope" joke?

Valleywag breaks down all the Web memes in that Weezer video in case there were any you didn't recognize.

That Young Hillary Clinton video. They've showed this one on the air a few times so I guess it's worth posting in full. I think it's a little unfair to Hillary but I guess political satire isn't really about fairness.

Speaking of political silliness, Obama tattoos. No. I don't care. No. NOTE: Further exploration of that College Humor site may result in the discovery of boobs or other unsafe objects.

Also in the political silliness category, Make your own 404 page

What makes Cream Puffs in Venice a stand-out food blog for me is what some refer to as the "food porn" photos.

Speaking of recipes, How to make tonic water

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Will, the Young Hillary link requires that you were invited to view the video but this link works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAu39I5QOUc

phil, Chicago, IL (Sent Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:58 PM)

Hmmm, can't view the "Young Hillary Clinton" video:

"This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender's friend request."

jellobiafra79 (Sent Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:49 PM)

Thanks phil, that's the second time that's happened to me this week. I know YouTube is doing some kind of maintenance so I wonder if there's a connection.

Will Femia (Sent Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:03 PM)

Hi Will. Weezer must be "Clicked" readers...
Everything I know about web memes, I learned from you.

T-Dub (Sent Monday, June 02, 2008 9:29 AM)



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