[Two tetris cosplayers get into a fight in a parking lot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKrm93nqnM). They better watch out, that 4x1 piece will come along and clear everyone out.
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[Business advice from Houdini](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/580-five-marketingbusiness-lessons-from-harry-houdini). Actually, there's a lot in that list which would work pretty well for politics or policy design too.
[A super computer in a chapel](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/heavy-metal/marenostrum-the-worlds-most-gorgeous-super+computer-293608.php). If that photo doesn't send a shiver down your spine, it's because you'e never read Arthur C. Clarke's [*The Nine Billion Names…
Unstuck the post feed. It turns out when you tell WordPress to publish stuff in 2008, it doesn't go 'no, he probably didn't mean that' and publish them…
[Olympus is releasing cameras that detect when you're smiling](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/olympus-fe-series-cameras-have-smile-recognition-other-fun-features-up-to-12-megapixels-292473.php). Of course, because it's an Olympus it will then take a further three seconds to actually *take* the photo.…
Another quiet day following a quiet-ish opening week to the campaign. Only two major announcements this week: the tax plans of the two parties. And only one major…
[Super deformed Star Wars plush figures](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/9405/). [Super Deformed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_deformed), in case you don't know, is the art style where the character has a very big head, which started in…
[TV personality Robert X. Cringely is leading an effort for a private moon flight](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070927_003043.html). Given his previous efforts to [build a plane](http://www.amazon.com/Plane-Crazy-3pc-Gift-Set/dp/B00003A9RW), I greatly look forward to this…
[Chilling story of how close World War III came in 1983](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/926-is-petrov-d.html). And the man who saved us all. I'm with [Megan McArdle](http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/spasebo_stanislav_petrov.php): Why is there not some kind…
[The American Institute of Graphic Art Year in Design selections](http://designarchives.aiga.org/) Hours and hours of clever graphic design here.