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Local poet Big Poppa E's auto-biographical short of that very subject has been propagating its way around the internet for the last week or so. It's a hysterical video that showcases E's inaugural -- and HR-action provoking -- performance of one of our favourites, Oh! Canadian FedEx Lady! As an added bonus, it includes footage from an Apple Employee Talent Contest.

Bootleg video of the band and its big balls at SXSW.

Millions of Video Voices - interviews with movers and shakers at SXSW Interactive 2006.

With seven starting pitchers vying for five spots, the Red Sox had to make some decisions. They did so on Monday, trading right-hander Bronson Arroyo to the Reds for outfielder Wily Mo Pena.

I’m not even going to make an attempt to understand, but will just say this: WOW. I am completely awestruck by the fantastically bizarre mashup entitled Drawing Restraint 9, that spawned from an audiovisual orgy between the supremely twisted, but beautiful minds of artist Matthew Barney and the incomparable Ms. Guðmundsdóttir.

Windows only: Freeware program foobar2000 is a lightweight, minimalist audio player.

Would you like to... * Develop Songbird, the most kickass desktop application since Firefox? * Be paid to build an open source media player that runs on Windows, Macs, and Linux? * Work in our warm, bright and airy loft in San Francisco?

This satirical film about a conscience-challenged tobacco lobbyist has a few glimmers of inspiration but never quite catches fire.

I first wrote about Australia-based Skylook back in August when they released v. 1.0. It’s a plugin for Outlook that ties Skype very nicely into email.

The Pentagon's defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions.

The dark secrets of the organic-food movement.

For the past decade, Mary Lou Lord has busked (played live in the street) near 6th Street at SXSW. She's become a virtual fixture of the festival, entertaining passersby with her music. But last week while she was playing in front of the Driskill Hotel, Austin police forced her to stop, telling her she had violated a new "no amplification" ordinance issued by the city.

Because you gotta know that when Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn’t push himself up, he pushes the earth down.

eneath the sprawling, antiquated streets of Old London, amongst a patchwork spiderweb of cables, cords and rusting pipes toils a madman. Once and still a brilliant man, Prof. Augustus Van Hipster, inventor and engineer of what we now know to be the English Hipster, was driven insane an age ago by grief and despair, but still he sends his soulless attempts at man upwards.

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As previously widely speculated, Six Apart, the makers of the TypePad blogging platform and MovableType blogging tool today announced that they have closed a Series C round of financing of $12 Million.

The NCAA basketball tournament now rivals the Super Bowl as the great American sporting event, but this year's competition is marked by an increasingly controversial selection process that dispenses with computer models and complex formulas in favor of good old-fashioned human judgment.

Methanol-powered artificial muscles have been created by researchers aiming to create battery-free robotic limbs and prosthetics.

Beneath the film’s “loony” plot and glossy, Technicolor veneer exists a cleverly wrought allegory on the Holocaust that will help to perpetuate the important lessons of that terrible atrocity for audiences old and new.

Becoming less scary with large quantities of coffee yet acquiring a new raging colon. The snarkiness is just a bonus.

Every last thing I do, from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed, hovers in the back of my mind, waiting to be judged.

The Backup del.icio.us blog counts 11 ways to back up your del.icio.us bookmarks but forgot to mention Flock.

For some reason, the snow that fell in the densely populated northern regions after a powerful cyclone had acquired a pink color of varying tints. Experts at the local meteorology centre said sand from neighboring Mongolia was to blame for this unusual natural phenomenon.

How to dig a moose out of ice, in photos.

Buy my friend Phil's book, "The Arsenal of Small Stars".