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Youtube Pulls Original "Rickroll" Video

Youtube pulled the original 'Rickroll' video Wednesday night. Don't worry, after a lot of email about the loss of such an important piece of cultural history, Youtube put it back up, saying that they're never gonna say goodbye to the video that's had over 30 million views.

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Robert Addy

Robert Addy in his Forest City Baseball Uniform, originally uploaded by New York Public Library.

Robert Addy is regarded as one of the greatest pre-league and early league players. Albert G. Spalding credits him with inventing the slide, and later in life he experimented with a version of baseball played on ice, he even led an short-lived iceball team based out of Hartford. The best citation for this is New York Times, although it's a throw-away mention (also see wikipedia's entry for Bob Addy). You can also visit Addy on Find-A-Grave.

More Proto-Baseball photos are available from the New York Public Library, part of their A.G. Spalding collection.

Limberger's Victory

Limberger's Victory (cinema 1915), originally uploaded by New York Public Library.

I'm browsing NYPL's digital gallery this morning.

WILKIESAURUSES

WILKIESAURUSES, originally uploaded by david.

Today is National Magazine Day

How? On Saturday, February 27th, ordinary folk across America (like you, like me) will spend the day "attacking the stack" or reading their way through the unread magazines they've accumulated. If you're a big goody-goody and read your magazines straight through the moment they arrive, you may spend the day at your local library/bookstore/university exploring new periodicals, discussing your favorite magazines with friends, tweeting your favorite articles. As you wish.

Where: I live in San Francisco, California and will be hosting a Magazine Day celebration at Booksmith bookstore in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood from 1-6 PM. Five dollars reserves you a spot which includes all the coffee you can drink, all the snacks you can eat, free reign of the store's ample magazine racks and admission to a 6 PM panel discussion entitled "The Future of Magazines." 

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One day squirrels will take over the world

Carlton Cuse, one half of the "Darlton" pair behind Lost and writer of most of the important Lost episodes (including this week's "The Lighthouse") linked to Serious Eats from his twitter account today.

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLLLLLLLLE!

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Ravenous Squirrel at Shake Shack Wants to [Drink Beer]

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Who you callin' a squirrel?

Django Advent - Scaling Django

There's still a lot of custom code required to use Django at scale, but that's to be expected — scaling is very application specific. The best we can hope for is a framework that provides the basic tools we need, then gets out of our way. And, for the most part, Django does just that.

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A Tale of Two New Yorkers: Ms. Gaga, Ms. Spektor

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"Oh well. I'll take Gaga."

AND A PALINDROME

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"It's a taco! And a cat! And a palindrome!"