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links for 2007-02-13

• The Machine is Us/ing Us in text
  Tanya Witherspoon's "poetic transcription"
  (tags: anthropology web2.0 video)
• Military-Industrial spinoff: The Avure 687L
  Lobster processing for the 21st century, "crustacean without the crust". Amazing.
  (tags: whoknew whoa food technologies)
• Shucks Maine Lobster
  "Revolutionizing the Way the World Eats Maine Lobster... The hard work continues in our production facility, or the kitchen, as we call it, where we process the lobster using our 'Big Mother Shucker'."
  (tags: whoknew whoa food technologies)
• Urbs et Orbis: zefrank juggles Proust, gum, DNA, and NYC
  and wins, all in about 3 minutes. Armani and hot dogs too.
  (tags: chronotope video)