• Flickr Wordle
  from CogDog, points to “an interface that creates a tag list for a given flickr account, which, as text, can be put into Wordle…”
  (tags: tagging visualization flickr)
• Gestural vocal performance with an infrared shirt
  don’t miss this one, QUITE unlike anything you’ll have ever seen/heard
  (tags: vocal whoa geekery haptics)

Laço Tayfa is a favorite of mine anyway, but the virtuosity of the first couple of minutes opens new frontiers:

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, via Crooked Timber

• Eight years on
  NYTimes: Gov. George W. Bush said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.
  (tags: argybargy politics weasels)
• AC Grayling on anousia
  “…the British government is handing over large tracts of the school education system, along with tens of millions of our tax money, to groups of Anousics… a neologism suggested by ancient Greek to connote “mindless”, “unreasoning”, “illogical”.”
  (tags: argybargy language)
• Harpo Tells the Story of How His Gookie Face Came To Be
  (via BoingBoing) “If we felt the audience slipping away, fidgeting and scraping their feet through our jokes, Groucho or Chico would whisper in panic, “Ssssssssssst! Throw me a Gookie!”…”
  (tags: gurning whoa comedy)

handbook on horses, originally uploaded by Least Wanted.

good old Least Wanted