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• A Nation of Racist Dwarfs
• ‘The Wolfman’ claws its way to theaters despite a cursed production
• Things I’ve learned at Google so far
• What’s A Startup? First Principles.
• My Life as H.J. Heinz: Confessions of a Real-Life Twitter Squatter

No theme, several are actually videos and require very little reading.

• What Slime Molds And Subways Have In Common, According to Scientists
• Twitter’s Project Mayhem Dilemma
• Jeff & Erin’s Epic Wedding Trailer
• The Vice Guide to Liberia (interesting, but graphic)

• The 31 Places to Go in 2010 – NY Times
• The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet
• Foursquare Goes Global, Bringing New iPhone, Pre, BlackBerry, And Web Apps With It
• Million Dollar Man – What it takes to send each soldier to Afghanistan

Don’t read any of these until you see the movie. They all contain minor spoilers.

• Inside James Cameron’s Head: Avatar, F-Bombs, and Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
• James Cameron talks Avatar on AOTS
• James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever
• Inventing Effects to Create the Avatar Universe
• The /Filmcast Interview: James Cameron, Director of Avatar

Here’s a collection of some interesting articles I’ve read the past few weeks on the road.

• A Penny Saved Is Effort Wasted: The Case Against the Penny
• Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement*
• Transported: The Jason Statham Think Piece
• How to Discover Your Life’s Purpose – 7 Questions to Ask
• 50 Fashion Tips for Men
• Do Presidential Libraries Say About Their Namesakes’ Legacies?

*If you or anyone you know plays FarmVille, then you / they should definitely read this one.

• Damn Interesting: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
• Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009
• The Gangs of Rio
• 95 websites you should totally bookmark today
• 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About

No theme this week, just a handful of articles I’ve read recently and found interesting.

• The Disappearance Of Marco Siffredi
• Banned in Russia
• Crashgate – Top 10 Sporting Cheats
• 100 Ways to Improve Your Blog
• Tweet, Tweet, Ka-Ching: Twitter is Changing the Way Nonprofits Make the Ask

Same as last week, four interesting articles from Wikipedia.

• Placebo Button
• GoldenPalace.com Monkey
• Beatallica
• The Cure for Insomnia

Wikipedia is full of a lot of useful information. None of these articles fall into that category because there are a lot of really strange articles on Wikipedia as well. I knew about some of these, but I didn’t know the full story.

• Florence Y’all Water Tower
• Forest Swastika
• Rio Rico, Texas
• Erdos–Bacon number
• Bloop
• Death from Laughter
• Hitlers’ Cross Restaurant
• Chess Related Deaths

I got a call from my dad (who runs an advertising agency) this week asking about Twitter. Specifically he wanted to know if there was value in his company beginning to use this service to help clients or if it was just another passing fad. My verdict was that despite the obscene amount of media coverage twitter is not just a passing fad. Below are some of the links I dug up to help support my stance.

• Twenty-One Top Twitter Tips (via Forbes)
• 62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business
• 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
• 4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business