A Shell Oil Company ROV (remotely operated vehicle) shot photos of a rare alien-like Magnapinna squid with “elbows” at the Perdido ultra deep oil drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico. National Geographic has the full story, including photos and video.

Thanks to Kevin Mathieu, RICK! and Jozef Zábojník for the tip!

image via Shell Oil Company

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Documentation of Rare Alien-Like Magnapinna Squid With “Elbows”

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Egg Nog pre-mixed with Evan Williams seven-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon. It’s actually pretty good and has a slight hint of Twitter.

photo by Scott Beale

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Evan Williams Egg Nog, Pre-Mixed With Kentucky Bourbon

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Wonderful stop-motion animation by Pes in honor of Scrabble’s 60th Anniversary.

Also check out Pes’ new Fireplace Screensaver.

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Scrabble 60th Anniversary Stop-Motion Animation by Pes

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Current recently launched a new TV Free Burning Man channel on iTunes featuring videos produced by Current at the annual event in the Black Rock Desert.

Justin Gunn and the Current crew have been doing an amazing job documenting Burning Man since 2005. Here are the TV Free Burning Man archives (2005-2008) and Burning Man Community section on Current.

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Current Launches Burning Man Channel on iTunes

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Bike Porn 2: Bikexploitation, a collection of short movies on the theme bicycle exploitation, is currently touring the West. It is making stops in the Bay Area at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on Friday, November 28th and in Oakland on Saturday, November 29th (venue to be determined).

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Bike Porn 2: Bikexpolitation

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The next Dorkbot SF takes place this Tuesday, November 25th at Retox Lounge in San Francisco and features presentations by Laura Mappin (Laser Cutting), Trademark G (Touchscreen Video Controller for Live Mashups) and Sam Coniglio (Designing the Orbital Lifestyle). See the event listing for more info.

photo by Sam Coniglio

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Dorkbot SF #40 at Retox Lounge

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Here are live reports at 35,000 feet by Brian Lam of Gizmodo and Ryan Block of Engadget using the new GoGo inflight WiFi service on Virgin America.

The speeds are 3.6Mbps downstream and 1.8Mbps upstream, $10 for short flights (less than 3 hours) and $13 for longer flights (over 3 hours). Virgin America has announced that it 100% of their flights will have this service by April 2009.

See Previously: Wi-Fi Available Soon on American Airlines & Virgin America

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Gizmodo & Engadget Report Live From Virgin America’s GoGo WiFi

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photos by Scott Beale

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Christmas Coke Bombs

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A police car dashboard camera captured a meteor over Edmonton, Alberta yesterday.

Here’s more on the meteor sighting from the Edmonton Sun and CBC

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Police Car Dashboard Camera Records Meteor Over Edmonton

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I’ve been a fan social network event calendar sites like Going.com, but Jersey Oakland-based Sonic Living has been busy working on some cool features.

The iTunes scanner goes through your music library.

You can decide what bands you’re interested in seeing in concert.

Never miss your favorite band coming to town.

Very cool but Sonic Living took it step further and partnered with Pandora to offer concert listings to its 19 million users. Bands you discover and bookmark on Pandora now show up in the new Sonic Living-powered concert section.

So you have one less excuse to go to a Web 2.0 party instead of live performance.

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Sonic Living Partners With Custom Online Radio Service Pandora

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listen - i can't resist a good cat vid now and then. this breed in particular. first found *in nature*, i.e. not a man created novelty...they have little tiny legs. watch for the normal size kitten that runs across the screen :: click below for the vid ::

Here’s a brilliant mashup of the super annoying Toyota commercial “Saved by Zero” re-mixed with the American version of “The Ring”.

via Videogum

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Saved By Zero, The Commercial That Kills

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Here’s wonderful collection of classic “The End” title cards from movies.

via Daring Fireball

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Wonderful Collection of Classic “The End” Movie Title Cards

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Tavi - the 12 year-old fashion blogger :: stunningly good at the medium...

The latest TV ad for World of Warcraft features the original Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne.

Blizzard also released another WoW ad featuring Steven Van Zandt who played Silvio Dante on The Sopranos.

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via WoW Insider

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Ozzy Osbourne World of Warcraft TV Commercial

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Google has just launched SearchWiki which allows you customize your search results.

Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don’t feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. We store your changes in your Google Account.

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Google SearchWiki, Customize Your Search Results

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ok - to balance out the cuteness of the cat video, here is a weird and grotesque interview. This has nothing to do with the interview's subject, Sarah Palin, but rather what is happening in the background during the interview. You can even watch with the sound off if you like...but you have to wonder why the producer chose that angle :: click below for the vid ::

alan commented on the bike/guitar hero link saying that an ad company had admitted to making the clip.

a gaming blog, gamecyte.com, responded to critics by posing this question:

"If a company produces a legitimately awesome piece of art in the vein of user generated content, does its less-than-humble origin detract from its value?"

what do you think? what does "in the vein of" mean in this context? does it mean "pretending to be"? is this like lonelygirl?

as the lines begin to blur between "reality" and "fiction", how does our perception of "intention" play into this? is this about ethics?

talk to me...