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From the user manual of the EZ-Laminator 450.

Letters of Note posts Johnny Cash’s to do list.

The original Star Wars cast together, from Awesome People Hanging Out Together.

This is something special.

Sometimes your new blog just needs a video of a washing machine exploding. It starts slow. Trust me.

I can’t decide what kind of drink would be best with these awesome Han Solo in carbonite ice cubes. Blue milk?

Wow.

They’re making a movie of this, right?

I’m ordering both of these tomorrow. Two awesome designs and two sites worthy of support.

American Drink T-Shirt.

‘Computers are for Creating’ T-Shirt from Shawn Blanc.

Last night, Jim Thome became the eighth player in MLB history to hit 600 career home runs. While there’s some truth to Joe Posnanski’s column for SI on the impact of the “Steroid Era,” I mostly just love this anecdote about Thome:

… Thome found his destiny in Charlotte. The Charlotte Knights manager was a folksy hitting savant named Charlie Manuel - you may have heard of him - and Manuel had Thome watch video from the movie The Natural. He specifically had Thome watch something that Robert Redford, as Roy Hobbs, did before the pitch.

“See how he points his bat at the pitcher?” Manuel said, or some such thing.

“Yup,” Thome replied.

“Let’s do that,” Manuel said.

“OK,” Thome said, because he’s an amiable type, and loved Charlie Manuel. He pointed bats at pitchers, and he mashed 25 homers and drove in 102 runs in Charlotte, then he went up to Cleveland and hit seven more homers.

I can only imagine this will increase Android fragmentation. Disregarding the (likely significant) impact of the patents acquired, the smartest thing Google can do is push out cutting edge Motorola phones to promote and define the future of Android. Despite Larry Page’s claims to the contrary, the other manufacturers will only get pushed further behind.

Nevermind the obvious yet intensifying focus on mobile technology from Google. Clearly, the future is in mobile computing advertising.