Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for President on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

i don’t care what your opinion on either man is, you have to admit that it’s a pretty amazing and fantastic milestone.

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and a conversation he had with Sammy here awhile ago.

Puzzle House!

When an architect did renovations to a NYC family’s apartment, he filled it with hidden messages, puzzles, secret compartments, and codes that are built into the actual architecture. There’s even a book and a soundtrack that go along with it.

So. Cool.

Followup to the previous “Playing the Building” post...now with more video!

I don’t know if any of you saw this, or are interested, but the PBS FRONTLINE two part special Bush’s War is available in whole (plus extras!) online here.

I’m watching it now, and it’s pretty good.

A friend asked me this and I thought it was an interesting question:

Which virtue do you think is the most overrated?

(There’s a huge list of the supposed virtues on Wikipedia.)

But it could have been even awesomer.

Major Garret of Fox makes a report on Paul Begala joining the Clinton campaign. Begala emails Garret and says “uhhh…. no I’m not?” Garret continues reporting that Begala is joining the Clinton campaign, this time with “evidence.” Begala emails Garret and says “wtf? That totally didn’t happen. Honest!” Garret replies and says he has a good source and continues reporting.

How is this even legal? Full story here with complete email transcripts from Begala.

A great TED talk on how kids learn and how getting hurt is all part of the process. In case you don’t feel like watching, the five things are:

1. Play with fire 2. Own a pocket knife 3. Throw a spear 4a. Deconstruct appliances 4b. Break the DMCA (ie: crack digital media) 5. Drive a car

Discuss.

I want my jetpack

Also, Derrick’s a jerk.

Really interesting Mental Floss article on absolutely disgusting parasites.

As gross as they are, you really have to give evolution a high five over some of this stuff.

Some pretty funny and insightful stuff from Teen Wolf.

The Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007

Will make you feel very tiny. Especially #4, which looks like a collection of white dots, but every white dot is an entire galaxy. _