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So, is it an urban legend? Or not? Can you boil an egg or pop popcorn with cellphones?

It seems the verdict is out:

• Poppping Popcorn with Cellphones [via laughingsquid]
• urban legends via about.com
• Cell phones cook eggs, and your brain?

NASA has some nifty navigation taking place on their homepage. Something similar to what my friend Basil crow coded for Brown University

• A is for Atheist.

  The OUT Campaign allows individuals to let others know they are not alone. It can also be a nice way of opening a conversation and help to demolish the negative stereotypes of atheists. Let the world know that we are not about to go away and that we are not going to allow those that would condemn us to push us into the shadows.

• A collection of Madonna photos from Vanity Fair.
• Why I won’t vote for hillary. Among other things.
• For some reason, the idea of another SPEED movie just doesn’t get old. Ha! [via Joshua Blankenship]
• Rob Wychert is venturing out across america in a kick ass Corolla. His site for the journey, just flaunts brilliance. I love it.
• Why is it, I have no problem with the Miley Cyrus pictures, except for the fact that Billy Ray, who if you don’t remember wrote “Achy Breaky Heart”, is in them.

• What if? - A blog that doesn’t update anymore, sadly.
• Check out the Air Zoo - the most beautiful use of trash bags to date.

• Design Within Reach has some nifty doorbells that would go really well with some Neutra designed numbers.

  

• He writes on his hands and makes klein bottles. This TED video is a hoot.

• Apple Is Sued Over iMac Colors Claim

  The Cupertino-based company touts that ability on its Web site and other marketing material even though it knows iMac monitors can display only 262,144 true colors, according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

  Users are fooled into seeing many more colors because the monitors use technological tricks that involve showing many similar shades at high speeds to create the illusion of the desired shade, according to the lawsuit.

• Joe explains why sucks is a four letter word.
• Some amazing art by Andy Gillmore [via DDC]

The first of many? I’ve got so many links I want to post. and because like bananas, links go better as a bunch, here they are.

• What happens when snoop dog gets together with an eonomist? Rap Graphs - via ze frank (RAPup, get it?)
• Jeremy is getting into trouble with electronics too! The arduino is such a cool gadget. Make sure to check out the “Brain Machine”.
• Apple defines Motherf*ck*r
• (oldy, but goody) Don’t ever think for a second Eric Meyer isn’t the most badass dude ever…
• Calvin Harris has got one killer electro dance album out.

• Celemony Direct Note Access:

  Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material.

• A car painted entirely with a Sharpie. [via dfckr]

• Dropclock is a really cool screensaver, of Helvetica numers dropping into an invisible pool of water.