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Pittsburgh has a surprising amount of awesome, public art (including a series of murals by Shepard Fairey). What’s your favorite?

Sarah Palin meets Sarah Palin.

From self. AskReddit: What is something on youtube that has moved you to tears?

Photograph of a helicopter landing at night in Afghanistan undergoing the Kopp-Etchells Effect. Friction caused by the metal blades moving through the air and dust causes static electricity, and creates the haunting light show seen above. The phenomenon has been named in honor of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan, but the underlying effect may be related to the triboelectric effect.

Twitter is crack cocaine: Fucking ANYONE is your friend. Yuppies do it on their iPhone. Cheap. Short. Fruitless.

Patrick Moberg’s Internet Vices. (previously)

Patrick Moberg’s Lessons from a Dog. Lesson 3: “Always be curious about the world around you, especially when new people come into it.” Oh. Em. Gee! My heart just exploded!

Chris Garneau’s El Radio has been out for awhile now, but finally the wonderful single “Fireflies” (previously) has an accompanying, and equally wonderful, music video. “If Link made music, this is what it would sound like.”

Money Hats from Make. More here.

Google releases Chrome OS. Looks interesting, but when will I have time to make my sandwiches now?

The King Khan & BBQ Show - “Tastebuds”, from their new album Invisible Girls.

Such a dirty, dirty, awesome song. I’d say NSFW, but that seems like such an understatement.

People talking on bananas. Dot com.

And other bits of bio-diversity at Abstract City.

Scott Beale at Laughing Squid was invited to a NASA tweetup to watch the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch, and he thought wouldn’t it be great to throw up some pictures from the event? Cosmic Variance was invited, too.

I’ve seen more guts in ten-year-old kids.

At the end of our interview, I ask young Will a question that might be a civics test nightmare for your average 10-year-old. Will’s answer, though, is good enough — simple enough, true enough — to give me a little rush of goose pimples.  What does being an American mean?

“Freedom of speech,” Will says, without even stopping to think. “The freedom to disagree. That’s what I think pretty much being an American represents.”