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Exterminate This! (A Dalek birthday cake). Details at Stackedcakes.com.au via Henry L.

Egads: There are more videos and even more videos about Dalek birthday cakes along with a competing subgenre of Tardis cakes and even more Tardis cakes.

Fireworks at St Mary festival. More videos on the St Marys Youtube channel.

New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other.

“Marriage has legal implications as well. For instance, if one member of a loveless couple got sick, their spouse could no longer visit them in the hospital to bereate them about how much that medical bill is going to cost.”

From the Onion, via half my Facebook Friends list.

First off: Cringely doesn’t provide evidence. He’s guessing that a way of giving Google preferred access without technically violating net neutrality is to give them access to Verizon property for server farms, thus cutting out some of the hops on the internet backbone. Interesting theory. I wonder if/when we’ll get the real story of this secret pact.

To see how it could work, you need to know a little about Google’s network of data centers, those windowless buildings around the country containing the servers that answer search queries, show maps, provide e-mail service and download YouTube videos. Several years ago, the company found a way to build a data center quickly and easily by simply filling a warehouse with stacked shipping containers — each one filled with computers. You just plug the containers together and flip the switch. Clever.

The Rainbow and the Superman by Thee Ludds. Sounds like they’re having a lot of fun even if it is completely-unapologetic retro posing. Indirectly via the King of Garage Rock Bill Kelly who played their song “I’m a Moron” on last week’s show.

From the site description: “Jon Watts is a dedicated member of the Religious Society of Friends as well as a prolific songwriter and poet. He has spent the last two years touring extensively throughout North America and is now in the studio recording his 3rd full-length album.”

His site has videos, tour schedules and a ‘vlog’ from this Spring’s bike tour!

Wait a minute, we’re FISH!

ABC News talks with the man behind @BPGlobalPR

Lego Hello World (most immediately via @butwait)

The Process (a.k.a. Designing The Stop Sign Video). What if there were no stop signs, and a major corporation was charged with inventing one? They’d brief their agency and let them do it. Sorta. Welcome to corporate creativity, where groupthink and endless revisions help good ideas get executed.

The video itself is like a family movie. Every single archetype that defines our modern “Quaker experience” is there— older ponytail dude, graying bob haircut eyeglasses no makeup woman… The…

Running along the surf

Will It Blend has a different kind of app for the iPad.

“Look at those dead bastards,” one pilot says. “Nice,” the other responds.

Video game wars from Collateral Murder:

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured. 

Via NYTimes.

Is that a Susquehanna Hat?!?! Sharing the classics with Theo