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• Photo of young Obama - Boing Boing
  Cool picture of a young and smooth Obama
• The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture
  Awesome photos from through the year. Make sure to check 5, 23 and 40
• xkcd - A Webcomic - Flow Charts
  Geek humour
• Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
  1.6% of climbers die
• Greek Riots - Big Picture
  Excellent set of photos of the Greek riots
• Pirates cashed in $120m - UN
  According to this article the UN claims that Somali pirates have raked in $120m so far this year! Even if that is true I think things are going to slow down.
• Are daughters-in-law to blame for the menopause
  A very cool New Scientist article on why menopause may have evolved. Excellent stuff - will blog this one.
• Rant about IE and standards
  Funny blog posting ranting about how IE sucks at following web standards and how that hurts the rest of us
• Image evolution
  A very cool program that evolves an approximation of the Mona Lisa using only 50 polygons. Very cool. I wish I had more time...
• American car company bailout poster
  Very funny poster mocking the bailout of American car companies that are run badly and probably don't deserve a bailout
• Python Tutorials (more than 300)
  Excellent list of Python (great programming language) tutorials.
• The Phelps Surge - Great photo from underwater
  This is an awesome picture from a split second before Phelps' 'miraculous' victory in the butterfly. Hard to believe that the guy on the left won!
• ANC Secretary General: 'COPE paid to destroy ANC'
  Gwede Mantashe claims that COPE is a group of ANC members who are being paid by "Afrikaaners" and other counter-revolutionary forces to weaken the ANC. These are the MORONS running our country.
• Congo's crisis worsens - The Big Picture
  Another excellent photo essay from the Big Picture guys. Pretty heart-wrenching stuff from Congo
• Venice under water - The Big Picture
  Venice recently flooded but everyone just carried on with life - wading around. Nice photo essay