Buddhist Teachers Make Their Own Limits in a Spiritual Partnership - New York Times. these two people never leave each others side. ever. and they’re celibate.

Some cool photos of guys cleaning the Space Needle in Seattle.

YouTube - Radio Host Kevin James Walks into a Smackdown. the guy is clearly shown to be an idiot but why was he even on the show? via amr.

Animoto. add your photos and some music and it makes a pretty cool slide show. UI has some issues and you’re limited to 30 second clips unless you pay for credit. Amazon invested in them today. here’s an example i made.

We’ll Do It Live! F*ck It! | MetaFilter. clip of bill oreilly from early 90s where he gets quite pissed about the teleprompter

Condo Life: Foreclosures, Higher Fees and Mowing the Lawn - New York Times. life of condo owners screwed by other residents foreclosures. crazy.

US property foreclosures up 65% | guardian.co.uk “The figure was up 4% on March and experts suggested that the rate of increase would be higher were it not for a logjam at courtrooms”. the carnage continues.

ToDo’s On Your Desktop // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker. some interesting tools i’ve never heard of (todoist and geektool).

Volatile TSX still beat investment pros. They did even worse than last year. another reason for buying index funds.

globeandmail: Dancing in The Bubble. on tel aviv nightlife, which i have heard is pretty nuts.

Tax Implications of Foreign Dividend Investing. stuff to know for canadian investors.

Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM. nice summary of how they manage creativity and morale at pixar.

When Crowdsourcing Fails: Cambrian House Headed to the Deadpool. calgary based startup seems to be done.

Here’s How America Looks to the World - washingtonpost.com “Fear, in other words, is a tax, and al-Qaeda and its ilk have done better at extracting it from Americans than the Internal Revenue Service.” via ram.

Torontoist: Little Missed Sunshine. someone organized an anonymous craigslist missed connections meeting in toronto. via ram.

This American Life on the Housing Crisis. haven’t listened to it yet. via ram.

Processing.js. John Resig ported over a graphics API called processing to javascript and it uses the html canvas. seems like quite the task.

The Penguin Blog: Covering Bond. cool set of book covers for a reprint of the James Bond books. via ram.

Inside The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home - Forbes.com. oh india. the only place where you can have a billion dollar home next to a cow shitting on the street.

The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time - Nerve.com. dan aykroyd is genius in those things.