2010 Winter Paralympics – The Big Picture. giant slalom blind. now that’s crazy. via anton.

YouTube – Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv. chatroulette seems like the ultimate improv starter.

Karl Rove’s book vs. REWORK – what the American People need to know – (37signals). a very funny attack ad.

Investors can soon make bets on movie box office – latimes.com. Cantor Fitzgerald is opening a futures market to bet on box office returns. too bad that “make better movies” isn’t a better way to manage risk.

OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights | Dan’s FC Blog | Fast Company. that is one badass rube goldberg machine. via ram.

Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac – The Consumerist. nice infographic of subsidy versus nutrition.

Jim Flaherty blasted for $3,100 flight – thestar.com. He took a private flight to London, Ontario to do a photo-op at a Tim Horton’s and talk about controlling government expenses. How many press conferences does the government need to do at Tim Horton’s? And there wasn’t a Tim Horton’s in Ottawa available?

What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once?. a graph of water consumption in Edmonton during the gold medal hockey game. people were really holding it until intermission.

Building a Better Teacher – NYTimes.com. this is one long article. interesting stuff about the lack of training teacher’s receive.

Four Seconds – thestar.com. a frame by frame breakdown of Crosby’s gold medal goal.

Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices. that is a crazy list of stuff.

Garage TV – LogoRama. “In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man cops pursue a criminal Ronald McDonald.” This is nominated for the best short animated oscar and is quite amazing.

Can u guess which house belongs to elephant man? | TweetPhoto. from Diplo’s twitter feed. I suspect he means the musician and not Joseph Merrick.

Stately Dutch MILF Magnet $300 – Craigslist. this is probably the best bicycle for-sale ever. via wes.

Mom Sells Old NES and 5 Games — for $13,105 – Collecting – Kotaku. this mom must have gone nuts when she her ebay auction go from 9.99 to $13K.

Notes from a production MongoDB deployment « Boxed Ice Blog. horizontally sharded and replicated across datacenters. that’s pretty damn big.

Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com. an interesting visualization for the difference between first and last.

The Google/China hacking case: How many news outlets do the original reporting on a big story? » Nieman Journalism Lab. barely any is the answer. also, this is a great blog about the state of journalism. via ram.

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages – Video Feature – NYTimes.com. nice little video talking about the evolution of pictograms at the olympics.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Sports. turns out fivethirtyeight is doing daily updates of medal results based on predictions. the US is doing surprisingly well.