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If you go tot Sneakerplay.com RIGHT NOW (9:50pm CST) you will see that they are down for maintenance, but you’ll get a little surprise, something to kill the time while you wait for them to get the site back up online.

In case you missed it…

Do you hate these?

photo credit: © 2007 yuan2003

Would you prefer being here?

photo credit: © 2007 flydime

Then head over to StartBackpacking.com, a site dedicated to educating people about backpacking around the world!

Want a great, simple end of the summer BBQ recipe? One of my favorites, Clementine Citrus BBQ Shrimp Stir-Fry.

I highly recommend frozen raw shrimp. If the shrimp was frozen at the source, the taste does not get any fresher. For this recipe I bought a bag of Trader Joe’s Jumbo Uncooked Shrimp which has between 26 and 30 shrimp. I would also suggest a grill-top frying pan or a special veggie grilling grate, what I use, so you don’t lose any food between the grates of your grill.

Ingredients List

• 25-30 Uncooked Shrimp
• 8 Clementine Oranges
• 1 Cup Clementine Orange Juice
• 1 Zucchini
• 1 Yellow Squash
• 1 Medium-Large Yellow Onion
• 1.5 Tablespoons Low Sodium Soy Sauce
• 2 Tablespoons Honey
• 2 Cloves Garlic
• 1 Yellow Pepper
• 1 Red Pepper
• 2 Teaspoons Red Chili Pepper flakes
• Extra Virgin Olice Oil
• 2 Tablespoons Cilantro (optional)
• 2-4 Cups of Rice

Cooking Directions

1. Mmm… Clementines. I got a 5lb crate of this delicious fruit from Costco over the weekend, cube up 6 clementines and squeeze the juice from 4 into a large mixing bowl.
2. Add 2 finely chopped cloves of garlic, 1.5 tablespoons of soy sauce, 2 tablespoons honey, some black pepper and red chili pepper flakes, to your liking, to the large mixing bowl with the celmetine chunks and juice. Mix it up, tasting along the way to see what needs to be added. Careful with the soy sauce. I recommend adding it at 1/2 tablespoon increments, it can be a bit over powering. Another item you could add to the marinade is cilantro, that would be a nice addition actually.
3. Put the raw, thawed shrimp into the marinade an mix it around, making sure that there is enough juice covering all of your shrimp. If there is not, squeeze some more clementines into the bowl.
4. Grab a large ziplock bag and carefully pour your shrimp and marinade into it, place in the fridge for 1-2 hours. Depending on your grill, gas or charcoal, you may want to get it lit, pre-heat about 15-30 minutes before the shrimp is done marinading.
5. About 15 minutes before your shrimp is done marinading you can cut up your veges. I like big chunks of onion, and thick round slices of zucchini and squash, but cut them anyway you wish, just remember, they will shrink on the grill. Throw them into a large bowl, coat with some olive oil and some salt them set them aside.
6. Now we are ready to cook. Pull the shrimp out of the fridge, grab your veggies and head to your grill. Unzip the ziplock bag, pull out just the shrimp and put them into your grill pan, then throw your veggies on top. Mix the veggies and shrimp around, brushing everything with the leftover marinade every few minutes. If you have a nice and hot grill, cooking should take around 15-20 minutes.
7. If you’d like, while the shrimp cooks, you can make some rice, a little bed for your citrus BBQ shrimp.

Enjoy!

I missed this one, on July 2nd 2007 1,000 Japanese Otakus (Japanese for ‘geek’ effectively) marched in support of their geekdom. The drive behind the march was to grab positive attention from national media which often depicts them as bums and hoodlums. Covered by kiranet.com.

Lately many big department stores are conquering Akihabara, little shops are disappearing, and with them the “authentic Akihabara spirit” is also being destroyed. - kirainet.com/english/otaku-demonstration/

photo credit: © 2007kirainet

photo credit: © 2007kirainet

photo credit: © 2007kirainet

photo credit: © 2007kirainet

Read on and view more pictures at Kiranet.com’s Otaku Demonstration article.

Remember when clipping playing cards to your bike’s spokes was cool, that flipping sound that could announce your arrival from around the block. Well ladyada.net has tutorials on how to create some really cool flashing LED light shows for your spokes, like below.

photo credit: ladyada.net

photo credit: © 2007 hokieznuts

photo credit: aneel

photo credit: © 2007 theledlightingcompany

photo credit: © 2007 tobo

photo credit: © 2007 hokieznuts

Got to SpokePOV Persistence of Vision for your Bike and see how its done.

Thewvsr.com took photos of fast food menu items and placed them next to their corresponding ads.

Go to Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality and see the rest for yourself.

Hilarious photo by Esteban Diacono of Darth Vader reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

© 2007 Esteban Diacono | flickr: °Teban°

Esteban also has a series entitled The Real World: Darth Vader with Darth Vader in the shower and Darth trying to figure out how to brush his teeth.

Not sure where this image is originally from, but it kind of time lines the tallest buildings in the world.

View enlarged version of worlds tallest buildings.

mboffin.com has a really cool time lapsed screencast of the stages a website goes through as design elements are added.

For those who do not know, CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, are a way to separate a websites design from its content. So you have one file, an HTML file, with all the content such as the text for an article. You then have a CSS file that defines how the content is to look and act.

So this 30 sec. screencast follows the life of a plain text site all the way through to a fully designed and well formated blog.

Go to the time lapsed CSS screencast.

The Daily Mail is reporting on what effectively is a procreation camp for youngsters in Russia. The camp attracts 10,000 youngsters, with marriage and designated “dormitory” style procreation areas.

Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on sale.

But the real aim of the youth camp - and the 100,000-strong movement behind it - is not to improve Russia’s demographic profile, but to attack democracy.

Under Mr Putin, Russia is sliding into fascism, with state control of the economy, media, politics and society becoming increasingly heavy-handed. And Nashi, along with other similar youth movements, such as ‘Young Guard’, and ‘Young Russia’, is in the forefront of the charge.

Go to the article: dailymail.co.uk

AppleSac.com has a really cool hemp based sleeve cases made for Apple’s MarkBooks and PowerBooks.

The ColcaSac. Made of heavy 18.5 oz basketweave hemp canvas and lined with thick, cream, 100% polyester sherpa fleece. This immortal sleeve’s heritage stems from Colca Canyon, in Peru, whose name not only sounds great, but has a prodigious depth more than twice that of the Grand Canyon. Hemp boasts the longest natural fiber (many times stronger than cotton). - applesac.com

Go to the AppleSac Hemp Store.

Mark Jenkins has brilliantly fun and creepy Packing Take Installations (Storker Project), human forms and objects made from packing tape placed in “everyday” situations.

Not all of the installations are made using packing tape, some of my favorites are his “outside” items. Some are creepy some are fun, but all are very interesting playing on this idea of discomfort.

One of his pieces is of a packing tape body lying in a dumpster, a photo of this installation is taken from high above, off the side of a roof that has a very unsettling feeling to it.

Go to Mark’s homepage at xmarkjenkinsx.com.