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Wow. It's like futures market speculation for the little guy.

I admire the way Netflix innovates by trying out new features and rolling them out to see how well they work. I guess the downside is if feature don't work they have to pull them. This particular feature - having multiple queues - is one I wanted to like, but in real life never quite worked for me. I am sure there are people who loved it. Kudos to Netflix for being willing to kill a feature for the greater good.

Update: After thousands of complaints, Netflix brought the feature back. It's very hard to kill a feature.

I have some tumblers made by this crew which I love, so I looked them up. They are a Dutch company with twist on the usual design pattern for picking a country or language.

I met this lady on the plane from Portland. She uses a "Encaustic" to paint with, which is basically painting with hot beeswax. I guess it's been around for a long time, longer than oil paints. There are some Roman mummies at the Boston MFA with masks painted using encaustic. Those mummies used to creep me out. Anyway, it's cool stuff, I especially liked "Call Today and Get Your Future Started" on the bottom of the home page.

My boy and I had a bunch of farmer's market strawberries to finish up this weekend, and we came up with this recipe for Strawberry Daiquiri's. They were delicious.

• 3 oz lemon juice. that's about 2 lemons
• 6 oz of chunked strawberries.
• 1 oz simple syrup. maybe a little more if you feel sweet
• 4 ice cubes

Blend up all of the ingredients together (We used a cuisinart smart stick which was fun). Add some water or some light rum as you like. Serves two.

I love this interview from the NYTimes magazine with the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia. He has radical ideas like keeping beaches public and building sidewalks.

Talking Points Memo has a funny screen shot of the McCain website. Funny that it's such a weirdly blatant rip-off of the Obama campaign, but the hight level importance given to golf gear just pushes into the realm of parody. Really? They really thought Iraq and golf should at the same level in their information architecture?

Excellent collection of 50s and 60s pulp fiction sci-fi book covers. [via jpsykes]

I predict this technology will be featured in the new iPhone.

The New York Times has a newly updated service allowing you to look at their papers between the 1850s and 1920s. Unfortunately, I'm not a subscriber and couldn't see it, but I liked that they encouraged me to contact my librarian if I'd like to find what I was looking for.

I'm adding this link from a nice little Macbook Air. The store is very impressive, especially the lack of cash registers and that big glass staircase. I almost bought an iPhone.

I love this old brochure on how to enjoy your station wagon. I think my favorite mind bender is the idea of a plywood car seat for toddlers.

I'm excited about the new Apple Store in Boston. I'm not so excited that I'm planning to line up for the grand opening tomorrow. Maybe I'll go on Friday. Looks like they have some cool events scheduled as well.

I was so excited about getting the Wire, but only the first seaon is available for download. Now if they had the last season on iTunes, they would have had me spending.

This is kind of like extending parts of my job to a physical grocery store. I wonder how well it works. My impulse is to think I'd have a hard time finding anything there, but I have a hard time finding groceries anyway. Seems like a good arrangement for people who don't bring a list.