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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.

Daniel Burnham

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With handlebars. It’s straight out of Tool Time.

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Disney World’s parking lot is bigger than Manhattan.

(via swissmiss via Andy Grayson.)

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The Wet Wipe Manifesto has given me the courage to go public: I am a wet wipe man. Hat tip to Kottke.

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Normally Indianapolis doesn’t get credit for this sort of thing, so I was surprised to see it show up on the list at #7 of 10.

America’s Best Eco-Neighborhoods

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A commercial just came on that featured a guy talking to a beaver, Abe Lincoln, and an astronaut in his kitchen. They were from his dreams and they wanted him back. It was a commercial for a prescription sleep aid. All of which made me think: who’s hanging out in my kitchen?

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For the football fans out there, see if you recognize the “Indianapolis Colts”:http://www.colts.com/ player I’m describing.

He incessantly studies game film. He has such rapport with his supporting cast that all it takes is a look or a gesture to communicate between them. He’s been on the cover of Sports Illustrated and industry analysts acknowledge him as one of the best players right now. His career is heading for the football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

Peyton Manning? Well, OK, yeah, but I’m talking “about Dwight Freeney”:http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051014/SPORTS03/510140497.

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It’s official–the Johnson and Adams families are addicted to “Katamari Damacy”:http://www.namco.com/games/katamari_damacy/. Only the Japanese could come up with such a quirky yet addictive game.

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Slurpees and iTunes are getting together to do “a free iTunes download promotion”:http://www.apple.com/itunes/slurpee/. That’s a wonderful combination of “a few of my favorite things”:http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thesoundofmusic/myfavoritethings.htm: Slurpees, music, Apple, and “free”.

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I know, I know. First post after the holidays and it’s not even remotely related to the holidays. I’ve come close a couple of times to posting a holiday recap, it just hasn’t happened yet.

Moving along…

The online magazine _The Edge_ asked 120 scientists (and other assorted interesting people) what they believed in, even though they couldn’t prove. The “ensuing answers”:http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html make a good read, but here’s my current favorite:

Alexander Vilenkin, a physicist at the Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University, “believes the universe is infinite”:http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html#vilenkin. I’m going to go try paraphrasing his theory–my profound apologies to Mr. Vilenkin if I screw up.

Since the universe is infinite, there are an infinite number of regions just like ours, and an infinite number of Planet Earths. Within a particular region there are only a finite number of histories (i.e., “the way things happened”). So we have an infinite number of Planet Earths and only so many ways things could have happened on Planet Earth. Thus there are an infinite number of Earths that have the same history as us. There are also an infinite number of Earths with a slightly different history. To quote Mr. Vilenkin, “So, if you are not satisfied with the result of the presidential elections, don’t despair: you candidate has won on an infinite number of earths.”

See? No need to migrate to Canada. Just take comfort knowing that somewhere out there an infinite number of Kerrys are getting ready for their inauguration ceremony.

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