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McSweeney's: Status Updates Since My Mother...

Jul 31st

“Again, the white knight was the government. It turned out...”
— Joe Hagan in Tenacious G (via...

Jul 31st

The globe will soon be geezer central...

Jul 31st

High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race...

Jul 31st

(via elclon)

Jul 31st

Top 1% Paid More in Federal Income Taxes Than Bottom 95% in...

Jul 30th

The Biological Threat of Stress: From the...

Jul 30th

“Don’t be shy,” intones Elena Brower, founder of Virayoga...

Jul 30th

Infotropism – Standing out in the crowd: my OSCON...

Jul 30th

Archinect : News : Vertical Living

Jul 30th

quotingthecrisis: chart-o-doom: “National New Home...

Jul 29th

The End of Giftedness - David Shenk

Jul 29th

“The bottom line is that those who believe Zappos was forced...”
— The long woo between Amazon...

Jul 28th

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sometimesagreatnotion: Monster Ballads - Josh Ritter (live) Probably one of my favorite...

Jul 28th

gondaba: I’m texting while driving Snort-worthy.

Jul 27th

“Unfortunately for Google, there aren’t many models for...”
— Why Is Obama’s Top...

Jul 27th

sometimesagreatnotion: “Of course it is exhausting, having...

Jul 26th

“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast...”
— Rilke (via yvonnegeorgina)...

Jul 26th

Fitbits are being assembled [Fitbit Blog]. I may end up...

Jul 26th

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and...”
—  Another koan of sorts from...

Jul 26th

“Perhaps a lot of the disagreement over healthcare reform,...”
— Greg Mankiw: Trust Just when...

Jul 26th

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it...”
— Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki...

Jul 26th

Facebook | Park City Bread & Bagel. Behold the power of...

Jul 26th

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Adam Fehr: I Agree. Completely. Good lord.

Jul 25th

This [rooming-house modeled] project is exactly the kind of...

Jul 25th

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Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar - Dance Dance Dance as filmed by the roundly awesome Take-Away Shows. ...

Jul 24th

Ludacris (Velazquez - Juan de Pareja)

Jul 24th

Traders Profit With Computers Set at High...

Jul 24th

A Tale of Brain’s Incredible Ability to Rewire...

Jul 24th

Based on Angelo Bronzino’s (1502–1572) “Portrait...

Jul 24th

tedr: ambivalence: (via zerokelvin) glorious I...

Jul 23rd

401 – What’s On Earth Tonight? « Strange Maps ...

Jul 23rd

ascendingcoherence: from Boston Globe’s Ideas blog “The...

Jul 22nd

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Long story short, someone fake-mumbling Aaron Burr at a dinner this evening totally disrupted a good...

Jul 22nd

If it looks like a wolf and drags babies...

lisawilkins: “When his parents looked outside later, they saw their pet, a 4-year-old mixed breed...

Jul 22nd

Memories of WaMu… [footnoted.org]

Jul 21st

Children's ideas of Christianity

ascendingcoherence: I just finished reading “Like I Was Jesus: How to Bring a Nine-Year-Old to...

Jul 21st

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(via bullshit) This is still one of my favorite things.

Jul 21st

Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao agree to...

Jul 21st

The New York Times trashes Robert H. Goddard...

Jul 20th

Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now

Jul 19th

The Grimmest Waiting List in Russia - NYTimes.com

Jul 19th

fauxmo: Clouds below

Jul 19th

“You can tell people they are wrong by a look or an...”
— Dale Carnegie, via @ario

Jul 18th

“There are going to be some people who say that some of this...”
— Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - The...

Jul 18th

Jul 18th

ascendingcoherence: (via nebraskagasm) As my great...

Jul 18th

RT @HunterSThompson: We were somewhere...

(via seoulbrother). Twitter would have been epic had the real Hunter S. embraced it.

Jul 18th

thinkdrastic: Marco Arment: “This is a pretty good...

Jul 17th

Ultrasound Used for Taxonomy of “Clicking”...

Jul 17th

Alpha Interactions - SocialSewing Brady, in...

Jul 17th

Bailing Out Latvia [Economix]

Jul 17th

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Swan Lake on The Daily Show Based on mikeindustries’s lead, I tracked down my brother’s...

Jul 17th

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mikeindustries: Prince Charles Scandal on The Daily Show: I just randomly remembered this clip...

Jul 17th

elclon: Certainly been here before…

Jul 17th

First 'climate friendly' labels appear on...

Jul 16th

“There’s surely a great dystopian sci-fi novel yet to...”
— Charlie Brooker on our rotten...

Jul 16th

Watching Whales Watching Us - NYTimes.com

Jul 16th

The Decadent Book, or the Book of the Decade?...

Jul 16th

ascendingcoherence: Kate Beacon sticks up for Anne. (Me,...

Jul 16th

numberwang: “This says that absent the absorbing role of...

Jul 16th

Three Sheets Northwest: Artemis on the Transpac 2009...

Jul 16th

sometimesagreatnotion: marybethsc: kellyjay: (via...

Jul 16th

ascendingcoherence: Dolly Parton’s first publicity photo,...

Jul 16th

“I’m sure that Dmitri Nabokov wouldn’t have...”
— Pink Slip: Nabokov from the...

Jul 15th

Avalanche Safety System to Help Extend Survival Time...

Jul 15th

Brooks: The Way We Live Now [nytimes]

Jul 15th

Take off your bicycle helmet, big boy!...

Jul 15th

Art of Innovation on the Behance Network

Jul 15th

Comparing Policy Responses to the Crisis [Economix] The...

Jul 15th

How We Drive: No One at the Wheel Transportation...

Jul 15th

“It’s the fact that Africans, themselves, have been...”
— Obama And The Narrative Of...

Jul 15th

xkcd - A Webcomic - Sheeple

Jul 15th

WhitePages unveils $2.5 million Web site...

Jul 15th

Enertia: Can Brammo move product with this...

Jul 15th

“General Motors, days in bankruptcy = 39 Jesus, days in...”
— CrossingWallStreet.com: Stat...

Jul 14th

Pain is my alarm clock [Zeldman]

Jul 14th

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DJ Earworm mashes up audio & video of Annie Lennox: Backwards/Forwards So awesome.

Jul 14th

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Divide & Kreate - I Told You To Beat It (Michael Jackson vs. The Hives)

Jul 14th

What's The Deal With That Goldman Sachs...

Jul 13th

'Horehound' by Dead Weather | Listening Party...

Jul 13th

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Paul Simon & The Roots! - “Late in the Evening” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Jul 13th

“Randolph Bourne’s idea, that critical discernment is in...”
— Guy Davenport, from “Journal...

Jul 13th

CrossingWallStreet.com: Wells Fargo Bank Sues...

Jul 12th

398 – Bridge to Nowhere: a Map of Golden Gate Jumpers...

Jul 12th

Social Collapse Best Practices, by Dmitry...

Jul 10th

“Who is man? Is he a rational animal? If he is, then the...”
— Robert McNamara, from a speech...

Jul 9th

“I used to wonder why South Africans seemed to adopt the...”
— Cape Town to Cairo to...

Jul 9th

Ezra Klein - What Does Ben Bernanke Believe...

Jul 9th

“The past is easier for us to understand than the present,...”
— The Ruricolist: The middle...

Jul 9th

Bob Sutton: Wisdom, Randomness, and the...

Jul 8th

In Housing, Even Hindsight Isn’t 20-20 ...

Jul 8th

The Death of Macho [Foreign Policy]

Jul 8th

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fourfour: Wildwood: The Movie The video above is a series of clips from the little-seen 1994...

Jul 8th

“List the ten most expensive things (products, services or...”
— When Money Buys Happiness -...

Jul 8th

A Few Thoughts About ‘On a Crash Course,’ by...

Jul 8th

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elclon: Plastic Bertrand - Major Tom What’s better than Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom” (in...

Jul 8th

Remembering 10-Cent Beer Night …in 1969, when the...

Jul 7th

Ralph Lauren’s Proxy is a Pageturner! |...

Jul 7th

Felix Salmon: How driving a car into...

Jul 7th

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Britney Spears fans dance to ‘…Baby One More Time’, an excerpt from BBC’s...

Jul 7th

Mysteries of Salamander Regeneration Revealed

Jul 7th

Enough Already: an article by Mark Edmundson...

Jul 7th

“But signs of change emerged last century. First, an earplug...”
— Stereo for One - A Brief...

Jul 7th

Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s) The tobacco enema was...

Jul 6th

Random, disconnected babble masquerading as a...

Jul 6th

numberwang: “Vast swaths of the Republican intelligentsia...

Jul 6th

elclon: Full size.

Jul 6th

The Deep-Bore Tunnel Is A Done Deal (Just...

Jul 6th

PostSecret: Sunday Secrets

Jul 6th

Muppet Mashup: Mashups of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street...

Jul 4th

The Technium: The Choice of Cities

Jul 4th

“I’m having communion with Desmond Tutu Friday morning....”
— Cape Town to Cairo to...

Jul 3rd

I’m so glad I decided to take a vacation

Jul 3rd

Eliminating the Bottom 5% (Strange Maps)

Jul 3rd

The Extinction Oscillator (Seed Magazine)

Jul 3rd

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davidkaneda: Kelly Ray / Raphael Saadiq Train music for the way home.

Jul 2nd

Airline Routes Predict Pathogen Spread

Jul 2nd

After Michael Jackson Died (Said the...

Jul 2nd

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and...

Jul 1st