Month: January 2013
January 27, 2013
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The changing face of computers on screen:
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Messing With Time: Why The Flash is in Hell « Measure of Doubt
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Hello Sailor! The Nautical Roots of Popular Tattoos | Collectors Weekly
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Oooh! New Black Mirror next month. RT @doctorow: ZOMG best news about TV ever pic.twitter.com/R35FL80P
January 26, 2013
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said, ‘Once Upon a Time’ –
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Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker
Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of material. Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar…
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Want an Audience? Listen Carefully | Digital Dorr
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Why no one’s listening to a Walkman –
http://FT.com
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Shane Carruth’s ‘Upstream Color’ is a trippy, sci-fi take on the forces that bind us together | The Verge
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“soothing, seductive and at least a little bit demanding, like every character ever played by Linda Fiorentino”
Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now
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Outlining in Reverse –
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Zócalo Public Square :: How Doctors Die
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The DJ in American Culture: Resonant, Misunderstood » Sociological Images
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A history of the mic drop: When did people start dropping the mic?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/25/a_history_of_the_mic_drop_when_did_people_start_dropping_the_mic.html
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January 25, 2013
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“Yes, we’re men. Men is what we are.”
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The Curse of Political Purity by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Roberto Unger, descended from a famous Brazilian family, is a respected philosopher, a famous political activist, and a professor at the Harvard Law School (tenured there, thirty-six years ago, at the unusually young age of twenty-nine). He has many just grounds for being famous. But he is best…
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I’d like to commend the spammer who just sent me the clearly and concisely titled “Affordable Boners For Everyone” email.
January 24, 2013
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Why I Hate Dreams by Michael Chabon | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
An image from Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland I hate dreams. Dreams are the Sea Monkeys of consciousness: in the back pages of sleep they promise us teeming submarine palaces but leave us, on waking, with a hermetic residue of freeze-dried dust. The wisdom of dreams is a fortune on paper…
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grrrr.
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TIL: “Eggcorn”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
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I am Banksy.
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Eastern Bloc hip-hop. Cool.
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A former boss of mine sued Kellogg for $600K because a Pop-tart burned down his house. True story:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19970523&id=GxsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p6YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3852,5449627
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Also, the 80s were kind of awesome.
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Smash TV’s “Memorex” is the best things I’ve seen in ages.
Hallucinatory and nostalgic.