Month: June 2013
June 23, 2013
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The Bizarro Landscapes Created By Apple’s iOS Maps
http://j.mp/172poIh
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Putting classic sculptures in modern close makes you really how normal those bodies are:
http://j.mp/172qgwE
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Triumph of the Wrong? – NYTimes.com
In these closing weeks of the campaign, each side wants you to believe that it has the right ideas to fix a still-ailing economy. So here’s what you need to know: If you look at the track record, the Obama administration has been wrong about some things, mainly because it was too optimistic about…
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Removing stuff is harder than adding stuff:
http://j.mp/120VfrG
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Current Status: Listening to Big Star.
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Forget that hokey Sugarman doc, this is the real deal!
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me:
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Hey Yahoo! I fixed your Paula Deen poll for you… pic.twitter.com/XbMGPfyj8d
June 22, 2013
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Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Formation Gains More Credibility: Scientific American
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The moon may be a chip off the old block after all. The most commonly invoked explanation for lunar formation holds that a giant protoplanet, sometimes called Theia, struck the newly formed Earth 4.5 billion years ago and created a cloud of debris that…
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As a palette-cleanser, I’ll leave you with the comedy stylings of Danny Kaye:
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I shouldn’t been on Twitter right now. I’m very cranky. I’ll leave you with this on my dance/choreography thing:
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Miley Cyrus’ new video looks like a #springbreakers deleted scene:
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There were no “good old days”. 90% of everything is always crap. You just filter it out when you look backwards.
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Photos WERE precious but are ubiquitous. They replace other communication. I take a pic of my airport parking spot. Snap whiteboards.
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And crappy photos DO tell stories to the subject and the taker. You’re just not privy to the shorthand context gives them.
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Photos must tell stories seems to be an arbitrary criteria. Who set that rule?
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Most of the world’s pictures have been in shoeboxes. Now they’re only. You can SEE what has always happened.
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When @BrownoftheGlobe says “pictures” he means “photographs” (i.e. art). Most people dance, few do choreography.
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This @BrownoftheGlobe piece irks me. I feel trolled.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/humanity-takes-millions-of-photos-every-day-why-are-most-so-forgettable/article12754086/
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Pro Tip: You can turn off video autoplay in Instagram. pic.twitter.com/70wjIKLZZk
June 21, 2013
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My fav Gandalfini quote is “Leave the gun, take the cannelloni” (as Tony Soprano in Goodfellas)
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June 20, 2013
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Congratulations to the Miami #heat for winning the NBA championship. I didn’t want you to win.
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I just watched Stephen Colbert’s tribute to his mom and I’m crying like a baby.
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If we can’t imagine the past, what hope the future?
Another piece I recorded for the BBC Up until we discovered a body in a glacier in the Italian Alps more than 20 years ago, we didn’t really have a clue about our ancestors. The body belonged to a man who died 5000 years ago,. While much of the interest has focused on how he died — it took…
June 19, 2013
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The Lemur That Was a Fish | Wired Science | Wired.com
Fossils are not always what they seem. Megarachne , once heralded as the largest spider of all time, was actually a sea scorpion. The squishy Cambrian critter Nectocaris has been transformed from one of our early chordate cousins to an enigmatic invertebrate of unknown affinity. Tracks thought to be…
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I smell better than I look, so probably lots!
RT @JocelynJoness: “If the world was blind, how many people would you impress?”
June 18, 2013
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Tonight we are all #spurs fans.
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Why use a flower as your brand name and a dragon to personify it?
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“Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate”:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-burgess-abortions-should-be-banned-because-male
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The Great New England Vampire Panic
Scraping away soil with flat-edged shovels, and then brushes and bamboo picks, the archaeologist and his team worked through several feet of earth before reaching the top of the crypt. When Bellantoni lifted the first of the large, flat rocks that formed the roof, he uncovered the remains of a…