July 2009
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Watch“Bananaphone Lil Jon Mashup” = Abso-frickin-lutely sublime.
Who knew Raffi could get so crunk?
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Things LA Has That NYC Lacks
malty:
laydown:ace138:
tesslynch:
1. Affordable housing
2. Uncrowded outdoor spaces
3. A 24 pack of beer for $9.99
4. Non-packed supermarkets (Trader Joe’s in Union Square, I’m looking at you, you monster of claustrophobia)
5. The attainable goal of having your own yard filled with citrus trees, avocado trees, jasmine
6. Beaches
7. As-good-as-Shake-Shack burgers for half as much...
Don't click this. I'm not playing around. →
peacenotwar:
weaponsoftruth:
kyliebby:
(via abeautifulstory)
SERIOUSLY. DON’T.
YOU.WILL.REGRET.IT.
copycats:
Billie Jean - Chris Cornell originally...
'How Green Is a Nudist Vacation?' - Green Inc.... →
Apparently pretty green…but it can turn red pretty quicly if you don’t layer up on the sunscreen.
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“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago. They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You...”
– Ray Bradbury, writer/author/hater of the internets.
Bradbury is my kind of writer: one who writes with a complete antipathy and disgust for the modern age and it’s “improvements” on the antiquated activities and institutions of reading, writing, libraries, and books (for another...
CS Monitor: "Who was really cheated in Iran's... →
“What is striking about the Iranians protesting fraud in the June 10 “election” is the number of women on the front lines. Among all those cheated at the polls, they may feel the most denied…
“During the campaign, Iran’s feminists found a voice in the popular opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister. He promised to disband...
“We’re all riding in our minivan
We’re all riding in our minivan...”
– Minivan Highway
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This Is What Fascism Looks Like →
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Report: "90% Of Americans' Waking Hours Spent... →
PALO ALTO, CA—A new report published this week by researchers at Stanford University suggests that Americans spend the vast majority of each day staring at, interacting with, and deriving satisfaction from glowing rectangles.
“From the moment they wake up in the morning, to the moment they lose consciousness at night, Americans are in near-constant visual contact with bright, pulsating...
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“Daylight” by Matt & Kim
Things you "dress":
Yourself
Wounds
Knots
Assorted foods (salads, turkeys, chicken, etc)
This has been your completely random thought of the day.
That is all.
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BBC kicks Sunday morning @$$
thomaswheatley:
BBC audiences in Iran, the Middle East and Europe may be experiencing disruption to their BBC TV or radio services today. That is because there is heavy electronic jamming of one of the satellites the BBC uses in the Middle East to broadcast the BBC Persian TV signal to Iran. Satellite technicians have traced that interference and it is coming from Iran. There has been...
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An Idiot's Guide To Iranian Riots/Coup D'Etat...
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negevrockcity:
The events in Iran are taking many of us by surprise. As I noted earlier, the detentions, riots and attacks are all happening during the weekend - traditionally a dead stretch for the news cycle. Some traditional sources are rising to the challenge admirably (New York Times, the Atlantic, AFP) and others aren’t delivering much original news worth noting...
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Reasons why it doesn't make Americans any less...
They’re still in a prison.
It’s not any more likely that they’ll be able to escape.
Reasons it might be a really good idea:
They won’t have to be held in a military base on the Southern tip of a country we’re barely on speaking terms with.
American soldiers can go back to being soldiers - it’s their job. American prison-officers can make room for a couple...
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"Iran's political coup" →
…a link from azspot:
garysick wrote:
If the reports coming out of Tehran about an electoral coup are sustained, then Iran has entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolution history. One characteristic that has always distinguished Iran from the crude dictators in much of the rest of the Middle East was its respect for the voice of the people, even when that voice was saying things...
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“Goobye, Ruby Tuesday” by Franco...
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On Typing...
I’m a very bad typist. I know, I’m such a sinner. I break all the rules.
Even though I type pretty swiftly I’m very bad about typing “by the book.” Over the years and despite the best attempts of Mavis Beacon, I’ve developed some shortcuts and accumulated several “habits” which keep me from doing it right.
For instance, I use my left ring finger...
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“…our society is messed up. That is to say, it is structured to distract...”
– -David Brooks, editorial columnist for the NY Times in his “Advice for High School Graduates” (link).
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I’m a big fan of David Brooks, and I really couldn’t agree with him more. This isn’t just advice for...
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“Our country’s health care is by far the most expensive in the world. In...”
– Atul Gawande, “The Cost Conundrum”, The New Yorker
This article, featured on Kottke.org last week, has apparently made its way around the blogophere and into the Oval Office.
The article details the paradox of McAllen, Texas, which is in the poorest county in America and has the...
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