January 2010
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“What this actually illustrates is that many people are addicted to the...”
– Glenn Greenwald, “Craving terrorist melodrama” - Salon.com
December 2009
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“In 2010, you are whatever the Net says you are. Deal with it.
Let’s assume that...”
– Tim Bray, “After Branding”
Saw Avatar in 3D. I think my eyes need a cigarette.
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This song made my night http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1753b_joy-division-love-will-tear-us-apar_music
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Hey, what’s up thunderstorm? Nice of you to visit.
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“…I think it’s fair to say that since 1980, and it really started in the...”
– John Perkins (via azspot)
The true meaning of Christmas is eating until you’re about to explode and drinking wine until you pass out.
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“The Democratic plan looks to be a huge windfall for the insurance companies. How...”
– Luke Mitchell - Understanding Obamacare (Harper’s Magazine)
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a...”
– Buckminster Fuller
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“We live in an oligarchy. The mother’s milk of American politics is money, and...”
– David Simon (in an interview for Vice Magazine)
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WatchI Don’t Care About Tiger Woods’ Penis « Goodie Bag
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Through Inuit eyes - The Boston Globe →
“Being in the Arctic was a startling revelation for me - the idea that I was a member of a culture as opposed to a normal human being,’’ said Canadian filmmaker Mark Sandiford, who spent 16 years in the Arctic and made a film with Nungak called “Qallunaat: Why White People Are Funny.’’ (Reasons include they greet each other with inane salutations like “Wazzup?’’; go camping in trailers in...
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WatchLCD screen can recognise what happens in front of it - tech - 15 December 2009 - New Scientist
An everyday LCD screen has been modified to “see” the world in front of it in 3D. That means a viewer can control on-screen objects by waving their arms in the air without touching the screen, let alone a mouse or keyboard.
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“Anyway, Thai food is inescapable now. Apparently Thai food is Chelsea’s...”
– Mo Rocca
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Still operating under the delusion that things should come easily and that life should be simple.
I didn’t realize it was Santacon until
I saw the crowds of people in Santa costumes wandering down Market street. Happy Santacon, guys
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The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine -... →
NY Times Magazine has posted their collection of ideas from 2009. What were we thinking?
Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can...
Snuggled in bed with a movie and a hot cup of cocoa. Not bad for rainy Friday evening.
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How a Few Private Health Insurers Are on the Way... →
A system based on private insurers won’t control costs because private insurers barely compete against each other. According to data from the American Medical Association, only a handful of insurers dominate most states. In 9 states, 2 insurance companies control 85 percent or more of the market. In Arkansas, home to Senator Blanche Lincoln, who doesn’t dare cross Big Insurance, the Blue Cross...
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“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want...”
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(via hippity-hop, via quote-book)
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Uganda Drops Death Penalty for Gays →
Not good news, but not as bad as it could have been. I hope those who supported the bill, especially political and religious leaders (some from the United States) will be fully discredited and the injustice of this bill will be exposed.
Sometimes, an international outcry works: Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment as punishment for homosexuality in an anti-gay bill that...
Ugh, woke up this morning with a fever and a sore throat. Maybe I had too much fun this weekend?
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‘Tis the season for terrified children http://sketchysantas.com/
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mental_floss Blog » Shh! Talking About Your Goals... →
Announcing your goals, at least according to this study, gives you a “premature sense of completeness” and makes you less motivated to actually achieve them.
Does that mean you can never tell your friends what you’re working on? Not necessarily, says Sivers. Expressing your goals not in a self-satisfied way (”I’m really gonna do it!”) but in a dissatisfied manner (”I really need to do X,...
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What's Your Christmas Card List Got to Do With the... →
By his calculations, 150 people is about the largest social network each human can maintain. You might know more folks than that, but the 150 will be the ones you really have an important relationship with—the ones you really care about.
And this is where things get kind of freaky. To verify his idea, Dunbar started looking at the size of documented social networks throughout human...
“It had to be done. Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Garfield. http://twitpic.com/rwio7 ” /via @erinidle
RT @BorowitzReport: Comcast, NBC Finalize Deal to Pump Raw Sewage Directly into Your Home
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“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
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RT @siokaos: More people die in the US in car accidents in one month than have died in the last 40 years because of Islamic terrorism.
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RT @goodiebag: This font video definitely out-geeks me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu28bfxSI (via @brainpicker)
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“…if Obama’s approach — reflective of the Republican “realists” to whom he seems...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
RT @stop8dotorg: Prop 8 Leader admits that “traditional marriage” really only means “no gays” http://bit.ly/5IcyGm
