January 2010
December 2009
Looking back at 2009 →
Looking back at Year 2009, I think the biggest question that Americans grappled with was what kind of economic system would be best. Whatever system prevailed through 2008 (see below for my…
Yellow Bird Project News » YBP’s Top 20 Albums of... →
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Röyksopp’s latest album Junior has this Norweigan duo having more fun than they have ever had before. While their previous efforts have been more on the…
The post-laptop era →
I gave my 13 year old nephew an iPod Touch for Christmas. It’s the perfect gift for a young man, it does almost everything on the Internet he wants to do. Email, Facebook, Youtube, web browsing, SMS…
Three of Scientology’s elite parishioners keep... →
They advanced to the Church of Scientology’s highest spiritual level, to “Operating Thetan VIII,” a vaunted realm said to endow extraordinary powers of perception and force of will.
But Geir Isene…
Evolution’s Bad Girl - Science News →
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DNA analyses suggest that people and chimps split from a common ancestor between 5 million and 4.5 million years ago, around Ardi’s time.
Lovejoy…
GDP Growth Forecasts, 2010 →
Nice tale of two types of countries via the Economist’s list of fastest- and slowest-growing countries around the world in 2010: [via The Economist]
Herschel Space Observatory Captures... →
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“The submillimeter sky is absolutely paved with galaxies,” Glenn said. The newest images are “amazingly clear and deep,” which enables astronomers to detect…
DIY Magnetized Coffee Sleeve Doubles as Third Hand →
The next time you need a third hand to hold your coffee cup while you dig around in your bag for something, just stick it to a streetlight with this ingenious hack. A fabulously creative New…
Publishers desperately seeking insanely great... →
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Bantam/Dell paid $600K for Beautiful Malice, a first book by Australian author Rebecca James, described as a “gritty psychological thriller for teenagers…
First Ever Gay Sex Scene On Daytime TV [Nooners] →
Yesterday, television history was made. One Life to Live aired the first ever gay sex scene on daytime TV! Check out Oliver and Kyle’s afternoon delight. [WoW]
The Ten Most Distracting New Car Technologies →
New car technology is great right up to the point you’re tagging songs and checking out graphs and then it’s “Ahhhhh! WATCH OUT FOR THE NUNS!” Here are ten in-car technologies we find…
doublejack: Go toward the light, Rush. →
doublejack: Go toward the light, Rush.
Jellyfish by George David Clark →
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The dark sea dreams them. They are the inexchangeable currency of dreams,
the interest the other world pays and pays into this one. In the blueing pre-dawn
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Bye, Chippy! →
Man to little dog with lady: Hi, what’s your name? Lady (for dog): My name is chippy. Man: Hi chippy! Lady: Hi! I’m getting my balls cut off on Thursday! —69th & 1st Overheard by: erock
Washington Post Joins With Peter Peterson, Ends... →
To end the decade, the Washington Post acknowledged that it is no longer a serious newspaper. It ran a piece written by the Peter Peterson Foundation financed Fiscal Times as a regular news…
The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor |... →
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Sole watchman of the flying stars, guard me against my flicker of impulse lust: teach me to see them as sisters & daughters. Sustain my grand endeavours: husbandship…
dwineman's favorited tweet (6 faves) →
I’d like Google Reader to go sit by itself for a while and think about why it makes me scroll to the end of an article to “keep unread.”
by dwineman (Dan Wineman), 9 hours, 8…
secretsquirrel: The quick brown fox is tired of... →
secretsquirrel: The quick brown fox is tired of your bullshit.
Everquest Gamers Shatter Gender Stereotypes... →
The LA Times headline says it all: “Women play harder than men in online games, study finds.” The study (co-authored by Dmitri Williams, Nick Yee, and Scott Caplan) is fascinating as the…
The Ride →
We went to a wedding two weekends ago, and the aunt of the bride was in a wheelchair. The bride and groom wanted a picture taken of everyone who attended the wedding, so we assembled on the front…
RT @toldorknown: Reading Ayn Rand-McNally’s classic North American Highway Atlas Shrugged.
Biology News: Hawking rewrites history...... →
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in the first instants of the Big Bang, there existed a superposition of ever more different versions of the Universe, instead of a unique history.
On Little Cat Feet [Snap Judgment] →
[Liverpool, December 28. Image via Getty.] Fog shrouds a statue of Billy Fury at the historic Albert Dock on December 28, 2009 in Liverpool, England. Fog across the North West of England has…
25 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography →
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If the goal is to someday fit ALL knowledge into well-defined tabular rows and columns… who’s trying to define those semantics? Wolfram?
Every site that collects ‘faves’ data ought to offer a ranked list of those with most similar tastes you can explore/subscribe to
(@trashthumb) last.fm needs me to use iTunes or WMP, yes? If I just type in a few faves the people-suggestions are very very limited
Lady GaGa desperate to collaborate with SuBo | The... →
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Now it turns out Lady G is a Susan Boyle supporter too. And as crackers as this sounds, she’s not ruling out a GaGa/SuBo collaboration.
The Poker Face singer said:…
you really need a flowing garment and no underwear... →
benkunz: Getting flak because the bedtime story I... →
benkunz: Getting flak because the bedtime story I made up ended with the boy being eaten by the alligator.
Color In Film: M. Night Shyamalan →
M. Night Shyamalan is know for, among other things, his use of color symbolism. In his first major hit, The Sixth Sense, the color red was used to indicate a connection to the dead and forewarn…
Six Kitchen Skills You Can Pick Up This Weekend →
With a second three-day weekend coming up, you’ve probably got some real free time. If you’re not on the road, might we recommend developing some new cooking chops? These relatively pain-free…
jborrero's favorited tweet (1 fave) →
VIP: The kid sees no reason for the “very,” and concluded that no one is “very” important, they just want to be. So wise.
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Which sites/apps most effectively/continually refine your web-filters (esp. help you find fellow filterers)?
(All the recent innovation just seems to diffuse the focus)