January 2011
My hero: Kate Bush by David Mitchell →
‘It’s hard to think of a novelist, let alone another singer-songwriter, who takes on such diverse narrative viewpoints with Bush’s aplomb’
Kate Bush transforms me into a deranged fan. I don’t…
December 2010
eschew, seCONded #bigwordsontvlastnight
Jihad, Middle age misery, PhD salaries, and other... →
A few interesting articles from the December 18, 2010 Economist magazine…
“Is it worth doing a PhD” notes that in Britain a man with a PhD earns 26 percent more than a man “who could have gone…
The Chess Master and the Computer by Garry... →
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The surprise came at the conclusion of the event. The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC but a pair of amateur…
Can we raise Quora consciousness by the questions we ask?
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Boss, looking out window at parking lot full of snow: It’s like a parking lot out there! Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote…
Is there an easy corrective if my 1st impression is to LOATHE Quora?
A Short Testament by Anne Porter | The... →
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Whatever harm I may have done
In all my life in all your wide creation
If I cannot repair it
I beg you to repair it, And then there are all the wounded
The…
Philip Hensher: Christmas puts us all on a stage.... →
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Christmas within the family is, surely, for many people the most taxing of on-stage occasions. The bar is set terribly high, and we feel an obligation not just to…
Pretty close: RT @generic_person Wntd: real-time pers-phil debugger/compiler & hypocrisy mngmnt tool + social add-ons. Punt on univrsl truth
Olly Moss on Star Wars →
In a world where modern film posters for the most part give us designers a sinking feeling, we thankfully have guys like Olly Moss out there. So much can be said about…
The 10 best Chelsea hotel moments | Culture | The... →
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Leonard Cohen and Janis Joplin’s tryst Of the many songs written about the Chelsea (Nico, Joni Mitchell and Jefferson Airplane have all referenced it)…
Will well-defined political semantics someday soon permit ever-sharper optimally-well-informed groupings by opinion?
Lies, Damned Lies, Trade Statistics, and iPhones →
Excellent WSJ piece tonight make the wonky but contrarian case that our current trade statistics do the U.S. a disservice in terms of how things get tallied up for trade surplus/deficit…
No replies yet!? (eg: TED - ego?) RT @robotwisdom Where are the most thoughtful web discussions?
"We need to make books cool again. If you go home... →
“ We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. -John Waters”
| LiveScience →
Martin Kenny discovered this phallic-shaped stone where workers were excavating to build a new barn in Maryland.
FIRST AID KIT – THE BIG BLACK AND THE BLUE... →
Swedish indie/folk duo consisting of the young sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg from Stockholm.
The debut EP “Drunken Trees” was released on the 9th of April 2008 in Sweden on the…
Sensitive Real Guys You Love →
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Definitely my dad. He is my best friend and my soul mate. He has picked me up off the ground too many times to count—saved me from my incredibly abusive mother, took…
Where are the most thoughtful web discussions?
K.D. Lang Sings 'Mr. Grinch' on... →
a quick search this morning found that it was none other than kd lang who performed the song. Unbeknown to nearly everybody, the Grammy-winning icon was featured in a completely unheralded guest…
Parent-Teacher Conferences Must Be Fun →
Guy: My dad doesn’t drink any more. Friend: Yeah, he just does acid. Guy: Tons. —D Train Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us ·…
yoyoha: My 3 year old is in the other room... →
yoyoha: My 3 year old is in the other room watching the Three Stooges and laughing his ass off. My work is done here.
Where There's Smoke, There's Wednesday One-Liner →
Guy at ATM to friend: The $60 fast cash button should just be labeled “8th of weed.” —Chase Bank, Astor Place Probation officer to juvenile: You think you can’t get arrested for marijuana?…
What the cables tell us about Iran and the Mid... →
Juan Cole, Truith Dig - Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the…
RT @nightskyevents: don’t forget the total lunar eclipse visible from all of N.A. on eve of Dec.21st-22nd.
sokeri: Sting must be so tired of being Sting. →
sokeri: Sting must be so tired of being Sting.
When Ebooks Are More (and Less) Cost Effective... →
E-books are great for new releases. For new books, the electronic version is almost always the cheapest way to go. At a friend’s house the other day, I noticed he’d paid $29 for the latest John…
daveshumka: If you need me, I'll be living in... →
daveshumka: If you need me, I’ll be living in infamy.
Sarah Palin the TV Star Exposes Sarah Palin the... →
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On Palin’s own Facebook page, a viewer wrote, “What a joke. I was a fan before the show. No one who is a true hunter lets others carry their rifle or can’t load…
I want less than 30sec between ‘exiting’ Firefox and having Task Manager show the Firefox process as freeing its memory
11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses |... →
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The Badass:
At the same time Russell was working through his 10 year contract with Disney studios, he was also working on becoming a real-world Chuck Norris….