January 2012
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wondersflyinghygh:
Move On Up - Curtis...
“And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via turtalia)
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Last night at Freddy's
sarahb:
We went to Fuck Hill in the shaggin’ wagon. We decided to dedicate our lives to synchronized swimming. We got a shit part in HMS Pinafore. We hated his haircut but loved his armpit hair. We broke our toe during secret cheerleading practice in the basement. We saw him at Pizza Paul & Mary. We grew out our Rachel. We Frenched. We took the hand of the demon. We had an ice sculpture of a...
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I called my Representative's office and told them...
The dude who answers the phone was very nice.
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rendit:
Monumental focus in plugging “2012” into new work documents and not “2112.”
December 2011
Had 3 White Castles for dinner
All I'm saying is that if Storage Wars didn't...
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I went to see Vaclav Havel speak a few years ago
and I can’t for the life of me remember what he talked about
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Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public... →
youngmanhattanite:
Hitchens was obviously more urbane and well-written than the average neocon faux-warrior, but he was also often more vindictive and barbaric about his war cheerleading. One of the only writers with the courage to provide the full picture of Hitchens upon his death was Gawker‘s John Cook, who — in an extremely well-written and poignant obituary – detailed Hitchens’...
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“It’s not just that bookstores are difficult to use. They’re economically...”
– You could buy two whole books: an efficient argument presented efficiently by a tech blogger. I find it strange to see a blogger making the case against curation, which is the service a bookstore provides.
I should point out he’s responding to Richard Russo, who is also an idiot. So. There...
“Amazon suggests books based on others you’ve read; your local store recommends...”
– A confused tech blogger
Better yet, why bother reading more than one book? It is very inefficient.
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“One suggestion is that all journalists using the word cure or breakthrough...”
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What If There Were Rules for Science Journalism?
No false balance, no miracle cures, no opaque statistics …
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It is apparently Friday night
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In short, the growing income inequality that OWS... →
Robert Frank, on whether or not income inequality matters.
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