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Deregulation? Nonesense. That’s the Freedom Man in his Freedom Truck. That stop sign isn’t the boss of me....
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“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
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Best Coast covers Fleetwood Mac ‘Storms’ (Saw them cover it during their concert last week)
The book I’ve read last week was Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “My Stroke of Insight”. Here is the TED talk she gave about her experience, and the book expands upon that.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
- The shared world of individuals and corporations
- So many books about Hitler and Henry VIII, what is it about them?
- Ron Paul effectively ends his campaign
- Standards raised for preclinical cancer research (via Nature)
- Nine Circles of Hell as depicted with LEGOs (TM)
- A great blog about the porn star “Stoya” who is a whole lot more intelligent than you may think, read her IAMA
- A cartoon by Rebecca Sugar during her early days, very strange video…
- Great Reddit Post: Tips on being Frugal
- The fallacy of free internships
- “If Everyone Knew” - A Website of what everyone should know
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Rust Bely cities to make a comeback?
- You may be wondering, where does the taco come from?
- Mongol Rally, a group of friends travel from the UK to Mongolia via a car; here are some photos; here is the video
- If Diable 3 was a girl, Error 37
- Nigella Lawson on making chocolate cookies. That’s waaaaaay too much chocolate
- A review of ‘Fakin’ It’ (book)
- System description of Apple II by Steve Wozniak
- Say what? GM crops in crisis due to superweeds
- [Above] Comparison of Earth to water to fresh water
Metric: “Youth Without Youth”
This week’s review is short. It’s for “I Am A Pole (And So Can You)” by Stephen Colbert. It’s a lovely children’s book that plays with his previous book, “I Am An American (And So Can You),” but with the physical object of a pole. I listened to it on Audible with Tom Hanks narrating this, and it’s quite hilarious, and age appropriate.
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.
Yiddish Proverb [source]
- Discovery Communications to acquire Revision3
- The Honeybees are Dying
- Controversy of the week: Nytimes article on “Why Black Women Are Fat”; Also, Naomi Schaefer Riley fired as a blogger because of her ‘remarks’ on a recent piece of breaking down ‘African-American studies’ (Reverse discrimination? Anyone who has access to the original article, please link)
- Episodes of “Whiz Kids” that was from the ’80s and inspired by the film, “WarGames”
- Copenhagen Philharmonic does some viral marketing by playing Grieg’s Peer Gynt on the Copenhagen Metro
- Great thread on Reddit: What Should I Balance on my head?
- Republican parody: Get In My Vagina! (Government) via FunnyorDie
- Alternate picture of the Tienanmen Square Protest, unknown man
- MCA Tribute Mix on KCRW
- Tom Gabel of Against Me! comes out as transgender awaiting operation
- The documentary series ‘Up’ will come out again with “56 Up”
- What’s wrong with the .xxx domain?
- Grateful Dead Article: 1977 Concert in Barton Hall (Cornell)
- Maurice Sendak, children’s book artist, dies at 83
- “The Importance of Continuing Education and How to Master It”
- Six Enemies of Greatness and Happiness from Jessica Hagy of Indexed
- Illustrated stories by Edgar Allen Poe are horrifying
- Metafilter of the week: A dissection of a Man Men episode on the first color picture of the Earth; also “Hard Gay”, Japanese Entertainer
- Ph.D. graduates who are on food stamps
- New Music Website: Mixture.fm shares your mixes
- Word game on getting your character to the bottom of a word column
- China’s media manipulation: Ferrari crash pulled from the publication’s website; also, The Revolution Will Be Sung (India)
- Issues with Capital Murder trials
- Recursive Drawing: online app to be creative with
- Reddit’s IAmA with a guy who used to game Digg
- Actor Sean Bean’s 10 most memorable deaths (on screen)
- A website dedicated to explaining XKCD comics
- A 24 hour channel on rotisserie chicken… (Video)
- More Controversy? TIME Magazine shows a woman breastfeeding on the cover
- Call a 9-year old a psychopath? via NYTimes
- TED ED is an educating by those folks at TED
- Brit Cruise on Cryptography via Khan Academy
- Diaspora piece from BusinessWeek (Group comes out on a death of a co-founder)
- Mike Birbiglia’s short film with Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air promoting his new film, “Sleepwalk With Me”
- Life in the singularity, ruined by lawyers
- [Above] Remember that South Park episode on Mr. Garrison’s vehicle idea? Look at Men In Black III’s poster similarity
