February 2012
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Florida Woman Admits to Burning Down... →
Reading this story, I had the words of Vonnegut running through my head:
When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here.
This Shit Matters: Google’s New Privacy Policy,... →
nickdouglas:
slacktory:
Google’s new privacy policy starts tomorrow. Miles Lothe translated the whole thing into bro-speak, so it’s just entertaining enough to actually read what Google’s about to do with all your information.
He also translated the new Google terms of service.
Gizmodo called Miles’s translations “actually quite the public service”.
This is informative and hilarious:
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“The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.”
– @paulgilding at TED (via kateoplis)
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Google's got me pegged →
I just took a look at the stored history of my Google searches, and the earliest thing on record is a June 2006 image search for Flava Flav. Evidently, I have always been ridiculous.
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Jane Lynch "In Conversation" with Amy Poehler --... →
huffpostcomedy:
Jane Lynch: You don’t seem like a dark person, but you have to have something dark going on. Tell us what’s dark about you. Amy Poehler: I don’t like most people. I really, really don’t. I don’t like other people or a lot of people. But other than that, I’m really fun to be around.
Okay, this is all great, but the Del Close stuff is the best. Poehler tells the story of how...
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Watchnickdouglas:
Ever accidentally walk into that East Village guy’s home because you thought it was an antique shop? Someone interviewed him and it turns out he’s terribly beautiful.
“This Is My Home” by Departure Arrival Films.
Oh, this is wonderful.
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“… the harder I work, the more I live. …”
– George Bernard Shaw (via saladinho)
This is a pretty wonderful way to think of it. The tags are great, too.
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The most interesting man in the world, dead at 74 →
For all its bravura, Mr. Fairfax’s seafaring almost pales beside his earlier ventures. Footloose and handsome, he was a flesh-and-blood character out of Graham Greene, with more than a dash of Hemingway and Ian Fleming shaken in.
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To...
Watchfrangry:
I am now in love with Kevin Costner
I am a mess watching this. But he is perfect and kind and sweet and lovely, which are all the things you need to be when delivering the eulogy for a beloved star.
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“You can borrow on people’s faith in yourself when you may be lacking it. You can...”
– Michelle Williams
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The Talks →
Am I the only person who didn’t know about The Talks? They’re short interviews with interesting celebrities, and I haven’t been able to stop reading them. Some of them make the respondent less likeable (surprisingly, Bill Murray fits into this category for me), but most have at least one great little gem that stands out. For example:
Sir Ben Kingsley says that being knighted...
The Toph & Charlie Show
I’m staying with my awesome twin bro, Toph, and his awesome Charlie, and every day around here is like a hilarious quote competition. I try to write them all down so I can share them here, but more often than not, I’m laughing way too hard for that. So here are two examples from today:
I was talking to Toph about lotion, which is weird, I know, but we’d just finished washing...
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Watchtheatlanticvideo:
How Water Drops Orbit a Needle in Zero Gravity
In this video from NASA, astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates how water drops orbit a charged knitting needle in the absence of gravity, modeling a solar system.
First of all, this is really cool to watch. Some of the drops get moving really fast. God, this makes me want to play around in space.
Second, I could listen to...
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Soundscape: Water World
These are all the sounds in the backyard right now:
The splish-splash of rain on the leaves that cover the ground.
The slow drip of fat raindrops falling from the corner gutter.
The muted thud of rain hitting the deck.
The purposeful slap of rain on cement.
That hum of faraway traffic that sounds like the ocean.
Portland’s up to its old tricks again.
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The Perils of Amazon Prime Instant Movies
Tonight, we stumbled upon Caligula. None of us had seen it but we’d all heard of it. Charlie was reading to us from Wikipedia as we watched.
Charlie: We’re watching Caligula. It’s supposed to be porn.
Chels: Oh, okay. Some half-naked lady is prancing through the woods. This isn’t so bad. Maybe people back in the 80s just overreacted. (THIS WOULD LATER PROVE TO BE UNTRUE)
Toph: (scene of nude...
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“You can never have too much avocado.”
– Toph, during Superbowl preparations, speaking one of the immutable laws of life.
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Three Little Birds | Bob Marley & The...
Karp's Wired interview and the origins of Tumblr →
Karp didn’t invent “tumblelogging”, the rapid-fire short-form blogging popularised by Tumblr. The tumblelog widely acknowledged as launching the trend was anarchaia.org, created by Christian Neukirchen, a 17-year-old high-schooler in Biberach an der Riss in south Germany, on March 27, 2005. Neukirchen described anarchaia as “experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph...