January 2010
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Albums of 2009
Better late than never, here it is. Overall, a bit weak on (non-instrumental / non-mixtape) hip-hop in 2009: Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest Animal Collective - Merriwhether Post Pavilion Bitte Orca - The Dirty Projectors Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Andrew Bird - Noble Beast Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better Sleigh Bells - Sleigh Bells (not a “real” album,...
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September 2009
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Sep 29th
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Sep 23rd
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Sep 15th
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Sep 15th
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I need some dude's. - m4m - 22 (Facebook) →
Here’s the deal: My girlfriend makes a fuss about how I’ve got more girl friends than I have guy friends. It is juvenile and stupid and it’s… basically it’s about Facebook. Having lightly checked she’s right, Whoop-dee-do. I have about 3:2 ratio girl to guy friends on facebook. (HOLY CRAP! BAD PERSON!). She worries about this. She thinks I need more guy...
Sep 11th
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The Onion: Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids. Make sure you read the screen captures.
Sep 1st
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August 2009
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Aug 28th
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July 2009
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Jul 24th
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Jul 24th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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WatchWatch
New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
Jul 12th
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More Context on the Obama checkout →
Video footage around the time of the infamous photo casts doubt as to whether Obama was checking the girl out. Either way, it’s pretty much the most important news ever, so I hope the press continues to investigate this further.
Jul 10th
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Michael Lewis: The Man Who Crashed the World (AIG) →
Jul 7th
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Tell Americans What They're Really Paying for... →
Spread over tens of millions of consumers, [subsidy] costs seem small: the average American taxpayer, for example, pays only $322 each year to fund subsidies. But for some of the thousands of farmers who get such payments, the benefits are huge: from 1995 to 2005, roughly 75 percent of subsidy payments went to just 10 percent of the subsidy recipients, who took in an average of $91,000 a year;...
Jul 7th
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Jul 7th
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Jul 1st
June 2009
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Jun 30th
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First Comes Love, The Comes Obesity? →
Not only are married people more likely to become obese than those who are just dating, but young people who move in with a boyfriend or girlfriend tend to pack on the pounds too.
Jun 29th
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Jun 25th
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Jun 24th
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Jun 22nd
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Underfunded Scientists Force Lipstick-Covered Rat... →
Scientists at the severely underfunded HLM Research Laboratories announced plans Monday to have the facility’s one remaining rat, Mendel, now cancer-ridden and covered in lipstick, run through a maze several hundred times. Head researcher Dr. Linda Cho said that since the lab’s $5.6 million budget was slashed by 90 percent last winter, Mendel, a blind 1-year-old albino...
Jun 18th
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Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires →
While “traditional” (if there is such a thing) wireless power systems are specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind, Nokia’s system isn’t finicky about where it gets its wireless waves. TV, radio, other mobile phone systems — all of this stuff just bounces around the air and most of it is wasted, absorbed into the environment or scattered into...
Jun 17th
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Jun 17th
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Your horse is great, but your path is incorrect →
Once upon a time, there was a man who was riding in a horse drawn carriage and traveling to go take care of some affairs; and in the carriage there was also a very big suitcase. He told the driver to of the carriage to drive non-stop and the horse ran extremely fast. Along the road, there was an old man who saw them and asked, “Sir, you seem anxious, where do you need to go?” The man...
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Wedding Invite for Typography nerds →
Jun 15th
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Humans prefer cockiness to expertise →
The research, by Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that we prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we are willing to forgive a poor track record. Moore argues that in competitive situations, this can drive those offering advice to increasingly exaggerate how sure they are.
Jun 12th
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Yahoo Answers: Girlfriend found weird vids I made? →
Before going out with my girlfriend I was kind of obsessed with her. I took pictures I had of her and scanned them into a japanese program that creates a 3d model of her which you can then ummmm… have your way with. Ahem. I made about 50 different videos with this software, most of them were of her making love and performing oral sex on a 3d model of myself, and sometimes multiple...
Jun 12th
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30 Rock is a rip-off of The Muppet Show? →
Each week, our smart yet neurotic lead character has to manage a group of wacky misfits and put on a weekly sketch comedy show. Which show am I talking about? 30 ROCK plays like NBC went to JJ Abrams and told him to reboot THE MUPPET SHOW. “Do what you did with STAR TREK. Make it hipper, more adult. Maybe lose the puppets to allow more time for product placement.” Liz Lemon =...
Jun 10th
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Jun 5th
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Surplus of Bachelors Spurs New Scam in China →
With no eligible women in his village, Zhou Pin, 27 years old, thought he was lucky to find a pretty bride whom he met and married within a week, following the custom in rural China. Ten days later, Cai Niucuo vanished, leaving behind her clothes and identity papers. She did not, however, leave behind her bride price: 38,000 yuan, or about $5,500, which Mr. Zhou and his family had scrimped...
Jun 5th
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Jun 4th
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RyanAir to charge passengers for toilet use →
Faced with an annual loss for the first time in two decades, Ryanair, the European budget airline, confirmed on Tuesday that it plans to start charging passengers for the luxury of using the toilet on its jets. … The Daily Mail reports that Ryanair plans to “scrap all of its airport check-in desks” later this year and charge passengers for the privilege of checking themselves in...
Jun 4th
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Peter Candeland's animated Beatles intro →
Absolutely excellent. Great animation style from the guy best-known for his Gorillaz work. (via waxy)
Jun 3rd
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Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
May 2009
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Nation’s Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: ‘Let’s Move In Together’.
May 27th
Fox News: Top 50 Text Acronyms Parents Should Know →
Wow, I can only assume someone pulled a fast one on a slow reporter. Some of these are awesome: MOOS = Member Of the Opposite Sex FMLTWIA = F*** Me Like The Whore I Am Q2C = Quick to Cum NIFOC = Naked In Front Of Computer IAYM = I Am Your Master Sharp work Fox.
May 21st
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The Onion: Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire
May 20th
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TripTop NYC →
A contour map for travel time in NYC. Love it. (via kottke)
May 15th
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New Yorker on Franzia →
Great article in this week’s New Yorker about Fred Franzia (print/kindle/registration only, sadly): Fred Franzia owns forty thousand acres of vineyards, more than anyone in the country; crushes three hundred and fifty thousand tons of grapes a year; and his company, Bronco, has annual revenue of more than five hundred million dollars. Recently, Franzia celebrated the sale of the...
May 14th
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M.T.A. Approves Smaller Fare and Toll Increases →
As part of a financing deal approved by the State Legislature last week, the base subway and bus fare will rise from $2 to $2.25 on June 28 — instead of $2.50 — and the authority will avert layoffs. Commuter railroad fares will rise on June 17. … The cost of a 30-day MetroCard will rise to $89 (instead of $103) from the current price of $81. Obviously, I’d rather keep the...
May 11th