November 2008
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The Gentleman Grafter →
By night, Joe Ades dines with his fourth wife at exclusive restaurants, sips Veuve Clicquot at the Pierre, and goes home to a three-bedroom Park Avenue apartment. By day, he is something else altogether. At 72, the “peeler guy” in the Turnbull & Asser shirts is a New York legend.
He quibbles over the use of the word “salesman.” “I couldn’t sell one to one,” he explains. “I couldn’t...
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Challenged ballots: You be the judge →
Wow, did these people never take a scantron test? (via kottke)
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Actual profiles from TheAtlasphere.com, an... →
Zak, Long Island, New York
I am rational, integrated, and efficacious. So far, I’ve never met a person who lives up to the standard I hold for myself (except online).
I take my relationships seriously. I am simply not attracted to many of the women in this world. I do not “hook-up” with girls. I only kiss those who deserve, and so far I have only encountered one who did. I would love to...
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“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that...”
– Karl Kraus, via reddit
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WatchNew commercial for United. Surreal, very well done. (via kottke)
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Riding a Hawaii Chair →
I’d never heard of these — here’s Ellen doing it too.
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The philosopher and the wolf →
A spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a wolf cub changed Mark Rowlands’s life. From that moment on he found human company never quite matched up
… When you have a wolf, they take over your life in a way that a dog seldom does. And human company gradually becomes less and less significant for you
… Wolves, I learnt, get bored very, very quickly - about 30 seconds of being...
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Fuck Norris Facts →
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He passes out after two wine coolers.
(thx Tom!)
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Super Obama World →
Mario-like game starring Obama (thanks Micol!)
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New research suggests that our basic political... →
Researchers found a strong correlation between subjects’ political attitudes and their physiological responses to threat. People who showed more “blink startle” and perspiration after a threatening stimulus tended to cluster on the right politically. They advocated capital punishment, school prayer, and defense spending, and they supported the Iraq war.
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Election 2008: what really happened →
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I do not have any money so am sending you this... →
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Population-Weighed 2008 Election Maps →
Yes, I am a map nerd.
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From Newsweek's behind the scenes election... →
… “How He Did It, 2008” is an inside, behind-the-scenes account of the presidential election produced by a special team of reporters working for more than a year on an embargoed basis and detached from the weekly magazine and Newsweek.com. Everything the project team learns is kept confidential until the day after the polls close.
Among the other revelations from the...
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The Onion: Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job →
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please...