February 2011
27 posts
Feb 1st
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January 2011
30 posts
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Jan 31st
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I take the train now on weekends →
Yesterday I heard visitors from Europe comparing the train systems of different countries, young professionals talking about The Radio Dept., and pretty girls.
Jan 30th
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ListenI Will - The Beatles Moving into a strange new...
Jan 30th
Maxistentialism: "Cookies," by Douglas Adams →
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a…
Jan 30th
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Listencrookedindifference: Remembering a bad week for...
Jan 29th
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saccade
wordjournal: noun • /səˈkɑːd/ • 1) a sudden jerking movement (rare). 2) a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. 3) the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins. 4) the sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow (music). From French saccade, “a jerking movement”, derived from...
Jan 28th
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#Egypt →
staff: We’re incredibly moved by the events happening across North Africa and the Middle East, especially the recent images, videos and commentary we’ve seen on Tumblr about Egypt. To our bloggers in the region and to those looking to get a message to them, please make sure to tag your posts “egypt”.
Jan 27th
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WatchWatch
Everyone should know about this. Help their message get out! http://www.reddit.com/comments/f8pts/reddit_a_revolution_is_starting_strongly_in_egypt/
Jan 27th
Jan 27th
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Vladimir Nabokov studied butterflies, and he came... →
Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
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crooked indifference: Speaker Boehner, where are... →
pantslessprogressive: Full applause to Eclectablog for compiling the following list. So far in the 112th Congress, the Republicans haven’t introduced a single jobs bill. However, from the Republicans, as of today, we have at least: 16 bills to repeal all or parts of the Affordable Care Act 7 bills/resolutions to require a balanced federal budget 5 bills to repeal the estate tax (which...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 20th
Jan 20th
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Ted's Caving Page →
Combining two of my most recent interests: caving and spooky stories. Quite good! See also: /r/nosleep/
Jan 15th
ListenPSPSYYYYKE!
Jan 14th
ListenGOOOOOODBYE TUMBLER
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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The Internet Is Not Fit For Human Beings
…I feel unwell
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 11th
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Can This Equation Be Generalized?
Tight Fitting Hoodie + Scarf =?= Hipster
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
Marco.org: Google's decreasingly useful,... →
marco: Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO’ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning. (via Anil Dash’s nice roundup… I can only assume that Yahoo! is behind this spam — driving people back to...
Jan 7th
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Free OED for a month! →
wordjournal: Through February 5th, you can get a free trial of the new online Oxford English Dictionary. Use the username trynewoed and the password trynewoed.
Jan 7th
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The College Decision - the Transferee's Dilemma
I’ve narrowed my choice down to two schools for Spring: UMBC or College Park. But they are so different it is hard to decide. My gut instinct was UMBC, where I’ve heard that professors care more about undergraduate teaching than research, and students study hard. It would be easier to get on-campus housing, and they’re U.S. News & World Report’s top “Up and...
Jan 3rd
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