May 2012
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The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game →
dreamingghosts:
When you experience a vague sense of inequity or deprivation but don’t have a template for whether your expectations are fair, drink.
When you aren’t sure whether the lingering sensation that you aren’t liked enough is a rational response to unfair circumstances or is in fact symptomatic of your tendency to blame your environment for your own failure to self-actualize, drink.
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It just occurred to me
that if I were in college today, I’d probably here a lot of dubstep played at parties.
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Daisy
I was drawing an F-16 Fighting Falcon when I heard the squeal. A rusted out white Ford F-150 had turned north on Maple from Harrison at precisely the same time my dog Daisy had bolted to chase a squirrel across the street. As so often happens when it’s dog versus truck, the truck won, and the dog I had known and loved for my brief 6 years on Earth was dead.
The driver was drunk and I cried.
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Would you rather listen to an audio book of Mark Wahlberg reading the entire collected works of Albert Camus, or read “The Stranger” to Donnie Wahlberg?
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Donna Summer has passed, which can only mean one thing: Donna Winter Is Coming.
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if your parents didnt bring out the belt on you at...
bestnatesmithever:
This is ridiculous.
I disagree, Nate. I look back at fond memories of Pappy and his belt
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Occupy Wall Tweet
Who is the 1% of Twitter, and how would you determine that?
What started as an intellectual exercise or an afternoon curiosity is slowly turning into a research-based passion project. Bear with me while I lay some groundwork.
First, the term “one percent.” The Wall Street Journal estimates that, to be considered in the top 1% of all income earners in the U.S., you need to pull in an...
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“The internet is still spawning memes at an accelerated rate — and they’ll never...”
– Andy Baio (@waxpancake) “Feels Bad, Man: How Mobile is Stopping the Lulz“ Wired
I mostly agree here: until you can photoshop or skillfully edit video on your phone, the wysiwyg tools or apps available just produce a limited genre of memes. Even if mobile apps improve in, say, 2...
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“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the...”
– J.B.S. Haldane, “On Being the Right Size,” 1928.
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry Truman (b. May 8th, 1884)
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Mother Jones
fluxmachine:
Arrestingly haunting and beautiful.
I’ve spent the last 20 minutes shouting a Boston accent into my Google Voicemails to see how poorly they’re translated, the way a productive person does.
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“On the one hand, the web is a venue where people can spew bile under cover of...”
– “Why Memes Matter (or what I learned at ROFLCon)” ~ GigaOm
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WHEN I DO MY IMPRESSION OF KEYBOARD CAT AND NOBODY...
motherjones:
decodingmittromney:
Super-PACs are on Tumblr too. “Decoding Mitt Romney” is the production of pro-Obama outfit American Bridge (some background on the group here).
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