December 2011
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“I talk about ‘The Grandma Rule’ a lot. I try to behave when traveling like I’m...”
– Anthony Bourdain, speaking on WTF with Marc Maron, explaining how he can sit and share a meal with people who have opposite views and philosophies than him. (via thisistheglamorous) I love Anthony Bourdain because he loves Melbourne more than Sydney and he hates the same people I hate (Jamie...
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January 2011
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I bet Taylor Swift can only climax when men...
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December 2010
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Down the Avenue: The Best of 2010, Part 2 of 4 →
jephkelley: The second installation of the funniest tweets of the year, according to me, which, hey why not. This looks longer than it is, but it reads fast. (Now with descriptions of who the hell these people are.) I went back and added descriptions to Part 1, too. imaudihere. (He’s like a really insane… …and more!
Dec 18th
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Down the Avenue: The Best Of 2010, Part 1 →
jephkelley: The other day I put out a list of the Top 10 Funniest Tweeters, peoples who have obviously dedicated a large part of their lives/miserable existence to writing and saying funny things. I also used a complex algorithm to put that list together, which I won’t get into here because of its… I was too busy for twitter this year (I also avoided it because my incredibly repetitive,...
Dec 18th
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crooked indifference: Today in Amazing: Spacelog →
markcoatney: Spacelog This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI — here’s the original “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Additional…
Dec 18th
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“I never want to correct my son when he says ‘pervalized’ instead of ‘paralyzed’...”
– (via kellyoxford) “It’s Kanye but some of my plastics still say Kenny”
Dec 18th
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“During the Russian revolution, the mathematical physicist Igor Tamm was seized...”
– John Barrow, “It’s All Platonic Pi in the Sky,” The Times Educational Supplement, May 11, 1993 (via grindlebone)
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ListenDumbfounded and DJ Zo: No Strings Attached from...
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“After studying the results over the years, Fisher has come up with a theory that...”
– A.J. Jacobs: How Do I Love Thee? I’m interested in psychology in general and I was very interested in this topic a while ago, but it’s a a topic of renewed interest for me at the moment. I think the above part is particularly interesting: recently fucking someone boosts levels of...
Dec 12th
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Listensnackajawea: lloylddaniels: Beck ( W/ Annie...
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“‘…you have been disclosing not only the contents of some of our...”
– Tom Hyland: Portrait of the hacker as a paranoid and secretive young man Interesting piece of history on Assange. It is of course fairly stupid to take one small event from 16 years ago and place it in a completely different context, but it’s still interesting to see that Assange values the...
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“I am SO SICK today of people who can’t see that 1) Wikileaks is important and...”
– TBD commenter Woodscolt (reposted because I screwed up the link the first time) (via thecurvature) A-fucking-men. Except I (Nick) think that Wikileaks might do bad work too. (via nickdouglas)
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November 2010
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Arx Barba: Razor →
arxbarba: In philosophy, a razor is a device which allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.[1] Famous razors include: Aristotle’s razor Occam’s razor - assume simplicity over complexity Popper’s falsifiability principle Newton’s flaming laser sword Hanlen’s razor is a good one. I use that all the time actually. Now I have a cool name to describe my...
Nov 22nd
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Arx Barba: Newton's flaming laser sword →
arxbarba: Newton’s flaming laser sword is a philosophical razor devised by Alder in an essay (Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword or: Why mathematicians and scientists don’t like philosophy but do it anyway) on the conflicting positions of scientists and philosophers on epistemology and …
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“I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the...”
– Sir David Attenborough (via tmblg)
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