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!
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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,...
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…
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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”
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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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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...
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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)