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Mar 8, 2010 10:01am
Katrina’s photographs are stellar.

Katrina’s photographs are stellar.
Mar 7, 2010 9:23am
“His good looks and bohemian dress sense have won him thousands of online fans after a resident of Ningbo posted a picture online. Web users in China have called him the “Beggar Prince”, the “Handsome Vagabond”, and, most often, “Brother Sharp”.”


Handsome Chinese vagrant draws fans of ‘homeless chic’ -
Asia, World - The Independent

Mar 5, 2010 2:22pm
This is why you’re disgusting. Check Out The Secret McMenu Item That’s Sweeping SF, The Mc10:35 - The Consumerist )

This is why you’re disgusting.

Check Out The Secret McMenu Item That’s Sweeping SF, The Mc10:35 - The Consumerist

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Mar 4, 2010 5:03pm

Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In France, a Rube Goldberg machine is called a “gas factory.”  They win.
Mar 4, 2010 9:00am
Greatest Schwag In The History of Schwagginess: The Canon Lens Thermos - Gizmodo

Greatest Schwag In The History of Schwagginess: The Canon Lens Thermos - Gizmodo
Mar 2, 2010 8:50pm
Joanna Newsom has a new album.  Pretty cool if you like beautiful women with beautiful voices playing the harp and telling you stories. Listen

Joanna Newsom has a new album.  Pretty cool if you like beautiful women with beautiful voices playing the harp and telling you stories.

Listen
Mar 2, 2010 5:43pm
“Generally e-book editions of hardcover new releases will be priced between $14.99 and $12.99; a few books will be priced higher and lower… E-book editions of paperback new releases will be generally priced between $9.99 and $6.99.”

Macmillan Blog » Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price

Hey look!  CEO of large media company doesn’t understand that digital formats don’t have the same constraints of supply and demand as the old format.  I’d like to hear his response as to how a “hardcover edition” of an e-book differs from the “paperback edition.”

Mar 2, 2010 4:36pm

Netflix Tops Blockbuster in Domestic Rental Revenue for the First Time | homemediamagazine.com

Mar 2, 2010 3:09pm

Glottal Opera (creepiness via sff)
Mar 2, 2010 2:37pm
“Actually, if you were to draw a pie chart of where I get news from, I bet I get a third from whatever people in Berkeley—specifically the parents’ at my kids’ school—are outraged about.”

Michael Lewis: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire

Feb 28, 2010 11:23pm
“Bones” creator Hart Hanson says he based Brennan in part on an Aspie friend, but the needs of a broadcast network like Fox to get as large an audience as possible meant he couldn’t come out and say that. “If we were on cable, we would have said from the beginning that Brennan has Asperger’s,” Hanson says. “Instead, it being a network, we decided not to label a main character, for good or for bad. But those elements are in there.”

How TV shows try (or choose not) to depict Asperger’s syndrome: Sepinwall on TV | - NJ.com

wtf?

Feb 28, 2010 1:10pm
Great image.

Great image.
Feb 28, 2010 1:01pm

A conversation with craigslist.com founder, Craig Newmark

A great Charlie Rose interview with Craig Newmark, who is definitely a strange guy (see also this: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist).  It’s extra interesting around the 16:00 mark, where Charlie grills Craig about craigslist’s value and Craig’s ownership in it—Craig is “coy” and evasive.  And why not?  He doesn’t need to tell me anything about his business.
Feb 24, 2010 11:47am

Chomsky

In a democracy it would be your government. For example, in a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you’re getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on. In the United States, it’s a day of mourning because this alien force—the government—is coming to rob you of your hard-earned money.
Feb 23, 2010 2:21pm
This could be you! This could be you in one year! (except you will still have a real head) (via Live off Groupons for an entire year and Groupon will give you $100,000!)

This could be you! This could be you in one year! (except you will still have a real head)

(via Live off Groupons for an entire year and Groupon will give you $100,000!)
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