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dear clusterflock
What have you stolen?
biblically inspired design
I am not a fan of all of it, but I love the concept.
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The problem with fecal transplants
Joe Eisenbraun – Missouri
My friend, Joe Eisenbraun, is almost finished with his new album. His first two sample tracks are solid, but “Missouri” is pure gold and I’d be remiss not to point you to it.
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Army Wants Virtual Training to Really Hurt
Red trousers!
So I’ve been, like, trying to get some work done today, but I keep drifting off to look at all the fucking red trousers on the Look at my fucking red trousers! blog.
(Thank you, clusterflock friend @peteashton.)
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two walks
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Based on their research and observations, Panksepp and his fellow researchers hypothesized that rats, when being tickled or engaging in other playful activities, experience social joy that they vocalize through 50 kHz chirping, a primordial form of laughter that is evolutionarily related to joyful social laughter in young human children.
But it’s worse than that. Isaacson blew it, a one-time opportunity forever squandered. Jobs picked the wrong guy.
“I have to say, Stephanopoulos, you’ve done pretty well for a liberal Greek midget.”
As the poor sap who was mauled to death by his pet hippo unfortunately found out, hippos are not cute and cuddly — they are 5 ton murder machines.
“In fact, it’s not as complicated as outsiders think. We all use rifles, stand about four meters from the condemned prisoner with a barrel one meter-long, take aim, press the trigger, and that’s that,” Hu told the newspaper.
Milwaukee on bed-sharing
Milwaukee Health Department’s Safe Sleep Campaign
Y’all come see me
in Galveston.
Without further ado
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quick update
I’m going to send Sarah the money for Elena tonight. If you want to contribute, there’s still time.
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The document portrays the “gentle Shakespeare” that we met in high school English class as a dangerous thug; indeed, it has been plausibly suggested that it proves he was heavily involved in organized crime.
After all, if you feel threatened with good reason, almost by definition, this isn’t a mental illness.
“Then you signed your name in somebody else’s handwriting again.”
In the future, the news will look more and more like movies.
“It’s like someone gave me a magic pill,” he said. “I felt better all over suddenly. It’s science fiction basically to me. That’s what it feels like.”
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BOSS: Johnson, you’re late. Our meeting started 10 minutes ago.
JOHNSON: Sorry sir, I was struggling getting my things together.
BOSS: Johnson, is that a cat in a sling?
JOHNSON: Yes sir, Fluffernutter has prepared a very compelling case for my promotion.
BOSS: Johnson, get out of my office.
FLUFFERNUTTER: MEW!
FIN
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Is Casey Affleck pretending to make a film out of this?
The Unbridge
A series of moats and fortresses were built over the West Brabant Water Line region of the Netherlands during the 17th century in order to provide protection from invasion by France and Spain. Fort de Roovere was surrounded with a shallow moat that was too deep to march across, and too shallow for boats. In turn the earthen fort had remained protected –until now.
This trench-like bridge was designed by RO & AD Architects to allow tourist access to the fort in a natural, thoughtful way.
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What a lovely way to burn
Miss Peggy Lee. “Fever.” 1958.
(Courtesy of Tom Sale, the Texas artist a/k/a Pinky Diablo.)
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A reviewer for the official National Park Service bookstore at Ford’s Theatre has recommended that Bill O’Reilly’s bestselling new book about the Lincoln assassination not be sold at the historic site “because of the lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”
Fine said that in climbing over to the driver’s seat, she either accidentally hit the key or the gear shift, causing the Neon to bounce off of a Toyota Celica before driving into the pool.
“It’s always best to yield to an Audi — you never know who you’re messing with, but chances are it’s someone self-important.”
We hear you’re making credit card companies angry. How are you doing that?
a couple updates
I updated the Mind-controlled Siri post to reflect the likelihood it is a fake. (Thanks again, Joel.)
And we’ve collected almost all we need to buy Sarah the font of her dreams, but there’s still time to contribute.
How does Herman Cain feel about Obama’s handling of Libya?
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