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The image of the year, hands down, is the image of Osama Bin Laden, dead.
A sense of humor is the lure that keeps our brains alert for the gaps between our quick-fire assumptions and reality.
“It has become clear that if a person writes the expression ‘party of swindlers and thieves’ in their blog then they are a stupid sheep getting fucked in the mouth
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I don’t believe the Lord would give approval to anyone to be disobedient to the CES Dress and Grooming Standards.
For every gain in cognitive functions, they say — such as a better memory, increased attention or improved intelligence — there’s a price to pay elsewhere.
Each eye was about three centimetres across and contained more than 16,000 separate lenses, enough to give the creature remarkable vision to support its predatory lifestyle, scientists said in a statement.
tweet of the day
Ice Cube Celebrates Charles and Ray Eames (and Los Angeles)
In a world full of McMansions where the structure takes up all the land, the Eames made structure and nature one.
(via @gary_hustwit)
The Typographic Desk Reference
This looks beautiful. It’s meant to be an instant reference for all things typographic. You can order one from Amazon or Oak Knoll.
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She looked up at him with a question in her eyes. “Did you get the graham crackers?”
“Yes,” he answered.
She moved toward him in her old slippers. He thought they looked like rabbits.
from the comments
For me, holding a grudge is like expecting the world to conform to my view of it. So I don’t hold them. But everybody encounters the stuff that grudges are made of, and when I do it always leaves me with a sense that a mystery is hovering at the edge of my vision. My impulse always is to make things right, but experience has shown me that my desire for that is not always sufficient cause to make it happen. For me, moving on can often just mean becoming very good at looking away, and away, and away.
LHC has discovered how many terrible Higgs Boson metaphors can fit in one article
The search for the Higgs has become the hottest pursuit in modern physics.
Professor John Ellis: “We’ve been living with Higgs theory now for almost 50 years… it’s become our Holy Grail”
You can think of it as being an enormous giant Jigsaw puzzle, but there’s a piece missing right in the middle there. We have been looking for this for 30 years now, and finally, maybe, hidden under the back of the LHC sofa…we are finally finding it”.
“This hunt for the Higgs is like fishing in an ancient way… instead of using modern tools you are removing the water from the pond… it might look tedious but it is the only way, at the end of the day, when you have removed all the water from the pond to find the smallest fish.”
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Microsoft to revive ‘squirting’ on Windows 8, Windows Phone
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headline of the day, III
Woman sues dealer, alleges dead-body odor in SUV
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House of the Rising Sun, old technology version
dear clusterflock, serious edition
How do you move through your grudges? Is it a process of letting go? Giving in? If you focus on forgiveness, do you feel that you’ve metabolized your anger?
headline of the day, II
Some kids’ cereals may have way too much sugar, a report finds
dear clusterflock
Funniest .xxx domain name.
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I want to start the description with this is a joke gift please do not ram this in your own or a loved one’s ass then contact me to tell me things went wrong.
My wrists are tied, I’m in total darkness and a man very close to my face is shouting: “Get on your knees, bitch!”
I was dangling from the edge of a hole in an otherwise smooth cliff wall, getting a face full of biological waste.
I’ll start with the answer: Everyone is wrong about how people die when they fall into lava.
11/22/63
Stephen King interviewed by Errol Morris about his new novel on the JFK assassination:
It’s a little bit like the blind man describing the elephant. One’s got the trunk and says it’s a snake. And one’s got a leg and says it’s a tree. One’s got an ear and says it’s a banana plant. They all say different things because none of them can see the whole thing.
headline of the day
Errant ‘Mythbusters’ cannonball hits home in Dublin
his logic is impeccable.
Things that happened during our date include, but are not limited to, the following:
You played with your hair a lot. A woman playing with her hair is a common sign of flirtation. You can even do a google search on it. When a woman plays with her hair, she is preening. I’ve never had a date where a woman played with her hair as much as you did. In addition, it didn’t look like you were playing with your hair out of nervousness.
We had lots of eye contact during our date. On a per-minute basis, I’ve never had as much eye contact during a date as I did with you.
You said, “It was nice to meet you.” at the end of our date. A woman could say this statement as a way to show that she isn’t interested in seeing a man again or she could mean what she said–that it was nice to meet you. The statement, by itself, is inconclusive.
We had a nice conversation over dinner. I don’t think I’m being delusional in saying this statement.
In my opinion, leading someone on (i.e., giving mixed signals) is impolite and immature. It’s bad to do that.
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I like to urge designers to always ask themselves: “Does this logo look like a penis?” The answer has to be a resounding “No”. If there is just a slight hesitation, then it probably does look like a penis.
via Paul Kafasis
Best Talk Show Ever?
I don’t really know where to begin with this.
headline of the day
Chicago universities preemptively buying up porn domains
the impracticality of a cheeseburger
Sounds like a fellow who is not seriously committed to the slow food movement (I kid, I kid):
Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in spring and fall. Mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive—requiring a trio of cows—and demand many acres of land. There’s just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
via The Morning News
