January 2012
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April 2011
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Apr 8th
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Sweet Sounds of Science →
wnycradiolab: A sonic gallery from the New York Times Magazine lets you play with 9 Radiolab sound effects. Awesome.
Apr 8th
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“If re-elected, our government will not be taking this action. I will not allow...”
– Apparently concerned that tax credits that won’t take effect until some hypothetical future budget-balancing occurs were too concrete, Harper is now promising to keep not doing things that the government already wasn’t doing beforehand. (via defeatist) Not entirely true: David Pugliese from...
Apr 8th
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March 2011
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Mar 24th
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Mar 14th
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February 2011
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“So often absolutely ordinary in appearance, a good library should offer escape...”
– ‘If you tolerate this …’: Nicky Wire on library closures | Books | The Guardian (via lastyearsgirl)
Feb 15th
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“Learn to draw! If you don’t, you’re gonna live your life getting around that and...”
– S​a​u​l​ ​B​a​s​s, B​r​a​i​n​ ​P​i​c​k​i​n​g​s (via nevver)
Feb 15th
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November 2010
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Nov 28th
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WatchWatch
drawnblog: Toxie’s Dead (by Enkhtulga) Here’s a cartoon we made for NPR’s show, Planet Money. It’s about Toxie, a personified toxic asset that helped burst the housing bubble. Enjoy! This is featured as a supplement to a recent episode of This American Life. And let me tell ya, NO ONE explains finances better than the kids at Planet Money. Directed and animated by Stephen Neary. Assistant...
Nov 15th
October 2010
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“If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches...”
– Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, quoted in @jbj’s great review of the book (via austinkleon)
Oct 16th
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June 2010
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Jun 15th
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April 2010
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Apr 18th
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March 2010
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 12th
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February 2010
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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'The 21st-century equivalent of Roosevelt’s...
thedeadline: On Monday, President Obama is scheduled to sit down in the library of the White House residence for his first interview since his State of the Union address. The interviewer? The United States of YouTube. In a first-of-its-kind group interview, Mr. Obama will read and watch questions submitted by YouTube users and answer them in a live Webcast. “It’s a way to give people access...
Feb 1st
January 2010
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“It’s a classic case of Information Anxiety. Not enough free time to process all...”
– Andy Budd::Blogography: Information Anxiety The trick is to know, you can’t know everything. It seems people these days expect (or are expected) to be constantly processing information, always striving to “know more”. It’s all similar to the cocaine user chasing the next high, always looking for...
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Gibsonian Eversions →
Jan 24th
“Walking away from The Tonight Show is the hardest thing I have ever had to do.”
– Conan O’Brien, tonight. (via thedeadline)
Jan 23rd
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publishing 21st century style →
we have broken your business, now we want your machines.
Jan 16th
Si vous allez faire du back-packing...du style du... →
Jan 16th
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The Humanitarian Coalition / La Coalition...
frenchelon: The HUMANITARIAN COALITION – CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada – is already collecting donations to bring assistance to those people affected by this earthquake.  By uniting their voices, these organizations will allocate donations where the needs are greatest. La COALITION HUMANITAIRE – Aide à l’enfance Canada, CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada et...
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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December 2009
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“Sources said Harper would like to make suspending Parliament before the annual...”
– Commons shut down, opposition furious - thestar.com Wait, what the fuck?  A regular practice? Stephen Harper is a weak prime minister.  His ability to govern the country is only slightly lower than that of Joe Clark after Daniel Latouche brought down that minority government by accident back in...
Dec 31st
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“GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better...”
– Culture & Society Articles | GIS Mapping Shows What Discrimination Looks Like | Miller-McCune Online Magazine found via archinect.com (via deepthinking)
Dec 29th
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Dec 18th
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“I admit it. I envy Strand’s immense passion for Niagara. I want to feel...”
– Barbara Penner
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“My favorite part of The Dark Knight is when the Joker is talking to Harvey Dent...”
– Thoughts on tour « Hoehn’s Musings (via withabang) More Dark Knight related life advice. (via attentionindustry) Chassons les autos.
Dec 10th
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Dec 3rd
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An originative perspective of wildness and its implications for dwelling in nearness to grizzly bears in the Yellowstone: A phenomenological case for a primordial ethic Leon Arthur Chartrand (2008) directed by Professor Stephen Dunn This thesis calls for saving Yellowstone’s grizzlies at a time when there no longer seems to be a widely recognized need to save them. In fact, given the...
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November 2009
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Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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I loathe the words "effect" and "affect".
thedormouse: I can never remember which is the verb and which is the noun. A quick guide to “affect” and “effect” http://bit.ly/6lhJH7 ]pas en français[
Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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The Weird Book Room
fuckyeahbooks: AbeBooks.com brings us such gems as:
Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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25 novembre →
marianneprairie: Aujourd’hui 25 novembre est la Journée Internationale pour l’élimination de la violence faite aux femmes. Comme j’ai souvent abordé le sujet sur ce blogue, je me contenterai de vous relayer la…
Nov 26th
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Nov 24th
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