August 2011
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June 2011
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April 2011
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Breathing Earth →
Real-time map: carbon emissions, life-spans, population birth/death rates
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Wrap rage →
bestofwikipedia:
Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging, particularly plastic blister packs and clamshells. Consumers suffer thousands of injuries per year, such as cut fingers and sprained wrists, from tools used to open packages and from the packaging itself. (via ...
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From Your Desks →
Mmm… Personally I’d enjoy just photos of workspaces in a steady flow (perhaps interviews behind a link?) but still spent a while nosing about here.
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March 2011
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Two Cunts in a Kitchen →
bestofwikipedia:
Two Cunts in a Kitchen, or sometimes, less graphically Two Cs in a K, is slang used within the advertising industry for a type of television commercial. Generally, the commercial shows two women in a domestic scene, discussing, using, or otherwise portraying the advertiser’s product in a positive manner. (via Dylan)
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Cotard delusion →
bestofwikipedia:
The Cotard delusion or Cotard’s syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. (via sleevia)
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“How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart...”
– Anne Lamott
February 2011
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Watchunknownskywalker:
Monster Prominence Erupts from the Sun
When a rather large M 3.6 class flare occurred near the edge of the Sun on Feb. 24, 2011, it blew out a gorgeous, waving mass of erupting magnetic plasma that swirled and twisted for 90 minutes. NASA’s SDO captured the event in extreme ultraviolet light.
Because SDO images are high definition, the team was able to zoom in on the flare...
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Silent disco →
bestofwikipedia:
Silent disco has become a common name for a disco where people dance to music listened to on headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via an FM transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participators. Those without the headphones hear no music, giving the effect of a room full of people dancing to nothing....
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Philip Pullman: Leave the libraries alone. →
December 2010
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October 2010
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“I don’t know! I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I...”
– Bart Simpson
August 2010
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Just as some people talk in their sleep, sign...
ohyeahfacts:
(via)
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
ohyeahfacts:
(The Books of Useless Information)
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“Q: O Charides, what is below?
A: Great darkness.
Q: And what of resurrection?...”
– Callimachus
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"Ιθακη: Μεικτές παρέες που θεωρούν ότι ο Χρήστος... →
(via lifo)
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Battle of Karánsebes →
bestofwikipedia:
The Battle of Karánsebes was an early episode in the Austro-Turkish War and was “fought” on 17 September 1788. Different portions of an Austrian army, which was scouting for forces of the Ottoman Empire, fired on each other by mistake, in a self-inflicted disaster. Two days later, the Ottoman army arrived. They discovered 10,000 dead and wounded soldiers. (via defrost)
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Dr. Dre To Release Instrumental Hip-Hop Album... →
fuckyeahspace:
Okay.
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“Women aged 15-44 are more likely to be killed by men than cancer, malaria, car...”
– halftheskymovement.org (via last week’s Stylist)
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Supperclubs (locations list) →
Mancunians and ellines?
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July 2010
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“One of the ironies of the Beagle voyage was that Darwin was engaged by Captain...”
– Bill Bryson (At Home)
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Morpho-sauras →
graphictimes:
Holy CRAP this is amazing!
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Ubu: Films →
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BBC World Music Archive: launching tomorrow! →
Article about it here, at the Independent