January 2011
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Ok this is suicide
Wow bad idea races last like five minutes. we couldn’t finish afour race circuit. We are totes gonna feel it in five.
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NYE/PYT
Tumblrgirl and I are playing a Mario Kart drinking game called Drunk Driver. Drink one beer per race; you cannot drink while you’re accelerating—levels of strategy! hijinks! happy new year!
December 2010
Watchloscheiner:
DDK (short for “diadochokinetic” rate) is a measure of how quickly and accurately someone can produce a repetitive movement. Doctors might have you flip your hand palm up/palm down multiple times. Speech-language pathologists will have you say sounds over and over. (I’ve always thought it was a particularly nasty kind of linguistic irony that if you are unable to repeat a movement...
britticisms:
“Return of the Mack” by Mark...
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“obsoledge” .. refers to knowledge’s increasingly extremely limited shelf life...”
– The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Predictions for 2011 to 2050, Already Obsolete | Blog | design mind (via wildcat2030)
this is not obsonoxious
semiserious question for the word nerds: if we use -science as knowledge (prescience, nescience) what would a pseudoclassical approximation of...
HaikuLeaks →
loscheiner:
Some smarty-pants wrote a code that searches for haiku patterns in Wikileaks cables. Several of the accidental poems are quite lovely. Here are some that I enjoyed:
As is typical, the Pope stayed above the fray and did not comment.
Instead, he gulped three cans of Coca-Cola while inhaling his food.
Parts of the country are often cut off by snow and...
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“I have no relations near me to interfere with us and besides I am an orphan and...”
– TNC reproduces a beautiful, heartbreaking letter from 1867. Read the whole thing. (via jonathanbogart)
I have some advice to ask of you, if you please, concerning myself and my husband. I am a White woman and my husband is a Colored gentleman. Some two or three years ago, I became very much...
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“They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully...”
– healthpolitics:
Tony Stark, Iron Man (2008).
I have a mentor who’s fond of saying that the pill is the perfect health intervention. It is quick, painless, and delivers results with minimal side-effects. It does not require a doctor. It does not require an educated patient. It does not require a...
"I could always add more dick jokes" - the best of...
barthel:
2010 was an unusually good year for me writing-wise, so for my own edification as much as anyone else’s, here are some good things I wrote this year.
Sex Offender Week: Performing Don Draper (The Awl, April 29)
Globalism’s Enfant Terrible (Tumblr, May 15)
Sleigh Bells as Guilty Pleasure (Tumblr, May 17)
Scissor Sisters, “Night Work”: Yay for Sex and Drugs and Pleasure (The Awl, June...
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The Dictionary Of Received Ideas →
tomewing:
One of my favourite books. If I were ever forced away from the internet I would certainly pack the Dictionary to remind me of it.
Flaubert wrote a dictionary of cliches? I love it, especially the “always” rules:
ACHILLES Add ‘fleet-footed’: people will think you’ve read Homer.
BATTLE Always ‘bloody’. There are always two sets of victors:...
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Music Dump - Top 20 Articles of 2010, Part 1 →
o-song:
I pick my favourite articles of the year. There’s no real order. I haven’t seen the table of contents of the Da Capo Best Music Writing of 2010 (I imagine there’s not much overlap, but that’s because there’s been plenty of good writing about music!) and I could have chosen an almost entirely different 20 and still be happy with it.
READ LATER TEEJ
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“The American elite is almost beyond redemption… . Moral relativism has set in so...”
– Charles Dickens (via azspot)
Lololololol yeah the ordinary salt of the earth “folks” are saving us with moral absolutes.
Edit: Bogus Dickens quote is bogus. wahh wahhhhh.
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puppies postscript
puppies were not gifts. they are the offspring my brother’s obese, beaverlike and sausagelike miniature chocolate lab Mocha. my brother would bring the dog the farm and she was a total pest and ruin plants and trample cowshit around and my mom said no more, and Mocha was exiled to watch over a herd of cows 20 miles away, where she bred with some blue heeler from a neighboring farm and became...
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happy birthday jesus!
lefan-o-rama:
(my entire facebook dash)
at midnight mass last night—family tradition: santa somehow always comes when all the kids are at church—it was the new pastor’s first xmas service and he clearly wanted to shake things up a bit. gone was the gospel reading and instead we got a dramatic reenactment of the nativity by high school kids. it was very awkward. instead of...
the definition of bffs
Lolo: i was thinking fo sending you a happy christmas text as i went to the bathroom at my mom's house
Lolo: and i wound up leaving my phone somewhere in her house, instead
Tristan: thought that counts
Lolo: that's what i figured
Tristan: i can tumble this chat correct?
Lolo: I don't think our relationship has boundaries
10 Most Hopeful Stories of 2010 →
1. Climate Crisis Response Takes a New Direction. After the failure of Copenhagen, Bolivia hosted a gathering of indigenous people, climate activists, and grassroots leaders from the global South—those left out of the UN-sponsored talks. Their solution to the climate crisis is based on a new recognition of the rights of Mother Earth. Gone are notions of trading the right to pollute (which...
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