December 2011
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JOHN PAUL: An Open Letter to Chick-Fil-A →
Shit.  I love Chick-fil-a.  I can’t eat it anymore. jpbrammer: To Chick-Fil-A, Truett Cathy, and the WinShape Foundation: It is with a heavy heart that I write to you saying that I can no longer, in good conscience, patronize your establishment. Nor can I partake of your delicious, succulent, juicy chicken. I mean, I would like to. Oh trust me, I would!…
Dec 28th
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Whoops, supposed to published to my Japan blog, http://ohayohokuto.tumblr.com I’m here.  Where exactly is here?  Here is a tiny town on the border between an endless expanse of farmland, or at least as far as I’ve explored it seems endless, and a train station which leads to places with more retail stores and supermarkets. Here is Nagasaka-kamijo.  Here is also a place where, for...
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March 2011
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December 2010
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There's no shame
in also following my illustration blog!  (Or in self promotion…ahem)  mattcloughillustration.tumblr.com
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“It is not possible to step twice into the same river”
– Heraclitus (Pocahontas, you are a plagiarist… I am disappointed.)
Sep 12th
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Google Scribe
Google, you are getting creepier and creepier. Google Labs, which I’m assuming is a room full of people that have very little to do, and are thus working on making that reality possible for everyone else, has recently engineered this largely unnecessary text completion service. Google has to sort through people saying things all day; you might even say it (Google is an ‘it’...
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Anecdote of the Day: Negative Double Positive
thedailywhat: Based on a true story: An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah,...
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Five Gifts and Five Curses of Being Highly... →
psychotherapy: An interview with Douglas Eby, a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression, high ability and personal growth.  
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American cage fighter 'rips out still-beating... →
fletcherbabb: Couldn’t make it up if you tr….well, maybe you could. ho-ly shit.  Another recreational drug success story.
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Did you know that Mozart wrote a song called "Lick... →
fletcherbabb: Well, he did.
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WatchWatch
thedailywhat: Motivational Speaker of the Day: Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. [buzzfeed.]
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Shanghai World Expo 2010 →
Check out these images.  Also, get a load of the US Pavillion Office Building, and that sassy girl posing for the camera.
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“My problem isn’t actually with Lady Gaga. But there’s not much in her music to...”
–  Joanna Newsom (via fletcherbabb)
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