September 2010
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-26) →
Josh Ritter (20)
Okkervil River (18)
Tame Impala (18)
Arcade Fire (16)
Deer Tick (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For? →
Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father’s duty, homosexuality was a hanging offense, and waterboarding was approved — in fact, invented — by the Catholic Church. Looking back at such horrors, it is easy to ask: What were people thinking?
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Quantum suicide and immortality →
bestofwikipedia:
In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide is a thought experiment. It was originally published independently by Hans Moravec in 1987 and Bruno Marchal in 1988 and was further developed by Max Tegmark in 1998. It attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger’s...
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missvengeance:
classicistmike:
Um…Sesame Street parody of True Blood?
Whaaaaat…
Instant classic.
Life doesn’t get much better than this! :)
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Wow… (via vegansaurus)
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Try Piercings
fakescience:
I knew it!
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The Lesbian Porn Paradox
Try this scenario: Girl 1 is born at 1:30 am in Paris, France on January 2nd. So on every document her birthday is listed as January 2nd. Exactly one minute later, Girl 2 is born in Boston. In Boston it is 6:31 pm on January 1st. So Girl 2’s documents all list her as being born on January 1st, while Girl 1 is listed as born on January 2nd, even though she (1) is older. Girl 1 and Girl 2...
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The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
– The “shortest horror story ever written”, attributed to Frederic Brown (via jonquille)
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The Pale King →
thedailywhat:
This x That:
Release date of unfinshed David Foster Wallace novel announced: April 15.
!!!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-12) →
Dirty Projectors (14)
Essex Green (12)
Fanfarlo (11)
The National (11)
Wilco (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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vegansaurus:
Hello, hero!
In this video interview with Big Think, Jonathan Safran Foer discusses Eating Animals, the recent egg recall, why he’s an animal-rights advocate but not an animal-lover, and how facory farming is a pressing global issue. It’s really good!
You tell them, JSF!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-5) →
Modest Mouse (83)
Arcade Fire (81)
Fanfarlo (40)
Midlake (21)
M. Ward (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Swedish Chef (Personal Life) →
“…a Swedish business man wrote the show a letter informing them that Swedish Chef does not really speak Swedish. In reply, Jerry Juhl informed the business man that they knew this, but didn’t fire the chef because he has a wife and children.” [via Reddit]
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Why Did the Tyrannosaurus Rex Have Short Arms?
fakescience:
True story.
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