September 2010
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Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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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
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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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?
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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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...
Sep 27th
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Sep 25th
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missvengeance: classicistmike: Um…Sesame Street parody of True Blood? Whaaaaat… Instant classic. Life doesn’t get much better than this! :)
Sep 23rd
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Wow… (via vegansaurus)
Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Sep 21st
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Try Piercings
fakescience: I knew it!
Sep 20th
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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...
Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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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)
Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 18th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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The Pale King →
thedailywhat: This x That: Release date of unfinshed David Foster Wallace novel announced: April 15. !!!
Sep 15th
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Sep 14th
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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
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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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!
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 13th
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
Sep 13th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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Sep 11th
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Sep 10th
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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]
Sep 10th
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Sep 9th
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Why Did the Tyrannosaurus Rex Have Short Arms?
fakescience: True story.
Sep 9th
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Sep 9th
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