Sunday, May 30, 2010

Big M.I.A. feature in New York Times Magazine

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Very lengthy and ultimately unflattering story on pop star M.I.A., which she has apparently retaliated against by posting the writer's c...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Civil Rights and Rand Paul discussion

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Civil rights sit-in by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody at Woolworth's lunch counter, Jackson Mississippi, 1963. A crowd of p...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Why You Drink (Graph)

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Robot Marries Japanese Couple

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Ah, Japan and robots. Here a quasi-humanoid robot named i-Fairy, complete with childish voice, pigtails, flashing eyes, and flowers on its h...

Shanghai's public pajama tradition runs afoul the world Expo

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NYT May 14, 2010 The Pajama Game Closes in Shanghai By GAO YUBING Hong Kong ONE hundred thousand fireworks lighted the sky over Shanghai on ...

In Living Color on Arizona Racism (Tom and Tom, The Brothers Brothers)

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This skit was originally run on In Living Color (a comedy show that ran from 1990-94) twenty years ago to ridicule Arizona's resistance ...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Ray Kurzweil Explains the Coming Singularity | Ray Kurzweil | Big Think

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Futurist Ray Kurzweil has some rather mind blowing predictions for the future of humanity vis-a-vis computing technology, when machines will...

Musician Paralyzed with ALS Still Makes Music

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Inspiring and heartbreaking all at the same time. What an awful disease. May 15, 2010 | Photo by John Gastaldo Ned Mann, who is unable to sp...

The Vocoder

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NPR had a story on the vocoder, its development and eventually transference from military to music technology. f you've listened to pop ...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Slideshow of "Chinglish" and Funny Translations from Abroad

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The NYT has a great slideshow of funny English translations in signs from abroad. Check it out HERE.
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Outlawing the Burqa?

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A bunch of discussion and feedback at Sullivan's Daily Dish blog . The Hitchens quote that kicked it off is HERE. and MORE on his thread...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Naughty Children Blog

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The name is nastier than the open source blog itself, which has some yucky but also really funny photos of Shit My Kids Ruined .

Amazing optical illusion

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Nature explains HERE.
Sunday, May 09, 2010

EBTG's Tracy Thorn's new album

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New Yorker Pop Music Everything but the Tour Tracey Thorn turns semi-pro. by Sasha Frere-Jones May 17, 2010 The widely reported demise of th...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

What Makes a Meme Go Mainstream?

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From ROFL conference: