January 2011
I wish I could lay down beside you: News about... →
dealanexmachina:
michaelsocha:
Articles
Computer World: Without Internet Egyptians find new ways to get online
The New York Times: Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash Protests
CTV News: Death toll in Egypt protests rises to 74 (according to @breakingnews, it has now reached 102)
Los Angeles Times: Crisis in Egypt puts Obama to the test
The Telegraph: What next for...
“I always like to tell this story: I was fucking Christian Bale, Batman, up the...”
– Ewan McGregor on his experience in Velvet Goldmine (x)
“There is no such thing as a stupid question. Many people say that, but it really...”
– Carl Sagan
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Two churches located across the street from each...
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“He was listening to music and he had, I don’t know, hip-hop … or music like...”
– From this story of a butt dial gone awry in Winnetka, IL, a very wealthy suburb north of Chicago. A man who had his cell phone in his pocket was listening to loud hip hop in his car and accidentally butt dialed his wife. His wife, fearing that her husband must have been abducted by black people,...
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
bulimic:
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid…
It's Okay To Be Smart: Quoted in full from... →
jtotheizzoe:
Quoted in full from BoingBoing because you need to read it all and hear it again and know it good and clear, now:
Last week, editors of the medical journal BMJ declared Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper linking autism to the MMR vaccine to be not just incorrect, but actively fraudulent.
