February 2011
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Bartending at a Sex Party | Nerve.com →
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“A few months ago, I was approached to write a movie about Google. The producer...”
– Might makes right | johnaugust.com
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I set myself a half-day project to write music specifically for shuffle mode – making use of randomness to try and make something more than the sum of its parts. Over an hour or so, I wrote a series of short, interlocking phrases (each formatted as an individual MP3) that can be played in any order and still (sort of) make musical sense. Here’s a video of it playing in iTunes:
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WatchYellowstone supervolcano takes a once every 650,000 year “deep breath”. All around Yellowstone ground rises 10 inches! the last time this thing erupted, was 650,000 years ago. We’re all going to die.
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
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“I like your Christ. I don’t like your Christians. They are so unlike your...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif →
Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing experience, signifies a shift in the way products are made and...
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How Michael Chabon approached reading the unedited... →
A nice piece by Michael Chabon about how he approached the word “nigger” when he was reading Twain - both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - to his young children at bedtime.
Of his several good points, one may be unspoken: When we change admittedly offensive language (and history), it doesn’t infantilize our children or other people’s children; really, it infantilizes us.
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Love - Movie Trailers →
looks awesome, like moon.
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Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in... →
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.
Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and...
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