May 2008
April 2008
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Okkervil River at Soft City Lights
Beards on flickr →
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Louis Buchino: Top 20 in Their 20s in Cleveland →
Sure, it’s Cleveland. And sure they measure success by all domestic standards. But, he’s my brother and this is a big deal. Go team!
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tumblelikeyougiveadamn: pierreism: Carrotmob is a flashmob-based movement with an amazingly simple but ingenious agenda: to organise mass purchases to companies that agree to make environmentally friendly choices. This is an inspirational 10 minutes.
Email Coroy Doctorow, tell him to grow a real... →
I love Doctorow’s musings, from Boing Boing to his novels (Little Brother comes out tomorrow!). But it is time for him to grow a decent beard, dammit. Please encourage him to do so via email.
Google Reader -mb's shared items →
For anyone interested in some of the things I share when I comb the feeds…
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Ten Easy Ways to be Kind to Earth Today
dihard: 1. turn off the tap - while brushing, while lathering, while shaving. 2. walk, bike, or carpool instead of driving. 3. bring your own bag. 4. eat only local food. 5. don’t eat meat. 6. unplug your appliances when not in use - your tv, your lights, your microwave. get a power strip with an easy on/off switch. 7. stop unwanted junk mail. 8. adjust your thermostat. or just turn the...
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Black Keys rock out on Letterman ”I Got Mine” ¡Qué chulo la barbazul!
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dalasverdugo: Barack Obama puts “manufactured political distractions” on notice.
Join the thread: Epic Beards on... →
rubenfm: Between Two Ferns 2 Zach and Jimmy are two of the funniest and nicest people there are.
Schwarzenegger Changes Position On Gay Marriage →
SAN DIEGO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says if an initiative to ban gay marriage qualifies for the November ballot, he’s prepared to fight it. California’s governor was in San Diego Friday speaking at the annual convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest gay Republican group. Schwarzenegger said he was confident that a ban would never pass in California...
I’m so proud of this company and everything it represents. It makes me...
– Former Walmart board member Hillary Clinton at a store opening in Arkansas in 1991. For sale: the video archive Wal-Mart should have erased
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Text-based art. →
CUNNILINGUS IN N0RTH K0REA is a good one.
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10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years
dihard: A 2007 article from Entrepreneur.com discusses the odds of survival of ten industries. They are: Record Stores Camera Film Manufacturing Crop Dusters Gay Bars Newspapers Pay Phones Used Bookstores Piggy Banks Telemarketers Coin-Operated Arcades “What? You didn’t just used to download the music for free?” and “What’s an ‘album cover’?” are...
Little Girl: Why do you have blue hair?
Janis: Cause one day I got a letter from the International Society of People with Brightly Colored Hair letting me know that there was an space open in Rochester for someone with blue hair. So I dyed my hair blue.
Little Girl: Really?
Janis: Yup.
Little Girl: One day will I get a letter?
Janis: I'd say when you're about 15 you'll get one.
Little Girl: Wow. I want pink hair though.
Janis: Well I heard that the girl who has pink hair wants to retire in a few years so I'm sure you can work that out.
Little Girl: Wow. Do you have parties?
Janis: All the time.
Little Girl: Cool! Ok bye.
Janis: Bye, check the mail!
Little Girls Dad: I - uh - ah (shakes head and walks away)
It’s dangerous to the progression of this state. And it’s dangerous for our...
– Ill. Rep. Monique Davis speaking on the dangers of atheism. Awesome. (via Boing Boing)
If you go to college, you’re probably being led to believe that...
– Drew
Euro-parliamentarians block record industry's... →
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How an ISP music-license should work - Boing Boing →
1. Voluntary for Music Fans. 2. Voluntary for Artists. 3. Not a Collecting Society, but Collecting Societies. 4. Voluntary for ISPs.