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Feast by Matt Zoller Seitz - Moving Image Source

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:11:42 +0800

Feast by Matt Zoller Seitz - Moving Image Source:

A third possibility might be that the proliferation of food films (and food culture) is a collective, unconscious reaction to the gradual splintering of society in the postwar, post-industrial,…

Andrew Zuckerman: Bird

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:41:49 +0800

Andrew Zuckerman: Bird:

pretty awesome pictures of birds

Stop Being a Wuss: How To Make Pie Crusts the Easy Way | The Awl

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:42:36 +0800

Stop Being a Wuss: How To Make Pie Crusts the Easy Way | The Awl:

more recipes should be like this.

Video

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:26 +0800

Sextortion at Eisenhower High: Big Issues: GQ

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:44:07 +0800

Sextortion at Eisenhower High: Big Issues: GQ:

Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit…

Lives - Only Disconnect - NYTimes.com

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:20:53 +0800

Lives - Only Disconnect - NYTimes.com:

seriously? this guy is deranged. you people all need help.

BallDroppings

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:07:09 +0800

BallDroppings:

BallDroppings instructions: Turn your sound up. Draw lines on the black screen to bounce the balls. Enjoy the music.

The Science of Success - The Atlantic (December 2009)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:11:21 +0800

The Science of Success - The Atlantic (December 2009):

Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming…

I think Walken may have rode this one trick pony to death.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:44:18 +0800

I think Walken may have rode this one trick pony to death.

Franke James » Blog Archive » Dinner with a Stranger

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:52:49 +0800

Franke James » Blog Archive » Dinner with a Stranger:

An interesting story about how two people approached a “stranger” they admired to have dinner, and give money to charity for the privilege. I bet it would be pretty easy to set up a marketplace for…

wow, that was something. via kottke

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:34:26 +0800

wow, that was something. via kottke

Why Women Aren't Funny | vanityfair.com

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:56:50 +0800

Why Women Aren't Funny | vanityfair.com:

What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, the author investigates the reasons for the humor gap.

25 ideas for 2010: digital forgetting

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:09:11 +0800

25 ideas for 2010: digital forgetting:

For most of history, almost everything people did was forgotten because it was so hard to record and retrieve things. But this had a benefit: “social forgetting” allowed us to move on from…

look at its face! hahahaha

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:24:51 +0800

look at its face! hahahaha

(via explodingdog)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:45:40 +0800

(via explodingdog)

cool music video via joshspear.com

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:22:00 +0800

cool music video via joshspear.com

this is the stuff of nightmares

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:02:20 +0800

this is the stuff of nightmares

The North American Humping Tortoise Video

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:39:54 +0800

The North American Humping Tortoise Video:

You cannot unhear the carnal moans of tortoise pleasure.

The Believer - In Pursuit of the Wild Cohiba

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:07 +0800

The Believer - In Pursuit of the Wild Cohiba:

TWO SEMI-INTREPID TRAVELERS MEDITATE (WITH THE HELP OF A GREAT DEAL OF PUFFING) ON THE CUBAN COMMUNIST ROOTS OF AN AMERICAN CAPITALIST ICON. —-
interesting story about some people going to Cuba in…

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Magazine

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:19:27 +0800

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Magazine:

interesting profile of this guy Offit who is kind of the public face defending the need for vaccinations against the crazy ill-informed masses