February 2012
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Pancake Mountain, we hardly knew ye. →
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Collusion is a Firefox add-on that lets you track... →
As the description says, if you’re not paying for something on the web, you’re not a customer - you’re the product. I’m looking forward to seeing how I’m sold… and who’s buying….
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New Magnetic Fields album streaming on NPR →
And it starts with a Cramps style tremolo guitar!
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I’m all for helping science. But after I share what I know, my neuroscientist...
– Teller explains the 7 principles of magic - including the darkest one: #7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely.
[via Liminal Nation]
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I'm doing it again. That is, I'm reading Jeremiah... →
Because there’s nothing like rambling notes on 2,500-year-old poetry.
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My 6-year-old son has reached that point in his development at which numbers are fascinating, especially really big ones.
“What’s a hundred times a million?” he’ll ask. “What’s a hundred times two million?”
I’m becoming anxious that he’ll start playing this game with his friends, because one of them, eventually, is bound to ask him what...
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But lets think about this for a second and turn this around a little bit.What if...
– Jazz musician Dave Golberg has written an open letter to L.A. club owners. Why don’t you play out more, Grant? Well.
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My friend Adam wants $4 (Australian) to help put a decent cover on his book. It was published by Allen & Unwin, but is now out of print… and he’s bringing it back.
This is what we in the word business call “a worthwhile investment.”
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Why is tumblr called tumblr?
Acrobats? Gemstones?
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This same sensory communion with place must be cultivated in regions that are...
– Stephen Grasso, Smoke and Mirrors, part VII, “Great North Wood.”
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One Glorious Day (1922)
Psychologist Professor Botts (Will Rogers) is chairman...
– - from Weird and Wonderful Movies That You’ll Never Get to See, on io9.com.
As a side note to this, not only may this missing film have inspired the genre of “science fiction” (thank you, Mr. Ackerman), but I’d be stunned if it wasn’t related to Eckankar, the...
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The weapon of Angelmaker is named the Apprehension Engine and serves one...
– http://www.welovethisbook.com/features/harkaway-world’s-end (via harkaway)
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Per intercessionem Sancti Blasii, episcopi et martyris, liberet te Deus a malo...
– By the intercession of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God free you from illness of the throat and from any other sort of ill. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
(It’s throat-blessing day.)