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Lit 101 Classes in Three Lines or Less →
1984 WINSTON: Don’t tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism. EVERYONE: Surprise! We’re the Party. WINSTON: Oh, rats.
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jakoblodwick: charlietodd: The Democratic primary in 8 minutes. THIS is web video done right. Wow. Very nice. Great vid.
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That is some incredible video work. The ending is classic.
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“Like we’re The Beatles after all, aren’t we? We have all the money...”
– George Harrison
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The Last Traffic Jam →
The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants—and goes broke trading it in on something...
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Natasha by Vladimir Nabokov →
On the stairs Natasha ran into her neighbor from across the hall, Baron Wolfe. He was somewhat laboriously ascending the bare wooden steps, caressing the bannister with his hand and whistling softly through his teeth. “Where are you off to in such a hurry, Natasha?” “To the drugstore to get a prescription filled. The doctor was just here. Father is better.” “Ah, that’s good news.” She...
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Hints of 'time before Big Bang'  →
A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang. The discovery comes from studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), light emitted when the Universe was just 400,000 years old. Their model may help explain why we experience time moving in a straight line from yesterday into tomorrow. Am I the only person who...
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“Well George, we knocked the bastard off.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary, after conquering Mount Everest
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“He was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society....”
– Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent’s longtime partner
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Jack: Look at this video of a baby panda sneezing.
Liz: Oh, it's the *cutest* thing I've ever seen!
Jack: I need you to fire 10% of our workforce.
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Why Japan Didn't Create the iPod →
At the end of last year, there were a couple of articles about Japan’s failure to be a giant in the new digital age (Newsweek on Why Apple Isn’t Japanese, and there were some interesting comments in a blog response Japan is no longer a leader in Electronics). Unfortunately, the Newsweek article completely ignores the technical background which forms the basis for Japan’s current position in the...
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Displacements is an immersive film installation by Michael Naimark. He filmed 3 people in an archetypal Americana living room. The camera was standing in the middle of the room and rotated sowly. Afterwards he spray-painted the whole room white and placed a projector at the same spot of the camera. The result is a strange augmented reality effect. He did this for the first time back in 1980, this...
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The Fishstick
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