January 2012
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The Origin and Copyright Protection of the Unknown... →
theoreticalgirl:
movingsideways:
And on the topic of Joy Division… I laughed at the tl;dr section.
If I can put on my teacher hat for a moment, this is also a great example of how to use Wikipedia as a starting point for research, instead of the final destination.
Maria also linked yesterday to Disney’s appropriation of this image (a mashup that makes absolutely no sense), and I...
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"It seems like every human interaction becomes a... →
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At the local bar with chalkboards in the bathrooms, I’ve started writing “ADS EVERYWHERE” any time someone spams a URL, even if it’s for a cutesy little arts or indie theater organization. Facebook is an amateur ad feed, and I suspect everyone will stop reading it in two years’ time. I currently work in marketing, but constant promotion leaves a bad...
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DYFL?: Fun Fact Of The Day →
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Adele’s “Someone Like You” was co-written by the guy from Semisonic.
Not sure how I missed that until now…
How did I miss that? How did I miss all the coverage of the Minnesota connection? (The Strib published a couple of stories… but for some reason the Current never talks about it, which makes no sense, or maybe I just miss it, every time.*)
But, then, we also all more or...
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What does "trolling" mean to you?
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Chemical Brothers and Beth Orton - “Where Do...
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This is the New York Times obituary for the Czech... →
To prepare for my upcoming semester in Prague in 2003, I started reading all sorts of Czech writers. Amazon had recommended The Engineer of Human Souls, which is a badass title for a book, except for the fact that it is something Stalin said. Details are a bitch.
I don’t remember anything about that book except that I liked it, that it was thick, and that the knowledgeable, attractive...
