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Collections of similarly themed photographs. I especially like My Bruises and my-white-top-and-orange-bottom.

I’ve seen only one stray episode so this gets me on the bandwagon. A fine piece of you-tubery.

A letter about the hub-bub around the movie.Censorship is the prophylactic that ensures our lives are not impregnated with culture and truth and knowledge—no matter how obscene that truth may be.

Take the 10 ten books at any given college and graph it against the average SAT scores for that school.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells [...]

“Redditors comment on the Netflix recruiting page”:http://reddit.com/info/5yhx5/comments/.
Favorite comment of the bunch:
“Translation: You will do the work of two people with very little guidance among a bunch of other cut-throat type-A personalities. Where do I sign up!”
Hilarious, almost true, but in a completely positive way (I’m a UI Engineer for them during the day).

A human, real-world example of why accessibility matters.

Scoble is how I imagine Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a failed, bitter actor would be in an alternate universe.

An annoying new trend, possibly Park Slope related: “The New Victorians”:http://www.nyobserver.com/print/55828/full:
There was a time, not too long ago, when the young and the aimless hightailed it to New York City in pursuit of an altogether different urban experience than the domestic bliss enjoyed by Miss Miller and many of her bosom companions. High on a [...]

Commencement speech from Dana Gioia to the Stanford 2007 Graduating class: “Trade easy pleasures for more complex and challenging ones”
And that—in a more general and less personal sense—is the subject I want to address today, the fact that we live in a culture that barely acknowledges and rarely celebrates the arts or artists.
There is an [...]

Attachment parents they ain’t.

Saw the redesigned Kwik-E-Mart nee 7-11 on Pear Street in Mountain View on the way to the fireworks. Awesome, but the novelty wears off fairly quick.

“Bill Gates’ 2007 Harvard commencement speech”:http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/99-gates.html. Soul-searching and powerful.
What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privilege – and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at [...]

Holy smokes that is cool. If someone figures out a way to do this technique in realtime video, they’d make a mint.

The creator of Calvin and Hobbes answers some great questions.

There’s nothing worse than narcissism posing as humility.

Sam Harris (the atheist, not the original Star Search Winner) vs. Rick Warren, a Christian pastor.