May 2010
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May 17th
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May 16th
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Children's drawings -> real-people photographs →
What a fantastic thing to do… Korean artist Yeondoo Jung photographs people in scenes posed to match specific  drawings by children.
May 16th
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May 9th
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Cell Phones: Find Your Lost Cell Phone with... →
May 8th
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Syntactically Ambiguous Headlines →
May 8th
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com →
What I’m like, post-ROFLCon.
May 1st
April 2008
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brownie roll-out cookies | smitten kitchen →
When I have a kitchen, I will also make these, and then make ice-cream sandwiches with them. And famous internet people will come to my house to eat them and hang out.
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“It was like sitting in a high school science lab expect every geek was, instead,...”
– adrants.com, on roflcon
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testimonials
littlewidget: i love arrkay’s tumblr That’s all. 
Apr 24th
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Listen“Comfort, Comfort” by Valerie Shields,...
Apr 24th
Jason Cherniak is not a Facebook spammer →
Discussion of the facebook “social worm” that recently made it to the Harvard network. My roommate’s account recently barfed up some of this spam. This is interesting because she has very few third-party apps installed. She only has “What I’m Listening To” and “iLike”. Which makes me wonder if this might not be a more serious facebook vulnerability.
Apr 23rd
i’m Initiative donates $1.3M in its first year →
Last summer, I had a great chat with one of the PMs on this about how they got the go-ahead to do this. Personally, I’m always skeptical of stuff like this (product(red), for instance), but still, 1.3M is a great start. I’m glad to see Microsoft sticking with the project and looking to expand it into other markets - especially because some of them can’t wait to get involved.
Apr 23rd
Altruism
 What if we got outside ourselves and there  really was an outside out there, not just  our insides turned inside out? What if there  really were a you beyond me, not just  the waves off my own fire, like those waves off  the backyard grill you can see the next yard through,  though not well—just enough to know that off  to the right belongs to someone else, not you.  What if, when we said...
Apr 22nd
“Resident Deans? They mean nothing to me.”
– Prof. Kaiser on how there will be no excuses and no extensions on the final paper
Apr 22nd
“In folklore, a zombie is a living corpse, an entity that is half alive and half...”
– Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective
Apr 18th
Comic Books: Seven Addictive Scifi Comic Books... →
Apr 17th
Happy Hour: S'mores Cocktail - The Modern... →
When I have a kitchen, I am making these.
Apr 15th
“Robert Louis Stevenson liked women with big butts and thighs. He was really into...”
– Prof. Kaiser again
Apr 15th
“Henry James was in love with him. Every time Henry James saw an effeminate,...”
– Prof. Matthew Kaiser, English 156: Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture
Apr 15th
Me: I want to be able to see due dates in the kinsey interface.
Jesse from Hiveminder: I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say "kinsey" interface.
Me: OMG, hilarious(ly awkward). So, I was typing this from my iPhone (on the normal interface) and I must have mistyped "mobile" in such a way that was autocorrected to "kinsey." (What??? I know. Thanks, Apple.) Sorry!
Jesse from Hiveminder: It's not often that one's mobile device can take the blame for a freudian slip, but having used an iphone, I can totally believe it ;) I'll see what I can do.
Apr 14th
Shadow Unit →
“If you’re not reading Shadow Unit, you totally should be. It’s crime drama (I don’t even *like* this genre) with an edge of something scifi or supernatural, scary and suspenseful and funny and thoughtful all by turns, a group project of a bunch of pro sff writers. They’ve conceived of it as fan fiction for a TV show that doesn’t exist, which is all sorts of...
Apr 14th
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“I fail epicly, but I fail epicly.”
– AEM
Apr 11th
Annnnd I’m back. More later.
Apr 10th
“Details (well, rumored details) have begun to trickle out in re: Sub Pop’s 20th...”
– Sub Pop 20th Anniversary News @ The Catbirdseat - Indie Music, Culture, and Commentary (via sleuth)
Apr 10th
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March 2008
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Mar 26th
Stuff to read: work of Eli Clare →
Mar 26th
“You’re a shadow of your former self. Am I allowed to say that?”
– Mom
Mar 24th
Instapaper →
For reading shit… later.
Mar 23rd
“that’s like a kilo and a half worth of cocaine in Chicago.”
– ceandersen re: ROFLCon’s budget
Mar 21st
“DONE is better than perfect”
– sign on my wall
Mar 20th
Post-spam and too many blogish things
No one’s following me on tumblr, because I haven’t told anyone I have a tumblog. This is liberating! To those who might choose to follow me: I will be totally unapologetic for the post-spam. This is how it’s gonna be. One thing I am concerned about is how this will fit in with the rest of my online-content-creation life. I’ve got an LJ and a legitimate blog as well, and...
Mar 20th
Mar 20th
my thoughts exactly
abe: what i want to know is
abe: who schedules a midterm for housing day?
abe: seriously??
me: srsly
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Mar 19th
Clinton on Obama's Speech: I Haven't Heard It →
But despite the speech’s high profile and intense media coverage of it, Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference she had not heard it yet or read the text. Many reporters muttered in disbelief during and after her remarks, surprised that a candidate as diligent as Mrs. Clinton -– who always talked about being well-prepared and doing her homework -– would not have read the speech yet. (via...
Mar 19th
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WatchWatch
Politics: Pokemon Style is Today’s BIG Thing - MAR 14, 2008
Mar 19th
Ten Must-See Disability-Themed Documentaries →
On disaboom’s recommendation, I just watched When Billy Broke His Head (which I made Widener Library buy, because it costs $219). Really fantastic documentary. Billy Golfus is pretty much a ridiculous badass. Highly recommend it to all. I’m gonna watch all these movies. Srsly.  
Mar 19th
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Jewschool →
Completely awesome blog/network for revolutionary Jews.
Mar 18th
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L'Chi Lach
Lechi lach to a land that I will show you Lech li-cha to a place you do not know Lechi lach on your journey I will bless you And you shall be a blessing, you shall be a blessing You shall be a blessing lechi lach. Lechi lach and I shall make your name great Lech li-cha and all shall praise your name Lechi lach to the place that I will show you Li-simchat chayim, li-simchat chayim Li-simchat...
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