January 2009
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“People Got A Lotta Nerve” by Neko...
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“Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns. I say never be...”
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club.
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Another "solution" fails to live up
From The Times:
The parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria is showing the first signs of resistance to the best new drug against it.
Combination treatments using artemisinin, an antimalaria drug extracted from a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, have been hailed in recent years as the biggest hope for eradicating malaria from Africa, where more than 2,000 children die...
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WatchGojira, performing “Remembrance.”
So. Sick.
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Melissa Dixson, taxidermist
The New York Times apparently has a series called “One in 8 Million,” wherein they feature some New Yorker they deem interesting enough. In the featurette, this supposedly interesting New Yorker speaks about their endeavors over a related photo slideshow.
Today’s entry in that series profiles Melissa Dixson, a taxidermist. Here’s the entire transcript of the audio:
The...
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'Defiance' fits right in
The marketing campaign for Defiance, a movie released this weekend starring Daniel Craig as one of three WWII-era Jewish brothers resisting Nazi invaders, features the following quote prominently: We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals.
This statement is clearly false. Humans are without question animals, and it is not inherent in any animal’s existence that it be...
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“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”
– Janice Joplin, “Me and Bobby McGhee”
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Molly!!!!!
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Awesome. →
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“A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on...”
– That’s the lede for an Associated Press article currently featured on the frontpage of Yahoo!.
Let’s rewind:
A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both...
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PETA's new campaign: Fish = "Sea Kittens"
Reporting from Unalaska, Alaska (that’s right: UnAlaska, Alaska), NPR’s Anne Hillman writes about PETA’s new campaign to re-brand fish as “sea kittens.” The campaign seeks to publicize the reality that fish have mental, social, and nervous capacities rivaling common household pets. As PETA campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne notes:
“Fish not only have the same...
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Q. What's the difference between a nation and a...
A. One of them steals legally.
Johann Hari of the London Independent relays an unconventional perspective on the recent uptick in Somali piracy and the horrified institutional reaction it’s provoked from official bodies.
It’s a series of events that illuminates not only the double standard of sanctioned and unsanctioned thievery but also some of the methods by which parties who...