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Apr 23rd

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Apr 23rd

Timeline of the burrito - Wikipedia, the free... →

Apr 23rd

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SPIN - Google Books This “On The Road With Black Flag” article from a 1986 issue of Spin magazine is five shades of fucking awesome. Shut up. Read it. Now.

Apr 21st

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Apr 21st

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How Apple Lost the Next iPhone - Leak - Gizmodo →

Gizmodo’s lost iPhone Saga is the hilarious developing nerd story of the next few weeks. Here’s what you need to know. There is a new iPhone It has a forward facing camera some Apple engineer got drunk and lost it Odds are said engineer’s head will be placed in Steve’s smoothie blender.

Apr 21st

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Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education | Video on TED.com (via mathpunk)

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Apr 18th

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Julius Eckert » Projects →

Julius Eckert’s projects are slick, smart, and generally fucking great. I’ve personally been using his Showcase Quicksilver interface [download link] for over a year now and have yet to see anything I’ve liked better. Try out some of his stuff today.

Apr 18th

Math for Primates Podcast →

Because I suck at math, but still find it fascinating and believe it to be one of, if not the great divider of true intelligence, I’ve signed up for Math for Primates podcast. Oh, and web superstar Cory is doing it too.

Apr 16th

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Apr 16th

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KAFKA ON BOOKS

Letter to Oskar Polak **January 27, 1904 I think one ought to read nothing but books that bite and sting. If the book we are reading wake us up on with the blow of a fist against the skull, then why are we reading that book? So that it will make us happy * * *? My God, we would be happy even if we had no books. And in a pinch we could write such books as make us happy ourselves. No, we need...

Apr 14th

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Apr 13th

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FORA.tv - William Gibson discusses Spook Country

Apr 13th

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William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary... →

William Gibson fanaticism continues! While this Rolling Stone interview with Gibson isn’t as long, in-depth or filled with lunatic rants, like, I dunno, say this interview with Philip K. DIck [PDF Link]; it does contain allusions to themes that might be continued in Zero History. What are the major challenges we face? Let’s go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous...

Apr 13th