Sonatina

7th November 2009

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Make a gift bow from a magazine page | How About Orange →

Ooh, pretty.

7th November 2009

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List of cats with fraudulent diplomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →

I propose this stays for sheer awesome. I mean, if heavy metal umlaut can stay, why can’t this?

6th November 2009

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Ezra Klein - Socialism in action →

Wouldn’t the proper, ideologically correct response from the protesters have been to restrain the physician and demonstrate how well private health care infrastructure works?

2nd November 2009

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"Every Nickelback Wikipedia Page Vandalism Ever" by Kevin Corrigan on CollegeHumor →

Yeah I know it gets old after about a minute, but it’s Nickelback! (cf. Rock Band: Nickelback)

28th October 2009

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What the Last Meal Taught Him - NYTimes.com →

I think we need a palate cleanser after that last link. A touching account of Thomas Keller’s relationship with his dad, who he got to know late in life.

28th October 2009

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Torture makes you seem guilty - Boing Boing →

A Harvard psych study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology shows that when people are present during torture, they gradually come to believe the torture victim is guilty as a way of assuaging their consciences for their complicity in torture.

Unsurprising, but still horrifying.

18th October 2009

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Okay: Man Raps Eminem Songs In Klingon - Geekologie →

There’s no way that shit is grammatically correct. But I’m glad they’re having fun?

14th October 2009

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Calvin Trillin on Roman Polanski | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper →

Oh snap.