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I can’t decide whether or not this is better than Feminist Ryan Gosling, but I have definitely decided that I want a watch made of watches.

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wnycradiolab:

If you’re interested in color theory, or you like beautifully-designed little games, or you just feel like being bad at something today (OH MY GOD SLOW DOWN TOO MANY COLORS), try this.

(via Metafilter)

I got an 8.9. Suck on that, Radiolab!

areasofmyexpertise:

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I WILL NOW RESUME BEING A BETTER INTERNET PERSON, and in that effort, I direct you to read Jonathan Coulton’s thoughts on MEGAUPLOAD AND COPYRIGHT, which is very thoughtful and very funny and not boring and also essential.

I HONESTLY HAVE BEEN FORMING ALL OF MY OPINIONS about tech and the internet based on what Jonathan has to say since 1989, and you should do EXACTLY THE SAME. 

ALSO: up there is his video of “Nemeses” the song he sings with @johnroderick, who has apparently transferred his consciousness into a machine. 

YOU MAY ENJOY THIS VIDEO FOR FREE and, if you wish, make it all over again with sexy dancing WoW avatars, for that YOUR RIGHT.

That is all.

In which I abridge John Hodgman’s remarks and correct his link to an excellent Jonathan Coulton blog entry.

babesofnpr:

Shit Public Radio Listeners Say (by sarahlynnladuke)

These are your people.

Radiolab DOES blow my mind!

Poop.

My skinny jeans have a hole in the crotch, bringing me down to 1 pair of regularly wearable jeans.

I hate shopping for pants.

Things I did not realize were a turn-on until tonight:

Being complimented on my vocabulary (specifically, in this case, the use of the word “modicum”).

Newsweek: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics →

newsweek:

Presenting the first three paragraphs of Andrew Sullivan’s epic takedown of President Barack Obama’s critics, on newsstands & online today.

You hear it everywhere. Democrats are disappointed in the president. Independents have soured even more. Republicans have worked themselves up into an apocalyptic fervor. And, yes, this is not exactly unusual. A president in the last year of his first term will always get attacked mercilessly by his partisan opponents, and also, often, by the feistier members of his base. And when unemployment is at remarkably high levels, and with the national debt setting records, the criticism will—and should be—even fiercer. But this time, with this president, something different has happened. It’s not that I don’t understand the critiques of Barack Obama from the enraged right and the demoralized left. It’s that I don’t even recognize their description of Obama’s first term in any way. The attacks from both the right and the left on the man and his policies aren’t out of bounds. They’re simply—empirically—wrong. A caveat: I write this as an unabashed supporter of Obama from early 2007 on. I did so not as a liberal, but as a conservative-minded independent appalled by the Bush administration’s record of war, debt, spending, and torture. I did not expect, or want, a messiah. I have one already, thank you very much. And there have been many times when I have disagreed with decisions Obama has made—to drop the Bowles-Simpson debt commission, to ignore the war crimes of the recent past, and to launch a war in Libya without Congress’s sanction, to cite three. But given the enormity of what he inherited, and given what he explicitly promised, it remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb. Their short-term outbursts have missed Obama’s long game—and why his reelection remains, in my view, as essential for this country’s future as his original election in 2008.

Keep reading.

parachuteshark:

groans:

a crow going sledding on the roof

OH MY GOD

Yet another example of why corvids are my favorite family of birds.

(Source: youtube.com, via nedhepburn)

Nothing sets me up for a grumpy day quite like being woken up by my roommate’s bed being fucked into the door that separates our rooms.

I am psyched to spend my Saturday night with these three ladies and a big mug of cocoa.