May 2010
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“Note to Self: No metter how bad things get, there’s always Beer.”
– Dirty Work
L.A. buzz band Best Coast announces album details... →
The Twitter page of Bethany Cosentino, frontwoman of highly buzzed about local band Best Coast, is a constant series of obvious but on-point axioms. In the last week, she’s revealed…
The world's tallest Internet entrepreneur →
World Record: Most Party Hats Worn At Once (Elna Baker) Photo: Emily Wilson Yesterday, the Air Force announced that its Waverider aircraft set the record for hypersonic flight — it…
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SIFF “Face The Music” preview: Genius Within: The... →
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
directed by Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont
(Canada, 106 minutes)
Festival Screenings:
May 30, 2010 1:30 PM, SIFF Cinema
May 31, 2010…
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Music by Shel Silverstein for yo' ear buds! →
In addition to being the beloved writer and poet most of us know him to have been, Shel Silverstein was also a songwriter. His catalog of songs is oft-overlooked.
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Top 10 new species →
From a bombardier slug, to a carnivorous plant named after David Attenborough—the best new species discovered in 2009 are neatorama.
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“To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
– Tom Robbins
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WatchAmazing jellyfish!
Zombie meat beef jerkey →
You can now buy dried zombie meat at your local convenience store in Japan. The packaging claims it contains blue flesh aged to perfection in the graveyard.
via Pink Tentacle
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Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With... →
Visit the link and get to time wasting!
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“There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting.”
– George Carlin
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Public street pianos in NYC! →
NYC will follow London and Sydney’s lead and install a bunch of street pianos in public places where anyone can sit down and bang out some showtunes, Chopin, or Chopsticks.
This is such a neat idea. I wish Seattle would stop beautifying highways with fish art and install public pianos like other progressive cities. At least the piano man at Pike Place Market would not have to drag his...
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Mortgage Delinquencies by Period and by State →
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People Who Were Unemployed Before They Got Their... →
If you’ve ever been unemployed, then you know how scary it can be as those checks start to dry up. Here are some people who went from those government checks to much BIGGER checks in the blink of an eye:
Quentin Tarantino
Larry King
Susan Boyle
John Steinbeck
Larry David
David Sedaris
Gillian Anderson
Further proof that it’s all about timing!
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China to Stop Spying on its People; Will Use... →
via The Borowitz Report :-D
BEIJING – The Chinese government announced today that it would disband its extensive domestic spying program that gathers personal information on its citizens and would instead use Facebook. According to the head of the domestic spying operation, China decided to scrap its elaborate array of spy satellites, eavesdropping devices and closed-circuit surveillance cameras...
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Punk photography from Maximumrocknroll →
Wired’s Rawfile has a killer gallery of photos from Maximumrocknroll, the venerable punk magazine, which published its first photography issue this year: “‘I think of that picture of Robert…
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A Brief History of the Zamboni →
The technical name for the funny looking machine that refurbishes the ice at hockey and figure skating rinks is an ice resurfacer, but you probably know it better as a Zamboni (making ice nice since 1949).
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I Just Blogged to Say I Love You: Happy Birthday,... →
Stevie Wonder—the man responsible for more Most Uplifting Songs Ever™ than almost anyone else in history—was born Stevland Hardaway Judkins (awesome name—too bad he changed it) in Saginaw,…
Weird Clouds Look Even Better From Space →
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Clouds are…
Widows Leverage Jazz Legends' Legacies →
It’s the rare widow of a music legend who has the chops to leverage his legacy, but a handful of enterprising women are surviving doing just that.
HOWTO Make a Admiral Ackbar paper-bag puppet →
Our pal Bonnie Burton has a new book out, the The Star Wars Craft Book. It includes this swell cephalodic puppet: “By reusing a paper lunch bag, you’re recycling while making a cool puppet of…
KEXP Documentaries: Blues for Hard Times - “Green... →
How did the song “Green Onions” become one of the biggest pop classics to come from the blues?
Here’s the story: In Memphis, Tennessee, 1962. It’s late in the evening at Stax studios. And…
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“Creativity is kind of like pornography — you know it when you see it.”
– Charting Creativity, NYTimes
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The good 'ole gals.
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The Science of a Happy Relationship →
A helpful insight into relationships:
But it may not be feelings of love or loyalty that keep couples together. Instead, scientists speculate that your level of commitment may depend on how much a partner enhances your life and broadens your horizons — a concept that Arthur Aron, a psychologist and relationship researcher at Stony Brook University, calls “self-expansion.”
To measure this...
European banks surge after liquidity plan →
European shares surge as global policymakers agree to a massive financial aid package to help stem the flow of capital from eurozone government bond markets
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“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Joe Biden
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Have a smashing day!
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From a message board.
A: What is the worst tax you can think of?
B: Sin tax-- it allows the government to motivate our behavior through taxation.
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