December 2009
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Inside the Mind of a Savant: Scientific American →
“Editor’s Note: The main text of this story, originally published in the December 2005 issue of Scientific American, is being made available in light of the recent death of Kim Peek.”
Dec 24th
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the...”
– Hannah Arendt
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“Just because you can talk, doesn’t mean you make sense.”
– Samms Taback
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XMAS Tumbler?
Where did the Chanukah Tumblr go?  I must have missed it.  Oh, wait, it’s still Chanukah.  I guess it’s THEY who missed something.
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“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Dec 17th
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Vimeo Sued By Capitol Records Over Lip Dubs  →
zachklein: I roared with a belly laugh when I read this headline in bed earlier today. Could Capitol Records truly be this misguided? Do they not realize that if you were to sort Internet brands by those most emblematic of creativity — not piracy — that Vimeo would line up at the top? Lip-dubbing is harmless and perfectly fun, and ultimately will define the aesthetic of an Internet generation....
Dec 16th
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Tool Use Found in Octopuses (via Wired.com) →
“With their tents, the veined octopus has joined chimpanzees, monkeys, dolphins and crows in the ever-expanding menagerie of non-human tool users.”
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“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
– Oscar Wilde
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imeem's demise
Who is The Orchard music consortium? “According to insiders, imeem, which was already struggling to cover its music licensing fees in a weak advertising market, was brought to its knees by a lawsuit from independent music consortium The Orchard that accused imeem of playing TVT Records’ music without the proper licensing. The lawsuit asked for the maximum penalty of $150,000 per...
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non-matte: Italy was so ridiculously lucky in the world cup draw I’m going to out on a limb and say that they are NOT going to complain about the draw being rigged this year.
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“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and...”
– Franz Kafka (uhoh, those are my two favorites)
Dec 3rd
Ever notice how stingy people are with ‘liking’ tumblr posts? Maybe I just post boring crap that no one likes.
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“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
– Oscar Wilde
Dec 2nd
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
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