September 2011
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“I Hate the War”, by the Ballet.
This...
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“The devastating Texas drought that has already cost over $5 billion could...”
– From Dr Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Tristram Cary (31)
Marissa Nadler (21)
Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix (18)
Serge Gainsbourg (17)
The Real Tuesday Weld (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“[Naomi] Klein blames the release-valve nature of online protest. ‘It’s...”
– Dorian Lynskey, in the epilogue to 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs
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Syd Mead, Still Designing The Future After 50... →
Got woken up by this story on the radio, in fact, but was too sleepy to listen, and then proceeded to forget about it until I was reminded of it this afternoon.
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Samuel L Ipsum | Alternative Lorem Ipsum Generator →
I admit, I kind of love all these wacky alternate filler text generators. If I had more cause to use them in my day job, I would. Hat tip to rocketsandrayguns.
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chicklittumbls:
hangingfire:
I will use the Oxford comma until the day I die, but FUCK if I am not totally sick of the religious wars on that stupid piece of punctuation blowing up all over my Tumblr and Facebook dashboards.
(Yes, this was x-posted on FB with a slight difference in wording. My parents read my FB feed, okay?)
So … wanna to join me on my crusade to bring back the...
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I will use the Oxford comma until the day I die, but FUCK if I am not totally sick of the religious wars on that stupid piece of punctuation blowing up all over my Tumblr and Facebook dashboards.
(Yes, this was x-posted on FB with a slight difference in wording. My parents read my FB feed, okay?)
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“This ancient complex hasn’t actually been there since the 14th century. It...”
– Ian Martin, “Just Think – Parliament Could Have Looked Like A Giant Essex Pub”
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Overheard at work
He: Have you ever seen "Blade Runner"?
She: No ... it came out what, twenty years ago?
He: You are the WORST FREAKING GEEK EVER.
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“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the...”
– Nick Cave, quoted in Flavorwire’s “The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History”
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →
Roy Budd (30)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (26)
The Magnetic Fields (23)
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory (18)
Felix Buxton (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Confessions Of A Sriracha Fanatic : NPR →
I didn’t write this, but I could have.
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Information on fires in Central Texas →
We’re okay here in Central Austin, but ex-urbs and towns north, east, and west of the city are all on fire, and it’s bad.
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The Guardian: Miracle or mirage – what's the truth...
They arrived before dawn to wait for the food truck. Middle-aged men, young women with children, the elderly and the retired, mixing with the low-paid on their way to work. As the sun rose high in a blue summer sky, several hundred people clustered in precious spots of shade in Dove Springs, a suburb of the Texan capital of Austin. Some brought garden chairs to sit on.
When the truck from the...
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“.In Austin, so far this year:
…we’ve had 79 days of 100+ (all-time...”
– Today on the Austin YNN weather page
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