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Just out. Haven't listened yet (downloading now) but if the last three are any indication, this is gonna be a great Monday for listenin'. Sample tracks: 5. Lil Wayne (feat. Babyface) vs Royksopp - Comfortable Up Here 15. Michael Jackson vs Ratatat - Billie "Wildcat" Jean 19. R. Kelly (feat...
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Somehow not sold out yet: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk about The Fantastic Mr. Fox at the 42nd St. NYPL tonight. Tickets here. Tags: fantasticmrfox   movies   noahbaumbach   NYPL   Wes Anderson
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I'm sure there will be many of these published today. Send me more if you run across any and I'll add them to the list. Photos by Peter Turnley taken in Romania, Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, and Hungary, most of them in late 1989. Tags: Cold War   photography
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Video of a butcher breaking down a substantial piece of beef. Meat Appreciation: A NYC Restaurant Honors the Whole Animal from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Meet Shanna Pacifico, the chef de cuisine & butcher at Back Forty restaurant in New York City...
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The Masters of Professional Studies in Branding is a brand new, one year Graduate Degree Program from the School of Visual Arts in NYC...
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The blog You Aught To Remember is counting down all the of the memorable people, ideas, and trends of the 2000s. Some recent entries include the demotion of Pluto, World of Warcraft, the Red Sox winning the World Series, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Tags: The 2000s   weblogs
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Paul Graham asked the founders of the startups he's funded what they know now that didn't going in. Here's what they said. I've been surprised again and again by just how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence. Tags: business   Paul Graham
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Schott's Vocab blog covers Single Serving Sites today. Tags: language   single serving sites
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Antville has a list of the 100 best music videos of the decade, the first 50 or so are embedded right on the page. (via fimoculous) Tags: best of   lists   music   The 2000s   video
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At 70, writer Charles Bukowski started using a computer -- a Macintosh IIsi that his wife gave him for Christmas -- and was so taken with it that he never went back to the typewriter...
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This is too awesome!
October 23 at 2:18pm
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Javascript code for navigating between posts using the j and k keys, just like on ffffound and The Big Picture. (via 37s) Tags: Javascript   web development
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Are the problems that have plagued the Large Hadron Collider and previous high-energy efforts (SSC, I'm looking at you here) a result of the Higgs boson travelling back from the future to meddle in its own discovery? A pair of scientists think it's a possibility...
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Emigre has released a sans serif companion for Mrs Eaves, Mr Eaves. Mr Eaves was based on the proportions of Mrs Eaves, but Licko took some liberty with its design. One of the main concerns was to avoid creating a typeface that looked like it simply had its serifs cut off...
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Interesting article about the technology behind the 4- and 5-bladed disposable razors...
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This is page 471 of The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code book (previously mentioned here). Looks like the scanner caught one of Google's pink-fingered elves at work. A quick search reveals several other such errors. Tags: books   Google   Google Books