November 2010
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“A friend of his had opened a Gmail account when he had had a child (I think,...”
– 10 Questions for Ben Malbon | Tangerine Blog (via brianoberkirch, msg)
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Slate: Imagine if Mick Jagger responded to Keith... →
This imagined letter from Mick Jagger in response to Keith Richards’ new “tell-all” book is gorgeously written. I recommend reading the whole thing, but I’ll pluck out a few gems to whet your appetite:
He is kind to say I could take what he gave me and run with it. But he is the one who gave me the actual song to write the lyrics to. He wrote a dozen Top 10 hits in five...
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TechCrunch: MLB’s TagOramic Lets You Stare Into... →
This is a great idea, well executed:
Over the course of the playoffs, MLB has taken some absolutely massive panoramic photos of each stadium — and they’ve taken them at high enough resolution that you can zoom in and see each and every fan. The site has also integrated support for Facebook Connect, so even if you didn’t get to attend one of the playoff games, you can sign in and see if any of...
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BLDGBLOG: Church of Planets Past →
This is an incredible story:
[T]he polished rock walls of a Catholic church in northern Italy have been found to contain the skull of a dinosaur. “The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull,” paleontologist Andrea Tintori explained to Discovery News. “The image looks like a CT scan, and clearly shows the cranium, the nasal cavities, and...
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“The point, it seemed to me, was that politics isn’t all there is to life,...”
– Andrew Sullivan: Moderation In The Defense Of Sanity Is No Vice. Most Of The Time.
Interesting reflection on the rally Saturday.
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“Things change when you care enough to grab whatever you love, and give it...”
– Amanda Burr, student at the Walnut Hill School from “The Art of Possibility”
(via jenmartinez1)
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