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"For girls, the holiday’s hottest toy is a set of fake hamsters; for boys, a series of cards and..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:26:42 -0700

“For girls, the holiday’s hottest toy is a set of fake hamsters; for boys, a series of cards and action figures inside spheres.”

- WTF? The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

An Example of One of the Many Unnecessarily Cryptic and Poorly Written Sentences in my Reading for Law School

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:13:13 -0700

I have no clue what is going on in this sentence from my Torts casebook:

“The strictness of the intentional trespass action is mitigated to some extent through a series of privileges that shield from liability activity that would otherwise constitute a trespass.”

Creepy Halloween Photographs from Early 20th, 19th Century - a set on Flickr

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:45:36 -0600

Creepy Halloween Photographs from Early 20th, 19th Century - a set on Flickr:

Vintage-halloween

The Millions: The Road: A Comedic Translation

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:27:12 -0600

The Millions: The Road: A Comedic Translation

RxFresh | A Daily Dose of Freshness - blog - Super...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:44:24 -0600

RxFresh | A Daily Dose of Freshness - blog - Super hero Photography

The Most Glorious Thing I’ve Ever Seen on the Internet:...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:55:31 -0600

The Most Glorious Thing I’ve Ever Seen on the Internet: Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) (via melodysheep)

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:18:44 -0600

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:17:47 -0600

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(via: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan) Interesting video -...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:42:00 -0600

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Interesting video - Beck can’t define his own phrase (either because it will sound racist because it probably is racist, or because he really doesn’t know what it means) but relies on the listener to fill in the definition. Now that I think about it, this rhetorical tool seems standard in ‘outrage’ discourse. It’s a way to rile people up without saying anything.

Bernd and Hilla Becher via andrewschroeder.files.wordpress.com

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:57:37 -0600

Bernd and Hilla Becher

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message : Kristian Hammerstad

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:38:28 -0600

message : Kristian Hammerstad

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Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:14:49 -0600

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New York_1523 (via marshponds)

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:00:45 -0600

New York_1523 (via marshponds)

Mythical Creatures (via preshaa)

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:12:02 -0600

Mythical Creatures (via preshaa)

Carlsbad 2009 (via marshponds)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:35:44 -0600

Carlsbad 2009 (via marshponds)

Language Log » A word on the wall

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:33:26 -0600

Language Log » A word on the wall

"In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only..."

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:07:17 -0600

““In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.””

- Aldous Huxley

61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:06:39 -0600

61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times:

“Below is our list of the 61 essential reads of postmodern literature. It’s annotated with the attributes below — the author is a character, fiction and reality are blurred, the text includes…

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:17:12 -0600

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The Wire Files | Essays on The Wire from darkmatter Journal

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:02:00 -0600

The Wire Files | Essays on The Wire from darkmatter Journal:

Jackpot! Over a dozen analytical essays on The Wire in the latest issue of Darkmatter.

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