April 2010
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February 2010
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Feb 24th
Bloomberg News vs. Federal Reserve Board Briefs -... →
Even though everyone has already forgotten. “In November 2008, Bloomberg News sued the Federal Reserve Board under the Freedom of Information Act for details of where bailout money went at the height of the financial crisis. The court ruled in Bloomberg’s favor but the Federal Reserve appealed. A group called the Clearing House Association, a consortium of the world’s largest...
Feb 16th
January 2010
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Haiti's History 1963-2009: NBC NEWS ARCHIVES →
Jan 27th
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ListenDog Days Are Over - Florence and the Machine So...
Jan 25th
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Late Night With Conan O'Brien Graphic Design
Late Night With Conan O’Brien Picture Archive - Art Pictures
Jan 25th
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November 2009
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WatchWatch
Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 26th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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“He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music...”
– Emily Dickinson (via paperflowers)
Nov 13th
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October 2009
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Favorite Halloween Videos!
Oct 30th
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ListenThis is the most stereotypical Italian song
Oct 16th
ONE | Upgrade Aid →
S. 1524 would give USAID the tools and people it needs to better fight hunger and poverty around the world, but this bill critically needs more support to push it through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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September 2009
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Sep 23rd
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Wrap Rage →
bestofwikipedia: Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging, particularly plastic blister packs and clamshells. Consumers suffer thousands of injuries per year, such as cut fingers and sprained wrists, from tools used to open packages and from the packaging itself. Some...
Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
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ListenEmpire State of Mind - Jay Z and Alicia Keys I...
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Sep 13th
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Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Apparently Stanley Kubrick had serious OCD and kept scores of boxes with index cards of information, the subject of a documentary directed by Jon Ronson. Unfortunately, the video doesn’t work, but there are some pics. I think we would have been best friends.
Sep 11th
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Sep 11th
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“I’d much rather be happy than right, anyday.”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via filmquotes)
Sep 11th
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Slideshow of New Yorker Covers
A collection of political covers by New Yorker illustrator Barry Blitt. “Cooling Off,” July 23, 2007. “By Heart,” October 30, 2000. “Narrow Stance,” October 8, 2007 “The Politics of Fear,” July 21, 2008
Sep 10th
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Feral Houses of Detroit
Feral Houses # posted by jdg @ 9:47 AM I have heard people here use the word “feral” because so many of Detroit’s strays learn to survive long-term on their own. Feral, used in this sense, means they have reverted to a wild state, as from domestication. Our world feral comes from the Latin root fera, or “wild beast,” but it also has a connection to another Latin...
Sep 9th
ListenThis American Life - Rest Stop This is my life
Sep 9th
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U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time →
Oh mamma
Sep 7th
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My Aunt's Awesome Photo Album
Sep 7th
August 2009
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global...
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Pulitzer Prize Archives
Aug 21st
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Fallen Princesses
Since babysitting, I’ve been reading lots of fairy tales lately, namely sleeping beauty Dina Goldstein’s photo series Fallen Princesses revisits the origins of classic fairy tale heroines and finds things not exactly as we remember them from childhood tales.
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June 2009
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Where Life's Start is a Deadly Risk - Excerpted...
More than half of the 536,000 women who die each year in pregnancy and childbirth are in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/health/24birth.html?th&emc=th Anna Msami’s son, who died in the womb, is buried by his grandmother and neighbors behind the grandmother’s house at the edge of a maize field  Two-year old quadruplets at the...
Jun 17th
“It was needless hugging — they are in the hallways before they go to class. It...”
– NOREEN HAJINLIAN, the principal of George G. White School in Hillsdale, N.J., where hugging is banned
Jun 17th
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What Does a Recession Look Like?
May 31, 2009 The Fall of the Mall By LEFTLOFT “What does a recession look like? Well, here’s one view, as seen through retail sales. The theoretical mall maps below show 27 companies with stores or restaurants in malls across America. (In some cases, these companies own more than one chain of stores.) In the bottom map, the change in the size of the stores is determined by sales in the first...
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May 2009
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Smart Pretty and Awkward →
May 22nd
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ListenThe Love Language - Providence New favorite band
May 20th
“Cittadini italiani sempre più poveri e non solo a causa della crisi. Gli...”
–  Dall’articolo “Ocse: salari, l’Italia agli ultimi posti” su Corriere.it (via pollicinor)
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