January 2011
December 2010
NYE 2010 -->2011
ritual ablutions and a careful inventory of action items. sip champagne from sundae glass and delve back into the Olde work. and away we go.
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via ish07)
“Scientist Andrew Haynes believes reindeer deliberately seek out the mushrooms to...”
– Reindeers like Rudolph and Blitzen get high on magic mushrooms | The Sun |News
(via tedr)
Watchsirmitchell:
MSNBC’s exclusive interview with Julian Assange. Wether you are for or against him, I think this is pretty important to watch.
It’s especially interesting, as Julian is able to speak without being interrupted, or barraged with talking points. I also love what he said about Mike Huckabee.
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via ifoundareason)
just promised I won’t talk to my nephew about religion or politics till he is 18. hope his parents do too.
"my mom did this really cool thing where she took...
totallyjeremy:
“performance art at its finest”
from
“baby powder on my leather shoes: the canonization of lindsay lohan (as performance art)”
“Chances are, if your government is telling you not to read something, you should...”
– Al Jazeera on Wikileaks, Hip-Hop, Global Honesty and Cultural Decline (via shakespeareandcobooks)
Watchfyeahportland:
dia-dhuit:thedailywhat:
This Is Funny, You Should Listen To It of the Day: To promote their upcoming six-part sketch series Portlandia, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (of Sleater-Kinney fame) sing-toast the Town of Stump, where the dream of the 90s is alive and well.
Portlandia premieres on IFC Friday, January 21st @ 10:30 PM.
[ifc / aubreydean / ratsoff.]
CRYING
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The Orange Eats Creeps
“A joke on the streets of Moscow these days: “Everything the Communists told us...”
– John Nellis, World Bank (via savagemike)
Stem cell transplant cures HIV infection. →
blaaargh:
Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection.
The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV infection; this was due to a genetic profile...
Astronomers Discover First Evidence of Other... →
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