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Dec 29th

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Dec 28th

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Mapping America: 11215 →

Greenwood Cemetery marks a divide, too. drewvigal: Prospect Park is the big divider.

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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Dec 27th

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Dec 17th

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“Here is a powerful argument for writers’ burning their papers.”

– Garrisson Keillor reviewing the recently released autobiography of Samuel L. Clemens

Dec 17th

The Decline of Man (As A Word) →

theatlantic: Alexis Madrigal Allow me to introduce you to a most excellent time-wasting tool. It’s called the Books Ngram Viewer, and it allows you to track the plot of words and phrases through time. The service draws on the absolutely massive Google Books corpus. Google estimates they’ve scanned and OCR’d more than 10 percent of all the books ever published, and they use (as Ed Yong...

Dec 17th

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“I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross...”

– Robert Bly (via theparisreview)

Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 14th

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“Do nothing I cannot defend. Cover, write, and present every story with the care...”

– Jim Lehrer’s MacNeil / Lehrer Editorial Guidelines (via newshour) (via nprfreshair)

Dec 14th

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5 Depressing Blues Songs For Christmas →

Via NPR Music: Whatever the reason, “Jingle Bells” isn’t everyone’s cup of egg nog. If you count yourself among their ranks, here’s a list for you. We hope it makes you feel better, and if it doesn’t, look at it this way: If the only thing you get for Christmas is the blues, at least you’re getting something. Thank you, NPR. Thank you.

Dec 14th

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A's sign Hideki Matsui →

Good stuff. We could use some power at the plate.

Dec 14th

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Dec 13th

“I’m in class right now and trying to fart silently into my seat....”

– A dear, dear friend

Dec 11th

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Dec 10th

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Hezekiah Jones - Thinking About You (Radiohead...

Dec 8th

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Dec 8th

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Dec 8th

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Dec 7th

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Dec 7th

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Dec 3rd

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It appears I have arrived.

Tri (re: what she will do with her PhD): While the world of being a GIS professional (or a professional of any sort frankly) has attractions (independence and an actual point in existing being two of them), that’s something I’d do only if I failed as a Professional Thinker of some variety… Emily: I want to aspire to be a “Professional Thinker” too!! Me: I, on the...

Dec 3rd

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