January 2009
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December 2008
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$25 and Under - A Spot of Tea in NYC →
I need to hit up these delicious looking tea shops with my London friends not only for nostalgia’s sake.
More Tea Goodness!
How Caramel Developed a Taste for Salt →
I love salted caramel and anything sweet and savory like chocolate covered pretzels and honey roasted peanuts. :)
Business School Influence: The five stages of food popularity espoused in the article is basically just the product life cycle lol.
EVERY 30 gig Zune died last night →
marco:
(via jeffbaum)
This is hilarious. A software bug made every 30GB-model Zune crash last night at 2 AM, and they won’t reboot properly.
edit: I’m still laughing about this a half-hour later. The various comments everywhere are hilarious.
Lol Y2K9.
The Presidential Pickup Game →
“It would be a sad, sad day” if Mr. Obama scrapped the bowling lane, says Jim Sturm, president of the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America and owner of two bowling centers in Charleston, W.Va. “I think his political analysts ought to take a long look at removing [it]. It could have a long-term impact on his political prospects.”
A threat from the...
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
– Steven Wright (via youwillbeassimilated)
Hamlet (Facebook Newsfeed Edition) →
Here’s Pride and Prejudice, inspired by Hamlet.
“A little Snow was here and there
Disseminated in her Hair —
Since she...”
– Emily Dickinson A little Snow was here and there
Done with final exams and papers. Last night in London… bittersweet.
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do...”
– Pablo Picasso
Fish Head Art
youwillbeassimilated:
By Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard. Discovered with the help of Viktor, images culled from around the internet via Google.
I don’t know whether to laugh or be grossed out, especially at the ones where the fish are eating other marine life or killing them on an assembly line.
Here is a slideshow with more photographs.
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Condom sales rise through credit crunch →
A spokesman said: “We’ve noticed a real uplift in condom sales recently. Our conclusion is that people are staying in more and romancing rather than getting a table for two at a restaurant.
“Further proof is our tea light candles are up 50 per cent, champagne 20 per cent and oysters eight per cent and slippers and dressing gowns 22 per cent.”
Gosh, now I know how those...
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What you read in your spare time is very influential and even makes present yourself in a different way. I’ve been reading news with a more neutral to even a feminist slant, as opposed to a clearly male-oriented news aggregate websites such as digg, and I feel like how I did in high school… indignant about inequality in today’s society. I wonder what happens if my source of...
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It was on this day in 1926 that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie disappeared from her home in Berkshire, England. Her abandoned car was found in a chalk pit seven miles from her house. The whole country was fascinated, and the story got lots of media attention. Police and ordinary citizens alike organized huge search parties. Then, 11 days later, Agatha Christie was found in a luxury hotel....
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“There’s no question that drug prohibition has been every bit the failure alcohol...”
– Radley Balko (via azspot) (via marco)
Also, drug prohibition brought with it a thriving black market and the rise of organized crime (not the mafia but street gangs and drug lords). The government is also losing out on a good source of tax revenue.
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Condom Advent Calendar... →
Merry Christmas!
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“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs (via thresca)