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Feb 21st

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This year, I made no New Year’s resolutions during New Year’s. Some big changes happened, and I really needed to pad myself with a few weeks’ worth of time before I could wrap my mind around goals. This blog became little more than a sporadic tap of the “Reblog” button — which is fine for a Tumblog, but I’d really like to show some neat things instead of only...

Feb 16th

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Friends and followers: Save for the occasional reblog, I have neglected this blog. Big changes have been underway, but rest assured, cool things are coming.

Feb 2nd

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Jan 26th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 13th

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Minty Fresh 2.0: My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick... →

pauliophonic: darcibastiaan: My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other… This makes my blood boil.

Dec 7th

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Dec 6th

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Dec 5th

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Dec 5th

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Dec 4th

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Dec 4th

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“Imagine, if you will, a Venn Diagram composed of the following sets: Coders....”

– HiLobrow on whale.fm (via robertogreco)

Dec 2nd

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Nov 29th

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Nov 28th

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Nov 27th

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Nov 26th

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Nov 25th

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Nov 23rd

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Watch

This old lady got pepper sprayed by the police. Listen to her story; she lived through Goebbels in Germany. Her attitude is heartening.

Nov 20th

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Nov 20th

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Nov 20th

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More important news that no one will hear -...

wilwheaton: iheartchaos: Well shit, that’s fucking sad. The Western Black rhino of Africa has officially been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Good night, sweet rhino species. We’re sorry if we fucked things up for you. Read More Well, this fucking sucks.

Nov 12th

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Nov 10th

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Nov 5th

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Oct 31st

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A Murder of Crows →

I hadn’t heard of the New Caledonia crows or their meta-tool use before watching this Nature documentary. I knew corvids were smart, but never at this level. Watch this if you love birds.

Oct 17th

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Oct 15th

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Stream of consciousness

See if you can follow my train of thought today (I’m paraphrasing in all instances): 1. Eat a kiwi after my morning run. Notice how the seeds surround a whitish center throughout the fruit. Make mental note to research kiwi. 2. Find out that kiwis are officially kiwifruit, but that name is actually a marketing strategy. It was renamed in the 1950s because the original — Chinese gooseberry —...

Oct 14th

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