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One morning, comedian Josh Kornbluth looked in the mirror and saw a face that resembled Benjamin Franklin’s, and with Franklin-esque ingenuity he turned that face into a cottage industry. Kornbluth wrote a monologue, but that wasn’t complete without a costume or a theme song. His show puts Franklin in today’s world, and eventually got Kornbluth [...]
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From my friend Nav: Fallujah in Pictures “underlines the fact that this war, like all wars, is a hideous and savage endeavor against mainly poor, oppressed people.”
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I saw one of these on a dealer’s lot this weekend. Damn that’s a cool car! Ford brought back the muscle-car-style front, replacing the crappy 90′s rounded version with a grill that looks hungry for asphalt. Henry — we gotta go test drive one!
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NPR’s All Things Considered just covered the death of the cartographer behind the Robinson projection. Arthur Robinson taught cartography and physical geography at the mother of my soul from 1945 to 1980. Robinson was born in 1915 and died on October 10th. In 1963 he was commissioned by Rand McNally to make a map that [...]
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Brazil’s Gilberto Gil, the granddaddy of tropicalismo music, is also the godfather of a huge shift in that country’s attitude toward open source everything. While Microsoft and other entrenched factions are putting up a fight, Gil and others realize the concept of intellectual property is only as useful as the benefits we all can reap [...]
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Author of “The Rape of Nanking”, Iris Chang was found dead in her car of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday about 80 kilometres south of San Francisco. She is credited with singlehandedly bringing pre-WWII Japan’s brutal massacre of thousands of Chinese to the English-speaking consciousness. Too bad one so young is added to the [...]
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Frank found this interactive painting of a woman losing her skin on K10K.
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Somebody made a handy chart of red and blue states organized by IQ. I guess laughing is better than crying… Update: This page calls the above a hoax, and offers an chart based on average SAT scores.
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Harry Shearer says it pretty damn well: I know most Kerry supporters are still stunned/sad today, so maybe you might want to set this note aside for reading over the weekend (after checking out the important gig dates at the bottom!!!). Well I remember liberal friends four years ago being upset with my critique of [...]
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Good morning America. How are you? Hungover like me? It’s a shame only half of you are as disappointed as I am. For the rest of you, here’s what you voted for: Seeing the world as America’s vast backyard and waste dump Killing poor, oppressed people for living under an enemy regime Weakening the separation [...]
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