February 2012
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Plotto →
Calla France
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Satorialist submittal
Hello Scott,
I love the vintage photos on your blog. I found these of my father while digging through old photos for a project. One is of him in Vietnam before emigrating to America by boat (on which he almost ran out of food and water only to be to saved by an American ship just in the nick of time) and the other is of him in New York a few years later. There seems to be the same sense of...
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January 2012
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Our Sake
Although I was holding back my tears all day, reality did not hit me until I came home and Sake did not come greet me at my car and walk with me into the house as he usually does. I remember when we first went to adopt him; he was a sweet yet rambunctious little kitten. He always wanted to be free: became extremely aggressive as a young male cat and persistently vocal as an older indoor cat. ...
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Color Categorized Books
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Can't Wait!
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Simple Song
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David Hume →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KG5s_-Khvg
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The artificiality of time →
Until the transcontinental railroad, there were no time zones. Each village kept its own time, based on its own steeple and its own high noon. And why not? There was no good reason to go through the pain of coordinating the clocks.
Factory work forced us all to know exactly what time it was. The shift couldn’t start until the foreman and the workers were ready to go. Synchronicity paid...
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Trouble Coffee Company →
Maybe I’ll stumble upon this place while in the Outer Sunset someday…
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Spoonflower: Print custom fabric →
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What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits →
People, when they perform a behavior a lot, outsource the control of the behavior to the environment.
David Neal, psychologist, Duke University
December 2011
23 posts
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FriendDA →
Done! →
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Sandwich Video →
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COLORZ France →
Awesome!
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Cockles
From Dictionary.com:
To cause a feeling of affectionate happiness: “The thought of his
grandmother was enough to warm the cockles of his heart.”
I looked up cockles of the heart and this ad showed up:
warm the cockles of one’s heart
Heartworm Prevention It’s that easy. One tablet, once a month, provides protection. www.sentinelpet.com/Heartworm
Algorithmic fail.
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Wiki Donation
Oh, the guilt that comes along with a logical, succinct, and finely crafted message.
Dear tri,
Your donation kept Wikipedia on the web last year, and if it’s okay with you, I’d like to ask you for another.
Click here to make a secure $10 donation right now.
Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff.
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3 Ways Google's Majel May Out-Chat Apple's Siri... →
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Earthworm
Darwin’s The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through The Action of Earthworms outsold the Origin of Species. Say whaaaaat?!
Supposedly they are important. Some fun facts from the Stuff You Should Know Podcast: How Earthworms Work:
3k+ species
there is a 22 foot long earthworm (shudder)
worm poop (broken down nitrogen) is more nutritious than the food they eat
their “stomachs”...
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