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The results of a brain scan performed on Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who had a stroke seven years ago, raise the chances that he is able to hear and understand.

There’s a post (that I can no longer find, unfortunately) on the hilarious Tumblr Sexpigeon (SFW, I promise) that features a man on the street, slouching over his smartphone, face angled far down, features invisible. The caption, something to the effect of: “What a brave new world for posture we live in.” The advent of portable technology has brought with it a range of new behaviors, both virtual and physical. Two recent projects take on the IRL side of how we interface with our contemporary devices.

The Hip Bump from Curious Rituals

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LL Cool J. 1985. Live in Maine. (by Kodiak Starr)

We dropped off the face of the internet for a while, due to vacations and holidays and work and general laziness. But now we’re back! This past Christmas and New Year’s we visited family in the Pacific northwest, and seeing how well decorated their homes were has inspired us to make one last push. We’ve declared 2013 the year of new furniture. Good-bye Ikea left overs from the previous owners, hello furniture that actually reflects our taste.  After all, what’s the use of knocking down and re-doing every wall in your house if the furniture looks like student housing left overs?

The furniture that came with the house

 So for the foreseeable future we’ll be blogging about our evolving interior design.  And of course, Otto will make appearances as well.

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Like a lot of folks right now, I got slapped down and made the flu’s bitch for the past couple weeks. It was unseemly and awfully rude, but now it seems like I’m slowly getting back to business. All that time spent in bed tossing and turning with fever dreams and paralyzing full body anxiety brought on by being completely useless in general when I HAD SHIT TO DO, gave me a great opportunity to feel still more awful since I started obsessing over the shameful progress of our kitchen renovation.

What has happened kitchen reno wise? I changed the light fixture. So, great progress since 2011.

Hey now, I did buy the Ikea Numerar Countertops about a year and a half ago. So I tried. I mean, they’ve been sitting in our garage gathering dust and disappointment, but whatever. No big deal. I’m not a loser.

*I’m kind of a loser.

(images via here, here & here)

When I step into the kitchen I get so pissy looking at those forever unclean looking turquoise linoleum counters that I dream that my concentrated hatefulness would somehow make them get gone and wood appear. Then facts ruin it. I don’t have the time or budget or willpower to update the kitchen right now. Sad face.

For now, I’m bookmarking this great tutorial from a few years ago about installing and treating Ikea’s wood countertops as a way to bone up on what we need to do. But before anything gets demoed? I need a sink. And tile. And a faucet. And I need help. So much help.

Consider this a Shame Post to get my shit together and make our kitchen look just a little less funkytown, you know, before another year slips by.

OH, and if you guys have used these counters yourself and have any install tips or treatment advice, please feel free to share. Personally, I don’t mind if the wood gets worn and dinged and used looking. I like character and the imperfections don’t kill me. Plus, the price for these was right for my budget and this house in general.

Three-times Pulitzer winner complains that artistic intention is being overshadowed by the requirement to sell tickets

He's a Broadway stalwart with a revival currently reaping massive critical acclaim on the Great White Way, yet the American playwright Edward Albee has dismissed New York's main theatre district as "usually junk".

In a television appearance on Sunday, the three-time Pulitzer prizewinner explained that he had little time for Broadway productions because commercial potential overshadowed artistic intention.

"It's all about not doing the best plays but doing the ones that will sell the most tickets," Albee said on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, adding that he rarely attended such shows as a result. "I used to go see more, since I'm one of the voters for the stuff," he continued, referring to his role as a Tony award voter. "Now I just lie."

Though a significant proportion of Albee's plays, including A Delicate Balance, The Lady from Dubuque and his infamous flop, a musical adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's, were produced on Broadway, he has in recent years preferred to premiere work off-Broadway. His latest play, Laying an Egg, was due to open at the Signature theatre in February last year but was postponed after a reported case of writer's block. It is yet to make it to production.

However, his 1962 hit Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, last seen in the UK at the Sheffield Crucible two years ago, is doing a roaring trade on Broadway. The 50th anniversary production, which stars playwright and actor Tracy Letts, recently extended its run by a month, following a string of rave reviews.

According to New York Times critic Charles Isherwood, the play set "a new standard for truth-telling – not to mention expletive-spewing – in the commercial theatre" on its first outing, but has lost none of its sting today. "Albee's scalding drama of marital discord still retains the bantam energy and strong bite of his youth," Isherwood wrote.

Asked on CBS what Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was about, Albee replied, "It's about two and half hours, three hours."

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Readers, Yves labored mightily to have the third installment of reporting on “Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews” up this afternoon (Part I; Part II). However, her kitchen cabinet sent her back to revise more. The document is currently leaning a bit too much towards being a legal brief (with sexy stuff like insider documents to leaven it) and needs more work on narrative and structural signposts to make it more accessible. Yves is mundo unhappy, she wanted this up today. It still might go live today, check back mid-late PM. Otherwise, Tuesday.–lambert

Extinction Rates Not as Bad as Feared … for Now: Scientists Challenge Common Belief Science Daily

Egypt’s Morsi declares ‘state of emergency’  Al Jazeera

Egypt: The Rule of the Brotherhood NYRB

The Mirage of the Arab Spring Foreign Affairs

The Revolution Continues Foreign Policy

Mali journalists despair over ‘invisible war’ Al Jazeera

Insight: Poland’s investigation into secret CIA prisons loses steam Reuters

Berlusconi defends ‘good’ Mussolini  Al Jazeera (NT)

Eurovision voting shows strain of economic crisis Nature

With New Constitution, Post-Collapse Iceland Inches Toward Direct Democracy Truthout

Analysis: In Davos, world seeks U.S. engagement Reuters

US faces fresh financial shock FT. Sequestration. Groundhog Day.

A New Housing Boom? Don’t Count on It Robert Shiller, Times. 

The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy Times

In Hard Times, an Instinct to Pack on Pounds WSJ

Marsha Godard, Chicago Mother, Fined Over $3,000 For Son’s Behavior At Noble Network Charter School  HuffPo (Inverness)

Delays by Congress hasten risk that USPS mail delivery could stop Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

US unions’ continued decline masks new forms of worker activism Guardian

Kiriakou and Stuxnet: the danger of the still-escalating Obama whistleblower war Guardian

Making Them Pay (and Confess) Gretchen Morgenson, Times

Just who should we be blaming anyway?  The Economist

Wrangles continue over bank failure plans FT

Financial Market Outlook for 2013 Economic Populist 

Bad pharma: Drug research riddled with half truths, omissions, lies Salon

Battery Charger Aboard 787 Cleared in Fire Investigation Bloomberg

What Nate Silver Gets Wrong New Yorker

In Asia’s trend-setting cities, iPhone fatigue sets in Reuters

PROMETHEUS TRAP (1): U.S. frustrated with Japan’s initial response to Fukushima Asahi Shimbun

Pennsylvania Fracking Wastewater Likely to Overwhelm Ohio Injection Wells Ecowatch

20130120 – Ethereal Islands and Ever-present Oil  On Wings of Care. Macondo from the air.

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Melissa Davis of Catherine + Davis Interior Design tells us how she and her team turned this traditional 5-member family home into a serene minimalist oasis. Before, the compartmentalized space was… Continue reading on Curbly.com

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Book published in 1891 and given to me by @jessamyn. It is also dedicated to "the friends of Georget Egret"

Every day, we love Jennifer Lawrence a little more, as she continues us how much she is both a gorgeous superstar and an everygirl. On the red carpet of the SAG Awards, she was all superstar: You absolutely could not tell she was battling walking pneumonia as she strutted her stuff in a navy Dior Haute Couture gown.

Then, she was the everygirl even as her name was announced as the Best Female Actor winner. The clever way the skirt of the gown was wrapped proved to be a hazard as the bottom was apparently caught under someone’s foot or chair, revealing a gaping seam at her thighs as she hugged her parents and co-stars and stepped onstage.

At the same time, she barely flinched at the wardrobe malfunction and launched into a speech far more poised than Anne Hathaway‘s or Claire Danes‘ shaky acceptances. But to our delight, she again revealed something more everygirl about her: She got her SAG card thanks to a little gig with our very own company, shooting a couple of commercials for My Super Sweet 16 when she was 14. And if you watch the clip up top, which MTV unearthed for the world this morning, you will realize that Jen is a very accomplished actress: She can react to party disasters with aplomb (as she did at the SAGs) or horror (in the ads), as the occasion requires. Please teach us all you know, JLaw.

[Photos: TNT, MTV]

This @mod_105 room erects in 2 hours vine.co/v/bJd2hE0DFAx

— mod105 (@mod_105) January 29, 2013

Vine is the new kid on the Twitter block, giving users the chance to record very short snippets of video in a loop. We think this is the first shedworkingesque one (which happily also features bookshelves) but if you know of others, please let us know. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Chris Brown and Frank Ocean got into it on Sunday night at Westlake Studio in Los Angeles, allegedly over a parking space. I’m going to go ahead and assume that this has been brewing for a little while, since the two have already been at odds before. Last June, Brown tweeted that he was into Ocean’s music and that it reminded him of James Fauntleroy, a songwriter for many R&B acts, including Brown’s ex/possibly current girlfriend Rihanna. I don’t know why that irked Ocean, it’s possible it was because of a past fracas between Brown and Tyler, the Creator, or that Ocean is just the kind of guy who says what’s on his mind — and considering the emotional transparency in his lyrics, he is probably that kind of guy — but Ocean shot back with an immaculate one-two punch, comparing Brown to Sisqo and Ike Turner. Brown called Odd Future small time and warned that the entire Wolf Gang should be prepared to go to war if they ever meet, which seems to be what happened yesterday. Honestly, I don’t know who I’d be afraid of more. With Brown, I’ve seen the photos. With Odd Future, I’ve seen physicality. But here’s the difference, when I saw a member of Odd Future who I won’t name punch a dude it was after he had repeatedly told this guy that he needed to stop the unwarranted touching of a girl in the audience, announcing “I will literally dropkick any of you that touch girls who do not want to be touched.”

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Timbaland is still crying over that $1.8 MILLION watch that went missing two years ago (wouldn't you be?) -- and now he's filed a lawsuit against his insurance company ... claiming it REFUSES to cough up the cash to cover his claim.

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A Secret Service dog tragically died over the weekend while in the line of duty.

The Secret Service dog fell to its death on Saturday night while investigating a six-story parking lot across the street from the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans, where Vice President Joe Biden was speaking, CNN reports.

Federal agents and police rushed the dog, a Belgian Malinois, to a Metairie veterinary hospital around 6 p.m., according to WWLTV. Despite the efforts of the veteranarians, the dog could not be revived.

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Justin Bieber is reportedly being accused of assault... with a Nerf gun.

The incident dates back to November 2012, when Bieber was performing in Ottawa, Canada. The singer and his 3-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister were playing with Nerf guns, when a female security guard working the concert was reportedly caught in the crossfire and hit with one of the foam darts, according to TMZ.

Sources told TMZ that the woman became angry and told the singer's team that she was an employee of the venue. She then filed a police report against Bieber, claiming the pop star or someone else "assaulted her," according to TMZ. It is unclear if the dart came from Bieber's gun, but police have already interviewed some people who were there when the Nerf gun fight went down.

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“Homity pie (cheesy leek and potato pie) Makes one large pie (around 12 inches) 1 batch shortcrust pastry (I used shop-bought)
1tbsp oil
1 leek, halved lengthwise then sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
450g potatoes
25g butter, softened
200g cheddar cheese, grated
2tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
1/4tsp mild/medium curry powder
1 egg, lightly beaten
3tbsp milk”

- Homity pie (cheesy leek and potato pie) | Amuse Your Bouche

It’s been a long time coming but the prequel to ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome,’ is finally going to air on the Syfy channel on February 10th at 9PM EST. The pilot was actually filmed in 2011 and for the next year and a half, the fate of the episode seemed to be [...]

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A man chases his daughter along the pavement, shouting, “NO! NO!” I interpret this as command, panic, condemnation. Then I see that she’s stolen his ridiculous orange scarf. She’s giggling. He’s trying not to giggle. They’re dodging back and forth around a car. Ray Bradbury, interviewed in the Paris Review: “Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.” I’d prefer to accumulate some small observations & see if they imply anything big–or indeed anything at all. Maybe it’s possible to work with that.

That's right, Adolf Hitler. Janet Flanner profiled him in three consecutive issues in 1936. Part one begins like so:

Dictator of a nation devoted to splendid sausages, cigars, beer, and babies, Adolf Hitler is a vegetarian, teetotaler, nonsmoker, and celibate. He was a small-boned baby and was tubercular in his teens. He says that as a youth he was already considered an eccentric. In the war, he was wounded twice and almost blinded by mustard gas. Like many partial invalids, he has compensated for his debilities by developing a violent will and exercising strong opinions. Limited by physical temperament, trained in poverty, organically costive, he has become the dietetic survivor of his poor health. He swallows gruel for breakfast, is fond of oatmeal, digests milk and onion soup, declines meat, which even as an undernourished youth he avoided, never touches fish, has given up macaroni as fattening, eats one piece of bread at a meal, favors vegetables, greens, and salads, drinks lemonade, likes tea and cake, and loves a raw apple. Alcohol and nicotine are beyond him, since they heighten the exciting intoxication his faulty assimilation already assures.

Sadly, access is subscriber-only. (You know who else kept information from people!? Etc.)

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Martyn Cornell took issue with First We Feast's list of the 20 most influential beers of all time and came up with his own list.

I mean, Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye is more influential in the history of beer than Bass Pale Ale or Barclay Perkins porter? Don't make me weep. Allagash White trumps Hoegaarden and Schneider Weisse? (You may not like Hoegaarden or Schneider Weisse, but I hope you won't try to deny their influence.) Gueuze, Saison and Kolsch are such important styles they deserve a representative each in a "most influential beers of all time" list, while IPA and porter are left out? I don't think so. And the same goes for Schneider Aventinus: where are the hordes of Weissebockalikes? Sam Adams Utopias has influenced who, exactly? "Generic lager"? I see where you're coming from, in that much of what has happened over the past 40 years in the beer world is a reaction against generic lager, but still ... And I love London Pride, but it's not even the third most influential beer that Fuller's brews.

I like arguments about beer way more than drinking beer.

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“Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle.”

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Ironic Recipes with No Bun Intended
Authored by Erik R. Trinidad Illustrated by Maurice Murdock Photographs by Erik R. Trinidad Get 25% off with discount code "NFAZL9WC" at FancyFastFoodBook.com! Tired of all those self-righteous food snobs out there, always getting on your case when you just want to enjoy a nice, all-American fast food meal? Well, get rid of those ugly wrappers and cardboard boxes, because it’s time to transform that greasy, processed fare into something out of a fancy five-star restaurant – all without adding any ingredients (except maybe a little organic garnish of course, for that extra touch of irony)! In this book, you will learn how to take your burgers, hot dogs, burritos, fried chicken, pizza, and other popular fast food items and elevate them to haute cuisine – or at least make them look like they are. Sure they may still be bad for you, but you’ll be amazed at how good they can look! Developed by the creator of the original Fancy Fast Food blog that swept the Internet by colliding fast food chains with the gourmet world, this satirical cookbook not only features never-before-seen recipes, but expands into a complete farce on our beloved food culture – from the suggestive plating of dishes to celebrities who look like Chicken McNuggets. So whether you’re a processed seitan-eating vegan or a carnivorous gourmand who loves having geese slaughtered for a plate of foie gras, you’ll enjoy this mashup of food and pop culture – and become the fanciest chef this side of the Golden Arches in the process! “If you thought fast food had to be lowbrow, think again. Not when you can enjoy tapas from White Castle, sushi from Popeye’s, or quiche from Burger King.”
– Randy James, Time “Food porn begets fast food porn, which in turn has come to verge on fast food parody...”
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What have the last two years of modest recovery meant to the growth and redistribution of population among the states? New data on the components of change for states are now available.  In March county level data will permit a more detailed portrait.

For states I present four maps, overall population change, change from natural increase, immigration (net international migration) and internal migration between states.

Population Change

Not surprisingly, most of the states with larger absolute and percent gains continue trends from the last decade: the South Atlantic states from Florida to Delaware, in the South dominantly Texas (both amount and rate), along with Colorado and Washington State as centers of substantial Western growth. But North Dakota, due to rapid energy development, is the prime addition to the “winning” state for growth, with South Dakota following. The District of Columbia had the highest rate of growth,a beneficiary of expanding government growth, and perhaps more importantly, power.

Conversely, low rates of growth, even a loss for Rhode Island and possibly Michigan, characterize the northeast and the south central states.

Natural Increase

For most states, natural increase (the difference between births and deaths) is the largest component of growth. The rates and amounts are significant to overall growth across the west, California still leads in absolute growth, entirely due to natural increase. In contrast Utah and Idaho also stand out for high rates, in part from their Mormon population.  Some slower growth northeastern states do have substantial natural increase, due to their size, including IL, MI, OH, and NY, while NC and SC and especially FL have lower rates of natural increase due to aging of their populations and migration of older people from the north.

Immigration

Total US population growth from 2010-2012 was 5.17 million, of which 3.32 million was from natural increase (8.9 million births and 5.6 million deaths), leaving a substantial part of growth from international migration of 1.85 million. Despite the flak about immigration, the pace has not slowed.

While immigration in the West (CA, WA, HI) of 277,000 remains significant, the  dominant flow of immigrants went to the  Atlantic seaboard states – how old-fashioned! – such as greater New York,  Florida, and increasingly to GA and NC. New York gained 210,000 and Florida 212,000!   Immigration was fairly modest to the interior of the country. This reflects largely the decreasing immigration from Mexico. Illinois (with a gain of 61,000 from immigration) and Texas are both are experiencing slowdowns.  And note that AZ and NM immigration have become quite small.

The highest rate of immigration was to HI followed by NJ and FL.

Internal Migration

The volume of interstate migration was still lower than was typical in the 1960s through the 1990s, but still potent in explaining the growth differential among the states.

The pattern of absolute and relative gains and losses was essentially a continuation of trends over the last twenty years, with net in-migration to much, but not all of the South and to the West, except for California, which grows from natural increase and immigration but loses to the rest of the country. 

Texas, with a net gain of 291,000, easily grew the most, followed by Florida (219,000), then North Carolina (72,000) and Colorado (62000). The highest rate was North Dakota, with net in-migration at 2.6% of the base population, followed by the District of Columbia (2.35%) and Colorado (1.24%). The North Dakota phenomenon is the most remarkable, since it marks an abrupt reversal from decades of loss, and of unknown duration.  In the West, Colorado became the preferred destination, followed by Washington, with Arizona and Nevada less popular than a decade earlier. South Dakota also changed to a small gain due to its strong economy and low unemployment.

Out-migration characterized 28 states, encompassing the entire northeastern part of the country, from Minnesota to Maine, Kansas and Nebraska to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and several states experienced high amounts and rates of loss, e.g. New York, -224,000; Illinois, -156,000; New Jersey, -103,000; and Michigan, -93,000; but the highest rates of loss were for Rhode Island, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. Outside the northeast, the biggest loss, as usual was for California: 104,000.

Differences in Components of Change From the 2000-2010 Decade
Population growth

Overall the rates of population growth, of natural increase, and of international immigration are remarkably unchanged. The perhaps surprising turnarounds towards much greater rates of growth occurred in DC, LA (recovery from Katrina), and  the Dakotas. States whose growth slowed markedly were AZ, ID, NV, NM, and UT in the West (partly due to much lower migration from Mexico), and Georgia. Only RI shifted from growth to a loss.

AK, HI, LA and ND enjoyed increased immigration, while it fell for AZ, CO, NM and TX.  Natural increase grew in ND and DC.  

Internal migration

DC, LA and ND changed the most, changing from losses to gains, and CO and SD had increased rates. Twelve states had lower rates of in-migration: AL, AZ, AR, DE, GA, KY, NV, NC, OK, OR, SC, and even VA – presumably a recession effect. But it was worse for seven states which shifted from gains to losses: ID, ME, MO, NH, NM, PA and VT, and for 3 states with bigger losses: CT, IN and NJ. But then seven states reduced rates of loss: CA, HI, IA, MD, MA, NE, and NY. Obvious explanations for some of these changes do not spring quickly to mind.

What all this shows is that it is hard to make long term projections on the basis of seemingly robust trends over even fairly long periods. Preferences change, economic sectors rise and fall.

Political Implications

Analysis of the 2012 elections have shown that the Obama victory is a consequence of demographic change as the country shifts from a domination of white males to a rainbow coalition of yes, white liberals, mostly urban, but propelled largely by a strongly supportive minority population moving toward a majority. At first glance the maps seem to tell us that growing areas in the South and mountain states favor the Republicans while the declining Northeast was the stronghold of Democrats. Yet it is more complex, since states like Virginia, Florida, Colorado and even North Carolina – all with large and growing minority as well as white urban populations – vote increasingly Democratic.

Richard Morrill is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Washington. His research interests include: political geography (voting behavior, redistricting, local governance), population/demography/settlement/migration, urban geography and planning, urban transportation (i.e., old fashioned generalist).

That afternoon the whole of Lambeth–street after street spread out in the sun–smelled of roasting coffee. I sat on a bench outside St Mary’s, surrounded by the continual groan and thud of traffic at the Lambeth Bridge junction, listening to a thrush as it shaped and defended its territory among the ornamental shrubs. Daisies and dandelions were already out in the grass. At the edge of the path grew lesser celandines, yellow, star-shaped flowers like flat buttercups with eight pointed petals. I had cycled across from Peckham to see the garden at St Mary’s, but it was shut. The light falling across the south flank of the church was almost enough to make up for that; the faint shadows of the plane trees were like the shadows traced on a limestone cliff on a warm winter day. Water the colour of milk chocolate roiling under Lambeth Bridge in the strong sunlight. Tourists blink and laugh. A women on her own stares down over the parapet. They photograph the barges: THAMES & GENERAL LIGHTERAGE COMPANY.

Sybille Bedford, JIGSAW: “To say that Jules, the Julius von Felden of the novel [A Legacy], was my father would be as misleading as to say that he was not. Jules is like my father and unlike; to what degree of either I do not know. My intention was to draw a character in fiction; I used facts and memories when they served and discarded them when they did not.” [p18, my insert in squares.] This is a very adequate description of what went on in Climbers. Bedford clearly feels no guilt. Neither does she feel that definitions–of fiction or autobiography–have been strained. In this she resembles Colette or Pritchett rather than Isherwood, who felt he had to apologise for “lying”; or Edward Upward, who as a young man allowed his identity to become fatally intricated with his own imaginative product, and who to counter this spent the rest of his life transcribing his life like a book-keeper. What is the difference between these two kinds of writer?

During a walk with noise historian Hillel Schwartz, Peter Andrey Smith discovers that parts of Manhattan, which many think of now as quite deafening, used to be even noisier.

"There was a constant flotilla of barges taking construction detritus away from the city, toward the Jersey shore," he said. "All of these Irish tugboat captains probably knew the service staff, and they would be signaling to them, 'Hi, I'm coming by!' But they would be signaling with these huge horns! And they would be signaling late at night, also, to their complement of workers, who were now on shore, drinking heavily in a nearby tavern: 'O.K., time to call it quits!' The number of horns recorded over the course of an evening amounted to thousands. I hesitate to call them toots. They were horn swarms."

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The Brokeoffs - Brain Damage/Eclipse (Pink Floyd) (by lawyer dave)

““The idea of tribes was brought to Africa for several reasons…. It was easier to place people into categories based on perceived divisions of ethnicity than it was to try to understand the multi-layered, fluid identities that prevailed…. colonial authorities found that placing people into “tribes” with “chiefs” was an effective way of creating a political order.””

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John Reader

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Sehr schöner Kurzfilm von Martín Rosete, der einen erstmal mit SciFi abholt, dann mit drei oder vier tollen Twists überrascht und am Ende eine wirklich wunderbare Auflösung hinlegt. Toll!

I-will-not-tell-you-whose voice leads us through three extreme situations that are actually the same… Will you survive?

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Pop Culture Brain | Movies TV Music Web Theater: Did 'Glee' Steal a Song from a College Acappella Group?:

popculturebrain:

Yesterday the web got its first taste of the songs that will be featured in next week’s season finale of Glee. Among them was an all female acappella rendition of Usher’s “Yeah!” The cover is a rousing, empowered track, especially when sung by a female group. All this would have been fine and…