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- 17 Dec 2008
- 10:30am EDT
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links for 2008-12-17
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(via Kottke)
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Those public works projects His Holiness the President-Elect Barack Obama (peace be upon him) to rejuvenate the economy have been tried before. In Japan. For over a decade. A quick look at the Japanese economy will show that it worked like a charm.
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Design firm MadebySix sent a Christmas card to friends and colleagues, featuring a well-designed eggnog recipe.
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The wife of former Deputy Chief Minister Chand Mohammed of the Indian state of Haryana (both recently converted to Islam) reacts angrily to a reporter's cheeky question testing whether the conversion was a desperate plea for attention. Too bad a very relevant cry had to come in _this_ circumstance.
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Consider this the last little burst of fire from the burnt-out chassis of the McCain '08 campaign.
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Searches for Tweets that can be sung to the tune of "Camptown Ladies". Doo-dah.
- 10 Dec 2008
- 10:04pm EDT
- Music
let's pull the curtains down and leave
This will be pretty close to my off-to-India top10.
1) Brooklyn (Go Hard) • Notorious OST • Jay-Z feat. Santogold
2) Roll the Credits • Writer’s Block • Peter Bjorn And John
3) Hate • The Greatest • Cat Power
4) London Half Life • Grow Up and Blow Away • Metric
5) Where My Heart’s At • Tales Of The Forgotten Melodies • Wax Tailor
6) Spill Your Guts • Cherry Kicks • Caesars
7) Dónde está la Playa • You & Me • The Walkmen 
Every Moment • Out of the Shadow • Rogue Wave
9) Freddie’s Dead • Superfly • Curtis Mayfield
10) Sweet Darlin’ • Volume One • She & Him
- 6 Dec 2008
- 10:30am EDT
- Uncategorized
links for 2008-12-06
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Two Milwaukee neighborhoods are meeting to discuss a local legal tender, giving city officials who barely understand how to make revenues exceed expenses the opportunity to dabble in (probably illegal) monetary policy. This can't end poorly. . . *coughZIMBABWEcough*
wu-tang financial
First Jay-Z and now the Wu. “Because you and your fam can’t be relying on wankstas like Smith Barney.”
[via Merlin Mann's Kung Fu Grippe]
- 5 Dec 2008
- 10:30am EDT
- Uncategorized
links for 2008-12-05
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Literal geography. (via Kottke)
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The continued, heartbreaking collapse of what was once Southern Africa's breadbasket and an economic workhorse. As one of the commenters notes sarcastically, at least Mugabe isn't white!
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It's a thing of beauty. I'd call for bacon, but y'know, it's the Carnegie Deli. So perhaps turkey bacon.
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"Yeswecanhopechange" meets "reality". I really hate when that happens.
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Really, why not?
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Photos of creative people in their natural work environments. There are an awful lot of really expensive lofts in here. (via Swissmiss)
- 4 Dec 2008
- 1:20pm EDT
- Music
jay-z (feat. santogold) – "brooklyn (go hard)"
Jay-Z, Santogold, Brooklyn, and a type-o-licious video. What’s not to like?
Jay-Z on iLike – Get updates inside iTunes
Nothing. That’s what. (Track via Pop Tarts Suck Toasted; video by Evan Roth, whose dream just came true.)
- 4 Dec 2008
- 10:30am EDT
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links for 2008-12-04
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The article includes some comments from Jeff Dowd, the original Dude, on why he chose White Russians
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Geographic correlations between state statistics and Google searches. It's like they stuck an IV of black tar heroin directly into my godd*mned jugular. I may never get work done again.
- 3 Dec 2008
- 10:30am EDT
- Uncategorized
links for 2008-12-03
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Illustrator Christoph Niemann draws the long story of his love affair with coffee.
- 2 Dec 2008
- 10:30am EDT
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links for 2008-12-02
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McDonalds opens up a chain of "Quarter Pounder" stores in Japan with no logo (though a logotype remains), and no choices other than two extra value meals: Quarter Pounder with cheese and Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. (via Design Observer)
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Deepak Chopra seems to think America's happy-molecule production shortage has something to do with 20 retards gunning down innocent civilians. In other news, he isn't thinking enough happy thoughts to keep me from wanting to punch him in the face.
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In which movie covers get the same attention to design detail as books. (via Kottke)
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More awesome design ideas from the crazy folks at Muji. I particularly like the straw-straw for humor and the precise stapler for my alleged OCD. (via Kottke)