- Many thanks to explosivo for showing me Pandora. It’s a make-your-own radio station that learns your preferences. It reminds me of the late lamented Firefly in its uncanny ability to find music you like given a set of known favorites. Very cool.
- I hope against hope that Joshua Clark’s “reporting” from NOLA (as reported by fengi is some kind of satire. But it’s probably not.
- KILL THE CLAW!
- Via cruel.com the amazing news that abortion is often the result of failed sodomy. No idea what the mechanism is here, even after reading the article. I should have paid more attention in my Freedom Science classes.
- Photoshop contest: If goths ruled the world. (via The Null Device.
- Prostitutes decide to become marketers; punch line not necessary.
- Just what we needed, burning bullets (via New Scientist and defensetechblog).
- We will have now have shorter, stupider “reader-friendly” editions of the great books that idiots don’t read anyway!
We don’t need another Nero
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Reader’s Digest Condensed what?
I really liked Tale of a City, 200 Feet Under the Sea, and Three Nights.
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Other faves
Ten Minutes of Solitude
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Catch-2
The Grapes of W
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Ice-3?
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Also
Fahrenheit 45
And there was that movie, A Few Angry Men
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Almost Caught in the Rye
Unbeabrable Lightness of Bees
The Winter of Our Dis
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The Love of No Oranges
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The Magnificent Three-and-a-Half
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A Small Amount of Jest
Lord of A Ring
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The A
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Oranges Are The Only Fruit.
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Dammit, now you’ve made me think of the old “winter of our discount tent” SA thing. I’m going to be giggling quietly to myself all night now.
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Ten Minutes of Solitude
I smell a porn spoof.
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no good but i wanna play too
A Light on August 1st
1200 Main Street #5, USA
The Satisfactory Gatsby
Six-Day War and Peace
Naked Snack
The Foyer of Solitude
To Hear a Mockingbird
Less Than Less Than Zero
Root
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Re: a bit late, but i wanna play too
The Old Man and the Pond
It Takes an Apartment Complex to Raise a Child
Paragraphs in Courage
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Alice on Wonderstreet
Crime and Pun
A See You Later to Arms
This is too fun, I promise I’m done.
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See also:
last.fm
Gnoosic
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I’m not near my ssh keys right now, but remind me to send you a brilliant Russian video synopsis of Anna Karenina. Running time: 38 seconds. 8^)
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What about those 30-page large-print “revised” copies of Huck Finn and Treasure Island that they have in the dentist’s office?
I mean, it’s been done.
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The fact that it’s not for children or a specialty audience is sort of disturbing; it’s as though Readers Digest is going to be the new standard.
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I’m kind of baffled at the idea of making a condensed version of Proust. On the one hand, it’s already in a nearly irreducible state; like a complicated but elegant equation, removing any single part would change the meaning. On the other hand, you will have just accidentally created a real-life version of a famous Monty Python sketch. Good show, lads! On the other, uh… leg, I’m all in favour of any guy who can summarize Tolstoy like this:
“Noble people, with names that all sound vaguely like Kalashnikov, dance and gossip and do evil things, sometimes all at the same time.”
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