December 2011
The Case of Loving v. Bigotry →
capucha:
In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom. Their crime: being married to each other.
Look at them. Happy and beautiful.
It wasn’t a decade later my parents wed in Boston, and the world had already changed enough that they were invited to live in a schnitzy town. It was not without its problems—progress can find obstacles...
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“The 2011 color of the year, PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle, encouraged us to face...”
– Pantone Color of the Year for 2012: Tangerine Tango PANTONE 17-1463 (via abbyjean). I DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO EAT IT OR ASK IT TO DANCE.
On the matter of stretchy pants
More from the Out of Towners:
…We had a good time here. The waiters were young Indian men in pressed red dress shirts and black slacks and were, as the review down in the lobby later revealed, “extremely attentive.” Jason, during the meal, I don’t mind telling you I unbuttoned the top button of my pants. The food was that good. Joan asked if I needed to buy stretchy pants...
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Change their minds
and change the world.
I like...
Out of Towners
Dave: Jase, you don't understand.
Dave: Where we live, people don't put a lot of thought into an outfit.
Dave: It's just not high up on the list of priorities in Virginia.
Dave: But when we come here, the suits! The boots!--
Me: Dave, if I may?
Me: Let me be perfectly clear.
Me: Every last one of us--
Me: Man woman gay straight--
Dave: You all appreciate women in boots.
Me: Yes. We dig the boots.
Me: In fact if there's one uniting factor among New Yorkers in winter
Me: it's the boots.
Dave: They're very groovy.
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“What most users don’t know is that the new features being introduced are all...”
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Betabeat (via syntheticpubes: Facebook is a cancer)
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A Record Store Where Nothing Is For Sale →
oliveargyle:
At the new Record Store in Seattle, you can’t buy anything. But you can listen to any of the thousands of vinyl records on display there. Visitors are encouraged to engage in the lost art of music foraging in a bricks and mortar store. There’s nothing virtual about it, no Pandora or Spotify to curate, though there will be guest DJs. Presented by Seattle Art Museum, in...
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6h057 replied to your photo: Who the fuck is this guy?
Who the fuck is this guy?
Who the fuck is this guy.
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so, is transabled like people who wear glasses but...
l3fan-o-rama:
cause i wanna punch all them motherfuckers in the face.
I just laughed like Betty Rubble.
Holy shit Jeopardy was awesome.
I watched it standing up.
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At the Help Desk
Jerry: (phone rings) That's Di. You should pick up, it'll be funny.
Me: Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?
Di: (on speaker phone) Favorite what? Who is this?
8-year-old girl within earshot of the phone: PINK AND PURPLE!!!
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
– Walt Whitman (via journalofanobody)
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Here's Why The Apple TV Might Be Awesome And... →
rafimama:
No wires. No boxes. No remotes. No “cable.” No “broadcast.” No “channels.” No “networks.” No “content selection screens.” No “navigation.” No “Netflix.” No “YouTube.” No “Hulu.”
Just what you want to watch.
And so we’re left with filaments, feathers of conversation from which to extract meaning and intention.
When Steve Jobs said, “I’ve finally cracked...
WatchNYT video: Dori Frame on prosopagnosia, or face blindness.
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6h057 replied to your photo: 36 Hours: Cambridge, MA What the article fails to…
I don’t really go above 23rd St.
I would embrace this excellent policy wholeheartedly were it not for several humans (and some animals) who call the vast region north of 23rd street “home.” And I have determined they are critical to my human development.
That and there’s this awesome taco...
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Mikael-Colville Andersen: Why we shouldn't wear... →
viewsfromthebus:
this TEDx conference video looks at an interesting opinion on the harm bicycle helmets do to ” bike culture”.
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If you'll excuse me,
superdoofus-stratodrive:
I’m about to sit in a chair in a pressurized chamber and fly through the air at hundreds of miles per hour and watch movies while drinking wine for a few hours.
Vaya con dios, kiddies.
Show off.
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Strong Sense
dearoldlove:
I was waiting to be seated when a guy passed by me. He smelled just like you. How is it that after almost 3 years, I can’t remember how you sounded or how you felt, but I can remember, as if it were yesterday, how you smell?
It’s physiology (and then chemistry). The olfactory bulb is part of the brain’s limbic system; it has easy access to the amygdala (the...
The Classical Jazz Quartet - Bedouin Dreams
Again with the sneakers. →
It wasn’t just any sneaker they were after, but the Air Jordan 11 Retro Concord, a version of the shoe Michael Jordan first wore in 1995 and was promptly fined by the National Basketball Association for failing to conform to the league’s dress-code rules. Once the model was made available to the public, it became a big seller, its black-and-white tuxedo design sometimes substituted for dress...
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