April 2012
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Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD | Psychology Today →
nedhepburn:
I do – quite genuinely – love how America pumps its citizens full of drugs as children and then gives them guns and inferiority complexes when they don’t grow up to be rock stars and movie stars or a Kardashian. It’s like we’re actually living in the first twenty minutes of an apocalypse movie and Morgan Freeman is narrating this.
Not saying we should all move to France – I’m just...
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"A client is involved in a hit-and-run? The firm... →
“I would tell people: ‘Some day I’m going to have grandkids, and I’ll want to...”
– The Guardian interviews the inventor of the e-mail attachment on its 20th birthday. (via onthemedia)
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Apparently, the racist water balloon incident from... →
I can see why Young & Rubicam would rather distance themselves from the scene and the story. But the truth is they don’t have to: before she joined Obama’s financial reform commission, Ann Fudge served as chairman and CEO of Y&R.
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On the matter of The High Line
I introduced someone to the High Line today, thusly:
Originally the elevated railway extended freight rail service directly to the warehouses and slaughterhouses (hence the meatpacking district’s name) on the lower west side. Some track actually went through buildings for unloading purposes. (This elevated railway was actually a replacement for street-level tracks down the west side which had...
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Aggravated pimping is the new "it" crime/charge.
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The Suitcase →
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McDonald's Fabricates Awkward Internet Meme With... →
urbandictionary:
Clearly, the word #Shamrocking has great potential for being misused—and apparently already has one truly unsavory existing meaning.
You know. That thing? Where four midgets with oompa-loompa wigs surround you? And they dance a jig and strip off all their clothes to the tune of Jump Around? And then they pee all over you and their pee is green?
It’s totally gangster.
Is it wrong to just sit and admire a bicycle that...
If so, I don’t want to be right.
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