January 2012
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“If Newt Gingrich is the smartest guy in the room, leave that room.”
– Joe Scarborough (via politicalprof)
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WatchFlanders.
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Marcella Roggeri - Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie
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Penguin Webcam - Mystic Aquarium →
Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut has a group of penguins on webcam. They are very cool (no pun intended). I’ve been there before and I’ve seen them frolicking about, but seeing them living behind the scenes is awesome.
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Why is Bach boss?
leadingtone:
Suddenly I had to stop—I had screwed up a turn in the harmony and wasn’t moving toward the goal of G minor anymore. I had embarked upon a Neapolitan odyssey which was now gone quite awry.
“Why do you suppose,” my teacher asked, breaking the extremely uncomfortable silence, “that Bach can be so difficult to memorize?” We were working on the C minor keyboard partita, BWV 826.
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Piano Music
Sometimes it is supremely frustrating to have a piece of music stuck in your head when it’s an instrumental piece, there are no lyrics to look up, and you lack the musical skills to play it, even in a faulty or broken form. I love music, and I am awed by and in love with but occasionally cowed by its total abstractness. Humming a few bars doesn’t work on search engines, and I doubt...
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SOPA Is Defeated, But New Internet Bill Gains... →
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This is your theme song for today. Do with it...
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Good day today. My daughter turned four and had a great birthday. Her party isn’t for a few weeks, because booking a place for a kid’s birthday party is complicated stuff these days, but we had her grandma and aunt over and a great time was had by all. My wife made an excellent meal. I am a grateful and lucky man. Life can be really good. It doesn’t take much sometimes. :)
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Notes
by Douglas Robert Turek
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I will write notes to archaeologists on metal plates and
secrete them in my pockets for when I die.
I will tell them lies.
I will write of the moon colonies we established in 1970
and how an angry Congress made them illegal
and our astronauts returned home, sad.
I will tell them that for a while in the eighties, all major
political decisions were decided by yacht...
“I was at the movies yesterday and before the movie started they had this long ad...”
– Mindy Kaling (via flordemort, megalong) (via swansoning) (via nom-chompsky) (via stfuconservatives) (via runeybadger) (via shoebian)
the world: hey man we've got some really serious problems like global warming and mass economic failure and riots and genocide and aids and cancer and your healthcare system is shit so maybe we should get to work
us government: sit down i have to stop people from sharing things online
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The Association - Cherish
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youveescaped:
The Association — Never My Love...
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Save the Internet | Join the fight for Internet... →
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REPORT: News Networks Ignore Controversial SOPA... →
Big News is all about Big Money, and therefore can no longer be considered journalism. When the same media outlets who claim to be reporting the news are themselves the supporters of a bill surrounded in controversy and then they fail to report on the bill or the reaction it has caused, they simply aren’t news anymore.
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SOPA 'n Salad →
thelarch:
Click it.
Read it.
Laugh.
Pass it on.
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BBC News - In pictures: Sopa and Pipa protests see... →
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We’re a year and two days away from Inauguration Day: January 20th, 2013. Take a good look around and see who you do NOT want to be in charge a year from now. Vote, and if you’re not registered to vote, now is an excellent time to do it.
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Andy Samberg, Neil Gaiman, Trent Reznor, Aziz... →
A bunch of creative types have spoken out against SOPA and PIPA.