February 2012
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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Wikipedia, the... →
Go here to hear the earliest sound recording of a human voice, that of printer, bookseller, and scientist Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, singing the folk song Au Clair De Lune, made on April 9th, 1860!
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Have you seen this? You throw the following into Google’s search box and hit search:
sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5
Do it. You’ll be pleasantly surprised (unless you’re a math genius, then you’ll be bored and disdainful).
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Republicans against the Violence Against Women Act →
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So the Violence Against Women Act is up for renewal this year, and surprise of all surprises … not a single Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize the act. Not a single one.
Why? Well, the editorial in the New York Times puts it this way:
The main sticking points seemed to be language in the bill to ensure that victims are not denied services because...
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I’m going to eat so many grapes tonight, I’m going to piss wine.
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“When our parents sent a letter in the mail, nobody was allowed to open it to...”
– I Don’t Care About The Entertainment Industry’s Profits, And It Enrages Me That You Think I Should - Falkvinge on Infopolicy (via rafer)
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5 Haiku Looking For A Drink
by Douglas Robert Turek
. counting is mere numbers bitching and stickling kill haiku dewdrops adhere not to rules add and divide primitive to blindly follow monotheism denies variety even the lines can be rogue from thumb to pinky then again and two others thus do birds carve songs? no academic or poet prisons and guards concrete can’t drown it words will slip their chains occasionally...
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Simple Minds - I Travel
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“A Christmas Carol was published 52 years before H.G Wells’s Time Machine, and...”
– Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Dickens: A Man Integral to Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tor.com (via scienceetfiction)
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Romance Of The Obedient Citizen
by Douglas Robert Turek
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I saw her at the docking port. She was filling out forms for an attendant. Her cube had apparently not cleared yet. Tunicless, she wore old fashioned shirt-and-pants. Her skin was real, not nupact coating. I bet her bones were real, too. A real lady, one who could read and write without an obsecretary glommed onto the side of her head. Her hair was blonde,...
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New Order - 5-8-6 (Peel session version)
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I hate exercise. I wish I could replace it with grilled cheese and get the same results!
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beccarocks:
cindry:
Press play…do it!
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Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke
A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place your sight can knock on, echoing; but here within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze will be absorbed and utterly disappear:
just as a raving madman, when nothing else can ease him, charges into his dark night howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels the rage being taken in and pacified.
She seems to hide all looks that have ever...
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“All those years of animatronic Presidents at Disney World primed the voters of...”
– http://bit.ly/Aryeju (via coyotesqrl)
It’s true.
I’d vote for CyborgLincoln.
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Cocteau Twins - Rilkean Heart (Twinlights EP...
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Alan Lomax Goes Digital
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annadevries:
A NY Times article that made me very excited.
Yes, this.