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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Scheming boxes
Scheming boxes:
Photo by @blawndee. This might be the best instance of pareidolia I've ever seen.
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Photo by @blawndee. This might be the best instance of pareidolia I've ever seen.
Tags: pareidolia
Monday, November 12, 2012
Music: Newswire: Jeff Mangum announces 2013 tour dates
Music: Newswire: Jeff Mangum announces 2013 tour dates: 
Saturn must be in a once-in-a-lifetime alignment with Mars or something, because Jeff Mangum—the Santa Claus-Jesus-Bigfoot hybrid of acoustic indie rock—has made himself manifest and announced that he will, in fact, be going on tour. The frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel will begin his trek on Jan. 9 in Buffalo, New York, making his way around the country via performances at a number of noticeably smaller venues.
While Mangum has been notorious for his reclusiveness (the press release for the tour emphatically clarifies that he "does not do interviews and photos are prohibited at the shows"), he has been performing fairly consistently ever since resurfacing in summer 2011. And although a post on the Neutral Milk Hotel website reportedly called the tour the performer's "last U.S. acoustic tour," the site has presumably been revised since, because the "last" part has now been removed. So, there may ...
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Saturn must be in a once-in-a-lifetime alignment with Mars or something, because Jeff Mangum—the Santa Claus-Jesus-Bigfoot hybrid of acoustic indie rock—has made himself manifest and announced that he will, in fact, be going on tour. The frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel will begin his trek on Jan. 9 in Buffalo, New York, making his way around the country via performances at a number of noticeably smaller venues.
While Mangum has been notorious for his reclusiveness (the press release for the tour emphatically clarifies that he "does not do interviews and photos are prohibited at the shows"), he has been performing fairly consistently ever since resurfacing in summer 2011. And although a post on the Neutral Milk Hotel website reportedly called the tour the performer's "last U.S. acoustic tour," the site has presumably been revised since, because the "last" part has now been removed. So, there may ...
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Do amnesiacs dream of Tetris?
Do amnesiacs dream of Tetris?:
io9updates:
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By Esther Inglis-Arkell
This was an actual experiment. And the results of it showed that the Tetris Effect - the fact that those who played Tetris for long periods of time tend to fit shapes together in their dreams and in the rest of their life – is a learning tool.
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The People's Bailout: Occupy is forgiving personal debt
The People's Bailout: Occupy is forgiving personal debt:
Occupy Wall Street continues to show that it's more than just a simple protest movement. They have been doing amazing work with Hurricane Sandy relief and now there's Rolling Jubilee. Here's how Rolling Jubilee works:
This has my vote for idea of the year. Well, until the debt sellers catch on and either raise the price due to demand or refuse to sell to untrusted brokers.
Tags: business finance Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street continues to show that it's more than just a simple protest movement. They have been doing amazing work with Hurricane Sandy relief and now there's Rolling Jubilee. Here's how Rolling Jubilee works:
OWS is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it. As a test run, we spent $500, which bought $14,000 of distressed debt. We then ERASED THAT DEBT. (If you're a debt broker, once you own someone's debt you can do whatever you want with it - traditionally, you hound debtors to their grave trying to collect. We're playing a different game. A MORE AWESOME GAME.)
This is a simple, powerful way to help folks in need -- to free them from heavy debt loads so they can focus on being productive, happy and healthy. As you can see from our test run, the return on investment approaches 30:1. That's a crazy bargain!
This has my vote for idea of the year. Well, until the debt sellers catch on and either raise the price due to demand or refuse to sell to untrusted brokers.
Tags: business finance Occupy Wall Street
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