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5-minute flick
Most movies nowadays are just way too long. (Does Captain America, for example, really need to be 2 hours and 27 minutes long?) Here, by contrast, is a wonderful five-minute film (via digg). Tell us what you think …
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Metamorphosis
In honor of Cuban Independence Day (20 de mayo).
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QWERTY art
Pictured below is a computer keyboard monument created by artist Anatoly Vyatkin. This massive sculpture was designed to mimic an IBM PC keyboard. It consists of 86 stone blocks, each weighing up to 1,000 pounds, and is located in Yekaterinburg, … Continue reading
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“Read more”
Pop Quiz: With cable television on one end of the learning spectrum (superficial and shallow) and good books on the other end (deep and thoughtful), which end of this spectrum is the Internet closer to?
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A three-bathroom solution?
The State of North Carolina recently enacted a controversial law limiting the legal rights of “transgender individuals.” The law prevents such persons from using public restrooms that don’t correspond with the gender (male or female) on their birth certificates. (By … Continue reading
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“Letter distribution” (secondary Scrabble markets in everything)
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Requiescat in pace
Update (4/24): Wow! After we reposted a fan video on YouTube of an old performance of “Let’s go crazy,” it took less than 24 hours for the video to be taken down. In any case, we confess that we weren’t … Continue reading
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