Month: November 2009
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Bukowski’s “The Japanese Wife”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR53Hr_6xNo?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Bukowski’s “The Japanese Wife” as read by Tom O’Bedlam All I can say is I have not gotten to the knife-brandishing part of the marriage yet.
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0MtvJZU920?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] Whip it good! Pearl Jam show up in costume to a gig on Halloween. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Fred Hoyle has ingeniously speculated that, if we had been born with eight digits and therefore became accustomed to octal arithmetic instead of decimal, we might have invented binary arithmetic and hence electronic computers a century earlier than we did (since 8 is a power of 2). pp. 87, Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on…
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Lovely little interview with John Hodgman: famous writer and minor television personality
Back when I was a freelance magazine writer, I wrote a profile of a sculptor. … I was in his studio, and he had a sculpture of, I think, Robert Kennedy. … And we were across the studio, and he said, “How does that look? Life-size?” And I said yes, it seemed life-size. And he…
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Jesus Venn diagrams are funny! Via rands.
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Jesus Venn diagrams are funny! Via rands.