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Morning, everyone. Let’s get our geek on.
Get out your checkbook, members of the nerdcore. You can buy Gene Roddenberry’s Mac 128 computer, given to him by Apple.
Erik Loomis wonders why Henry Ford is so revered when he was such a piece of crap as a human being.
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In honor of Governor Mark Sanford and Michael Jackson’s (bless his Indiana soul) favorite holiday, today’s Lonely Voice is devoted to dads
...moreFarrah Fawcett and my mother were born about a month-and-a-half apart, and to my knowledge, that’s all they have in common. Fawcett’s death has been overshadowed by Michael Jackson’s, which was inevitable, but tragic in my opinion, since I think Fawcett’s story is the more important of the two.
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Artist Simen Johan trucks in the demystification of artful dodging. Regardless of what medium he works in or the subject he chooses at any given moment, whether it is live llamas, roadkill fox, or children, forcing us to look behind our rationalizations is foremost on his mind.
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I’m coming up on the end of a semester, so forgive me if this morning’s links seem a little obsessive about alcohol. For starters, what does the US have in common with Fiji, Palau and Micronesia? We’re the only non-Muslim countries with an across-the-board drinking age of 21.
Released in Europe and Asia in the late 80s but only on home video in the United State, here’s a portion of the movie Michael Jackson Moonwalker directed by Will Vinton (creator of the california raisins).