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Saturday Morning Links
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…
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Letting Go By Making Stories: Philip Connors Tackles Suicide
In 1996, Phillip Connors’ brother unexpectedly committed suicide. Now, over a decade later, Connors is getting closure through the completion of a 22,000 word account of his family’s experiences called “So Little to Remember”. The piece, which tackles more than…
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Health Care Links
“Health Care Reform: Where We Are and What Happens Next” How the Baucus plan punishes single people, especially single moms. Joe Biden to move to the frontlines of the health care debate with major address. Michelle Obama says health care…
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Morning Coffee
OMG new dinosaur!!! (which helps solve evolutionary mysteries of the t-rex, or something, whatever). The History of Jobs in America (a graph). “On the asking of favors from established writers.” I’ve often wondered what the internet and digital technolgy has…
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Imagine No Religion?
The other day I was walking down Mission Street in San Francisco and I saw a billboard on the side of a passing bus that read, “Imagine No Religion.” It was done in the style of stained glass, deliberately meant…
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Morning Coffee
This is sad, but it is also important: friendship. Normandy: Then and Now by French historian Patrick Elie. (via Metafilter) Borrowing something? Lending something? This might come in handy. Why would someone put salt on ice cream? Because. (Also, try…
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Are you a Lonely Writer? Meet The Owls.
Writers are always lamenting the lonely journey of being in a room by oneself armed with just words and coffee. Other artists seem to enjoy the benefits of collaboration, why not us? Enter The Owls, a self-described “site for collaborative…
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Disturbing Journeys: A Look Inside Sex Trafficking
The recent Tides Momentum Leadership Conference featured innovators and activists from around the world passionate about discussing current challenges and striving to forge a more equitable and sustainable society. One such activist, Mimi Chakarova, has spent an extensive amount of…
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Morning Coffee
Was today a good day? In Bb is an interactive and collaborative music project that is more than a little bit mind blowing. San Francisco was recently host to an unseasonable thunder storm, that is nothing compared to the 8…
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Morning Coffee
The world’s largest cache of 2,000-year old Jewish rebel coins found in cave. (via @marklamster) “Elegant women are very rare.” Iran’s first electric vehicle. Parisian pop-up restaurant. Even more old coins found buried in an English field. (also via @marklamster) Seed…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #2
I just don’t trust privatized health care, Doug. I’ll just keep putting Neosporin on it and we’ll see what happens. And I thought a Brown Recluse is what you called a Mexican shut-in! Christ, lighten up, Doug. If you’re getting up,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #1
THE VENDING MACHINE IN MY SISTER’S APARTMENT BUILDING LOBBY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the vending machine in the lobby of my sister’s apartment…