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05.17.2012
U-bahn, by Chris Glass

U-bahn, by Chris Glass

05.07.2012
Sometimes with books, as with farts, it’s better to just hold it in.
Nina Strohminger, eviscerating Colin McGinn’s The Meaning of Disgust

05.05.2012

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05.02.2012

04.26.2012

O RLY?

Obama on busting medical marijuana growers:

I can’t ask the Justice Department to say, “Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books.”

Yeah, that never happens.

03.27.2012

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03.17.2012
Spring is in the air, so here are a few photos I took in the State Botanical Garden of Georgia: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Spring is in the air, so here are a few photos I took in the State Botanical Garden of Georgia: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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03.14.2012

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02.19.2012
[Most World of Warcraft players] understand that their problems can’t be banished just by reading a few words from an enchanted parchment—even if we feel that’s how the world ought to work. I live in perpetual hope that legislators will someday grasp this point.

01.23.2012
Note that these two concepts are pretty much exact opposites.

Note that these two concepts are pretty much exact opposites.

01.21.2012

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01.20.2012
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment.

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01.18.2012
This map exhibits remarkable structural features that delight topologists.
Rida Farouki on the Hopf map

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01.17.2012

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01.16.2012

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