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Links for 5.13.10: 100 Tips for More Interesting Headlines
*Money: Wow. Buzzfeed takes $8M in funding. I have a lot to say about this in my professional life. But very little to say about this on the listenerd. *Housing: Perhaps Yoko Ono’s butt wallpaper is...
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Video: What if Twitter came to life…again?
Here’s the Criterion Collection II, the answer to the unasked question: What if Twitter came to life? It was brought together by @poeks and @sween, and it’s worth the click-through (as I noted on...
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Links for 6.21.10: Links for today, abs for tomorrow.
*Social reading: Since I got hooked on the Kindle for iPhone, I’ve become obsessed with the possibilities of social reading. I won’t go too deeply into it here – mostly because everyone I mention this...
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Links for 6.27.10: Summertime, and the abs are not so easily obtained
*Anatomy: Rasputin’s penis has its own Wikipedia entry. Entry. Heh. [via] *Religion: Dudes. The Swedenborgian national convention was held here last week. Please read up on Swedenborgianism, as there...
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Links for 7.5.10: I had a large chocolate malt yesterday.
*Liberty: Forensics on the Declaration of Independence show that at one point, Thomas Jefferson crossed out the word “subjects” and replaced it with the word “citizens.” Good lord, to have your drafts...
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Links for 7.12.10: How to improve one’s abs?
*Food: Carl’s Jr. has a foot-long hamburger. THAT YOU CAN EAT. *Surfing: Do you want to hear what Herman Melville had to say about surfing? How can you not? [c-monster] *Local: The best place to live...
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Links for 8.3.10: Sometimes you’re the abs, sometimes you’re the lasagne
*Animals: So apparently Lapham’s Quarterly has been killing it like Theodore Roosevelt lately. Check out the list of animals the president bagged. *the listenerd does not condone hunting, though he...
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Links for 15 September 2010: Are “date conventions” outmoded?
*Note: The question in the headline is a rhetorical one. *Health: Ganja yoga = Marijuana + Meditation. It almost seems like you could put ganja in front of anything. [coudal] *Bluegrass: Noted banjo...
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Literary writers talk about Twitter, Facebook, Google…
Literary writers – what an awkward term in the subject line. I’m not really sure what to call them, though. Literaturists? -[Addition:] I should, of course, include Alexis Madrigal’s Atlantic essay in...
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Links for 11.10.10: A day that will live in infamy
*Note: I don’t know how to say this politely, so I’m just going to say it: I’m tumblring over here. *Business: Umair Haque – of Havas Media Lab – talks about how Strategy Can Do Better – “hen you read...
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Links for 12.10.10: The way of all flesh
*Delirium in prose: It seems like there’s been a wealth of compelling writing floating around in front of my eyes in recent days. This thing from Pitchfork Reviews Reviews goes three different ways on...
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Links for 1.19.11: I am losing my hair.
*Books: Bob Dylan signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write six more books. I liked Chronicles: Volume 1 a LOT more than I thought I would. *Questions: Is Kanye West the Don Draper of hip-hop?...
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