Monday, August 31 gave rise to...



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Sunday, August 30 gave rise to...

"I’ll tell you what I want them to say on mine. I want them to say, “Boy oh boy, he was old. God damn, he was old. Fuckin’ old."

[NYMAG - LORDS OF DOPETOWN]

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Saturday, August 29 gave rise to...

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Friday, August 28 gave rise to...

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Tuesday, August 25 gave rise to...



[Cockney cash machine initiative draws mixed reaction from Londoners]

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Monday, August 24 gave rise to...

"Various 'gangs' at the prison are trying to recruit Madoff while some inmates regularly cook 'sandwich wraps' for him at their cells."

[madoff dying of cancer, fellow inmates say]

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Sunday, August 23 gave rise to...

Microsoft Should Step Up Font-Rendering Efforts. Linux and OSX Are Both Better-Looking In This Area.

[should i use gdi++ in windows?]

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Saturday, August 22 gave rise to...

thug boo

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Monday, August 17 gave rise to...

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Sunday, August 16 gave rise to...



[note: the o.g. version is pretty cool too]

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Saturday, August 15 gave rise to...

A sock monkey is a toy made from socks and fashioned in the likeness of a monkey. These stuffed animals are a fixture of folk art and kitsch in the cu

lture of the United States and the culture of Canada.


[A sock monkey is a toy made from socks and fashioned in the likeness of a monkey. These stuffed animals are a fixture of folk art and kitsch in the culture of the United States and the culture of Canada.]

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[via cldfx c/o one of those social news aggregate applications: Toy Camera / Transformer - Voltron Starshooter 110]

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Friday, August 14 gave rise to...

I'm really glad they took ed mcmahon and not leslie nielsen.

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[QUICK: What's Your Favorite Thing About Today (T.HANKS)]

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Well Yeah, There *Are* Really Terrible People In The World and Slate Magazine *Will* Publish Pretty Much Anything.

Dear Prudence,

I have done something so vile that I can't stand to look at myself in the mirror. I have a younger sister who is stunningly beautiful, while I'm rather plain by comparison. Growing up, my boyfriends all lost interest in me once they set eyes on her. When I was dating the man who is now my husband, I was afraid that the same thing would happen. As a preventative measure, before he even met her, I told him that she slept around a lot and as a consequence had contracted HIV. Needless to say, he never showed any interest in her. Several years and two kids later, my husband is always asking about her health. She's even asked me why my husband always seems so concerned about how she's doing. He's the sensitive type, and I know that he worries about her. I want to come clean, but how can I explain such a horrible lie?

[slate magazine - I told my husband that my sister has HIV. But she doesn't.]

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Wednesday, August 12 gave rise to...



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Thursday, August 6 gave rise to...

I wish I was making this up.

Psychologists have long known that people enjoy belonging to insular and self-congratulatory social networks. Behavioral economists know that people love the idea of easy money enough to do some really fucking stupid shit.

Here's the gist, quoted from the website:

New to followe.rs?
This is how it works:

...Oh, and you get PAID!

Very few of us, however, seem to understand that joining this meta-network will devalue the meaning of "a lot of friends" on an already silly and useless web service.

That, and shouldn't it be a lot harder to convince people to put their credentials into a couple of submission fields at some random fucking website? Well apparently not -- not when the lure of easy money is involved.

I mostly love that this is essentially an automated endless circlejerk. And, I also love that people think this is, somehow, going to make them money. I hate that it's taking advantage of a few basic human weaknesses in a debased manner, the surest sign of a scam. The only one getting paid from this is probably the developer, who charges a dollar per invite to the system. That's a meager sum for just one user, but twitter has millions of users, thousands of whom might actually care about something like this and be inclined to spend a dollar on it. It adds up to an enormous scam for the guy getting paid at the end.


Half of the Internet is porn, the other half is Ponzi-esque schemes.

[followe.rs]

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Wednesday, August 5 gave rise to...

It is the middle of shark week.

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Tuesday, August 4 gave rise to...

The Skunk Ape or Stink Ape or Swamp Monkey is a hominid cryptid said to inhabit the Southeastern United States, from places such as Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Arkansas, although reports from the Florida Everglades are particularly common. It is named for its appearance and for the unpleasant odor that is said to accompany it. According to the United States National Park Service, the skunk ape exists only as a local myth. Reports of the Skunk ape were particularly common in the 1960s and 1970s.

[wikipedia: SKUNK APE. also: cryptozoology.]

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Monday, August 3 gave rise to...

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Sunday, August 2 gave rise to...

Also Included in the List: Ice-nine, Melange, Kryptonite and, uh, Supermanium and Atmosphereum.

Cheddite, n. The result of a college prank where a student placed a chunk of cheddar cheese in a powerful cyclotron. The resulting material was dense, black and produced a powerful energy field when exposed to electricity. This field could be used to flip a spacecraft through enormous distances virtually instantaneously when incorporated into a Cheddite drive unit.

Impervium, n. Material of which the doors of Scrooge McDuck's money bin are made, according to Carl Barks. Also, the material out of which darksteel is made. An element named impervium is also in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, used by Krang to power a force field generator.

[wikipedia: list of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles]

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Saturday, August 1 gave rise to...

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