Two orphaned baby owls. So cute!

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The New Yorker on how The Daily Mail became so powerful in Britain.

Hunter S. Thompson's piece (I will not call it an elegy) on the death of Richard Nixon.

On average, 24 horses die each week at racetracks across America. Good god: I had no idea it was that bad. This is a very disturbing article: TW for ( Read more... )

Brain Pickings has some fabulous old PSAs to encourage reading.

Quick, someone page Kristen Bell: we've got a new baby sloth in the house.

Charlie Jane Anders interviewed Michael Chabon about his work on John Carter (of Barsoom): here.

LB Gale has an interesting look at gender & character death in four major genre franchises. ::facepalms at ( Read more... )

Some longer reads:

The Guardian discusses our love of ruins.

The AV Club has an interesting discussion of the tension between installments and episodes in series television. (I did see the obligatory name-check of Babylon 5 in the comments.)

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Brian Dettmer makes amazing sculptures out of books. WOW.

Via Slacktivist: Mike Rowe on the ( Read more... )

Baby cougars! Awwww.

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Unbuilt Washington, a new exhibit at the National Building Museum about ideas for the capitol which never were implemented. (I love the National Building Museum, it's such a gorgeous place.)

I've been hearing a bit about Delia Sherman's new novel, The Freedom Maze. It's one of those premises that could go terribly awry ( Read more... )

Noted for later reading: danah boyd on privacy, in the context of a WSJ debate on internet privacy.

And a review of Michael Lewis' new book on the economic crash.

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XKCD takes on money. Which is fortuitous, since I just started listening to Making Money, by Pterry.

Dowsing is analyzed by Bad Archaeology. I suspect I know what his conclusion ( Read more... )

Halloween postcards from the early 1900s: here.

BoingBoing presents the candy hierarchy. Pretty cool.

Hey, the potato changed the world. But I bet you knew that.

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New York Magazine has an oral history of Ms. (the magazine).

Artist and professor Hasan Elahi is on the FBI's tracking list (for no reason they ever really specified). So he ( Read more... )

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So my sister got a new puppy last night but I forgot to bring my camera over so you'll have to just imagine how cute she is. Instead you can have these Sumatran tiger cubs. Awwwww.

Kate Hopkins appreciates the smell of coffee. So do I: pity I can't drink it very often.

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Aaron Bady talks about Hemingway in Teddy Roosevelt's Africa. ( Read more... )

Linked by way of Bruce Schneier: security confirms interfering with entertainment quality. Turns out that the reason so many movie theaters aren't switching out their 3D lenses on their projectors is because the projectors are completely locked down for fear of someone stealing the digital data (i.e., the movie). Security concerns are ruining the ( Read more... )

Wow: after CEOs have daughters, their female employees' salaries go up.

Huh, today is Richard Farina's birthday. He would have been 74 today.

There is no better way to start the day than with Kate Beaton commenting on the Charlie Sheen mess, via Fargo. So awesome.

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So apparently there's an ongoing meltdown over at Slacktivist, because Fred ( Read more... )