Zimmerman Family Values. George Zimmerman's family is a mess. But there's some sad fascination there, too.

Why Cooking Sucks

Profile of Amanda Blackhorse, the Navajo woman targeted by the Washington football team's lawsuit.

What we talk about when we talk about what we talk about when we talk about making. Painful but good piece about art and ( Read more... )

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The Game Is To Be Sold: The Long Legal Battle For "Skee-Ball"

25 Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of the ‘Seinfeld’ Premiere

The CD Case

Forget Red State, Blue State: Is Your State "Tight" or "Loose"?

Lance Armstrong in Purgatory: The After-Life

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A reenactment of the internet-famous 'what is a photocopier?' deposition

The Trials of 'Entertainment Weekly': One Magazine's 24 Years of Corporate Torture" Like the author of the piece, I read the magazine cover to cover for years. Many years. There are still stacks of them moldering in my parents' house. Sigh.

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Everything Is Broken. Computer security and how nobody really knows how any of it works.

A Man, A Photo, And The Long Search To Find The Person In It. Sports Illustrated tracks down the subject of a Humans Of New York photo.

The Search for Psychology's Lost Boy. Tracking down the child in a psychology experiment from 1919.

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Has The End of the Banana Arrived? A second variety of banana might go extinct due to fungus. Banana monoculture never learns.

Schmadiohead Frank Turner talks about Radiohead and the musician's role as entertainer.

The 'If I Fought This Rapper, Would I Win?' Chart This has been making me laugh for literally three days. /o/

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My brain is still weird today. I'm off Twitter because it's distracting me even more than foggy adjustment-brain is on its own. I have a lot of work to do and I'm really not making much progress because I just want to stare into the fog. Hm.

Here are two links I would've just Tweeted if I could handle Twitter:
Mitt Romney's Favorite Gesture: Jazz ( Read more... )

This description of my Meyers-Briggs type (INFJ) is indeed a summary of meeeeeee.
creative, smart, focus on fantasy more than reality, attracted to sad things, fears doing the wrong thing, observer, avoidant, fears drawing attention to self, anxious, cautious, somewhat easily frightened, easily offended, private, easily hurt, socially uncomfortable ( Read more... )

For your perusal.

Jim Hines on boundaries. You have the right to say no.

Is anybody boring enough to be Mitt Romney's running mate?

Update on AO3 performance issues.

Is it fair for chefs to cook other cultures' foods?

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