- Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers.
The NYT writes about D&D conveniently as they have just launched a new edition of the game.
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- Hospital Podcast MC Fats “We Gotcha†special.
This is probably one of the bests podcasts put out by Hospital Records so far. I didn’t realize they were trying to raise awareness about MC Fats recent battle with diabetes. Like your drum and bass soulful? You should grab these two albums to support MC Fats, the original soulful dumb and bass MC: We Gotcha 1 and We Gotcha 2
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- Beyoncé Voters.
All the single ladies. Now put your hands up. (The title comes from a Fox news panalist calling single women who voted for Obama Beyoncé voters.)
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- "Speaking up every. F*cking. Time"
A profile of the (outspoken) Shanley Kane. (She responded—before the article came out.)
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- Worn away.
Laurin Döpfner took an industrial sander to objects like logs, electronics, a camera, and a walnut, shaved off 0.5 mm at a time, and made a time lapse video of the results.
It’s so triply to watch.
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- What Happens When 350 Musicians Meet For The First Time In Brooklyn?
This is great.
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- They are rebooting Sailor Moon.
Crazy. It was such a weird show. I still have a sailor moon pencil case that i’ve owned since the 90s.
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- Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater - NYTimes.com
Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill†the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,†according to department reports.
Well, that’s one reason to stop investigating an organization.
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- Toronto G20, 4 years later.
Remember the G20? That thing sucked.
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- 1994: The year the T-dot broke.
EZ on the Motion is the god damn best. (Also Saukrates went to R.H. King and Agincourt. What?)
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- Speaking Lies for Power.
The Toronto daily newspapers are terrible.
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- A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son.
Of course they did. America is a mess.
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- MetaFilter discusses tiny swimwear.
My friend Prasanna sent me a picture of the sideways man thong thing, and I thought it was a gag, but apparently not. It seems like it’d be easier to just go to a nude beach at some point.
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- Football and Peace.
#For a Visa commercial, Errol Morris gathers a number of Nobel Peace Prize winners and nominees (including Lech Walesa) to talk about how important it is for their countries to beat the crap out of the other countries in the World Cup.
- The jeers started when she began talking about men doing their share.
#Yesterday, while delivering a speech on the importance of supporting working mothers, Ayaka Shiomura, a member of the Tokyo government assembly was heckled, with jeers from other lawmakers demanding to know why she hadn’t gotten married, and demanding to know if she was able to bear children.
- Ebooks for all.
Craig Mod visits Ghana to learn how Worldreader’s projects to get eBooks to the masses is working out.
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- "Where the Fuck Are All the Guards?!"
An Ex-Con Reviews Orange Is the New Black.
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