December 2010
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Beating boredom: how to pass time on the road
December 8, 2010 - 10:03AM
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Need to beat boredom on the road? Learn some card games. Photo: AP
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but travel’s pretty boring.
Not the actual destinations – they’re great. It’s all the waiting around to get to those destinations that’s the real problem, and unless you’re...
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Horning gets his Zizek freak on over at PopMatters, in response to the recent NYT article on Pandora. Manages to turn the question of musical taste into a social commentary. Lah dee dah.
via o-song
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…the German psychologist, along with colleagues from the Netherlands and the United States, has discovered a creative way of decreasing the temptation to indulge. Simply gaze at the delectable confection and think to yourself: Wouldn’t this make an excellent doorstop?”
Yep. A tasty doorstop.
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“let’s touch base about that offline.”
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It’s not Twitter or Facebook that’s reinventing the planet. Eighty years after the first commercial broadcast crackled to life, television still rules our world. And let’s hear it for the growing legions of couch potatoes: All those soap operas might be the ticket to a better future after all.”
The World of Sounds →
In listening to music, do only sounds matter? Is it true that sounds alone, considered in abstraction from their sources, are relevant to appreciating the aesthetic significance of music?
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For Queenslander-ites, Nicholas Bolton has become something of a folk hero. I doubt there will be any giving to the poor going on, but dang - I can’t help but admire the guy. Nice to see he’s getting a bit of international attention… Go Gen Y - you greedy, loveable bastards…
(Briefly, he made $4.5m attempting to take down Brisbane’s toll road developer. With an...
Muphry's law →
bestofwikipedia:
Muphry’s Law is an adage that states that “if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written”. The name is a deliberate misspelling of “Murphy’s Law”.
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I managed to get through this without any logical inconsistencies, though I think I came very close on a few occasions. This surprised me, as I’ve always thought of my personal beliefs in the big G as a big jumble of contradictions and non sequiturs that I’ve never really given much thought to fixing. Maybe I got through it unscathed because I’ve given these things little...
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Skeptic Lawyer with a very comprehensive look at polygamy in light of Keysar Trad’s infamous Age article earlier this month.
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The very best of the worst on Etsy.com.
My favourite so far is the lady attempting to sell her husband’s painting of The Rat Pack (debatable, however) for USD $35,000.
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I’ll post something vaguely intellectually stimulating soon. Promise. In the meantime, enjoy the ephemera.
“A youthful error? Yes, perhaps.
But he’s been punished for this...”
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