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Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by

Friday Fun Link – Forgot a Song? Just Hum It!

Midomi is a really cool site that lets you hum or whistle the melodies of songs you’ve forgotten and it will try to provide a match. I was

“There’s a bear…strung up. I assume murdered. Maybe a suicide. I dunno.”

Christopher Walken read’s “Where The Wild Things Are“. Probably a fake but either way, wow, just wow.

Music Monday – “When all is said and done/We’re not the first to be here/There’s nothing new underneath the sun.”

A co-worker told me about this really cool Nashville-based, jazz-funk band called “Here Come The Mummies” who apparently play in costume to hide the fact that they’re all

Ten Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

This not a metaphor (okay, maybe the last one.) (via MetaFilter)

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years)

Friday Fun Link – Rdio

Like I suspect is the case for a lot of people who came of age in the 1980’s, I would spend hours making mix tapes when I was

What Is The Most Epic Photo of All-Time?

A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we

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