March 2009
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“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking,...”
– Clifton Fadiman
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths...
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A Perfect Crime? Twins Suspected in Spectacular... →
“When police found traces of DNA on a glove left at the scene of the crime, it seemed that the criminals responsible for Germany’s most spectacular heist in years would be caught. But the DNA led to not one but two suspects — 27-year-old identical, or monozygotic, twins with near-identical DNA. German law stipulates that each criminal must be individually proven guilty. The...
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AOL is Dead
Being home has turned out to be a great excuse for me to clean up my parents’ computer for them. They have been using AOL for as long as I can remember, despite paying for high-speed cable separately. Even though I’ve been insisting they get rid of it for years and years, they resisted because AOL was “just easier”. Unfortunately I had to use their computer today, and I...
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Cat Power - Good Woman
I will miss your heart so...
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then, there’d be...”
– John Lennon
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Apples & Tangerines - The Phoenix Foundation
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The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond... →
“In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors,...
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The Kooks - Seaside
Do you want to go to the...
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Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová...
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Watchadamgotterer:
The long wait is over! Prank War 7!
Epic.
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She jogged out of her life →
Hannah Emily Upp suffers from dissociative fugue, a rare form of amnesia that causes people to forget their identity, suddenly and without warning, and can last from a few hours to years. On Aug. 28, she went for a jog along Riverside Drive. That jog is the last thing she remembers before the deckhands rescued her from the waters of New York Harbor three weeks later. (via kottke)