June 2010
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
Nej
Patrick: If you type with your right hand over one key, everything looks like swedish. check it out:
Uf tiy ttoe wutg tiyr ruggt gabb iver ibe jet ceverttgubg kiijs kuje swedusg
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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“There is not a single existential crisis or self-congratulatory epiphany that...”
– ‘This American Life’ Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence (onion) (via jesse)
Jun 29th
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Panera Co. to open more pay-what-you-wish eateries →
The idea for Panera’s first nonprofit restaurant was to open an eatery where people paid what they could. The richer could pay full price — or extra. The poorer could get a cheap or even free meal. …Its cashiers tell customers their orders’ “suggested” price based on the menu. About 60 to 70 percent pay in full, Shaich said. About 15 percent leave a little more and...
Jun 29th
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Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Dear NYC,
See you at 6:15am when our Greyhound bus arrives! Love, Adrienne 
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
Overhearing a Plattsburgh cover band
Me: Oh no, that harmony is painful.
Andrew: It's called a tritone. Or a try-tone. He's really trying.
Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
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“Though the event is intended as an exploration of mass creativity and shared...”
– City Tunes Up With Pianos (WSJ)
Jun 24th
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“My biggest concern was one hour before the wedding when I looked out on the...”
– Gulf Oil Spill Putting Slimy Wet Blanket on Beach Weddings (Consumerist)
Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old...”
– Lady Gaga (Rolling Stone)
Jun 22nd
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Bexley Monk owners decide to close restaurant June... →
(via CH)
Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By... →
“Do you know how difficult it is to get everyone situated, tuned, and focused for a vuvuzela concert?” said Juilliard-trained vuvuzelist Donald Frederick Gordon, a noted soloist and renowned performer whose boyhood dream of playing vuvuzela in every stadium in South Africa is now at risk. “These brash, inconsiderate outbursts of impromptu athletics have made us a laughingstock...
Jun 21st
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“His new technology…is called Swype, and it allows users to glide a finger...”
– Swype Reinvents Typing on Touch-Screen Phones (NYT) Will all of this auto-correction and spelling eventually cause us to completely lose the ability to spell and punctuate?
Jun 21st
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Jun 18th
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“Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this summer won’t have much to do with...”
– Gawker Talk about a wedding dictated by parents. The wedding planning books give more advice about tactfully dealing with parents than CR and I need, but don’t even approach the amount of tact required for a situation like this!
Jun 18th
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Eating Brown Rice to Cut Diabetes Risk (NYT) →
I now see why CR made black beans and rice for us last night, and stressed how great it was that he made BROWN rice, even though we always make brown rice.
Jun 16th