March 2012
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Jawnzilla →
Is it bad that I want the real Jawnzilla logo to be a godzilla wearing shades balancing a brick of hundreds on his head?
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Mega Millions Math: Probability of No Jackpot...
You would like to figure out the approximate probability that there are no jackpot winners for the Mega Millions. On March 27, 2012 4,715,569 tickets from the total pool of tickets were winners. Approximately 1 out of 40 randomly chosen tickets are winners. Therefore we can approximate that 40 * 4,715,569 = 188,622,760 total tickets were sold. But wait, you have a 1 in 175,711,536 chance of...
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What Baseball Does to the Soul →
By COLUM McCANN NY Times Published: March 30, 2012
IT was long before baseball ever enchanted me, and long before I ever knew anything of the Yankees, and long before I learned that a pitch could swerve, yet it came back to me, years later, sitting in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium, a curveball from the past.
It was 1975. I was 10 years old. I stood onboard a ferry in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. I...
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Useful Japanese Expressions Recommended By The...
I’d like to go on a bullet train. Shin-kan-sen de i-ki-tai no des ga
Where do I buy a ticket? Kip-pu wa do-ko de ka-e-mas ka
Thank you. Ar-ri-ga-to
Can I get a sleeping berth? Shin-dai-se-ki wa a-ri-mas ka
Please? Ku-da-sai
O.K. Hai
Is this the train? Yu-ki no den-sha wa ko-re des ka
What? Na-ni?
O.K. Hai
Excuse me, is this seat free? Su-mi-ma-sen, ko-no se-ki wa ai-te i-mas ka
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“So many people ask me about it but honestly I don’t know. Shit just became a...”
– Bryan “Baby”/”Birdman”/”Stunna” Williams explains the #birdmanhandrub (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
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The Demise of the Blowjob →
By: Geoff Dyer, Esquire April 2012 issue
The blowjob has fallen on hard times. Or, to put it in the form of a crude question, who can really get it up for fellatio these days? Back in the 1960s and ’70s, fellatio was all the rage. Its curative powers are powerfully conveyed by the moment in John Updike’s Bech when the protagonist’s mistress tries “to bring his weakling...
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“For now, I miss the grit and grime of New York. It is real and raw, and the...”
– Why Branch Is Moving Back To New York City | PandoDaily (via buzz)
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The Brain on Love →
By: Diane Ackerman NY Times, 3/24/2012
A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally transforms you.
All relationships change...
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“I’m not a foodie, I just like what I like,” she says. “Yes, I know, it’s just...”
– The Young Foodie Culture — New York Magazine (via buzz)
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“America. From Nuremberg on, no country has invested more in the development of...”
– All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
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“Civilization is no longer a fragile flower, to be carefully preserved and reared...”
– Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss
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“What skills did you gain from architecture school, or working in the...”
– Evan Sharp, Co-Founder of Pinterest
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William Gibson on eBay, watches, and obsessions →
Mechanical watches are so brilliantly unnecessary.
Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time, and high-end contemporary Swiss watches are priced like small cars. But mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They’re pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they’re comforting precisely because they require tending.
And vintage mechanical watches...
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The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love
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What Comes After the Hipster? →
Unlike some earlier subcultures, hipsters generally don’t claim that title. It’s more commonly used as a pejorative, that nevertheless ends up describing a fair number of young educated urbanites living all over the US. (This is why I can laugh at the endless parade of hipster representations on Portlandia, because, while never having been to Portland, I recognize those characters in other people...
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The Case Against Google →
People don’t trust Google with their data. And that’s new.
Google is a fundamentally different company than it has been in the past. Its culture and direction have changed radically in the past 18 months. It is trying to maneuver into position to operate in a post-pc, post-Web world, reacting to what it perceives as threats, and moving to where it thinks the puck will be.
At some...
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