McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero. - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/article...
RT @alexanderchee: By not standing up to a crowd booing a gay American soldier, the GOP candidates showed not one them was as brave as a gay American soldier.
"Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton is excited to announce that he’s been working on a new album. Artificial Heart will be his eighth studio album and is set to debut this fall. The first track off the record, “Nemeses,” features The Long Winters’ John Roderick on vocals. Listen to the track in the player below."
- Keith Pelczarski
Really nice information visualization from Flowing Data on how much space it would take to fill a city with the entire population of the Earth at different densities.
- Keith Pelczarski
"Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for dieting at age 5 and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23. As our cultural imperative for girls to be hot 24/7 has become the new normal, American women have become increasingly unhappy. What's missing? A life of meaning, a life of ideas and reading books and being valued for our thoughts and accomplishments."
- Keith Pelczarski