March 2011
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There have probably been few other times it has... →
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““Park Circa helped me communicate with my neighbors, and suddenly I...”
– Take Your Parking Space with You :: Home :: Park Circa Mobile App for Peer-to-Peer Shared Parking
“I’m sure that phones and tablets will have improved enough by 2016 to make...”
– The future of mobile gadgets: How many will we carry? What will they look like? What will they do? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
“our devices’ deeper integration with the Internet will change your life...”
– Will the Web have a place in a world full of apps? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
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“If recurrent stillbirth rates are so low as to be too insignificant to raise...”
– Hope with a Heartbeat / With worry a constant companion, the author embarks on another pregnancy, post-stillbirth | Page 8 of 10
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Liz Taylor, Magician's Assistant - NYTimes.com →
I feel lucky to have crossed paths with them. She was wonderful and he was wonderful. To envy them you have to be nuts.
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“The battle over gentrification in the Tenderloin was fought in the 1980s.
The...”
– Twitter would move Tenderloin forward
What Happens When Indie Rockers and Their Fans Go... →
Out back, the bands smoke between sets, near a clown fashioning balloon hats. I run into Cassie Ramone and wonder if, by participating in the cruise, she’s setting herself up to be mocked. She swats the question away. “Maybe because my parents are immigrants, maybe because I grew up poor, but I love mid-twentieth-century versions of luxury,” she says. “That’s why I love ranch houses with carpeted...
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Elizabeth Taylor Was Late to Her Own Funeral --... →
“Workers Benefit Fund
Walk in the Black Forest
World Bank Forum
Worldwide...”
– WBF meaning - Acronym Attic
“Wow. Never knew that plecostomuses made sounds. This is amazing.”
– ▶ Hydrophone Recordings of Dolphins, Shrimp Feeding, and Hypostomus Plecostomus Fish by RichardDevine
“If only he had come up with some feasible mechanism beyond the experimental...”
– Aspartame toxicity. Not. (via outofcontextscience)
“it may be that the equivalent figure in a football team - the quixotic ‘number...”
– cityofsound: Design. Architecture. Football. (via Instapaper)
“Apparently the right answer to “Are you OK in the exit row?” is NOT “I will make...”
– Twitter / Mike Monteiro: Apparently the right answe …
“During the touring and promotion for Speak & Spell, Clarke began privately...”
– Depeche Mode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palm Springs Hotels : Ace Hotel →
“[Mayor Daley] built so many parks [in Chicago] that Midwestern nurseries ran out...”
– Chicago: America’s Hottest City - Newsweek
“unlike cats at night, not all squirrels are gray”
– Black squirrels are mutants but not thugs (via outofcontextscience)
Q&A: Devo answers your questions! - Pop Candy:...
Wow, was it ‘77 or ‘78? I remember it because Northeast Ohio was under a blanket of snow about 30 inches deep. At that point, everybody in the band had quit their day jobs just to be totally dedicated to the band, so people were letting us sleep in their living rooms or wherever we could sleep.
We got a call from Richard Branson — we were all in our 20’s back then. He...
“participants were more likely to solve an escape-from-tower problem if they...”
– How thinking for others can boost your creativity (via outofcontextscience)
“Every time a squirrel heard a recording, Mateo took a blood sample from it.”
– Squirrels’ bodies react differently to warnings about different predators (via outofcontextscience)
Eat a bear liver every few weeks and scurvy will... →
The social center of Burfjord is the small service... →
“Of course, dinosaurs were the most charismatic creatures to perish”
– Did Dinosaurs Die Out Because Males Couldn’t Find a Date? (via outofcontextscience)
“A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height...”
– Comments Page: Balloon stunt in S.F. draws anger, criticism
