January 2009
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Stuff White People Like #120: Taking a Year Off →
Regardless of how a white person chooses to spend their year off, they all share the same goal of becoming more interesting to other people. Sadly, the people who find these stories interesting are other white people who are politely listening until they can tell their own, more interesting story about taking a year off.
see also: Traveling.
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folding the Yoshimoto cube and solving the World... →
the Yoshimoto cube, invented by Naoki Yoshimoto in 1971, is a geometric figure known as a stellated rhombic dodecahedron, that unfolds and folds again into two cubes the same size as the original. they’re available for purchase at the MoMA Store.
this is possible due to a little something called the Banach-Tarski paradox. it was stuff like this that made me decide to study mathematics in...
The Impossible Project →
“We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid’s old equipment, factory and seek your support.” (via Jason Santa Maria)
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Watchembarrassed that I watched this entire video. Kitty Purry is my celebrity guilty pleasure, not in small part due to the fact that she’s kind of a funnier, trashier Zooey Deschanel (who happens to be getting hitched to Ben Gibbard, of all people)
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Pretty Loaded →
archive of website preloaders, prevailing artifacts of the sputtering dial-up age
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"Look Around You" coming to Adult Swim →
faux-educational British comedy memorable for episodes like Maths.
In the first series, the episodes both satirised and paid homage to 1970s and early 1980s educational films and schools programmes, with a different scientific subject being discussed in each episode. The general format of an episode would be an introduction to the subject, followed by a series of silly experiments performed by the...
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Bebe – Siempre Me Quedará
this gorgeous tune...
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