May 2011
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May 30th
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May 29th
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May 27th
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bwgp asked: Also, I'm wondering if you can tweet about me sometime? I'm trying to build up a following and I think the people that follow you wound also like my work. Let me know what you think
May 25th
bwgp asked: Hey BOP this is Sam Diephuis. I've been following you for a while for my project with twitter feeds and my photography. I think I'm going to do a shoot around one of your quotes. Classic
CAT STATUS: Basking. or "When I fill out a web form, I feel kinda guilty for all the spam I direct to FakeyMcFakerson@fake.net. Poor Fakey."

Class
May 25th
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“…when others bear the costs of mistakes, the incentives favour...”
–  — Joseph E. Stiglitz In 2010, total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street banks and securities firms hit a record of $135 billion […] The total is up 5.7% from $128 billion in combined compensation and benefits by the same companies in 2009.
May 25th
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May 25th
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The 2010 Nebula Award for Short Fiction →
Sad and creepy and chilling and rings too true.
May 25th
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A Gallery of Water-Related Pseudoscience →
A comprehensive list of companies making bullshit products and claiming to have improved on good ol’ dihydrogen monoxide. Includes crap about “colloidal”, “magnetic”, “ionized”, “structured” and “energized” water. All of it? Snake oil. Just drink tap water, y’all.
May 24th
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May 24th
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“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose writing is clear but dry, said her style owed...”
– …which pretty much sums up all you need to know about Clarence Thomas. (Reported by Adam Liptak in the New York Times, May 20, 2011.)
May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 14th
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“The Government has been from the beginning the Cosa Nostra of the few, and the...”
– Gore Vidal Quoted by Charles Shaw in Exile Nation
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 12th
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Sin List →
Six hundred and sixty-seven things God’ll getcha for. God sure is a picky motherfucker, huh? Via reddit.
May 12th
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May 10th
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SocialFlow Company Blog: Breaking Bin Laden:... →
socialflowteam: A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White…
May 8th
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May 4th
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“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of...”
– Via the always diverting Futility Closet
May 3rd
dirtywafflewrath asked: Assemble your "Super Band". Who's in it? Are they playing mariachi or black metal, or somethin' else entirely?
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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Pardon Us For Living But The Graveyard Is Full →
An hour-long documentary about The Fleshtones. Thirty-five years of SUPERROCK! Via MetaChat.
May 1st
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May 1st