December 2008
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Every Little Thing (15)  Simon & Garfunkel (15)  Why? (12)  Bank Band (9)  Art Brut (9)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score HERE. My super-eclectic score is currently 728/1000 The most similar artists for my profile are The Kooks (6), Babyshambles (5), Spoon (5), Nada Surf (5), The...
Dec 26th
And the nominees are...
bellavita: tumblrawards: I’m happy to announce the nominees for the 2008 Tumblr Awards. We’ll be opening the polls for voting soon. Thanks to all the judges that helped compile the following list. Overall Best Tumblelog allisonweiss.tumblr.com blog.topherchris.com bonerparty.tumblr.com breefield.tumblr.com extrafirmhold.tumblr.com garfieldminusgarfield.net ...
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Professor helps 1bn of the world's poorest see... →
(via ohhello) one at a time.
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Culture Breakdown
raptoravatar: tristanjay7: 12 episodes of The OC watched in the past two days. 33 pages of tumblr posts skimmed this morning. 5 pages of Gravity’s Rainbow read so far this break. To be totally fair to yourself, A Gravity’s Rainbow page is like injecting an hour of TV mixed with an undergrad science lecture into 15 minutes of reading time, and then stripping all the pronouns of their...
Dec 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Every Little Thing (15)  Simon & Garfunkel (15)  Why? (12)  Bank Band (9)  Nico (9)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Top 5 Reasons Malcolm Gladwell is the JK Rowling...
codybrown: 1.) The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers examine trends, instincts, and success but mostly focus on how Magic is produced. 2.) Where does this passage come from, Outliers or Goblet of Fire? Giant tulip poplars grew in the coves and at the foot of the hills, some with trunks as wide as seven or eight feet in diameter. On the ground were bears and mountain lions and rattlesnakes; in...
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“Bush said that his “biggest regret” was that he and his team got the...”
– Dubya Opens Up - Yahoo! News Poor guy.
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“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via scout) University of Chicago essay prompt #1 :) I think I’m going to twist my old essay to this one.
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– Steinbeck (via aja)
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“The United States is often called a Puritan nation. Well, here is one way in...”
– Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates (via bmichael) This book really needs to go off my “need to read” list.
Dec 17th
Has anyone else ever thought this?
bmichael: Philosophically, rooting for the underdog is anarchical and kind of evil. And it’s a little fucked up to me that it’s a near universal phenomenon for a person with no strong or inherent rooting interest to root for the underdog. Why is the underdog the underdog? Because he (they, she, whatevs) is less well prepared, disadvantaged, not as good. How does the underdog win? The underdog...
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