February 2012
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Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not...
– Pretty amazing milestone. especially considering that Apple created an entirely new market that Microsoft is struggling to compete in. Sure makes Balmer’s remarks in 2007 sound even more ridiculous.
Apple’s iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than All Of Microsoft
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Blowing up a mountain (in HD)
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January 2012
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Subway sandwich store inside One World Trade Center.
It’s raised up one floor every week, feeding the hundreds of steel workers building the structure
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George Lucas has decided to devote the rest of his life to what cineastes in the...
– NYT via whiskyvangoghgo
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The sultan was so intent on eradicating coffee that he would disguise himself as...
– Drink Coffee? Off With Your Head! on NPR
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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...
– Dave Eggers, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”
Yup, this is truth.
December 2011
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Was Christmas star a double eclipse of Jupiter?
A U.S. astronomer said he has uncovered the first reference to the star of Bethlehem outside the Bible, in the 4th-century writings of a Christian convert who wanted to hide the astrological roots of the celestial phenomenon.
For centuries, scientists and scholars have debated about the nature of the Biblical light that led the Magi to the newborn Jesus. Some have suggested a comet or...
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When I was 18, I spent one night trying to paint LATE AGAIN in big silver bubble...
– Banksy
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Drunk History Christmas with Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes
A very special Drunk History Christmas.
But the chilling takeaway of this whole debacle was the irrefutable air of...
– Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard
And also…
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Bookstore owners everywhere have a lurking suspicion: that the customers who...
– Book Shopping in Stores, Then Buying Online
I’m the Lebron James of “showrooming”
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November 2011
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7 year old me loves this video
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The slang term “bogarting” refers to taking an unfairly long time...
– The more you know…
[Wikipedia]
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