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Oct
31st

Sat

Copenhagenize.com - The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Sacred Bull in Society’s China Shop

Bummer if you just bought a new fixie. Bummer that loads of large bicycle companies showed off new fixies at Interbike - two years too late. We’re going vintage.

— Copenhagenize.com - The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Latest Bike Culture Buzzwords

We don’t have five of them that we keep polished and well-oiled, there are no vacuum cleaner enthusiasts, we don’t go to a specialty shop to buy one or wear special clothes while we vacuum.

— BikePortland » Want to be like Copenhagen? Think about vacuum cleaners and raging bulls

Oct
30th

Fri

A TweetUp is a place where you discover why cartoon avatars are so very, very necessary

— 5 Reasons To Never Tweet Drunk. - Tremendous News!

Cory, thanks for that laugh. Best one I had all week. You? Obscure?

— The Stretta Procedure: Piracy vs. Obscurity

Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly

— An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Magazine (well, duh)

Oct
29th

Thu

This is like one of those joke Barbies art students do in college to criticize gender roles forced on children by their toys, like Hobo Barbie and Pregnant Trailer Trash Barbie. Except this time Mattel made it.

— PALM BEACH SUGAR DADDY KEN

it is better to choose an open source project like Firebird or PostgreSQL rather than MySQL which was an open-source product

— Newsflash: No more MySQL? « Wings of Wind Software

Oct
25th

Sun

Whereas once we might attend a conference to watch the speakers and perhaps learn something, today our priority is to live blog it – to ensure our followers know we’re on the inside

— NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web (this is probably the single best thing I’ve ever read on TechCrunch. That’s saying a lot) (via @kneath)

giving a locking API to user code seems like a recipe for fail

— HTML5 Storage Continues : Daytime Running Lights

I talked at length to a Barnes & Noble manager who said that the Portland Barnes & Noble was like the fourth largest seller of graphic novels in the country. And the third was the other Portland location. So I kind of live in a utopia of graphic novels

— IGN: Brian Bendis: A Decade At Marvel

Oct
20th

Tue

Luckily, there’s a simple and obvious solution to this one: DO NOT EVER PUT WORDS IN YOUR IMAGES

— Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 17: Lost in Translations.

Oct
19th

Mon

Get a drink, think about this: a reporter’s instinct wasn’t to go for the truth, but to go with the scripted story.

— The Last Psychiatrist: Wolf Blitzer Is Not An Idiot

Oct
17th

Sat

Can you imagine being loved more than you ever thought possible? And more frequently? That is a joy you can know today, simply by inviting My Cock into your heart and various other parts of yourself.

— Bereaved? Come Bathe In The Healing Light Of My Cock | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Oct
15th

Thu

I understand the appeal, why someone would want to be Don Draper. But I’m going to try and explain why you shouldn’t. This post isn’t for everyone: you know who you are

— The Last Psychiatrist: Don Draper Voted “Most Influential Man”