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Literary Foot Stools - The Bibliopouf by Nobody&Co Combines Literature and Comfort (TrendHunter.com)

(TrendHunter.com) The Bibliopouf by Nobody&Co; is the perfect companion to the design company's earlier creation the Bibliochaise, an ottoman that doubled as a bookshelf....

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Neatorama

Now This Guys Is A Real Game Master

The best thing about Youtube user 16bitghost’s absurdly huge gaming set up is that the 24 console areas still aren’t enough for his PS3. Seriously though, how do you...

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Jezebel

Hundreds of Pet Owls Abandoned by Overly-Literal Harry Potter Fans [Harry Potter]

Remember when you got that pet fox after seeing The Fox and the Hound and loved it so much until it made a habit of pooping in your shoes and...

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Slashdot

ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up

An anonymous reader writes "Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel's market share than...

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stereogum

Watch Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters On SNL Season Finale

Saturday Night Live host and musical guest Mick Jagger got a hand from Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck, and the Strokes’ Nikolai Fraiture when he performed on the...

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Torontoist

Historicist: Throwing Intellectual Bombs

Rabble-rousing feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman died in Toronto in 1940.Although she only lived in Toronto on three occasions over a 14-year period, and never for more than a...

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Paper Cuts

'Battleship' Pulls Up Lame at Box Office

Peter Berg's "Battleship" managed to sell about $25.4 million in tickets in its first weekend in North American theaters, a victim of bad buzz and the continuing strength of...

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CSMonitor - Culture

Jeremiah Wright, white births: Time to talk race with kids

Jeremiah Wright – and the racial controversy he and his foes tend to kick up –  is back in the news in the same week the Census bureau reports white births in the US are...

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Slate Magazine

An Interview With Enrique Peña Nieto

MEXICO CITY, Mexico—According to the most recent polls, 45-year-old Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is...

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Wired Culture

How to Watch Today's Solar Eclipse Without Special Equipment

A pinhole projector provides a simple DIY way to view the eclipse without special equipment.

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kottke.org

Ridley Scott is doing a Blade Runner sequel

In this interview with The Daily Beast, Ridley Scott reveals that he's currently working on a sequel to Blade Runner.Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade...

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The New York Review of Books

Kushinagar

Joe Sacco This story is drawn from “Kushinagar,” which appeared originally in French in XXI, no. 13, January/February/March 2011, and...

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The Art of Manliness

Saddleback iPad Case Giveaway

I’ve been an iPad owner for almost a year now.  I love it. I feel like I’m holding some magical window to the future whenever I’m using it. One minute I can be...

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NOTCOT

Inside Lee Clow's Beard: the book.

There’s something magical going on over at TBWAChiatDay in LA ~ I’ve been following @LeeClowsBeard on twitter for years now… endless amusement, for a while it was unclear if...

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passiveaggressivenotes.com

Hundreds & Thousands (of bad things will befall you)

The good news? Stealing sprinkles from this New Jersey yogurt shop won’t lead to eternal damnation! Thanks to Lauren in Princeton, NJ for submitting! related: Wrath of the...

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Barataria - the work of Erik Hare

Next Generation’s Struggle

This is a dialogue with my daughter Thryn Hare (Kathryn).  Thryn has been named one of OutFront’s “25 leaders under 25”, a strong activist for Gay / Lesbian / Transgender...

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