December 2011
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Top Tracks Last 12 Months (according to LastFM)
1 The Naked And Famous – The Sun
2 Neko Case – Outro With Bees
3 Laura Marling – Old Stone
4 Laura Marling – Tap at My Window
5 The Naked And Famous – All Of This
6 The Naked And Famous – Frayed
7 The Naked And Famous – Punching In A Dream
8 The Naked And Famous – Eyes
9 Wilco – Art Of Almost
10 Brendan Benson – Metarie (just listened to this song again. Still no reccolection…...
Top Albums Listened last 12 months (according to...
1 Laura Marling
2 Neko Case
3 M83
4 The Naked And Famous
5 Brendan Benson (I have no recolection of listening to this… odd)
6 Tesla (yeah, what of it?)
7 Paul Simon
8 The Drums
9 God Is An Astronaut
10 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
13 albums of 2011 I liked most (probably)
Cults - Cults
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Laura Marling - A Creature I don’t Know
Collin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges
James Blake - James Blake
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Zola Jesus - Conatus
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Delay Trees - Delay Trees
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Wilco - The...
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In his media interviews of woe, Mr. Donahoe talks precious little either about revenue increases or about long-overdue expansions of service. Abolished because of banking industry pressure in 1966, the Postal Savings System for simple savings accounts needed by tens of millions of “unbanked” Americans could be reactivated. Mr. Donahoe has been telling people that he’s thinking...
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“Tomorrow’s turnpikes will “flow” out of giant machines like magic ribbons across...”
– Automatic highway building machines (via The Smithsonian
“A Kansas birther, who publicly announced that he was planning a citizen’s arrest...”
– (via Raw Story)
I believe the appropriate response is “fuck you honkey-tonk”
Credits, Credentials, and Collective Consciousness →
As was reported yesterday, well-known Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun are currently teaching an online course in Artificial Intelligence that is available, for free, to anyone in the world. Unlike the previous generation of open courses, which were limited to lecture videos and syllabi, students taking this course can submit homework and take quizzes and tests for grades....
“The most vulnerable are at the mercy of the corporations that profit by their...”
– A single sentence that get’s at one of the two things that really trouble me about private, for-profit prisons. From Ethics Daily
“As more people came aboard in February and early March the rumors started...”
– A story about Amazon and unions from The Atlantic
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg (via kateoplis)
“Then, there was the time when I got knocked unconscious. That was in St. Louis,...”
– via The New Yorker: Offensive Play
“They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.”
That was Michelle Bachmann’s actual answer to the question of why same sex couples can’t get married. Honestly, this is a top contender for the most searingly stupid thing anyone has ever said out loud. It’s the...
SCHOOL FOR OBAMA’S KIDS SERVES JAPANESE ON PEARL HARBOR DAY
The comments on this article are some serious racist shit
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RHPolitics: THIS BLOG IS NOT RON PAUL FRIENDLY. →
paxamericana:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he…