April 2011
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Please bear with me while I work the bugs out of...
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Martin Parr on Photographic Clichés →
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Armadillos pass leprosy to humans, study finds →
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Literary Classics Summarized as Trashy Romance... →
“Tereza is an ambitious photo journalist who’s as sexy as she is talented. But after the Czech beauty takes a dangerous assignment, the Russians mark her as a dissident and nowhere is safe. To the rescue is Tomas, a distinguished surgeon who is very skilled with his hands…”
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Semantic satiation →
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
This happened to me last week with the word “English.”
This list of 25 names for everyday things is pretty entertaining.
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Holy crap, are you kidding me? Where does she get off taking something like...
– Blake Andrews on Vivian Maier. Perfectly sums up the feelings I had while looking at her website last week (“I’m about to go to graduate school for photography and I’m never going to be as good as that damned nanny was!”)
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Teen Fakes Pregnancy For School Project →
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Kings expected to remain in Sacramento →
Because you totally read this blog for basketball news, right? Whatever, I’ll do what I want.
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A Guide to Insulting Obama Without Being Racist →
Helpful hints for these troubling times.
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Ab Fab Is Coming Back for Three More Episodes →
What a wonderful surprise, Universe! It’s not even my birthday.
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War Photographer Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya... →
Big, sad photo news.
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What does the filler text "lorem ipsum" mean? →