December 2010
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I am unashamed to say that Top Chef All Stars is pretty much the highlight of my week.
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20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes,...
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Pummelvision (takes all your photos from tumblr/facebook/flickr and turns it into a montage/tombstone/blackhole)
In a sense, this is really cool. But in another sense, this kind of thing just makes me want to kill myself because obviously this is the last 2 1.79 years of my life distilled to a minute. If I died this moment, this would be my legacy. Somebody watching this closely probably knows...
There is so much goodness in the year-end Said the... →
I’ve still got a good 12 hours to blaze through, and a 40%(40% and not 50%!!!!!!!!!!!)final to fake through, but you know its the end of the year when Said the Gramophone posts their annual year end best of list. Every year I tell myself I’ll spend time going through each and every selection (its like taking and graduating a Best Tastes 401 class) but most years I just skim and...
Ryan and Spike for Opening Ceremony →
jesuisperdu:
McGinley and Jonze have a chat.
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Stem cell transplant cures HIV infection. →
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