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Pepys’ Diary is the diary of Samuel Pepys, who acted as a kind of Secretary of the...

Recommend: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill Like Bellow with the sound all the way down....

“I’ve never met anyone, except for people who are profoundly...”
— Leonard Michaels, Paris Review...

“Duly noted: don’t store the liquor near the ice.”
—  Ara

jake: what were we clapping for?
peter: casey pugh
peter: one of the programmers here
jake: oh rlly
jake: what did he do
peter: he made a new video browser for the right side of the clip page and it was pushed

“Denis Johnson’s last book, Tree of Smoke, won the...”
— via Jacket Copy, an LA Times...

Solutions to rising sea levels

Dredging Boiling Remove all the whales

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Confirmed! 9th Street Espresso carries Stumptown Hairbender

From latimes: It was the first time in history one...

“I just talked to the director out there and they are working...”
— Mayor Rudy Clay re: the vote...

Ted and Peter - Wikipedia, the free...

Human beings are animals, but that’s a bit misleading, sort of like calling a golden retriever...

The Final Countdown

I think Muxtape should have a “hardcore mode” that forces you to plan out two sides, and if you go...

This is the last out of yesterday’s cubs game. The...

Justin gave a great presentation at the NY tech meetup tonight. Simple and straightforward like...

The Great Man

One very good character. Many of the details were wrong, either in placement or in fact. I wish she...

The Energy Crisis

Like a lot of people, I’m very concerned about the energy crisis. It seems that production has...

“building a [solar thermal power plant] in California...”
— More excellent vocations, via...

1 in 100 in American Are Behind Bars - New...

If you liked High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to...

Charles Bock's Beautiful Children available...

“And the early tenants were reasonably prosperous. There was...”
— emphasis mine, from...

The end is nigh (in St. Louis)

Summer is going to be awesome. — jstn Lies!

I got a fancy TV, and plugged it in for videogames and maybe...

Sometimes I can’t read headlines

Rip city rap city

Team Creates Rat Heart Using Cells of Baby...

Researchers Create New Rat Heart in Lab

snowing on xmas in portland, ore

beanstalkd

Lish’s edits to Carver’s “Beginners”...

Eric: it's rather apropos that in mlb 2k7, there are bugs where the announcers say stuff that's blatantly wrong
Eric: because the announcers are...morgan and miller

“in the event of the imminent capture of a city, the...”
— I was looking for the website...

jake oliver: we should come up with something like the flickr interestingness algorithm
jake oliver: whoa flickr is trying to patent interestingness
jake oliver: United States Patent Application: 0060242139
me: dummmmb
me: in that case I am going to patent boringness
jake oliver: hahaha
jake oliver: then we can just do an inverse list
jake oliver: and we'll have interestingness
me: sort by boring ascending

Just plugged my (very) old iPod in, and it had Lansing...

Sweet Blazers Fan — dalasverdugo This is the first time...

Unlike most cars, the Toyota Prius requires no gasoline.

“Mr. Putin later added that if Russia maintained strong armed...”
— Putin Says U.S. Is Meddling in...

“In the decades when what was then Czechoslovakia was under...”
— Europe Fears That Meth...

Steve Martin has an amazing mustache via With Mustache,...

movie reviews

the ninth configuration: 2, but occasionally 7 roman holiday: 5 no country for old men: 5

“In essence, they do not poll the server occasionally....”
— Continuing Intermittent...

Book Reviews

Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson: 5 The Loser, by Thomas Bernhard: 3 Jamestown, by Matthew Sharpe:...

Movie Reviews

Michael Clayton: 5 Miller’s Crossing: 3 American Gangster: 1 Proof: 1 Bourne Supremacy:...

Whole Foods on Houston is selling Pabst Blue Ribbon for its correct price, $6.99 per 12.

me: i think that if someone wanted to run for elected office, they could win if they offered a way for normal citizens to hurt the government's feelings
me: they would probably be an incredible scientist too
me: The very core of the Streets & Sanitation Department feels trapped and humiliated right now

As Arctic ice melts, the United States Coast...

Madeleine Tippens, Michael Witter

I slept until 2pm today after a long couple weeks at work. Now I’m looking at the site from...

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the oregon trail: prequel (via Vimeo / Peter...

Tower of Babylon, 4mm via 2005 MicroGraph Winners

Someone asked what this "structure" was...

View Larger Map It’s some military complex in Saudi Arabia. The colors are amazing at...

zach’s closing time (via Vimeo / Peter...

og: someone said hi to me and omigod
og: i just closed the window
og: some kids asked me to honk my car horn on the street today and I pretended to weep

(via chromogenic)

Yes yes

Untitled (via Vimeo / Peter McArthur’s videos)

dog throwing (via Vimeo / Peter McArthur’s videos)

pdx/nyc: how big is portland? (via Photos from ptrmcrthr)

“One of the qualities of DeLillo’s prose I’ve...”
— from DeLillo and Things that...

Injury Report

Honorary neckPreviously undisclosed teeth (via ptr xv rtr - MySpace Blog)

OEAO OMFG (via nljstuff)

og: o no!
og: milkshake!
og: banana split!
og: hamburger!
og: pickled onions
og: smoked trout
og: salad with chevre
og: pumpkin pie
og: fuck you in the eye

“His death was announced today by a spokesman for Blue Note...”
— Max Roach, a Founder of Modern...

Contemporary Seal vs. 1920’s era Seal Anatomy via...

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NLJ Fauxtograph (via Vimeo / Peter McArthur’s videos)

Flood! (via Vimeo / Peter McArthur’s videos)

The Name of This Band is Talking Heads

“After this policy came out, the police are scared,” the...”
— To Punish Thai Police, a Hello...

og: beer bong coffee?
og: i fuck
pm: did you mean "u fuck" ?
pm: or "o fuck"
pm: what is the meaning of that
og: I have NO idea why I typed i fuck.
og: maybe o
og: you should try to get everyone there to get some Khat or raw coca to chew, make a video of them doing that
[20 minutes pass]
og: do any of them cry?

Faceball (via Vimeo / Peter McArthur’s videos)

The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a...

a disturbing gathering (via cporridge)

Vimeo Developers: What Have You Been Working On This Week?...

from yesterday

jstn: how's the web site?
ptrm: what website
ptrm: dude i am like six layers below the WWW right now
ptrm: I am surrounded in mercury
jstn: hahaha
jstn: heel deep
ptrm: heel deep
ptrm: I like that
ptrm: I have a dog in my blood vessels
ptrm: that is approx. how my head feels right now
ptrm: I think its name is The Sensation

Peter: what is paper punching?
Nathan: it is when you have a roll of butcher paper
Nathan: and two post apocalyptic warriors hold the ends
Nathan: while another punches the paper in disgust

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection :...

Metolius River, Deschutes, Jefferson

Three of the western tributaries of the Deschutes have their sources in giant...

“Cage calls them “mesostics,” a literary form...”
— Mesostic I-IV Part I.mp3 and...

“The first thing the baby did wrong was to tear pages out of...”
— jessamyn.com: Donald...

“Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting...”
— Oscar the Cat Predicts...

Python 2.5 RPMs for Fedora Core 6

david markson interview

Important Cartography

I dreamt about living in Williamsburg last night, three months after moving here. In the dream the...

nlj: I'm just saying it's easy to forget about how awesome the short things can be
nlj: like that Perfect Human movie
nlj: it's a short
nlj: but it's awesome
pbm: http://www.theknowe.net/dfwfiles/pdfs/Wallace-Good_People.pdf
pbm: february new yorker
pbm: that dfw story had the barton fink effect on me
pbm: wherein I traversed several moods while reading: boredom -> loathing -> skepticism -> acceptance -> holy shit

How to maybe drink coffee (via Vimeo / Peter...

“This may be stupider than anything William Safire ever...”
— Re: Kakutani’s review of...

frog hopper (via cporridge)

From nlj

Happy Bastille Day

The United States is a French country, in much the same way that Portugal is a Brasilian country. In...

pbm: I have my first caffeine high in over a month
nlj: how does taht caffeine high thing work?
pbm: I didn't have any caffeine for 2 days
pbm: and today I had three cups
nlj: fuck yeah!
pbm: I feel like my brain is creating a wind tunnel directly in front of my eyes and extending for one thousand meters
pbm: or what you probably know of as a kilometer
pbm: same thing really
pbm: tell me about the walrus situation
nlj: oeao
nlj: basically this freaky walrus dude
pbm: he is into walruses? or he is a walrsu?
nlj: like how bats are to vampires
nlj: this dude is to walruses
pbm: impossible to understand
pbm: amazing analogy

special walk (via cporridge)

Amazon.com: How To Set Up A Typewriter...

Jan Švankmajer - 1989 - Manly Games

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