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The front page of this morning’s Inquirer had a ridiculous bait-and-switch[*] article about a Turkish expat involved in charter schools across the country. But the thing that killed me right from the start was this:
Fethullah Gulen is a major Islamic political figure in Turkey, but he lives in self-imposed exile in a Poconos enclave…
“self-imposed exile”? In the Poconos? When you’re 80 years old and living in the Monroe County woods, it’s called “being retired”.
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“I’ve decided to compile said photographs into several coffee table book collections that will one day be slashed up to 90% off at your nearest Urban Outfitters.” (via My Upcoming Coffee Table Books « Medium Large)
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[T]here is a powerful conspiracy, centuries old, determined to propagate pro-π propaganda. Entire books are written extolling the virtues of π. (I mean, books!) And irrational devotion to π has spread even to the highest levels of geekdom…
—No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl
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The Phantom time hypothesis is a conspiracy theory developed by Heribert Illig in 1991. It proposes that there has been a systematic effort to make it appear that periods of history, specifically that of Europe during the Early Middle Ages (AD 614–911) exist, when they do not.
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Massive earthquake hits Japan - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Someone explain this to me. How does a road unzip perfectly along the dividing line?
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Screen grabs from NHK’s live Ustream feed.
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And then came the Sixties, when a whole lot of people started saying shit, even if they hadn’t had lessons from their brother. And before long all the shits and fucks were bounding forth in print. And finally we began to hear them from the lips of the stars of Hollywood. So now the only place to get away from them is movies before 1990 or books before 1970 or way, way out in the wilderness. But make sure there aren’t any hunters out in the wilderness about to come up to your bleeding body and say Aw, shit, man, I thought you was a fucking moose.
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BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Would You Please Fucking Stop? - Ursula Fucking Le Guin, you know it.
(via ww)