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More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers - WSJ.com
Interesting story about doctors refusing to treat families who have refused vaccinations for their children.
vaccination  medicine  doctors  autism 
6 days ago
Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head, and extreme beer : The New Yorker
A great profile of Sam Calagione, owner of Dogfish Head and promoter of craft brewing.
beer  homebrew  craftbrew  samcalagione  dogfish  from instapaper
8 days ago
Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse
An article describing Cormac McCarthy's involvement in the Santa Fe Institute and his appreciation for the science of the end of times.
apocalypse  theroad  cormacmcarthy  santafeinstitute  sfi 
13 days ago
Everything That I Know About Jupiter « Thought Catalog
A quick summary of everything the author knows about Jupiter.
humor  jupitor  astronomy 
14 days ago
Terry Thompson and the Zanesville Ohio Zoo Massacre: Newsmakers: GQ
A crazy story of a man's suicide involving the sudden release of ~50 exotic pets that he owned.
suicide  gq  pets 
15 days ago
Brain Matter(s) - Impossible Happens
A nice summary of a couple lessons to take from Steve Jobs. When his back was against the wall and he had to save the company he had just returned to he called "the enemy", Bill Gates to arrange a deal. Always look at the bigger picture.
billgates  stevejobs  apple  inspiration 
15 days ago
gordy's camera straps
Cool handmade leather wrist straps
camera  strap 
20 days ago
Robservatory » Blog Archive » A useless analysis of OS X release dates
A release history of every dot update to OS X since the public betas.
apple  history  mac  osx 
21 days ago
In Brief: 5-year-old Analyzes Logos - Brand New
A wonderful insight into logos as seen by a 5 year old girl.
logo  design 
22 days ago
Rant: I Love Photography ‹ PhotoShelter Blog
A beautiful 'rant' about why one photographer loves photography.
photography 
22 days ago
MURK AVENUE, I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
One man investigated the lyrics to determine the exact date of Ice Cube's "Good Day"
rap  music  lyrics  icecube 
24 days ago
Apple Outsider » Hollywood Still Hates You
Matt Drance's entirely astute opinion of why movie piracy is up. The studios don't realize that to eliminate piracy they should make it easier to buy it legally. I would certainly pay to get access to a la carte movies and TV shows if it weren't so hard.
copyright  hollywood  movies  tv  streaming  netflix  mattdrance  appleoutsider 
25 days ago
The Boy Who Heard Too Much
The story of a blind teenager with exceptional hearing who used social engineering and knowledge of telecommunications systems to harass his enemies.
phone  telecommunications  socialengineering  phreaking 
27 days ago
The Fox Is Black » Jaaam (The Fresh Prince Remix) by Pogo
A lovely remix of fresh prince clips by Pogo.
foxisblack  freshprince  willsmith  remix  pogo 
27 days ago
Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson
The best site on the internet.
funny  awesome  humor  ronswanson  parksandrec  tv 
27 days ago
swissmiss | Mondrian Sandwich
Possibly the most artistic ham sandwich I've ever seen.
mondrian  art  sandwich 
5 weeks ago
Geometric Paper Torso with Removable Organs | Colossal
Australian architect and paper artist Horst Kiechle recently constructed this geometric paper torso complete with modular organs including lungs, intestines, kidneys, pancreas, stomach and more. The piece was made for the Science Lab of the International School Nadi, Fiji. You should also check out some of his archisculptures. (via my modern met)
model  paper  craft  organs  body 
5 weeks ago
How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? - NYTimes.com
Interesting details of Stephen Colbert's efforts to demonstrate the realities of Super PACs and 501(4)c groups interspersed with some biographical information as well.
stephencolbert  politics  biography  fundraising  superpac  PAC 
6 weeks ago
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
A wonderful illustrated guide to what it really means to get a Ph.D.
academia  education  illustration  visualization  phd  doctorate 
6 weeks ago
Miniature Liquid Worlds by Markus Reugels | Colossal
Fantastic images of water droplets in front of satellite images creating tiny worlds.
photography  world  water  droplets 
6 weeks ago
PayPal orders customer to destroy violin to settle dispute.
In a dispute over the veracity of the label on a violin that was sold using PayPal, PayPal required the customer to destroy the violin in order to destroy the "counterfeit" materials.
paypal  dispute  counterfeit  violin 
7 weeks ago
A Guide to Backing Up Pinboard - Behind Companies
A quick guide on how to back up your pinboard account to a server using curl and crontab.

It also uses ifttt and dropbox to pull the file locally, but I'm just planning on leaving it on the server and using logrotate to cycle a few copies.
backup  howto  pinboard  curl  cron 
7 weeks ago
Six To Eight Black Men - Esquire
The story of Swarte Piet, Santa's little black-faced Dutch slave/helper.

`A Dutch parent has a decidedly hairier story to relate, telling his children, "Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before you go to bed. The former bishop from Turkey will be coming along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you in a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared."`
slavery  blackface  dutch  customs  culture  swartepiet  santa  christmas  from instapaper
9 weeks ago
The Library Phantom Returns! : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
An anonymous sculptor placed a series of ten art pieces crafted from books into various libraries around Edinburgh, Scotland before leaving a poem announcing her retirement.
sculpture  art  books  edinburgh  scotland  anonymous  npr 
11 weeks ago
Crashed Ferrari Table | Charly Molinelli
What else would you do with a wrecked Ferrari?
ferrari  automobiles  coffeetable  furniture  design 
november 2011
The Valley: America’s First Serial Killer « The Bygone Bureau
An interesting story of a man who may have been America's first serial killer: A peasant who witnessed the murder of six men during the US's invasion of Mexico heard a call from the Virgin of Guadalupe to remove the hearts of 600 white men
serialkiller  history  war 
november 2011
Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers - BusinessWeek
A look into the way that Apple wields its supply chain as a strategic weapon.
apple  timcook  supplychain 
november 2011
Michael Winslow gets the Led out
"There is a sense amongst my generation that Michael Winslow's best performing days are behind him. (You'll remember Winslow as Officer Sound Effects from Police Academy.) After all, we live in the age of the beatboxing flautist. You might change your tune after watching Winslow do Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love. The first 28 seconds are like, oh, I've heard this before yawn zzzzzzzzzz WHOA, WHERE THE HELL DID THAT GUITAR NOISE COME FROM??!"
beatboxing  ledzepplin  michaelwinslow  policeacademy 
november 2011
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
Mona Simpson's eulogy at Steve Jobs's funeral.
funeral  apple  stevejobs  monasimpson  eulogy 
october 2011
Why the Hell Do You People Still Drive? | Autopia | Wired.com
from instapaper
october 2011
The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight « You Are Not So Smart
A fascinating article about the Robber's Cave experiment and what that shows about asymmetric insight (parallels are drawn to Lord of the Flies).
asymmetricinsight  psychology  robberscave  sociology 
october 2011
DRL Disable, in 10 minutes - Subaru Legacy Forums
How to disable daytime running lights on a Subaru Legacy.
subaru  outback  legacy  daphne  drl 
october 2011
How to Hatch a Dinosaur | Magazine
A paleontologist with a MacArthur Genius Grant and no college degree is trying to reverse the process of evolution and bring out the hidden dinosaur characteristics of the common chicken.
dinosaur  chicken  evolution  genetics  dna 
october 2011
the varieties of the BALLOON HAT experience
A series of shots of people that you would not expect to be wearing a balloon hat.
funny  images  balloon 
september 2011
An American Drug Lord in Acapulco | Rolling Stone Culture
The story of a boy from Texas and his rise to the upper echelons of the Mexican drug cartels.
drugs  mexico  crime  america 
september 2011
Jeff Tweedy recites "My Humps" on Vimeo
september 2011
Soulwire » Experiments in Code
Massively recursive algorithm with cool adjustable parameters. Creates crazy looking organic renderings.
art  code  javascript 
august 2011
Huffencooper holiday card 2010 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Awesome holiday card design based on the names of Santa's Reindeer.
design  holiday  rudolph 
august 2011
The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse | Peter Shankman
A man jokes that he wants Mortons to deliver him a steak to the airport when he lands after his flight. Mortons actually delivers. A very amusing story of spectacular customer service and how they ensured they have a customer for life.
food  twitter  mortons  customerservice 
august 2011
best wedding pictures ever... scroll down - mlkshk
Awesome wedding pictures.
wedding  photography  humor 
august 2011
Legal Affairs
A horrifying story of abuse within the Amish communities of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
amish  abuse  sexuality 
august 2011
Lossa Engineering's short film "Solus" on Vimeo
A short film by Ricki Bedenbaugh for Lossa Engineering, "Solus". Lossa Engineering built Yamaha SR500, also featured on Cafe Racer TV season 1.
sr500  yamaha  solus  lossaengineering  caferacer  motorcycles 
august 2011
Guts and Glory: A Review of the MacBook Air — Shawn Blanc
"A few years from now, I believe we’ll look back and say the 12-inch PowerBook was the best laptop we ever owned until our MacBook Airs. The MacBook Air is the new 12-inch PowerBook — the new blend of power and portability that also invokes a fondness that few Macs in the lineup can."
macbookair  review  shawnblanc 
august 2011
A VC: The "Fred Wilson School Of Blogging"
Fred Wilson's thoughts regarding how to create a long term and valuable internet presence. I believe in many of these tenants, but I struggle with the division of the short form from the long term. I think a single presence works better, and unifies the location. I had no idea that Fred Wilson has a Tumblr, yet I subscribe to his blog.
blogging  fredwilson  identity  socialmedia 
august 2011
Around The World and Back Again: Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
A horrible story of one person's experience with AirBNB and the traveler that destroyed, vandalized, and stole her property in her absence.
crime  travel  airbnb 
august 2011
Font Squirrel | Create Your Own @font-face Kits
Generates zip files with everything you need (including code) to implement @font-face on your site.
css  fonts  typography  webdev 
august 2011
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iCloud has the cutest error messages ever. • 
from twitter_favs
august 2011
Improving the Scrolling Experience in Lion | Jettison Canopy
A proposal to fix the inability to determine if there is material outside the current view when using Lion with the default of the scroll bars being disabled
lion  osx  scrollbars  ui  ux  design 
august 2011
- B. HOCKEY J. - 13
A very cool message from a father to a son on his thirteenth birthday.
inspiration  parenting  writing  adolescence 
july 2011
Discovery: A Visual Eulogy » ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen (Tycho / ISO50)
I've never seen photos of a shuttle like this. It's interesting to see the textures and the almost paper mâché look that it has. In a world of plastic models of the shuttle, it's good to be reminded of the age in which it was designed and the exotic materials it required.
Shuttle  space  eulogy  NASA  photography 
july 2011
Katie Lewis
Beautiful art installations based on carefully charting bodily phenomena then removing any description of the phenomena or graphing axes
art  science  charting  infographic 
july 2011
We Made This Ltd
An interesting detailing of cattle brands that has some tidbits about lettering and type that I didn't know cattle brands had.
cattle  brands  americana  typography  lettering 
july 2011
@jnack you can't unsee it! on Twitpic
you can't unsee it!
from twitter_favs
july 2011
Mystery prisoner has Utah jail authorities stumped - Yahoo! News
A prisoner in Utah refuses to give up his identity preventing Police from charging or releasing him.
from twitter
july 2011
Subtraction.com: The Wayback Machine for Apps
The Wayback Machine for apps. Wouldnt it be cool in a few years to see how apps have evolved along with their platforms?
from twitter
july 2011
Instagram
Attention Dogs
from twitter
july 2011
Make An OS X Lion Boot Disc - MacRumors.com
How to make a Lion boot disc from the App Store download so that clean installs can be done.
apple  howto  mac  osx  lion  appstore 
july 2011
A visualization of US Debt in 100 dollar bills
A cool visualization of the US debt.
from twitter
july 2011
Instagram
Dishtowels are the best toy.
from twitter
july 2011
amd.im
Lost in translation: "Woman friendly door"...
from twitter
july 2011
Mona Lisa Remix by Graphic Nothing @ Some Prints
Mona Lisa Remix
from twitter
july 2011
Deploying Sinatra on Dreamhost With Passenger // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
Hosting sinatra apps on Dreamhost is possible.
ruby  sinatra  dreamhost  webdev  webhosting 
july 2011
Reddit, what is the drunkest photo ever taken of you? : AskReddit
The drunkest photo ever taken.
photos  funny  humor 
july 2011
Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”
An interesting, succinct, and under utilized way to present data.
visualization  design  infographic  chart 
july 2011
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Sweet Opportunity in the State of Denmark!
If a scammer wrote me this, I just might hand over all my money.
from twitter
july 2011
Twitpic - Share photos and videos on Twitter
One of my favorite Apple Store details: manufacturing custom, integrated power+security/alarm cables. So clean. So Jobs.
from twitter_favs
july 2011
Fact or Fluke? | LIMITER
Does rear brake line routing correspond with dyno curves? investigates
from twitter_favs
july 2011
yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/h3kq5rp Shared by darrenrovell
Awesome 4th of July cake -
from twitter_favs
july 2011
Instagram
iPad point of sale.
from twitter
july 2011
Instagram
A pretty mess.
from twitter
july 2011
Autism’s First Child - Magazine - The Atlantic
The story of the life of the first person diagnosed with Autism, and his surprising (to me) success at leading an independent and enriching life.
autism  medicine  psychology  from instapaper
june 2011
Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics
A synopsis of Michele Bachmann's rise to fame and fortune as a crazy person.
politics  religion  usa  michelebachmann  teaparty  republican 
june 2011
Kind of Screwed
An interesting story of one artist's pixel art rendering of a famous Miles Davis album cover for the cover of his chip tune tribute to Kind of Blue and the copyright lawsuit that followed.
copyright  design  lawsuit  chiptune  tribute  fairuse  pixelart 
june 2011
Thinking About Macs as Cars and Trying to Figure Out What the Hell You Should Buy — The Brooks Review
An interesting look at the mac lineup and how it compares to modes of transportation.

It seems pretty close, the ipad : motorcycle analogy is fairly good, but I'm not sure how I feel about the 13" MacBook Air and MacBook Pro analogies.
macbook  macbookair  macbookpro  apple  analogy  automotive 
june 2011
Tour De Gall | Culture | Vanity Fair
A great review of a famous Parisian restaurant
restaurant  review  humor  from instapaper
june 2011
Some Clouds Have a Golden Lining
A graphic that shows the use of the golden ratio in Apple's iCloud logo. Its the details that make it great.
apple  design  details  goldenratio 
june 2011
Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Waxy.org
An interview with the creator of a simulated internet based around the actual internet of the late eighties called Telehack.
games  hacking  history  internet  interview 
june 2011
iMessage, Skype, Google Voice, and the death of the phone number | This is my next...
Which company will be the one to eliminate the phone number from our lexicon?
microsoft  apple  skype  google  phone  number  technology  prediction 
june 2011
I like big butts and I cannot lie, but is there some evolutionary reason as to why? : AskReddit
A fantastic discussion of the possible evolutionary reasons for large butts being sexually attractive.
funny  humor  evolution  butts 
june 2011
Soup :: Obit: Harley-Davidson VR 1000, August 30 2001
The history of Harley's shot at truly competing in racing.
racing  harley  motorsports  motorcycles  from instapaper
june 2011
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