1. The Foot Fist Way →

    I love the “I don’t think you’re gonna like how this ends” scene in the trailer.

  2. I only just saw this.

  3. Folding Greenhouse via Matt

    Folding Greenhouse

    via Matt

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    Raspberries - Go All The Way

    Today’s music meme: Share a song you own only because you grew up with your mom or dad listening to it.

  5. Episode #355 of This American Life does a great job explaining the subprime mortgage crisis. →

    Listen to the episode for free online.

  6. Thirsty Barcelona imports drinking water →

    Matt Lehrer wrote me:

    Last week, Barcelona’s mayor, Jordi Hereu, chartered a fleet of 10 tankers to ship drinking water into the city at a reported cost of £17m a month. Critics say the move, which meets just 6% of Barcelona’s daily needs, is an expensive publicity stunt and will serve only to scare tourists away.

  7. From David Tobias: “Supposedly Improv Everywhere made a pretend line at the Apple Store and people are now lining up on it for no apparent reason.” For more, see here: iPhone line forms at Apple’s flagship for absolutely no reason - Engadget UPDATE: Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere’s founder, denies responsibility.

    From David Tobias: “Supposedly Improv Everywhere made a pretend line at the Apple Store and people are now lining up on it for no apparent reason.”

    For more, see here: iPhone line forms at Apple’s flagship for absolutely no reason - Engadget

     UPDATE: Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere’s founder, denies responsibility.

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    Billy Bragg and Jeff Tweedy’s rendition of Woody Guthrie’s Remember The Mountain Bed.

  9. But the Internet had changed, and my place in it had changed, too: I no longer had the luxury of writing something and imagining that the only people who might read it would be a handful of funny, supportive friends.

    — Blog-Post Confidential by Emily Gould
    Excellent piece in this weekend’s Times Magazine, via Becca.

  10. 2012 Super Bowl awarded to Indianapolis →

    Eat our shorts, Ohio.

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    The Republic Tigers - Buildings and Mountains

  12. There’s a history of a lot of crazy people trying this sort of thing, and the idea is to do it in a way that’s not crazy…

    — Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies


  14. British companies formed to colonize and capitalize the New World were known as adventures, later shortened to ventures.

  15. Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a full-time job.

    — The Next American Frontier - WSJ.com