August 2008
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“First off: Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain the life...”
– Patton Oswalt’s commencement speech at his old high school
I love Patton Oswalt. He never fails to amaze, and this speech is especially poignant. Take 10 minutes right now and be inspired.
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SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) →
Walking the line between convenience and caution…
I don’t consider myself a heavy cell phone user (in fact I’ve never been much of a phone person, preferring face-to-face communication), but think an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in this case.
Enter SAR values.
FWIW I use my left ear 95% of the time figuring that if I’m baking my brain it might as well be...
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"Tropic Thunder" (2008)
Agree with Mr. Lonelysandwich. It was nice to laugh out loud at the theater again. Stiller (and Co.) should stick to R-rated movies, and the dialog it allows.
lonelysandwich:
My expectations of greatness were tempered by disappointment in the other Big Comedy of the month, which I won’t name because why be negative, but it sounds like “Nineapple Mexpress”. That said, “Tropic Thunder” is “the...
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Perspctv - election dashboard →
Maybe a little TMI, but fascinating none the less.
(via Surfstation)
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It's a start...
Having been a massage therapist at one point (incarnation) in my life, it’s always nice to have actual science back what I intuitively know to be true…
“The massaged muscles [of a rabbit] recovered an estimated 60 percent of the strength after the four-day trial, compared to restoration of about 14 percent of strength in muscles that were exercised and then rested.
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This to me sums up the best of modern...
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The SM Landscape (as drawn by Fred Cavazza) →
I like the way this guy breaks down the SM landscape, but where’s tumblr? Of course I know where it goes — between publish and share — but still wish it got some cred.
Then again, I like the diversity and relative smallness of Tumblr’s community of Tumblrers.