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Being Ungoogleable

from The Guardian Internet anonymity is the height of chic In this age of information overload, internet exhibitionism and NSA snooping, is it possible to make yourself unGoogleable? And does it earn you added credibility, as fashion designer Phoebe Philo and bands such as !!! suggest? by Stuart Jeffries ‘The chicest thing,” said fashion designer Phoebe Philo recently, “is when you [...]

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‘This is a dish that everybody can make, starting with the donkey.’

from Smithsonian Is Spaghetti and Meatballs Italian? Spaghetti and Meatballs. (Photo by Lynda Balslev.) Meatballs—juicy goodness of meat, onions, breadcrumbs, egg, butter, and Parmigiano-Reggiano, soaked in red sauce over a pile of spaghetti. Nothing says comfort like a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. And, nothing says Italian food like a big bowl of spaghetti and [...]

World’s Most Depressing Video Game

from SPIN Joy Division Inspire World’s Most Depressing Video Game by Kyle McGovern Play ‘Will Love Tear Us Apart?’ now, doubt the existence of true love later! Here’s something no one knew they needed: A video game based on Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Thanks to European developer Mighty Box Games, that need has been satiated. Will [...]

‘Animal experiments show that caffeine may reshape the biochemical environment inside our brains in ways that could stave off dementia.’

from The New York Times Magazine This Is Your Brain on Coffee By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS This column appears in the June 9 issue of The New York Times Magazine. For hundreds of years, coffee has been one of the two or three most popular beverages on earth. But it’s only recently that scientists are figuring out [...]

Slim Whitman Gone

from The Florida Times-Union 1923-2013: Country star Slim Whitman of Middleburg has died By Dan Scanlan Known as “America’s Favorite Folksinger,” Slim Whitman’s songs were marked with his soaring yodel. Mr. Whitman, who has lived in Middleburg for years, is dead at 90. He passed away at 1 a.m. Wednesday at Orange Park Medical Center, family [...]

Creepy, indeed.

from M. Husain

‘Hmm, empty room’

from The New York Times Back at the Whitney, Tinkering With Perception Nancy Crampton By RANDY KENNEDY The artist Robert Irwin took over the fourth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1977 with a single work that became a kind of legend, though many visitors at the time failed to see it. “People would step [...]

The Bike Maker

Made by Hand / No 5 The Bike Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

LGBTur

from CBS LA Famed LA Helicopter Reporter Bob Tur Becoming A Woman LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Los Angeles helicopter pilot-reporter Bob Tur, who famously covered the L.A. riots and the O.J. Simpson slow-speed freeway chase, said she suffers from gender dysphoria and is in the process of becoming a woman. Tur told KNX 1070’s Chris Sedens and Diane Thompson [...]