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RIP Robert Ebert

That does a pretty good job of summing it up. “Kindness” covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

– Robert Ebert

Robert Ebert’s feelings on life and death are very insightful.

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Of seatbelts, of Sharpies, of things in your coffees.

You know, not all of my links are things I’ve found in the past week. I have a few favorite Internet WWWeb Site Pages that I revisit from time to time. Remember “Bookmarks” in Netscape Navigator? Who doesn’t!?!? Here follow some of those, and of course some new ish too.

How much is inside a Sharpie?
Putting Weird Things in Coffee
Europe Invents the Gypsies
A Well-Packed Backpack
Mary, Mary
The Gender Genie
Komar & Melamid
Behavior change in the funny papers
NYPD Drones artist arrested
Renewable energy in January 2013 in the USA
Maddie on Things
The Exorcist in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling
Glenn Curtiss
Community currency & how to start one
Vexiollology
Baked goods naming differences between the US & the UK
Shoelace tying methods

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My Mama Told Me, You Better Link Around

Some work travel this week, so I’ve been a bit light on the Internets. Could you tell? Probably not. Click click click, fans.
2013 Sony World Photography Awards
Modern Daydreams: Deere John
Fluxus Games
Music for Shuffle
Karl Stockhausen’s British Lectures
Feynman Lectures on Physics
Electoral college reform
San Francisco History 1963
You can stack cars
Interstates
Roadtrip Mixtape iOS app
Songs to sing through
Stuff Whisperers Say
Why Plaid
Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day
Green Porno: Earthworm
Goats yelling like humans
Indian Food
Stick ‘n’ Find
Yo Dawg, I heard you liked eating dogs so…
Doesn’t she look just like Laura Palmer?
Lost With Waters
List of legally mononymous people
Mayim Bialik Explaisn Her Love of Science
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Jeopardy
Teen Tournament Conclusion
First Jeopardy Tiebreak
Apollo Robbins pickpocketing
An Open Letter to Penn & Teller

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Regularly scheduled Saturday morning post

Oh. Hello. I am posting this from the past. Or the future. “Is all how you look at it.

Hell’s Angels of London, BBC 1973
Better to have glove and lost…
The Society of the Spectacle
Another film of a murmuration of starlings (See also List of collective nouns)
Edward Condon
Slow-motion destruction of power plant cooling towers
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
liquid nitrogen margaritas
bread puns on Tumblr
Social media’s 2000-year history
How jeans are made
Mustreads
Steve Reich & Radiohead
Coin-operated-locker babies
Paperman
List of Super Bowl halftime shows
Old School Wikipedia Edit War
Words of the World
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Helicopter String Quartet”
Soldier Bear

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Merry Xmas

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Oh So Pretty

There is a new ad campaign out for Pampers that uses the song I Feel Pretty (from “West Side Story”). Every time the commercial comes on all I think about is the song So Pretty by J-Zone

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