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Everything designed for children should be dishwasher safe. Everything. Lunch boxes. Water bottles. T-shirts. Nintendo controllers. Nikes. Backpacks. All of it. – via @gatordavid
“Only a twisted type of fantasy can see [pornography] in a biblical figure, in a statue that is also an icon of the Renaissance and the most famous statue in the world. It’s not only absurd, it’s a worrying sign of sheer ignorance, in its most literal sense: a lack of knowledge of history – religious history, of Christianity and Judaism, and art history.” – via @italo.americano
Transitioning to clean energy would reduce the volume and harm of mining dramatically, because a fossil fuel economy requires 535× more mining than a clean energy economy. – via distilled
The research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
The curious case of two Scott Stallings and one Masters invitation – via TheAthletic
Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs.
Beyoncé to perform halftime show at Ravens-Texans on Christmas on Netflix

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Making my Nike Fuel Points goal

Not many things are cooler than Johnny Depp reading a letter from Hunter S. Thompson.
The Zodiac Killer! Grey goo! There are all sorts of creepy Wikipedia articles.
The team @Flip has done it again. They are just killing in the video recorder market. Their new product — the Flip SlideHD — is incredible. It shoots 4 hours of HD video and has a touchscreen. (via The Awesomer)
Phil Mickelson visited Krispy Kreme, wearing his spiffy new green jacket.
The best Twitter exchange of the year has got to go to Aimee Mann and Ice T.
I don’t subscribe to Scientific American, but I always grab it in airport bookstores. My favorite recurring feature is the one that details an interesting article from 50, 100, and 150 years ago. So it was with some pleasure that I discovered that the author of one of my favorite blogs, Ironic Sans, has recently started publishing Sunday Magazine. Every Friday he posts the most interesting articles from the New York Times Sunday Magazine from 100 years ago that weekend. Trés cool.
The towel-folding robot is just more proof that I am going to get to meet C-3PO (or at least R2-D2) in my lifetime.

2024-09-06: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

A tremendous amount of meat