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YES YES YES!! (via Brown Bear Waking Up From Hibernation)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:51:41 -0500

YES YES YES!! (via Brown Bear Waking Up From Hibernation)

Apple Confronts the Law of Large Numbers — Common Sense - NYTimes.com

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:54:55 -0500

Apple Confronts the Law of Large Numbers — Common Sense - NYTimes.com:

Apple’s first-quarter earnings of more than $13 billion accounted for more than 6 percent of all earnings for the S.& P. 500, according to Mr. Silverblatt. Sales for the quarter that ended Dec. 31 included an astonishing 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads and totaled $46.33 billion, up 73 percent from the year before. Earnings more than doubled. Compare that with this week’s earning from the tech giants Hewlett-Packard (down 44 percent) and Dell (down 18 percent). Apple shares have surged 68 percent from their low point in June, and it’s not just Apple shareholders who have benefited. Apple is now such a large part of the S.& P. 500 and the Nasdaq 100 indexes that it has buoyed millions of investors who own shares of broad index funds and mutual funds. These investors account for an estimated half of the American population.

Get over it, chubbs!

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:03:19 -0500

Get over it, chubbs!

letterheady: Andy Warhol, date unknown | Submitted by...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:48:45 -0500

letterheady:

Andy Warhol, date unknown | Submitted by Grace

Just stunning. For your consumption, a larger version.

The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:05:45 -0500

The glasses will have a low-resolution built-in camera that will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby, according to the Google employees. (via Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End - NYTimes.com)

baristart: Im starting with the man in my coffee.

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:52:05 -0500

baristart:

Im starting with the man in my coffee.

A photo and video tour inside the Pyongyang subway. (via A North...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:18:39 -0500

A photo and video tour inside the Pyongyang subway. (via A North Korean Wearing Pink Discovered Over 100 Meters Under Pyongyang – RocketNews24)

(via WTF: ESPN Offers Linsanely Racist Headline, “Chink In...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:47:39 -0500

(via WTF: ESPN Offers Linsanely Racist Headline, “Chink In The Armor”: Gothamist) wow

The Piers in New York City in 1976 (by 5ninthavenueproject) I am...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:42:54 -0500

The Piers in New York City in 1976 (by 5ninthavenueproject) I am living in the wrong decade.

"241 pedestrians or cyclists were killed by drivers last year. Only 17 of the drivers responsible..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:59:24 -0500

“241 pedestrians or cyclists were killed by drivers last year. Only 17 of the drivers responsible faced criminal charges. Asked how many criminal charges were filed against drivers in non-fatal accidents, the NYPD reps said they were not aware of any.”

- Here’s Why Drivers Get Away With Murder In NYC: Gothamist

"The idea that we will not need to know other languages in 25 years because everyone will speak..."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:24:14 -0500

“The idea that we will not need to know other languages in 25 years because everyone will speak English has in fact already been around for about that long. It has not served us well.”

- We Have a Listening Problem If We Aren’t Learning Foreign Languages « NAFSA: Association of International Educators Blog

My incredible bike is on sale at Adeline Adeline. (via Abici...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:12:18 -0500

My incredible bike is on sale at Adeline Adeline. (via Abici GranTurismo Uomo)

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable: Fuck your plate cascade.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:48:55 -0500

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable:

Fuck your plate cascade.

allthingseurope: Azay-Le-Rideau, France (by Anto57 -)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:13:35 -0500

allthingseurope:

Azay-Le-Rideau, France

(by Anto57 -)

The elaborate townhouse, designed in the height of Beaux Arts...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:08:33 -0500

The elaborate townhouse, designed in the height of Beaux Arts style, boasted “121 rooms, 31 baths, four art galleries, a swimming pool, a concealed garage,” and a private underground rail line to bring in coal for heat. (via Looking Back at Manhattan’s Lost Gilded Age Mansions - History Lessons - Curbed NY)

"That is not legal argument or empirical evidence. It is the death rattle of a movement that has no..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:59:38 -0500

“That is not legal argument or empirical evidence. It is the death rattle of a movement that has no legal argument or empirical evidence. Nobody disputes the fact that Americans opposed to gay marriage believe passionately in their ideas and arguments. But that doesn’t necessarily mean those arguments should win in a court. The best thing that could have happened in the Prop 8 case just happened. The dissent has no clothes.”

- Why the Proponents of a Gay Marriage Ban Will Soon Be Speechless - Slate Magazine

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas by Man Ray

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:11:42 -0500

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas by Man Ray

This picture is on one of the German-language websites I’m...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:05:55 -0500

This picture is on one of the German-language websites I’m using! What the hell.

Paris is to become one of the first major capital cities in the...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:19:02 -0500

Paris is to become one of the first major capital cities in the world to officially allow cyclists to ride through red lights. (via Paris to allow cyclists to run red lights in bid to cut accidents | Mail Online)

YES to tableside martini preparation. (via Humm’s $340 Bespoke...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:06:27 -0500

YES to tableside martini preparation. (via Humm’s $340 Bespoke Menu Offers Foie Gras, Perfect Duck: Review - Bloomberg)