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Some thoughts on the real world 27 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work ...
"Your two o'clock appointment is here, and he's black." 27 Aug 2013 | 07:04 pm
Fifty years ago, another bus-centric race dispute took place. Despite "Just 12 miles away in Bath, black crews were working on buses. London Transport recruitment officers had travelled to Barbados sp...
Hyper Fighting 27 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
Street Fighter II has been ported to the Virtual Boy. The forum thread.
Drunk vs Stoned 27 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
"Anything else you want to add? Don't do drugs kids?" "Yeah That's a good one." In a highly (un)scientific experiment, BuzzFeed video producer Andrew Gauthier spent one night drunk and one night stone...
2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space 27 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
"Imagine being alone, in space. Just you and your shiny spacesuit and your tiny metal capsule, the world splayed beneath you in swaths of blue and swirls of white. The only immediate link to the human...
Bad Relationship 27 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
A Softer World - a Metafilter favorite better known for stories of love, loss, and dysfunctional relationships - takes on government spying: Happy beginnings. Signs of trouble. Denial.... More denial...
Here I am, Rock Me 27 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
Writer Dan Devine reminisces about getting married during Hurricane Irene.
Slowly but surely 27 Aug 2013 | 06:19 pm
It seems eco-friendly cargo ships are slowly on the rise. Today i learned there is a full length documentary on Vimeo about one of these sailing vessels, the Tres Hombres; a bittersweet account of a v...
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when... 27 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove is a fascinating, informative and often surprising 46 minute documentary that offers a thorough and loving look at the creation of Stanley Kubrick's classic of mod...
A salt assault 27 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater - a brief story of the humble bag of saline solution given intravenously at ERs and hospitals, and how one unit of it can be marked up from 86 cents to $...
