December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Does the calendar really have to be so confusing? →
sciencecenter: The dates fall on different days of the week every year. The months all have different numbers of days, with no rhyme or reason. There’s plenty of inefficiency built into the modern calendar. But according to Johns Hopkins astronomer Richard Conn Henry, that doesn’t have to be the case. According to his proposed calendar, eight of the months would have 30 days, with 31 days every...
Dec 29th
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It’s nice to like stuff.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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I have a Christmas stomach flu that just will not stop and OH MY FUCKING GOD I WANT TO DIE. Pretty sure it’s punishment for conceding once again to go to Catholic Mass on Christmas Eve with my dad. He even put money in the collection tin so pretty much we’re raging homophobes/woman haters/child molesters by association now. If I were God, I’ve had punished me too. ...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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WatchWatch
Man, I love these boys. Too bad they traded Soupy, though, because he could actually sing.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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That's Gay
Things have changed a lot for the gay community in the US since I got here in 1992. Pretty much every big TV show has a gay character; you can’t listen to (or watch) ten documentaries/long-form articles in a row without consuming one about a trans person, and the kids now don’t seem to be held to the same standards of gender-conformity that they were even when I was a kid (which...
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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nprmusic: Early footage of Talking Heads performing at CBGB in 1975, from the new documentary Chronology. So pissed I was too busy not being born yet to see this.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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How to Combat HuffPo's Click-Baiting
huffnos: Ever go to the front page of the Huff and see a click-baiting, short headline like “ENGAGED” or “GUESS WHO?” or “SCANDAL”? You suddenly hate them and then yourself for wanting to know who is engaged or in weird make-up or dead. Instead of clicking on the story, hover over it and look in the bottom left corner of your browser. The name of the person is always in the URL. That way you can...
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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this is fucking hilarious →
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Is it because I'm so sexist?
You know, when dudes make fun of me I’m generally pretty good at returning the favor in a sporting fashion. I mean, most of my friends are guys and we are generally not particularly nice to each other. That’s just how we roll. But when girls start making fun of me, I’m almost always like “WHY ARE YOU A BITCH?! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!” and end up hiding in a closet or...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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