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Topps 2014 baseball cards: Cards go to WAR, but decline continues

2014.02.05 – 10:49

Topps 2014 baseball cards: Cards go to WAR, but decline continues “Topps sometimes treats their signature product as scraps of cardboard, but they’re really selling scraps of time.”

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The End of American Exceptionalism

2014.02.04 – 22:49

The End of American Exceptionalism “…as Niebuhr and Lippmann understood, the best way to ensure that America remains an exceptional power—better than the predatory empires of the old world—is to remember that we are not inherently better at all.”

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Stock photos that don’t suck

2014.02.04 – 16:13

Stock photos that don’t suck List of sites with free stock photos

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Tweet by EricFisherSBJ

2014.02.04 – 15:43

Nielsen: total number of hours of available sports TV programming up 232% in last decade. Hrs watched up only 27% by comparison. — Eric Fisher (@EricFisherSBJ) February 4, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1kOS0LJ

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What does your favorite music say about you? – The Week

2014.02.04 – 12:21

What does your favorite music say about you? – The Week “The music we listened to at 20 we’ll probably love for the rest of our lives. If we’re 35 when a new type of music appears it’s 95 percent likely we’ll never listen to it.”

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YouTube: Winter Olympics, 03/22/1961

2014.02.04 – 10:19

Winter Olympics, 03/22/1961 US National Archives

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Tweet by suss2hyphens

2014.02.04 – 08:31

Maybe the Sochi hotels aren't done yet because they had to first build four houses — Matt Sussman (@suss2hyphens) February 4, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1nOcUgs

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Tweet by mediastudied

2014.02.03 – 20:31

Just recorded @NewBooksNetwork podcast w/@jlwoj & @SamMillerBP.Thx to them & @kenarneson for writing 1 of my favorite baseball essays ever. — matt sienkiewicz (@mediastudied) February 4, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1fVi58W

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Tweet by TheAlamedan

2014.02.03 – 09:07

VIDEO: Teen thespians serve up Shakespeare in #Alameda competition: http://t.co/2z4QXYlkZh — Michele Ellson (@TheAlamedan) February 3, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1iecNXt

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Tweet by mcrate_s

2014.02.03 – 07:19

This teacher has a very clever idea. http://t.co/ktp2D4VlsC (c/o @testobsessed @Stepto) — dave hoffer (@mcrate_s) February 1, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1bjTqHY

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Tweet by hangingsliders

2014.02.01 – 18:43

@jay_jaffe My guess was Jeremy Affeldt — Wendy Thurm (@hangingsliders) February 2, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1fliktb

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Tweet by gallopingael

2014.02.01 – 11:13

@kenarneson the lines are always unbearable on Shakespeare bobblehead day. Glad I skipped it. — Eric Nelson (@gallopingael) February 1, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1kt7iWm

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Tweet by SciencePorn

2014.01.31 – 10:19

The car is a white Cube. And the number plate is the chemical equation for Glucose. Someone had fun doing this. http://ift.tt/1kln718 — SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) January 31, 2014 via http://ift.tt/IiUu6H

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How To Slow Down Time

2014.01.30 – 22:31

How To Slow Down Time “Your sense of time is actually answered by a simple question: how much are you learning?”

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Tweet by dailycal

2014.01.29 – 16:20

What if Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville had a light rail system? One artist draws up a plan for how it would look. http://t.co/jcK2AAPUmZ — Daily Californian (@dailycal) January 29, 2014 via http://twitter.com/dailycal

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Visible Supernova in M82

2014.01.29 – 15:04

Visible Supernova in M82 “MetaFilter user Ivan Fyodorovich offered up this plain-English explanation of what happens when a star dies and goes supernova. It’s a great read.” (via @kottke).

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Vimeo: “I Left My Heart” SF Timelapse Project

2014.01.29 – 08:53

“I Left My Heart” SF Timelapse Project Marc Donahue

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Tweet by daynperry

2014.01.28 – 17:49

@kenarneson Just search Alta Vista for a workaround. — Dayn Perry (@daynperry) January 29, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1k46mHR

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Tweet by AndrewShimmin

2014.01.28 – 15:55

@kenarneson I'd put my money on you even if it was a string quartet group next door, and you were on a morphine drip. — Andrew Shimmin (@AndrewShimmin) January 28, 2014 via http://ift.tt/1mUaV6Q

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Tweet by alexismadrigal

2014.01.28 – 13:07

This is a super interesting critical essay on my Netflix piece and the idea of reverse engineering. Wow: https://t.co/1fCq0dsBgr @npseaver — Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) January 28, 2014 via http://ift.tt/vD7c4x

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