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My Top Ten Albums of 2011!

2011 was a pretty awesome year in music! I met a special lady who introduced me to lots of great music and who also got me a record player for my birthday, broadening my perspective on music in every way. Here’s a list of my top 10 albums from last year: Tom Waits - Bad As Me Kanye West & Jay Z - Watch the Throne Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights Thrice - Major/Minor St....

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This is the New Year

I’ve never been big on resolutions. The new year provides a natural point of reflection and re-evaluation that I’ve always passively taken part in, but this time it’s a little different for me. I went through a divorce at the end of 2010/beginning of 2011 and ended up redirecting a lot of my energy into my personal life and stopped really pushing myself elsewhere. 2011 went...

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Frank Chimero: Seven Incredible Things from Today... →

viafrank: A man helped a woman carry her stroller down the stairs to the subway. They got to the bottom, and he saw another woman approach the top of the stair with her stroller, and he went back up to help her, too. I realized that fire breathes just like we do. Oxygen in, carbon dioxide out. I waved at…

Dec 8th

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via Frank: I am Neil deGrasse Tyson. Ask me... →

viafrank: A few questions and answers from the excellent thread on Reddit: What is your favorite short science fact you like to tell people to really make them think? That our bodies’ atoms are traceable to supernova stars that scattered their chemical enrichment across the cosmos, spawning the birth…

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Jolby & Friends: Introducing our Hello!Lucky... →

jolby: Hello!Lucky are a specialty letterpress printer and design studio and have been creating wedding invitations, greeting cards and personalized stationery since 2003. Each year they do a holiday card collection and we were invited to be a part of it this year. A really cool thing about…

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via Frank: For Steve →

viafrank: The world gives us so few who provide a way for us all to see in new ways. It always hurts when they leave. The effused sadness that has spread through the internet from the news of Steve Jobs’ death is to be expected. We lament when things are taken from us, and I’d say that Jobs’ death (like…

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Deal with it.

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dbox: Everinhistory.com →

dbox: My friends and I have always liked to debate whether certain things have ever happened in history. We decided about 5 years ago we should make a site for it, but it’s been sitting vacant since then. Michael and I have finally launched a teaser site where people can help us build the…

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