December 2011
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Watch“That’s not even my money. Like, this is just a $5 impulse that 220,000 people had.”
Louis C.K. is obviously undercutting himself for the sake of humbleness, but as I’ve said already, and a lot of other people have said, spend the $5 on this thing. You’re helping to advance comedy, the future of the distribution of art, and charities like Fistula Foundation, Green...
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“She smelled like cigarettes, and she had a heartrending way of eating her slice...”
– Jonathan Franzen, “Freedom”
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“In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling...”
– Jonathan Franzen, “Freedom”
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Infinite Jest Visualization →
If you’re a David Foster Wallace/Infinite Jest fan, you absolutely must check this out. I’ll let the creator, Chris Pudney, explain: It’s essentially a scatter plot in which each scene is represented by a dot. The scenes are arranged along the x-axis in the order they occur in the book, and are chronologically positioned along the y-axis. So cool. The bigger the monitor, the...
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“Today: Common Phrases & One-Word Redundancies. Though many redundancies look...”
– Bryan Garner, “Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day, 14 December 2011”
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“I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to...”
– Louis C.K., from the description of his latest special, “Live at the Beacon Theater.”
(Read his statement about it too. Philosophically-speaking, this is the smartest $5 you’ll spend this year.)
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Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey... →
If you’re an NHL fan, and you support the notion that fighting is a part of the game, then you need to read every word in this three part series.
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“July 2004: Mortality must have been on his mind when I saw him again in...”
– Steven Levy, “The Revolution According to Steve Jobs”