The Best Thing About the Kindle?

I can finally read the books I was too embarrassed to read on the subway. Subway riders are intimidating. I always feel like I have to read a Murakami novel to fit in. But now I can read The Hunger Games without judgement. (It’s actually not too bad.)

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(Source: motherjones, via shortformblog)

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The Guardian: “Take a look at the figures below, which show the peak bandwidth distribution between the US and Europe. You will notice that the paid-for Netflix service takes exactly the same amount of traffic as bittorrent does in Europe! These stats offer a compelling proof that creating legitimate commercial alternatives is a good way to contain piracy.” 

Exaaactly!

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“I was at the movies yesterday and before the movie started they had this long ad where they were trying to say like — you know those ads where it’s like, “Don’t download things illegally, et cetera,” —- and the way they did it was they were like, “You wouldn’t steal a purse, would you? You wouldn’t think of stealing a car.” And I was thinking about it, I was watching it and I was like, “You know what? I would steal a car if it was as easy as touching the car and then thirty seconds later I owned the car. And, like, I would steal a car if by stealing the car, the person who owned the car, they got to keep the car. And um, I would also steal a car if no one I had ever met had ever bought a car before in their whole lives.”

— Mindy Kaling  (via flordemort, megalong) (via swansoning) (via nom-chompsky) (via stfuconservatives) (via ruthpower) (via pricklylegs) (via memewhore) 

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“What are we supposed to do? Go to the library like the common masturbator?”

— Jon Stewart (paraphrased) on Wikipedia’s black out.

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Random Find of the Day: Check out The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus (aka everyone’s favorite hillbilly, Daryl) in Bjork’s 1994 “Violently Happy” music video. 

This makes me wonder what happened to the rest of the people in the video.

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Swing Star (Part 2)

Todd Terje : Its The Arps

Coming off his successful Ragysh EP, Todd Terje’s new 5 track EP is more of the glittery space disco he’s known for.  While it might not sound like he’s covering any new ground, the music is fun as hell. Guaranteed to warm your cynical heart. 

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Looks like The AV Club beat me to it. I also noticed the favorable air surrounding Fallon lately. It reminds me of the “golden years” of Late Night when Conan O’Brien started to evolve and grow momentum from his rough earlier years. What worries me though is if all the young people are watching Jimmy, Jon and Stephen, who’s left to watch Conan?

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“I hate when I’m at the Golden Globes and some dude hands me Meryl Streep’s glasses like oh great now I gotta be responsible for Meryl Streep’s glasses.”

— David Fincher (via moreteavicarr)

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