“Rocking gently in his chair, he begins to sing: ‘I wanna be a billionaire so freakin’ bad. Buy all the things I never had. I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine. Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen…’”
Read the candid Interview with Bill Gates at The Daily Mail
“Don’t talk during a movie. Don’t gab on your phone. And don’t text!
A woman who recently went to an Austin, TX movie theater apparently didn’t know about that last rule.”
Source: Seattle PI
Ambiguously Gay Duo - Live Action starring Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Ed Helm, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and Fred Armisen
Source: Nerd Boyfriend
The risks of release outweigh the benefits.
“Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway
— Obama on OBL pics - @feifei_sun (via brooklynmutt)
jstn:
…a photograph of the violence you inflict is always, in very large measure, a self-portrait. In getting rid of bin Laden, Obama has made the greatest step yet toward being able to put that era behind us.The perfect secrecy of the operation was part of its inspiring style—the total control, even the pitch-perfect relentlessness of Obama’s speech announcing the kill. Publishing trophy photographs is antithetical to that.
(Source: newyorker)
Fair enough.
“Symmetry” - A beautiful new video from Radiolab
This brilliant description of a sofa for sale in Austin popped up on Craigslist last weekend.
“Yes, you read that correctly. I’m pretty sure my couch is gay – which in my tolerant household is fine and that’s really not the reason I’m selling him – I swear. It’s just that I’m moving and can’t take him with me. I’m fine with him just the way he is. Seriously! What???
So why am I convinced my sofa is gay? Well….. you be the judge:
Items of interest -
particularly to me.
