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An amazing piece of statistical analysis produced this zoomable (down to the block level) map of energy consumption for New York City, based on Spatial distribution of urban building energy consumption by end use. [via]
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SoftPanorama SoftPanorama Switchboard, created by Nikolai Bezroukov, is one of those vast, practical resources with a fun side too. There is the excellent and very useful Cl***ification of Corporate Psychopaths | Coping with the toxic stress in IT e...
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The Male Mystique of Henry Miller by Jeanette Winterson.
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Polka face, Moneky Island, Bohemian rhapsody, When Im 64, Tetris Theme, Nyan theme, Were not gonna take it, Take on me, Smells like teen spirit.
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Jezebel. The Hairpin. xoJane. Rookie. The ladyblog isnt quite the same as a feminist blog, but what is it? n+1 says, The notion that women might share some fundamental experience and interests, a notion on which womens websites would seem to depend—s...
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Two years before The Name of the Rose, Dutch academic Helene Nolthenius published the first of three detective novels featuring the medieval Tuscan cleric Lapo Mosca. She died in 2000. Her own story is sadly affecting. (Via the Dartmouth History blog...
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Another honor killing that isnt about honor, and even less about Nietzsche. By MeFis own resident psychiatrist.
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Tarquin Blake photographs the abandoned castles, houses, forts and mines of Ireland. Im fairly sure Ive come across Rhincrew Abbey and the Lost Mines once or twice in my travels in Skyrim ...
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Illustrations of Carrots in Ancient Manuscripts Note the Carrot Museum does not endorse or agree with the ***umptions and ***ignment of carrot to any of the images or text, but provides the information given below as a matter of interest only.
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SF versions of famous artworks
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The Lonely Planet has come up with a list of thirty travel terms that arent in the dictionary.
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Thousands of Iranian women are training to be ninjas.
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Festivids is a holiday fanvid exchange that, much in the spirit of Yuletide, focuses on less popular vidding fandoms. Subjects include Mythbusters Buster, Mad Mens Peggy Olson, and Maru. The full masterlist is here. AMVs and Fanvids Previously on Met...
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India tells Britain: We dont want your aid According to a leaked memo, the foreign minister, Nirupama Rao, proposed not to avail [of] any further DFID [British] ***istance with effect from 1st April 2011, because of the negative publicity of Indian p...
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Like a lot of people, Id always ***umed, in a sort of cut-rate Hobbesian way, that the center of the brain, if you could ever find it, would inevitably be a pretty dark place, that whatever is good or beautiful about being human is a result of our st...
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So, you want to know the secret history of Dublin? Well, Come Here To Me, boy, and Ill tell it ya. League of Ireland fanatics and music fans they may be but above all else, former UCD students Jay, D Fallon and hXci are history buffs, and on their bl...
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Marco Arnaudo reviews wargames on YouTube About:Marco Arnaudo was born in Italy in 1976. He graduated (BA) from the University of Pisa in 2000, and earned his PhD from both the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2004) and Harvard University (2006). He...
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Bookstore Cats from Different Parts of the World These five Mental Floss posts contain 58 bookstore cats - the collective term for which is catalog.Not enough? Here are 8 more compared by attitude towards customers, favorite place to sleep, and estim...
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