June 2012
121 posts
“‘Some days I want more tattoos because it’s the easiest, most self-directed form of bad decision.’ –Malcolm Harris”
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The Touch-point Collective: Crowd Contouring on the Casino Floor | Limn →
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Women under thirty and retired men might have surprisingly similar tastes for gambling. Natasha Dow Schüll explains how casinos have created a new kind of crowd.
mental_floss on tumblr: 11 Wars People Forgot to Actually End →
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Thanks to lost paperwork, diplomatic technicalities, or just plain forgetting they had declared war in the first place, many countries remained in a state of war long after the actual fighting had stopped.
1. Roman Republic vs. Carthaginian Republic – 2,134 years
After two Punic wars,…
Yes, yes a million times: Bed makes itself in 50 seconds | DVICE →
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It’s here. The self-making bed. Whether it is because you don’t have time to make things tidy, or you can’t be bothered to do it yourself it doesn’t really matter. This bed will make itself in a mere 50 seconds.
Spanish furniture maker OHEA is behind the bed that makes itself. The bed looks unassuming enough, but once activated it looks like one of James Bond’s cars with all kinds of hidden doors and levers springing into action.
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Men Think About Sex Less Than Women Think About Fashion, Survey Says →
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I hope women don’t have to take pills to restore their fashion drive.
The Official Site of the Villisca Axe Murders of 1912 →
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House is OPEN tues-sun 1-4pm for tours CLOSED MONDAYS, NO RESERVATION FOR DAY TOUR NEEDED, OPEN TO PUBLIC..overnights are 7nights a week. GPS ADDRESS IS 508 e 2nd st. Villisca Iowa
Flavor Aid
The Jonestown mass suicide, which inspired the phrase to “drink the kool-aid”, was actually perpetrated with Flavor Aid.
