WorldChanging: Zero, Now.
"Which means that we have to stop pussy-footing around and speak plainly: our goal is to have zero impact within our lifetimes. Our goal is to provide reasonable affluence and high qualities of life for everyone of the planet, while reducing our CO2 emissions, toxic releases, ecosystem impacts and resource draw-downs to essentially [...]

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TENNIS.com - Features - From the Archives: Democracy and Commerce at the US Open
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Memories of David Foster Wallace.
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Twentieth Century Limited
An official playlist
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Scirocco Studios
This worked - I was intrigued enough to open the booklet that came with [...]

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Sounds of the Universe — Order History
like a long lost friend…
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CR Blog » Blog Archive » D&AD Online
Have to love the CR Comments crowd
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LRB · Wyatt Mason: Don’t like it? You don’t have to play
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David Foster Wallace's Defunct :: Sam Leith
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Foster Wallace is a huge loss | Books | guardian.co.uk
"All I know right now is this: that any premature death is the source of great sorrow, intensely so for family and friends; [...]

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David Foster Wallace is dead. He was my favourite writer. Both his prose and his non-fiction have a wit and intelligence that I’ve struggled to find in anyone else. I remember reading The Girl With Curious Hair and The Broom Of The System and A Supposedly Fun Thing… in the mid-nineties I guess, almost wide-mouthed [...]

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Just had one of those gorgeous tech epiphanies when you find out you can do something that you couldn’t do before that will improve your quality of life in a small but meaningful way.
I’ve just been listening to a friend’s last.fm playlist wirelessy through the iTouch plugged into the stereo while doing the washing up. [...]

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Last Supper in detail
wow (via b3ta)
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coign of vantage | bobblebrook | delightful free online games
drop dead gorgeous game (via iaintait)
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Twelve leverage points - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
via tomtaylor who's great value. 'leverage' is such a good thing.
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Eight Ways to Orientate Yourself Anywhere » Talks » tomtaylor.co.uk
the pointing the hour hand bit is genius.
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Home | School of Everything
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Is Berbatov really the right man for United? | Sport | guardian.co.uk
Just for this comment from szerzo: "You know, when Manchester United plays football it's like a dance, pa de deux, they let the other team to dance as well. It's nice to watch. Arsenal plays quick dance, Liverpool plays power-dance. Chelsea will choke its [...]

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