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Your NPR Name

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:17:48 -0500

Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.

In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli.

So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.

I’m Krory Vernazza.

Six Mistakes Of Man

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:14:37 -0500

stuffaboutminneapolis:

“There are six mistakes of life that many of us make,” said a famous writer. They are so well-founded that we are sharing them with you:

The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others.

The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.

Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.

Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.

Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and study.

Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

This was printed on the back of a 1944 Como-Harriet streetcar line ticket.

IGNORANCE - NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:20:25 -0500

IGNORANCE - NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer

Gervais + Elmo = Hilarity on ‘Sesame Street’: Gimme...

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:03:35 -0500

Gervais + Elmo = Hilarity on ‘Sesame Street’: Gimme Four!

The 20 Best Free PC Games

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:01:10 -0600

The 20 Best Free PC Games

"The GOP has passed what amounts to a spending and tax-cutting and borrowing stimulus package every..."

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:06:32 -0600

“The GOP has passed what amounts to a spending and tax-cutting and borrowing stimulus package every year since George W. Bush came to office. They have added tens of trillions to future liabilities and they turned a surplus into a trillion dollar deficit - all in a time of growth. They then pick the one moment when demand is collapsing in an alarming spiral to argue that fiscal conservatism is non-negotiable. I mean: seriously.”

- via Andrew Sullivan

kittens inspired by kittens (via blakekelly0)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:23:14 -0600

kittens inspired by kittens (via blakekelly0)

"Obama’s stimulus plan is no call for socialism. It is a far from radical hodgepodge, and there..."

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:18:45 -0600

“Obama’s stimulus plan is no call for socialism. It is a far from radical hodgepodge, and there is much to criticize about it, whether you are a liberal or a conservative. No one expects every congressional Republican to sign off on it, or any of them to agree with all of it. But in this moment of crisis, it is reasonable to expect the opposition party to seriously engage with it, be willing to compromise, and where they disagree, come up with a coherent alternative plan. It is reasonable to expect them to work in good faith with the administration to help heal their badly wounded nation. It is reasonable to expect them to recognize that we are all in this mess together, and we must all work together to get out of it.”

- The party of prima donnas | Salon

Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys (via FrancisVachon)

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:24:15 -0600

Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys (via FrancisVachon)

Haiku

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:11:07 -0600

Haiku

Decline of Civilization

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:01:30 -0600

Decline of Civilization

47.2%

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:11:52 -0600

47.2%:

http://plutor.org/filmaddict/?f=f1z230eu

I'm dreaming of a nostalgic Christmas.

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:09:35 -0600

I'm dreaming of a nostalgic Christmas.:

Even the antennas move.

Smartest Things Said About Fatherhood

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:32:03 -0600

Smartest Things Said About Fatherhood

So close, yet so far.

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:26:10 -0600

So close, yet so far.

Thanks to the Snuggie, I will never be cold again. Stupid...

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:46:41 -0600

Thanks to the Snuggie, I will never be cold again. Stupid blankets are so lame, annoying, and impractical.

Why the stories about Obama's birth certificate will never die

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:06:00 -0600

Why the stories about Obama's birth certificate will never die:

Sad, but true.

Zakaria: A More Disciplined America | Newsweek Business

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:44:02 -0600

Zakaria: A More Disciplined America | Newsweek Business:

I have become somewhat of a financial crisis junkie, subscribing to a few blogs (NPR’s Planet Money) and reading well regarded financal intellects (Krugman). But despite all this info overload, I always feel like there’s gonna be another shoe that will drop. I think this article tries to address that feeling.

So?

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:36:00 -0600

So?

16 Funny Senior Portraits And The Reasoning Behind Them

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:20:33 -0600

16 Funny Senior Portraits And The Reasoning Behind Them:

I was too smart to do any of this stuff back in ‘92, thank God…