random crap

Maybe you were feeling a bit safer now that evil megalomaniacs were no longer running U.S. foreign policy. Wrong! Be afraid, be very afraid: Catherine Ashton, who will be the EU’s new foreign minister, has a full-size Dalek — a gift from her husband — in her sitting room. (via Exterminate! Exterminate! - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

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“Tumblr is a bottle of wine.”

Internet Vices - Patrick Moberg

How the tax code encourages debt : The New Yorker

Clowns in the New Year? « Awful Library Books

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Queen Bee Creations and Chickpea Baby

This morning I got an email around 9:30 that an ad for The Onion was needed by 11am. I have my Portuguese class from 10-11, so I wound up throwing this together in less than five minutes.

Do y’all know any brainy chicks lookin’ to get hitched?

I can’t stop watching this. I hope they come to Austin!

elizablr:

Now that we’re closer to Christmas, I keep seeing various Crayola commercials. … thought is always, “That kid is way too old for that product. He wouldn’t be caught dead playing with that.” As in, I don’t think the average 10-year-old (as portrayed by the actor kid,) would actually want the product….

Having been a producer of educational media for kids, I know that kids want to see older “cool” kids doing what you want the kid to do. In my case, we had 14 year-olds doing fourth or fifth grade math. The idea is that they’ll think peer-age kids are babies, but slightly older kids are cool. I haven’t seen any research that supports, this, though.

Da Weasel feat. Buraka Som Sistema - dialectos da ternura

I like this song.

Kam Moye - Life Line

National Ag Safety Database - What To Do In Case Of Grain Bin Entrapment

I think this video comes to mind at least once a day.

Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas: Street-art: “Warn your kids about Glenn Beck!”