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Primary Elections Explained by CGPGrey. This video explains many of the complications and nuances of the U.S. presidential primary process.

This clever Tumblr features album cover art with the dead band members digitally removed.

via Laughing Squid

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue.

— Jeff Bezos - from Wired Magazine

foxontherun:

(via graphics / your dreams)

Shake On It – It’s Not Crazy, It’s Sports – ESPN Commercial (by ESPN)

milkchugger:

Byrecovering lazyholic

ollymoss:

Star Wars

Batman, Meet Dr. Seuss

via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Is Life Good?

One of my favorite writer’s writers has given a final sign off from his weekly blog. William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well , signed of after several years of writing for The American Scholar, which will not be the same without him.

In his final post he shared a final great piece of advice to aspiring writers:

Give yourself permission to believe in the validity of your own narrative.

Has Hollywood Lost it’s Way? via Short of the Week

The Telegraph has this amazing picture of coffee splashing out of its cup.

Jack Long uses high-speed photography to capture the moment a splash is made in a cup of coffee. The Milwaukee-based photographer has taken a year to perfect his secret technique, but claims the effect is not created by dropping liquid as seen in other splash photography…

via Art of the Title

Jeremiah Warren made this quick history of the modern calendar.

via Laughing Squid

Facebook’s Memology takes a look at the top 10 global topics of 2011.

Memology takes the pulse of this global community by comparing this year’s status updates to last year’s, unearthing the most popular topics and cultural trends - or memes - emerging on Facebook. Whether it’s hmu, lms or tbh, each year brings a new set of three letter acronyms that go viral.

Once a year, my dislike of pop music comes into conflict with my love for well done mashup/remixes thanks to the amazing work of DJ Earworm.

This year’s mix, as always, features the 25 biggest hits of 2011.

This year’s was okay, but doesn’t compare to his best work in 2009:

Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed in those terms. Call it Generation Sell.

— William Dersiewicz: The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com

Below are some highlights from my recent reading of Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth”, a collection of some of the better known of Poor Richard’s sayings.

[D]ost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of[.]

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We degrade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Idiot

Old people dancing is awesome. And the Internet is awesome for setting their classic steps to contemporary music.

via Kottke