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Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition) →
The king commented on Hamlet’s play: “What is wrong with you?”
This is genius and oh-so true. (via nostrich)
Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML Entities →
Telescopic Text →
Pocket-sized Australian solar charger →
“ Too many people put form over function, and that’s what building a Web site entirely in Flash is. ”
“ Until that time … syphilis had been called the “French disease” in Italy and Germany, and the “Italian disease” in France. In addition, the Dutch called it the “Spanish disease”, the Russians called it the “Polish disease”, the Turks called it the “Christian disease” or “Frank disease” (frengi) and the Tahitians called it the “British disease”. ”
“ 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years. ”
“Most annoying Craigslist apartment ad ever” →
<h1> tags build up. (via getupgetout)“ When I worked at a paper I maintained the strictest adherence to protecting people’s God-given Constitutional right to look like idiots in print. ”
“ Plasma TVs, industry officials say, consume about four times the electricity as recharging a plug-in hybrid. Yet utilities have managed to cope with the increased loads as thousands of new televisions came on line. ”
A Dog A Day →
Newspapers are thriving in many developing countries →
In places like India and China, newspaper readership has grown along with wealth and literacy rates. People like to know what’s going on in their community and practice their new reading skills — two things a newspaper lets them do.
India’s strong tradition of press freedom means that local papers are largely left alone by government officials. China is an interesting case — though all papers are state-owned, some Communist officials see newspapers a tool for helping fight corruption.
