Signe Wilkinson: Republican Twisters

 

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Take Two: Budget Dispute Deepens a Rift Within G.O.P. by Jonathan Weisman (NY Times)

"Senate Republicans are locked in a widening internal dispute over future budget negotiations, splitting along generational and ideological lines on the party’s approach to the central issue that drove the conservative surge in the Obama era: how to deal with the federal debt."

 

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A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie

Matthew Winkler: Who invented writing?

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns

 

 

 Note: Click Title Link for Full-Scale Dialect Map & Legend Key

 

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Related: Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’

Pop Star

23 Stooges and Iggy Pop Covers

Alejandro Escovedo: "I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Billy Corgan: "Johanna (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
The Black Angels: "I Wanna be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Bad Livers: "Lust for Life (Iggy Pop cover)" [mp3]
Calling All Astronauts: "I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Happy New Year: "The Endless Sea (Iggy Pop cover)" [mp3]
Local H: "Success (Iggy Pop cover)" [mp3]
Meat Puppets: "I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "1970 (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Dirt (with Sharon Van Etten) (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Down on the Street (with Thurston Moore) (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Fun House (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "L.A. Blues (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Little Doll (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Loose (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "No Fun (with Kurt Vile) (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Not Right (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "Real Cool Time (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Mike Watt: "T.V. Eye (with John Petkovic) (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Ryan Adams: "I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Smashing Pumpkins: "Johanna (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Spoon: "Loose (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]
Vic ChesnuttVic Chesnutt: "The Passenger (with Elf Power) (The Stooges cover)" [mp3]

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11 Big Star Covers

Dolly Varden: "Thirteen (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
The Drams: "The Ballad of El Goodo (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
The Drams: "I Am the Cosmos (Big Star)" [mp3]
Elliott Smith: "Thirteen (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
Green Like July: "September Gurls (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
The New Amsterdams: "The Ballad of El Goodo (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
Patterson Hood: "I'm in Love with a Girl (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
Patterson Hood: "September Gurls (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
Sharon Van Etten: "Dream Lover (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
Sharon Van Etten: "You Can't Have Me (Big Star cover)" [mp3]
Tea Leaf Green: "The Ballad of El Goodo (Big Star cover)" [mp3]

Outmane Amahou: Minimalistic Posters Of Major Art Movements

Beautiful Decay: Street Story

"Street artist Mobstr produced this piece, The Story. Each painted-over line of the story allows the next to proceed. Much of Mobstr’s street art works on assumption that his work will soon be painted over – it relies on its inevitable destruction. Like his story states, his distinct approach to street art makes use of this 'strange harmony'." -- Danny Olda