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Quick Links for January 2015

January 30
Eeny. Teeny. Peeny. Shrimp. LOL.
Tim Carmody on what it's like to watch football after a traumatic brain injury
AHHHH! Lemur spider! Lemur spider!!!
Thanks to Astrologicalendar for sponsoring the site. Get yr beautiful signs-of-the-Zodiac wall calendar here:
Beans do not belong in chili. Yes. Finally. THANK YOU.
Trailer for Game of Thrones season 5, recorded off of IMAX screen
January 29
What if NYC seceded from New York State to become the 51st state?
Charming video about a 102-year-old woman who still golfs & holds the holes-in-one record at her local club (11!)
Michelle Obama Doesn't Owe Anyone a Head Scarf (and neither does any other woman visiting the Middle East)
Study: tackle football before age 12 leads to increased brain problems
What happened to the Milky Way? In the US, there's light pollution nearly everywhere.
January 28
5 Reasons Why Pointlessly Gendered Products Are a Problem
How to protest MetroCard fare hikes: give swipes away
This year's Breaking Madden Super Bowl edition discovers that it's possible to score infinity points in a NFL game
January 27
New hour-long comedy album from Louis CK. $5.
Tyler Cowen calls American Sniper "one of the best anti-war movies I have seen, ever" & now I have to see it I guess
Prominent feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian shares a weeks-worth of the harassment she receives on Twitter. Awful.
Auschwitz was liberated 70 years ago today; Atlantic Photo presents a photographic remembrance
Stanford's free online course for developing iOS apps has been updated for iOS 8 and Swift
January 26
Ah, the Joe Flynn's Personal Eggs / Marlon Brando thing was a hoax
The Muppets sing Biz Markie's Just A Friend
Lawrence Krauss: No, astrobiology has not made the case for God
The Shaun the Sheep Movie is getting positive reviews! It's an 85-minute silent movie!
January 23
This is the Schick Quattro of ditch mowers; "fuck it, we did four blades"
Why you should stop relying on your phone, and buy a nice camera
If you've been paying attention, you've noticed Buzzfeed and the NY Times aren't all that different
Thanks to Flip Band, a super simple wristband to help you develop positive daily habits, for sponsoring the site
Ooh, this should be good: @stevesilberman's forthcoming book on autism and neurodiversity
Pizza bucket list: 15 pizzerias to visit before you die (presumably not of hunger)
January 22
Bill and Melinda Gates have released their Annual Letter for 2015
For their Ask a Grown Man series, Rookie gets the lowdown from Run the Jewels
John Oliver's funny-but-journalistic critiques of everything from the FCC to the lottery are having a real impact
The latest installment of A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL for 2015:
For those w/o HBO GO, the remastered HD version of The Wire is now available on Amazon Instant Video
The evidence against Ross Ulbricht in the Silk Road trial is pretty compelling; he kept a diary the whole time
January 21
A mid-90s-style infomercial for "The Facebook" online service
Federal civil rights charges against Darren Wilson unlikely for homicide of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
Joel Monegro works for a VC firm; his tour of how deep web marketplaces (Silk Road's successors) work is interesting
A short history of the Model T, including what it was like to drive the first car normal people could afford
Kim Kardashian is coming out with a book of selfies. 2015 culture in a nutshell.
The last person to be born in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria died aged 114
January 20
Children at KidZania spend the day role-playing at various careers, like pilot, dentist, and judge.
[BJORK SIREN] Bjork's new album is available on Rdio
To Fall Out of Love, Do This
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
"The Internet is ours." After 15 years, an update to the seminal Cluetrain Manifesto.
The Onion: Unsold Google Glass Units To Be Donated To Assholes In Africa
Netdiver picks the best design objects, publications, and entities for 2014. Lots of great stuff here.
Vogue has 73 questions for Victoria Beckham. "Favorite spice?" "Posh." Why can't I stop watching this?
Brewster Kahle and The Internet Archive get the New Yorker treatment
January 19
"Olikoye" is a new short story by Americanah author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech, Washington DC, August 1963
Spotify playlist of Martin Luther King speeches and related songs
The Atlantic Photo remembers Martin Luther King Jr. in photos
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