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Ken Norton
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In response to this.

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Wouter Weylandt (27 September 1984 – 9 May 2011)

Wouter Weylandt (27 September 1984 – 9 May 2011)

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The 71 Songs Written and Released by The Smiths, In Order | The Awl

One of the greatest bursts of creativity in history.



Beach Fossils - Daydream, 2010

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“ Of course the guffaw doesn’t just happen because both words are of the same part of speech. The speaker is also subject to what linguists call “priming.” Your brain makes certain words more accessible to your tongue when they resemble—in pronunciation, in meaning, in subject matter—words that you frequently hear. “Priming means that when you’ve been reading/hearing/thinking about hospitals, words like ‘doctor’ and ‘nurse’ will be recognized more quickly, and are also more likely to be substituted in a slip of the tongue,” Liberman explains. So hearing Osama and Obama in the same context makes your brain more apt to use them interchangeably in speech. “Normally this is a good thing for communication,” Liberman adds, “because it takes less effort to think of primed words. NationalJournal.com - Why We Mix Up ‘Osama’ and ‘Obama’: A Linguistic Reason - Friday, May 6, 2011


Craft Spells - After The Moment, 2011 (official video)

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Mainstream media not so good at math

Did two billion people—some 30% of the world’s population—really watch the royal wedding?

Whenever real journalists complain that bloggers — mere amateurs! — couldn’t possibly do the work of professionals who have been through proper training, it’s exactly this kind of nonsense that permits you to stare at them, silently, before giving a little giggle and walking away.

Phil Gyford doesn’t think so, and he has the numbers to disprove it.



Two books

These two books are both set for release next month. Will current events affect their sales?


Outliving your biographer

From The New York Times Osama bin Laden obituary:

Michael T. Kaufman, a foreign correspondent, reporter and columnist for The Times, died in 2010; Tim Weiner contributed reporting.



Jens Voigt bemoans negative racing

What I saw was not a lot of guys trying to win a race in a great way, but a lot of good riders simply trying to make one lose. All I saw was a lot of riders who seemed to be out there only to ruin Fabian’s day. They just followed his every move, then refused to work with him.

From Jens Voigt’s Blog on Bicycling