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This was playing in the supermarket this morning when I stopped off to buy lunch. It's spectacular. Come for the key change, stay for the guitar solo and the acapella break. And the hair. So. Much. Hair.

#and the ten second fade out

Hey, Charger! ✌ http://ift.tt/1FShAfQ

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Vanity plate: TOXIC 8. http://ift.tt/1EqrbZI

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Early last month, Bill Gates released a video of one of the latest ventures funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: the Omniprocessor, a Seattle-based processing plant that burns sewage to make clean drinking water. In the video, Gates raises a glass of water to his lips.

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Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture. Just Not How to Be a Meritocracy Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way, the WIRED headline began. Sure, I’ll go with that.

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vasta

Basically how it works now.

When the projector in a lecture theatre has a catastrophic failure, a nice man brings a box of tricks and sorts it out for you. http://ift.tt/1ElclUn

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rottersclub

A lot of the sharing economy is about rebranding precarity as entrepreneurship.

An interview with the artist Molly Crabapple (via rottersclub)

caryrandolph-blog

Dressing up can be an act of graciousness and respect not only to yourself but to other human beings with whom you interact.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via)

A tree grows in Ingolstadt http://ift.tt/1vImLpR

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Peter Martin has reported that the upcoming budget may not have money in it for a Census. Like all pre-budget stories, it’s hard for readers to work out how much is hype, what’s speculation, whether it’s the government testing for a response, and how much is simply a stuff-up.

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At the National Press Club, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson waxed lyrical about the free market. A splendid ideal, though not one Wilson’s $325,000 job was ever exposed to. Unlike the experience of his fellow commissioners, whose jobs were advertised, Wilson simply received a phone call from [AG] George Brandis, who asked if he was interested. Of course, the Attorney-General was exercising his liberty in making that call. As they say, let freedom ring.

Do it by halves | The Australian via @latikambourke

#bazinga