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the best video I watched today.

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Crown Candy Kitchen

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Martin Seligman's TED talk on positive psychology. In honor of Pharrell's awesome Oscar performance... #happy

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Hey... Here's a discount coupon for 10% off YNAB. Its a great little piece of software.

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Local Harvest.

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Shooting jpg w/a really nice camera is the photographical equivalent of plugging straight in to a great amp. Sump Coffee. Fuji x100s.

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A little Sunday night masterclass on Daft Punk and the art of sampling...

a lot more sampling craziness here.

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The Yes/No Guide to New Orleans

As a former New Orleans native, I can endorse this guide. Pretty good and accurate.

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The Pixar Theory

Every Pixar movie is connected. I explain how, and possibly why. Several months ago, I watched a fun-filled video on Cracked.com that introduced the idea (at least to me) that all of the Pixar movi...

I spent ENTIRELY too long reading this...

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Kristen Wiig. As Michael Jordan. With Jimmy Fallon.

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Crowd-sourced American-made raw selvedge denim for under $100. Seriously, everyone else needs to go out and buy a pair so that they stay in business long enough for me to save up for a pair...

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A couple of weeks ago I helped a friend DJ a party. By “helped,” I mean I picked out a couple of songs and then stood back and watched the party happen. Somewhere between the bass drop and the 6 ft. tall inflatable palm trees that began flying through the crowd, something strange happened: I...

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You Can't Earn God's Love

"your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:3-4)

Here's a link to a blog post I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the spiritual disciplines...

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Yep. Random k-pop song. Love the bridge. Kind of a halftime drop, only instead of a dubstep feel, its more like old school hip-hop record scratching. So slick.

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Jay-Z Is Right: Most Rappers Are Lying About Their Money

From Bloomberg Businessweek

Fresh off of Jay-Z’snew albumis the trackVersus, on which he chides fellow hip-hop artists and their dubious tales of extraordinary wealth: “The truth in my verses, versus, your metaphors about what your net worth is.” Like Jay-Z, we’ve long been skeptical of just how wealthy some hip-hop stars claim to be, so we created a way to separate the truly rich from the loud-mouth lyricists.

Scroll over each bar in the chart below to compare specific lyrics with data fromForbes’s “Cash Kings of Hip Hop” and “Forbes Five” reports from the same year the given artist’s wealth-related rap song was released. You’re welcome, Hova.