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To some extent, Letterman’s bored affect is simply an accurate response to—and subversive comment on—the nature of late-night TV, where stars beg for attention while viewers fall asleep. That’s not why his show is interesting to watch, though. Letterman’s boredom is fun because it flows from something like a sense of Midwestern decency (Letterman is originally from Indianapolis). Late-night TV is all about suspending the rules of everyday life; the premise is that every night, even a weeknight, can be special. Letterman’s humor centers on the opposite idea, that every day is just a day like any other. It acknowledges that the rules of adulthood can never really be suspended.

#david letterman #late night #comedy

It’s always been difficult to fund art, this isn’t new, the internet didn’t break anything. In fact, the internet has given us new ways to fund things we believe in. It’s not just up to artists to become better business people — for some that just won’t ever happen. It’s time for us — fans, supporters, listeners, readers, lovers of art, culture, knowledge — to step up. ... The internet has given us a way to pay attention to the art, knowledge, culture, and science that may not be sexy enough for the media because it isn’t making any money. Next time you back an ultra successful project, or pre-order a neat tech thing, take a look at other projects, things that look great but have no neat rewards or famous face attached to the project. Toss them a few dollars. Take a chance on funding something new, something truly independent.

#art #kickstarter #crowdfunding

Russian DIY motorcycle sleds

#russia #motorcycles

Who saves New York City's trees from the menace of plastic bags? Meet the bag snaggers of the Bette Midler-founded New York Restoration Project. A short film by Aaron Reiss and Jamie

#new york city #odd jobs

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1. Grab your drink of choice 2. Open 3 tabs on your browser: 3. http://www.rainymood.com/ 4: http://endlessvideo.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k 5: http://endlessvideo.com/watch?v=DIx3aMRDUL4

The annual holiday, known as Thanksgiving, celebrates a mythologized moment of peace between America’s early foreign settlers and its native groups—a day that by Americans' own admission preceded a near genocide of those groups. Despite its murky origins, the holiday remains a rare institution celebrated almost universally in this ethnically diverse society.

During the holiday, more than 38.4 million Americans will make the long pilgrimage home, traveling an average of 214 miles over congested highways, often in inclement weather. The more prosperous citizens will frequently opt for the nation's airways, suffering through a series of flight delays and missed airline connections thanks to the country’s decaying transportation infrastructure and residual fears of foreign terrorist attacks.

#thanksgiving #united states

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Don’t seek feedback to get praise. If you’re looking for praise, show your work to your mum. Feedback is about listening, digesting, and evolving. We should be eager to evolve— it keeps us nimble, fresh, and better than before.

#critique #design

Powerful Portraits of Secluded Cultures on the Brink of Extinction

#culture #anthropology

Peter Pan Donuts, one of New York's most beloved doughnut shops, has seen the immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint changed by an influx of developments and younger residents over the past 15 years. Co-owner Donna Siafakas expresses gratitude for how lively these newcomers have made her slice of home, but without an essential place like Peter Pan for locals of all stripes to sit at the counter and get along, it's hard to imagine what would link the old fashioned and the new generation together.

#Greenpoint #Brooklyn #Peter Pan Donuts

The point of a hero’s adventure (and Zelda is the hero’s adventure in gaming) is not to make you feel better about yourself. The point is to grow, to overcome, to in some way actually become better. If a legendary quest has no substantial challenge, if it asks nothing of you except that you jump through the hoops it so carefully lays out for you, then the very legend is unworthy of being told, and retold.

#The Legend of Zelda #gaming

The water—”water”—is set at exactly body temp, so don’t expect that tingly sensation of sliding into a hot tub. And remember that it’s saline solution, so don’t get it on your face. It’s not that tricky, since you’ll slide in so that you’re on your back. So your eyes, nose and mouth are completely exposed and floating, as well as your toes, the tops of your thighs and a half-bagel of your belly (or full bagel depending on the day).

#the awl #sensory depravation #new york city

A majority of the people who make the daily migration to the West Side to cop blows are as addicted to the ritual of copping dope as they are to the dope itself. It is an adrenaline rush no different than those achieved by people who jump out of airplanes. And dope fiends get to experience it every day.

Just as good an episode of The Wire.

#drugs #Chicago

Hayworth has spent much of the past few years in a windowless room carving brains into very thin slices. He is by all accounts a curious man, known for casually saying things like, “The human race is on a beeline to mind uploading: We will preserve a brain, slice it up, simulate it on a computer, and hook it up to a robot body.” He wants that brain to be his brain. He wants his 100 billion neurons and more than 100 trillion synapses to be encased in a block of transparent, amber-colored resin—before he dies of natural causes.

Why? Ken Hayworth believes that he can live forever.

But first he has to die.

#immortality #health #science

A history of American comic books in six panels

#comics #american history

If each baseball team played just 16 baseball games, all the numbers numbers would jump. Ratings would jump. You would see 80,000 people at baseball games even though the ticket prices would go way up. Interest in each game would skyrocket. The World Series, at one game, would have a Super Bowl type quality.

#baseball #sports

Dogstep: Unleash the power of the pack on your music

Dogstep's version of Get Lucky is one of my favs

#dogs #music

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