Google’s Project Loon (say ‘loon balloon’ five times fast) will use solar-powered giant devices hovering 12 miles above the ground to beam Internet down to places where it’s not possible to lay cable.
pussy riot: a punk prayer
I NEED TO SEE THIS, GOD DAMN IT.
That sinking feeling, blog by photographer David Gray
David Gray documented life in the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, a chain of 33 islands that stand just a few feet above sea level, spread over a huge expanse of otherwise empty ocean. View gallery of images.
Portlandia on IFC just got renewed for two more seasons. Now we can count on more of the feminist bookstore, more birds on things, and more hipster madness. Here’s the Fresh Air interview with creators and stars of the show Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen. Ay-ohhh River!
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German tabloid newspaper “Bild”
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This is a slide related to the highly classified PRISM program.
The government is watching you.
Via Facebook. Via. Google. Via Apple and Skype. Read more.
Allergy season at TumblrHQ.
Underlined passage, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers, page 26.
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Inside Mitch Hedberg’s Comedy Notebooks
Mitch Hedberg was Twitter before Twitter. His jokes were short, inane, and timeless. He was on the road, doing stand-up 300 nights a year, living off vending machines, writing constantly about the world he saw around him. “Mitch wrote some of the best jokes of the last three decades,” says Mike Birbiglia, who like most young comedians idolized Hedberg. “He is one comedian who all comedians agree is great.” Hedberg was never without a pen, and he never threw away a notebook. Since his death in 2005 from a drug overdose, his wife, Lynn Shawcroft, has kept most of the notebooks private. But this year, she opened them up to GQ. The results? A master class in comedy.
