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Previously, On Arrested Development : NPR

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:56:00 -0600

Previously, On Arrested Development : NPR:

Absolutely ~~somewhat~~ ~~obsessive~~ radical guide to the show’s running gags.

todaysdocument: President Franklin Roosevelt signed the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:42:29 -0600

President Franklin Roosevelt signed the ambitious but controversial Tennessee Valley Authority Act 80 years ago on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

Excerpts from:

THE TVA AT WORK, 1935 (watch on YouTube)

TENNESSEE VALLEY, 1936 (watch on YouTube)

"… they say this secrecy is important for national security. It is always difficult to respond..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:40:41 -0600

““… they say this secrecy is important for national security. It is always difficult to respond to that, particularly since they still haven’t told us specifically what they are investigating.””

- Updated: AP responds to latest DOJ letter

Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us? Golf clap...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:05:00 -0600

Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?

Golf clap for the wonderfully terrifying illustrations.

“Lost and Found is a body of photographs and text. It...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:33:45 -0600

“Lost and Found is a body of photographs and text. It tells the story of a social media search party attempting to discover the identities of an anonymous couple who traveled the world more than 50 years ago.”

(via L E N S C R A T C H: Jeff Phillips: Lost and Found)

US #Marines gather before presenting the colors at Saturday’s...

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:39:00 -0600

US #Marines gather before presenting the colors at Saturday’s #warriorgames opening ceremony.

Beautiful: Iron & Wine “Tree By The River” Live...

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:20:16 -0600

Beautiful: Iron & Wine “Tree By The River” Live on Soundcheck

Beautiful: Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti via NPR MUSIC.

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:50:16 -0600

Beautiful: Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti via NPR MUSIC.

Everyone On Flight Annoyed By Screaming Kid Rock “Several...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:59:54 -0600

Everyone On Flight Annoyed By Screaming Kid Rock

“Several passengers told reporters that the last 20 minutes of the flight were relatively peaceful when the hyperactive Kid Rock began to calm down after he was given a bottle.”

A magical combination - the adventures of the Sushi cat. Read...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:02:00 -0600

A magical combination - the adventures of the Sushi cat.

"I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about, and that I..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:29:36 -0600

““I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about, and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.””

- William Faulkner on writing about his native soil, Oxford, Mississippi

the150project: “Every stalk of corn in the northern and greater...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:04:49 -0600

the150project:

“Every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before.” Gen. Hooker on Antietam’s Miller Cornfield.

Sharpsburg, MD Antietam National Battlefield September 17, 2012.

Trust me, this is more interesting than you think: Interactive...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:06:00 -0600

Trust me, this is more interesting than you think:

Interactive Map of North American English Dialects

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:24:00 -0600

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

David Foster Wallace, This Is Water.

"I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:17:20 -0600

““I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.””

- Alec Soth

I just learned, as in 2 minutes ago, that Alex Van Halen and I...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:27:41 -0600

I just learned, as in 2 minutes ago, that Alex Van Halen and I have two things in common; the same taste in drum kit pyrotechnics and birthdays!

Happy Birthday Mr. Val Halen!

At 4:30AM, or 4:30PM for that matter, this is absolutely not a...

Fri, 03 May 2013 05:30:55 -0600

At 4:30AM, or 4:30PM for that matter, this is absolutely not a place ‘Where My Mom Would Stop’ Chubby’s gas station: Richmond, VA

Peggy! Hold all my faxes! — 80’s Don Draper (@80sDonDraper) April 24, 2013

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:16:04 -0600

Peggy! Hold all my faxes!
— 80’s Don Draper (@80sDonDraper) April 24, 2013

#the150project: Surrounded by staff Gen Lee & Gen Jackson...

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:40:59 -0600

#the150project: Surrounded by staff Gen Lee & Gen Jackson will bivouac 5/1/1863 at Chancellorsville to ask a hovering question, could his rebel army, ‘get at those people?’ —

“The world would see, as Lee undertook perhaps the greatest gamble, conceived here, around a campfire on a spring night exactly 150 yrs ago.” — John Hennessy, Chief Historian, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

#the150project: “Here they come! Here they come!” Guns locks...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:58:00 -0600

#the150project: “Here they come! Here they come!” Guns locks clicked.
Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown swarm of running men who were giving shrill yells.