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“You can also listen to anything in your music collection on an Android phone. No copying or syncing of music is ever required; all your songs are always available everywhere, and they don’t hog any storage on the phone itself.” —

Yep, still pretty excited about this. I might even start buying albums again.

Amazon’s Cloud Player Provides Music From Everywhere - NYTimes.com

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Mar 31, 2011

“loss aversion refers to the tendency for people to strongly prefer avoiding losses than acquiring gains. Some studies suggest that losses are as much as twice as psychologically powerful as gains.” —Loss Aversion

Mar 30, 2011

My Sister the Lawyer/Dating Coach

I like this for a new HowAboutWe column

doree:

Sister: i am writing this motion called a Rule 11 Motion, it’s basically (among other things) a sanctioning device that defendants can use when a plaintiff brings a lawsuit in bad faith.
this is what we need for the real world!

me: hahahahahaa
yes

Sister: Dear Sir: you have been served with a Rule 11 dating Motion. Your date was asked in bad faith, and I relied on your representations.

Mar 30, 201114 notes

cnnmoneytech:

Screenshot: Google Maps

Google announced Wednesday that its new high-speed Internet service would be built out in Kansas City, Kansas.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s not Kansas City, Missouri. Though that fact was spelled out in the first sentence of my story, this became…

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“The Spanish can be those white birds that just drop eggs directly on their targets and then wither away because before this whole thing I didn’t even know the Spanish had an airforce.” —

I’ve never played Angry Birds, but I get it.

Fucked in Park Slope - A Brooklyn Blog - Home - HOW TO TALK TO YOUR PARK SLOPE TWEEN ABOUT… LIBYA

Mar 27, 2011

My favorite new word

I learned the word “sisyphean” yesterday, thanks to my roommate. It’s a good one.

Mar 27, 2011

Things I Googled Today...

“u of i cow hole stomach”

“+oysters +tripping” / “sea food poisoning +tripping”

“anxiety alone disorder”

“farm subsidies kirkland”

“how to separate corn from the cob mass quantities”

Mar 27, 2011

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“And don’t think that my arrogance is unintentional: it’s just that I’d rather offend you now than after I started working for you. I didn’t make myself clear to the last man I worked for until after I took the job.” —Hunter S. Thompson’s Creative, Fearless Job Application Letter

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“You need to go to a place called the Athenian Room on Webster. You need to order the roasted chicken. It’s cooked on a spit, it comes on a bed of steak fries and the chicken juice gets into the fries. Unbelievable.” —I’ve been watching 30 Rock and I love the little videos that come on after the episode finishes. This was was especially awesome. Tina Fey Loves Chicago: Dining Tips From ‘30 Rock’ Creator (VIDEO)

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Mar 22, 2011

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