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23 January 2012 • language green

23 January 2012 • boat news water

4 January 2012 • government

“The Playing with Pigs project is researching the complex relationship we have with domesticated pigs by designing a game. Designing new forms of human-pig interaction can create the opportunity for consumers and pigs to forge new relations as well as to experience the cognitive capabilities of each other. The game is called Pig Chase.”

(Source: vimeo.com)

22 December 2011 • ipad pig game

20 December 2011 • hamster death

9 December 2011 • history holiday music america

“Danish artist group Superflex unveiled their latest intervention, part of Creative Time’s Living as Form exhibition. In the Olympic Restaurant on Delancey and Essex, the group created a near-exact replica of J.P. Morgan Chase’s executive washroom. This greek diner has been a cornerstone of the Lower East Side for over thirty-five years, and, by the looks of it, the new bathroom is the first major addition in that time. The Olympic Restaurant did not pay a dime for the bathroom – it is free and open to the public, not just customers. Most importantly, it is a permanent installation that we hope will stay in the neighborhood for another thirty-five years.”

30 November 2011 • bathroom art nyc

The verb mingle means to mix or bring together in combination. Because mingling involves two or more individuals and cannot be one-sided, the prefixes inter- (meaning between; among) and co- (meaning jointly) add nothing that is not already contained in the meaning of mingle. Hence neither co-mingle, commingle, nor intermingle has any reason to exist, yet all three appear surprisingly often.

— Co-mingle, commingle, and intermingle - Usage - Grammarist

30 November 2011 • language

I wanna really really really wanna zig a zig ahh,” has a meaning, and all true nineties kids know it, but we must never share it. Like the Illuminati, it must remain between us, the keyholders. With great power comes great responsibility.

— 10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children « Thought Catalog

29 November 2011 • music history

“There’s absolutely, positively no way to describe how bonkers this video is. It’s a 5 minute crescendo straight to the center of bananatown.”

(Source: youtube.com, via unlikelywords)

28 November 2011 • india tv game

While most people know about Congress’ $700 billion TARP program, the Fed’s secret emergency loans to banks during the financial crisis remains shrouded in mystery.. A new Bloomberg Markets report shines more light on this lending. After adding up all the guarantees and loans, the Fed committed $7.77 trillion to rescuing the financial system as of March 2009, the report said. Notably, while the banks were taking these huge loans, they maintained that they were fine

— REVEALED: More Details On The Fed’s Breathtaking $7.7 Trillion In Loans To Large Banks

28 November 2011 • economy money government

(Source: tragedyseries)

28 November 2011 • penguin clothing

““Fuehlometer” (Feel-o-meter) or “Public Face” is an interactive art installation that shows the mood of a city by displaying it in the form of a monumental Smiley. The system allows to read emotions out of random people’s faces. The faces are analyzed by sophisticated software (contributed by the Fraunhofer Institut). The obtained mood data are then stored on a server and processed by the smiley to visualize the emotions in real-time.”

22 November 2011 • psychology germany