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  • Drinkify is one of the projects produced at Music Hackday Boston 2011. Plug in a band, see what you should be drinking in accompaniment. Uses? Create a playlist based on your liquor stocks, drinking game anyone? See the full list of hacks here.

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  • The Game of Things – Cristian Straub for Ethel Vaughn “As I stared up into the bright blue sky that was near the end of what felt like a trillion years, I was visited by a horrible sense of claustrophobia. A claustrophobia that sets in only when no space is great enough to contain you. Cause … Continue reading “”

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  • Audio Heads will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (A-Trax remix)

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  • Mollies hotel in St Mary’s Bay is so lovely. We visited today and treated Eddy to a massage and lunch. There’s a special lunch menu available until early December, then they will go back to dinner and breakfasts only. The food was so incredibly good, and I love that place for it’s delicate colours and … Continue reading “”

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  • My first ever amigurumi creature! I learned crochet when I was a teenager, my mum showed me how to make a beanie (it was pretty average, of course). My boyfriend wanted one too, so I have a half finished blue crochet beanie floating around at home somewhere – the enthusiasm waned. When I started knitting … Continue reading “”

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  • David Dallas – Take a Picture. I’m in love.

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  • Nerveburger

    Tomorrow I’m going to have blood removed from my body, mixed with citrate, and separated. The red blood cells and citrate will be returned to my body, and everything else donated. It’s going to take an hour. The plasma taken from my blood could be shipped to Australia to create blood products which are returned … Continue reading “Nerveburger”

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  • I’ve been getting back into Glitch now it’s launched publicly. Come play with me.

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  • That we would marry, and that there would always be men we wanted to marry, we took on faith. How could we not? All the Single Ladies by Kate Bolick for The Atlantic. Some of the ideas in this article have been ringing in my ears since Rebekah tweeted it a couple of days ago. … Continue reading “”

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  • The Crochet Magic Ring starts most crochet projects. This video is a stack easier to follow than the description in the book I’m using.

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  • superamit: Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why. He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.” I was terrified. I packed a backpack full … Continue reading “”

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  • Audio Golden mashup of M.I.A/Sufjan Stevens from The Hood Internet, part of the Trillwave 2 mix.

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  • Special trick the first! Special trick the second! Today I learned not one, but two really cool things to do with cupcakes. Thing the first: How to pipe frosting so you get pretty multi-tonal icing. It looks way cool, though my cellphone pictures don’t really do ‘em justice (#lazy). Thing the second: That an upturned plastic … Continue reading “”

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  • danpeterson2: A man was lynched yesterday

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  • Oh no, someone thinks I’m young, hip and attractive! Please stop with the name calling! Why it’s okay to be a Hipster – Thought Catalog

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  • My result on testyourvocab.com. I need to read more. Looking at their report though, apparently this vocabulary score is average for someone with ten years on me. Perhaps I’m not too bad.  Take the three part test and share your score, it’ll help their research.

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  • Just as well most of the things I am lusting after on the website of Makr Carry Goods are sold out. 

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  • Made by Hand – No. 1, The Distiller Made by Hand is a project which explores the people and philosophies behind locally crafted products. This is the first film, about Brad Estabrooke and his journey to create a distillery and fine quality Gin in Brooklyn. Breuckelen Distilling Company now supplies Gin all over New York. I’d … Continue reading “”

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  • I did some really wonderful things today. But mixing these liquids is near top of the list. Fresh lemon juice Raspberry cordial Whiskey Gin Dry Lemonade Stacks of ice I can’t tell you how much of which, but the right amounts taste great – and it’s pink. Which looks fancy with yellow lemon.

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  • Maybe she’s not going to be into those unreleased Frank Zappa demos or Animal Collective b-sides. Perhaps he doesn’t care about what band Win Butler was in before the Arcade Fire. We get it. You’re hip. Play On, Playlist: A Guide To Avoiding Mix Tape Mistakes via Thought Catalog

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