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Interview: Talib Kweli Talks About Being a "Prison of Conscious"

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:31 -0400

Interview: Talib Kweli Talks About Being a "Prison of Conscious":

Talib has some interesting things to say, IMO, even if you are a rap listener who doesn’t care for Kweli’s music. It should give some perspective on how, I think, lots of people approach rap music.

I’ve had a very up-and-down relationship with Kweli’s music in the past… oh sweet God it’s been 15 years (I had to stop and do the math), but this is definitely worth a read.

“My name is MC God Body, I’m here to tell you about…”

Call Out the Climate Change Deniers

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:11:00 -0400

Call Out the Climate Change Deniers:

There is shaming that actually makes people cut shit out, and there is shaming that only makes the people doing it feel better about themselves.

I’m not sure which kind this is. Listing them makes sense. Having an immediate link to tweet at them seems a little like sharing random racist tweets.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:08:52 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:29 -0400

tumblinerb: genevanheathen: Notorious B.I.G., The D.O.C.,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:01:32 -0400

tumblinerb:

genevanheathen:

Notorious B.I.G., The D.O.C., Craig Mack, and Saafir at Riviera Theater, Chicago, 1995.

wow so much under-fulfilled talent in one picture.

and craig mack too.

Greatest caption? Greatest caption.

calamityjon: Captain Internet Browsing History.

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:30:30 -0400

calamityjon:

Captain Internet Browsing History.

fyeah-history: Farewell to Europe by Aleksander Sochaczewski,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:05 -0400

fyeah-history:

Farewell to Europe by Aleksander Sochaczewski, which depicts a Katorga in Imperial Russia
Katorga was a system of penal servitude of the prison farm type in Tsarist Russia. Prisoners were sent to remote camps in vast uninhabited areas of Siberia—where voluntary workers were never available in satisfactory numbers—and forced to perform hard labour.

seanhowe: “I know Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five very...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:32 -0400

seanhowe:

“I know Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five very well and they are so full of shit! Those guys are very well off, believe me, and very sure of themselves. I’m tired of hearing records about how we live on the street, y’know, it’s a joke at this point. They don’t live on the street, that’s their image. If you make a hit record you’re not living on the street, I’m sorry! And now they’re singing about the evils of cocaine—what!”

—Madonna to Melody Maker, 1983

There was almost a bike-only highway in L.A. in 1897. It got...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:01:08 -0400

There was almost a bike-only highway in L.A. in 1897. It got nixed when everyone realized they wanted cars, of course. Maybe not a bad idea to look into nowadays, as gas begins to dwindle…

Plus, it would do away with the number one reason I don’t ride a bike: crippling fear of being hit by a car.

(via io9)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:50 -0400

bison2winquote: - Ryo Sakazaki, King of Fighters 1998 (SNK)

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:02:36 -0400

bison2winquote:

- Ryo Sakazaki, King of Fighters 1998 (SNK)

Nov. 28, 1927. “Washington man sleeps in a blanketless...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:57 -0400

Nov. 28, 1927. “Washington man sleeps in a blanketless bed. Milton Fairchild of Washington, D.C., does not need any blankets for keeping him warm these winter nights. He has invented an electrical bed which does not require any covering for the body when asleep. Furthermore, according to Mr. Fairchild, an ‘electric blanket’ is healthier and one is not so susceptible to colds. The temperature is maintained constant throughout the night by automatic controls.”

(via Shorpy)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 00:32:55 -0400

fuckyeahjewishhistory: Children who survived Buchenwald...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:25:42 -0400

fuckyeahjewishhistory:

Children who survived Buchenwald concentration camp form a Star of David - 1946

Hey hey gonna go cry now. Cool.

my-ear-trumpet: I hate when people post interesting images...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:19 -0400

my-ear-trumpet:

I hate when people post interesting images without any explanation of what we are looking at. After two minutes of googling I found that the Images are of the Meigs Elevated Railway taken from Scientific American (July 10, 1886)

There's a sailor in Moby Dick who is described as "a Cholo."

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:48:24 -0400

I don’t know what this meant in the 19th century, but I can’t stop picturing one of the dudes I went to high school with swinging through the rigging in his hair net and buttoned up flannel.

The book that keeps on giving.

Let’s make this cartoon now OK thanks. (The Official...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:26:16 -0400

Let’s make this cartoon now OK thanks.

(The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition)

Premiere: Gucci Mane ft. Rick Ross "Trap House III" (Produced By 808 Mafia) - XXL

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:52:03 -0400

Premiere: Gucci Mane ft. Rick Ross "Trap House III" (Produced By 808 Mafia) - XXL:

I’m officially excited for Trap House III. Gucci’s going into a weird, understated thing that I love, and Ross plays along admirably.

(For some bullshit reason, this Soundcloud won’t let me share it.)

I put up the first version, but this remix is much better until...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:17:35 -0400

I put up the first version, but this remix is much better until it becomes much worse. A Future-only mix would be amazing.

The fourth quarter is over. Yet, for me, wherever there are...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:43:48 -0400

The fourth quarter is over. Yet, for me, wherever there are people banging heads together, wherever fingers are being snapped like pretzels over a glass of beer… wherever the crowd roars at a lineman’s head being rent from his body, I’ll be there, protecting my reputation as the number one master of mayhem. Goodbye for now, my fans. Till the play-by-play begins again…

World Heroes 2 – JOHNNY MAXIMUM ending.

I didn’t know a list of the top 200 fighting game endings was something that I needed, but it is. (Or at least the first section is.)