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Missisippi 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1947 There is much that is both sad and beautiful about this photograph. I felt it worth sharing. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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General Store, Moundville, Alabama, 1936 by Walker Evans.
For a child, a trip to the General Store was a treat. For adults, it was getting the necessities. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Why I love reddit
Yes, it can be a tar pit of trolls and Not Safe For Work posts, but if you arrange your settings to filter out the garbage, it’s also an amazing community. Example 1: User /u/thespite posts a clever...
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How to have a Merry Christmas
Well, according to one math professor, this is how it’s done: Funny. But all joking aside, Oxfam has come up with a practical formula for knowing whether or not you’re really enjoying the holidays, and...
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Kids love puppets, past and present.
Children watching marionettes in New York, 1935 (From Wikimedia) Alfred Eisenstaedt Children At A Puppet Theatre Paris Picture. It appears the French kids really get into this. Children watching a...
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Phishing: My Yahoo Account has “expired.”
Phishing, as I have mentioned numerous times elsewhere, is rampant. In a world with over 7 billion people, it’s hard to say how many electronic bad guys there are out there, but even if its a...
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Attn;Beneficiary!
The Lads from Lagos never seem to give up. What saddens me is that as long as these letters keep going out, it means that somewhere people are falling victim to this fraud. From: “MR.JOHN FRANK”...
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Wizards in Winter: Taking it to the next level
In 2005, Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio electician, decorated his home and synchronized it to the music “Wizards in Winter” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. A higher-quality version of the original video...
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My New Western Digital Passport Ultra: Delightful hardware, hideous software
About the size of a pack of poker cards. Lightweight and functional, stores 1 Terabyte of data; I can back up my entire hard drive and that of my wife onto one little box. Unfortunately, the WD...
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The Egg by Andy Weir
This exists in multiple places on the Internet; it went viral a few years ago and I remember seeing it at that time. The Internet, however is a big place; I’m sure there are some of my readers and/or...
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Rune Sore-bees: A Dialog by Shelly Berman, and more.
(Cross-posted from LiveJournal) Shelley Berman, a very funny man Despite the fact that it has been widely copied and published on the net as an actual conversation from a hotel in Asia,...
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Another Lost Product: Stella d’Oro egg biscuits
I’ve written before and copiously about Sara Lee Frozen All-Butter Brownies. But for a long time I’ve been craving these lost little treats from Stella d’Oro, flower-shaped biscuits that I used to get...
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The Top 100 Anime Movies of All Time (with some sources)
This list was compiled originally by redditor /u/PixelPenguins, and a link to images, reasons for selection, and short synopses was provided at Imgur. /u/DisposableFox texted the list, and /u/Rydel6...
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♬ We Belong to a Mutual Admiration Society ♬
Saw this on my Facebook feed the other day, and just sort of glossed over it. This morning I saw it at reddit and looked more closely, and then i got the joke. I was immediately reminded of this...
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The 2.6 million dollar watch
For a number of years I was involved in a marketing enterprise, and my sponsor enjoyed wearing a diamond-studded Rolex that he picked up for about half-price, a mere $125,000. I always wondered how...
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Two Parachuting Stories
‘WILL you be good, sir? The reason for this, and the reason for that, indeed! You are always wanting the reason. No reason. There! Hoity toity me! I am sick of your grown-up reasons.’ This first tale...
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The Overview Effect: Seeing Earth from the Outside
Writer Frank White coined the term “The Overview Effect” to describe the deep changes that astronauts experience once they see Earth from space. He said, “In 1968, Apollo 8 went to the Moon. They...
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Things you may not have known about Apollo 11
Originally posted at craignelson.us in 2009, the original post appears to be gone, but thanks to the Wayback Machine, I present it for your consideration. 24 – During Apollo liftoffs, NASA VIPs sat 3.5...
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Commentary: Question to the Islamic Terrorist
Published at VG News. This should be read by every Muslim, preached over every pulpit by every Imam. These are the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo yesterday. But there have been many such in...
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Let’s Clean Up Facebook in 2015: Hoaxes to Avoid
I keep seeing them crop up on my wall. The Facebook Privacy notice. The “so-and-so is giving away a Maserati to a random user.” OMG you won’t believe this shocking video. and on and on. These hoaxes...
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