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Tainted Rice Found in Southern China

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:39:00 -0400

Tainted Rice Found in Southern China: Scary! A government test showed nearly half of the rice sold...

Game of Thrones Season 3: Inside the Episode #8 Joffrey is such...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:42:57 -0400

Game of Thrones Season 3: Inside the Episode #8

Joffrey is such a chicken sh*t douche. ROTFL!!!

Tyrion: “There will be no bedding”

Joffrey: “There will be if I command it”

Tyrion: “Then you’ll be f*cking your own bride with a wooden c*ck.”

Kaskade - Raining (Late Night Alumni Redux Mix)

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:51:52 -0400

Kaskade - Raining (Late Night Alumni Redux Mix)

Seven Lions - Fevers (Ft. Minnesota and Mimi Page)

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:39:55 -0400

Seven Lions - Fevers (Ft. Minnesota and Mimi Page)

How Google Wins Over Users By Giving Them Less

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:51 -0400

How Google Wins Over Users By Giving Them Less: Everyone should implement a product/feature review...

Why Yahoo's track record with acquisitions isn't relevant to Tumblr

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:56:35 -0400

Why Yahoo's track record with acquisitions isn't relevant to Tumblr: Sarah gets it! nuff...

Where Tumblr Came From

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:45:48 -0400

Where Tumblr Came From: Anil Dash’s history of Tumblr Remember this?

♥ Isabel Roby ♥ Spell

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:22 -0400

♥ Isabel Roby ♥ Spell

High Scalability - High Scalability - The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:05 -0400

High Scalability - High Scalability - The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool...

❤ Hiatus - We Can Be Ghosts Now (feat. Shura)

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:07:03 -0400

❤ Hiatus - We Can Be Ghosts Now (feat. Shura)

Francisco Soto — Fun with Javascript and function tracing

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:35:41 -0400

Francisco Soto — Fun with Javascript and function tracing: going to take Trace.js for a test...

25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English 1...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:29:26 -0400

25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English

1 Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut

2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude

3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

4 Bakku-shan (Japanese): A beautiful girl… as long as she’s being viewed from behind

5 Desenrascanço (Portuguese): “to disentangle” yourself out of a bad situation (To MacGyver it)

6 Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.

7 Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love

8 Gigil (pronounced Gheegle; Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute

9 Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid

10 Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

11 L’esprit de l’escalier (French): usually translated as “staircase wit,” is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it

12 Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery

13 Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan): A look between two people that suggests an unspoken, shared desire

14 Manja (Malay): “to pamper”, it describes gooey, childlike and coquettish behavior by women designed to elicit sympathy or pampering by men. “His girlfriend is a damn manja. Hearing her speak can cause diabetes.”

15 Meraki (pronounced may-rah-kee; Greek): Doing something with soul, creativity, or love. It’s when you put something of yourself into what you’re doing

16 Nunchi (Korean): the subtle art of listening and gauging another’s mood. In Western culture, nunchi could be described as the concept of emotional intelligence. Knowing what to say or do, or what not to say or do, in a given situation. A socially clumsy person can be described as ‘nunchi eoptta’, meaning “absent of nunchi”

17 Pena ajena (Mexican Spanish): The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation

18 Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions

19 Schadenfreude (German): the pleasure derived from someone else’s pain

20 Sgriob (Gaelic): The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky

21 Taarradhin (Arabic): implies a happy solution for everyone, or “I win. You win.” It’s a way of reconciling without anyone losing face. Arabic has no word for “compromise,” in the sense of reaching an arrangement via struggle and disagreement

22 Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively

23 Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbor’s house until there is nothing left

24 Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods

25 Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways,’ referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language

From Pen-Ying Lin

Unspeakableness is a project that investigates human emotions and languages. By re-looking at how humans communicate, it searches for a way to connect our inner self and personal emotions, through the design of a personal language and several new ways of communication. It is is an investigation of how language can be improvised to connect our emotions in this multilingual world.

Biggie! The Notorious B.I.G. - Everyday Struggle (Dead Battery...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:07:53 -0400

Biggie! The Notorious B.I.G. - Everyday Struggle (Dead Battery Remix) with Aretha Franklin’s I Say A Little Prayer

Home - LinkedLists.net

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:51:31 -0400

Home - LinkedLists.net: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow Pretty sweet...

6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:57:36 -0400

6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism: These six scientists were snubbed for awards or...

I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson • The Register

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:21:50 -0400

I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson • The Register: Ted Nelson says Satoshi Nakamoto...

Stowe Boyd: No, We Should Not Protest The Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:14:51 -0400

Stowe Boyd: No, We Should Not Protest The Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition: stoweboyd: Paul Higgins wonders...

Ginjo-shu: Its Significance & History Ginjo-shu refers to...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:57:56 -0400

Ginjo-shu: Its Significance & History

Ginjo-shu refers to super-premium sake, but just how is it different? At Japan Society’s annual sake tasting event, sake expert John Gauntner explores ginjo-shu and what distinguishes it from regular sake, how it is made, and its history and tradition.

If you enjoy drinking, know your poison ;) Kanpai!

Bitcoin's Winner's Curse - What Auction Theory Teaches Us About Bubbles

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:07:39 -0400

Bitcoin's Winner's Curse - What Auction Theory Teaches Us About Bubbles: food for thought While...

Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:13:12 -0400

Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr: Yikes!...