Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, and Hunter Roge
A school of Munkiana Devil Rays in Baja California Sur, Mexico
The Hierarchy of Innovation
Of all the responses I received for my (admittedly half-assed) The Listserve post, this was my favorite. Comic sans and an AOL address! Of the 18,327 current subscribers, .17% sent me an email response. Of those responses, 89.7% were positive. The second best negative response was from Ashton Kutcher’s former personal assistant, with the subject title “ugh”.
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“Bo the dog is anesthetized for his radiation treatment in the TomoTherapy unit at Texas A&M’s Veterinary Medicine College in College Station, Texas.”
“Nodes represent Twitter users, and directed edges represent retweeted posts that carry the meme. The brightness of a node indicates the activity (number of retweets) of a user, and the weight of an edge reflects the number of retweets between two users. (a) The #Japan meme shows how news about the March 2011 earthquake propagated. (b) The #GOP tag stands for the US Republican Party and as many political memes, displays a strong polarization between people with opposing views. Memes related to the “Arab Spring” and in particular the 2011 uprisings in (c) #Egypt and (d) #Syria display characteristic hub users and strong connections, respectively.”
Not sure which is more revealing: these recently released doodles made by Ronald Reagan at the 1981 Ottawa G7 summit (of what appear to be Dostoevsky, Butthead, a California Raisin-fied Reagan, and investigative-reporter Reagan) or these LBJ ones. Is it safe to assume Bill Clinton’s doodles were all titty-centric and shredded accordingly?
“Kathrine Switzer is the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. She registered under the gender-neutral ‘K. V. Switzer’. Race official Jock Semple attempted to remove her from the race, and is noted to have shouted, ‘Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.’ However, Switzer’s boyfriend, who was running with her, shoved Semple aside and sent him flying. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines.”
Rose Durai Pullan’s family will soon have a shot at fame — in the Guinness World Records, as the world’s biggest albino family.
Thousands of normally solitary wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing a rising flood.
