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Say what you will about the New York Times but its readers are clever with the wordplay. In a Q&A with readers about the new Knicks, "Steve" from New York asked what might be the best question I've ever seen in the realm of sports.
Some critics have praised Lin for his sagacity. On the other hand, Metta World Peace is quoted as suggesting that Lin needs to let his pants sag. Which quality do you feel will be more valuable for marketing Lin — sag or sagacity?
The above heartrending diary entry was written by Teddy Roosevelt after his mother and his young wife passed away (just 36 hours after giving birth to their daughter) on the same day, Valentine's Day. WTF.
- Haruki Murakami
Ashleigh: You will forever be in my heart and thoughts. I am who I am because of you. Rest in peace, Ash.
Smithsonian Magazine has this amazing story about a group of regulars at a Bronx bar who in the 1930's tried to kill a fellow drunk Michael Malloy to cash in some life insurance policies they took out on him. Only problem was that Malloy just wouldn't die.
Night after night the scene repeated itself, with Malloy drinking shots of wood alcohol as fast as Murphy poured them, until the night he crumpled without warning to the floor. The gang fell silent, staring at the jumbled heap by their feet. Pasqua knelt by Malloy’s body, feeling the neck for a pulse, lowering his ear to the mouth. The man’s breath was slow and labored. They decided to wait, watching the sluggish rise and fall of his chest. Any minute now. Finally, there was a long, jagged breath—the death rattle?—but then Malloy began to snore. He awakened some hours later, rubbed his eyes, and said, “Gimme some of th’ old regular, me lad!”
Been there, done that.
My friend sent me this photo snapped in Beijing by her brother of what I think is a restaurant, but I'm not too entirely sure.
Despite the serious legal implications for content sharing, the best thing so far to emerge from the Megaupload shutdown has been Kim Dotcom (Yes, the website's owner changed his surname from Schmitz to DOTCOM) and the photo above that best illustrates his Hype Williams rap video lifestyle: "He surrounded himself with glamorous women and fast cars bearing number plates such as “GUILTY”. He likened himself to Dr Evil, a movie villain, though he looks more like Dr Evil’s henchman, Fat Bastard."
On this date exactly 32 years ago, a singer by the name of Prince made his national television debut on American Grandstand. A handsome baby who would grow up to blog under the nom de plume "MRod" was also born on this exact same date.
Two vegan drivers (in Colorado and Tennessee) have had the above vanity plate expressing their love of tofu rejected by state officials.
As a tofu lover myself I'm outraged.
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A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association states that there is evidence for the so-called "broken-heart syndrome" which suggests that the pain of losing a close loved one is so heartbreaking, literally, that it can trigger a heart attack (Wasn't this the ending of The Notebook or Predator or something?). The study found that...
...a person’s heart attack risk is 21 times higher than normal the day after a loved one dies. Over time the risk of an attack declines, but it remains elevated within that first month. In the first week after a loved one’s death, for example, the risk was six times higher than normal.
"And kids, that's why you should always keep your heart cold as ice...so you don't DIE." - Bitter Ted Mosby
The top voted response to the above headline question on Quora is mind blowing and I guess a testament to the power of love (is that a title of a Bryan Adams song?).
This is the story of Dashrath Majhi
Dashrath Majhi's wife died without any treatment, because the nearest town with a Doctor was 70 km away from their village in Bihar, India. Well that could have been a far shorter distance, if not for a hill in between the village and the town.
Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife. So he did the unthinkable:
From Wikipedia:
Dashrath Manjhi's claim to fame has been the herculean task of single-handedly carving a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting a mountain of Gehlour hills with a hammer, chisel and nails working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. This passage reduced the distance between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 70 km to just 7 km. [MR: See photo above]
I once picked up a girl's dry cleaning. Same thing, rite?
Hard to believe that just one week ago this was my view of the last sunset of 2011, which ended with delicious meals and drinks on the beach.
- Stephen Hawking, a guy who has uncovered secrets of the Universe and says things like this, "The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation."
Have a wonderful Happy New Year's Eve celebration everyone. By the time you read this I'll be on the island above, but if you're looking for a good party I HIGHLY recommend this New Year's event. If you already have plans, click on that link anyways.
See you in 2012.
I like to interpret 
Clearly there's a market for 6-hour energy drinks.
From the Thom Browne Menswear Autumn/Winter 2013 show at Paris Fashion Week is 
I'm already looking forward to January 16, 2012.
The form is handy, but I heard that the processing and waiting period is BRUTAL.