Friday, December 26, 2014

Dirty Words

The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State, Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader With Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses And More, Filthy Idioms In Other Languages, Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis, Florence Preps 'David' For The Big One, The Neuroscience Of Nostalgia
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Friday, December 26, 2014
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GOVERNING IS HARD
The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State
washingtonpost.com
The Islamic State's vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules.
STUFF YOUR STUFF WITH FREE STUFF
Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader With Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses And More
openculture.com
Santa left a new Kindle, iPad, Kindle Fire or other media player under your tree. He did his job. Now we'll do ours. We'll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media — great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn't get a new gadget, fear not. You can access all of these materials on the good old fashioned computer.
NSFW (SERIOUSLY, THESE ARE REALLY DIRTY)
Filthy Idioms In Other Languages
digg.com
English is often thought of as a confusing hodgepodge of a language, and for non-English speakers idioms like "to get one's got" or "crazy like a fox" can be difficult to understand. But when idioms from other languages are translated literally, the results are often just as weird and lot more... colorful.
ALSO MAYBE SOUNDS LIKE OTHER STUFF
Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis
digg.com
Yes, yes it does.
KEEPING ALL THE BITS IN PLACE
Florence Preps 'David' For The Big One
thedailybeast.com
The masterpiece is huge, but structurally flawed and terribly vulnerable to seismic activity.
WE JUST REALLY MISS YOU GUYS
The Neuroscience Of Nostalgia
america.aljazeera.com
How the brain stores sad, glad and bittersweet recollections.
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WALL OF WATER
Image: A man is silhouetted against a backdrop of an illustration of a tsunami as he prepares the stage for a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the Asian tsunami Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014 in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. Dec. 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage.
A man is silhouetted against a backdrop of an illustration of a tsunami as he prepares the stage for a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the Asian tsunami Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014 in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. Dec. 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage. Credit: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
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