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The antithesis of the sexless marriage: 365 days of getting it on, and on, and on.
"Let's say you and your spouse haven’t had sex in so long that you can’t remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say, 'Honey, you know, I’ve been thinking. Why don’t we do it for the next 365 days in a row?'" And of course, how could this be complete without books chronicling all the ins and outs of the experiments?
(NYTimes article, may require registration.)
comment posted at 11:57 PM on Jun-7-08
We all know The Rapture is coming soon (although "no one knows the day or hour"), and many of us will want to send out appropriate taunting messages from our heavenly perch to our loser buddies that didn't get chosen. At last, a service provider has arisen to serve this need. At
You've Been Left Behind, you can store up to 250 MB of documents to be sent to up to 62 separate emails addresses in the event of the Rapture. Rapture is determined to have occurred when 3 of the 5 team members fail to log in to the site over a 3 day period.
comment posted at 2:02 PM on Jun-3-08
The stark, modal banjo and achingly poignant, weathered voice of the great
Dock Boggs [previous] are the perfect aural accompaniment to a slideshow of
William Gedney's
[previous] powerfully intimate photographs:
Kentucky, 1964.
comment posted at 1:04 PM on Apr-15-08
Dear God
is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes - and fears - through prayer. Some photos NSFW.
comment posted at 11:51 PM on Apr-13-08
Have a crush on someone you only know online? Want to make them a mixtape but you don't have their physical address? Not a problem, thanks to
Muxtape, an online mixtape manager. Just upload up to 12 tracks, and a custom URL is provided.
Via.
comment posted at 3:48 PM on Mar-25-08
comment posted at 5:19 PM on Mar-25-08
40 years ago tomorrow, more than 500 villagers were raped, tortured, and
slaughtered (disturbing images) by American soldiers in a hamlet nicknamed Pinkville.
Four Hours in My Lai tells the story. Part
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
comment posted at 9:12 AM on Mar-15-08
Uncle Dirty
is a fascinating photo essay about a photographer's strange uncle who has lived 86 years obsessed with bodybuilding, penises, and thongs. Not safe for work, but not too crazy, the photos really humanize someone you'd probably cross the street to avoid in real life. (via
mjj/
blort)
comment posted at 2:34 PM on Mar-8-08
Where did Lily Allen get her music from?
Her own head? Her producer's heads? Her co-writers' heads? No. Lily 'borrowed' liberally from old reggae and ska tracks and even soft porn soundtracks. The
music like dirt blog (a find in itself) outlines every sample and influence in
'Alright, Still', and the result is much more interesting than the album itself. Music like dirt provides some brilliant links to classic reggae, ska, calypso, jazz.....
comment posted at 2:43 PM on Feb-17-08
Invasion of the Jellyfish
The
box jellyfish [AKA
Sea Wasp] is so packed with venom that the briefest of touches can bring agonising death within 180 seconds. And if comes under sustained attack it responds by sending its compatriots into a super-breeding frenzy in which millions of replacements are created. The really bad news is that the box jellyfish and another equally poisonous species, Irukandji, are on the move. Scientists are warning that their populations are exploding and will pose a monumental problem unless they are stopped.
First aid for stings.
comment posted at 11:06 AM on Feb-10-08
The Aimee Mann Christmas Trilogy Parts
One,
Two, and
Three (YT links) featuring: Paul F. Tompkins, Jon Krasinski, Emily Procter, Patton Oswalt, Weird Al Yankovic, Bob Odenkirk, Fred Armisen, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell.
comment posted at 7:28 PM on Feb-8-08
I remember her smoky-voiced laugh best.
I can't believe I'm the first person to post about Suzanne Pleshette's untimely death. I came to MetaFilter after not having visited in many months to post a respectful '.' and there wasn't a link up yet. So I'm starting one.*
As much as I loved her in Newhart, I remember her most from her appearances on talk shows, mostly her flirting with Johnny Carson. I was a little surprised when I read that she'd married
Tom Poston, who also passed away recently. He seemed kinda square on The Newhart Show, and she seemed so hip. Apparently I confused their TV personae with their real ones.
comment posted at 8:05 PM on Jan-20-08
Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders
digitizes over five hundred broadsides owned by the Harvard Law Library, all of them devoted to "last dying speeches"--that is, sensational accounts of crime, punishment, and (fictional) confession, intended to be
sold at public executions. The New York State Historical Association has an
online exhibition devoted to nineteenth-century American murder pamphlets. You can find a couple of seventeenth-century examples at the
Early Modern Web and the
Folger Library.
Old Bailey Online briefly puts this literature into context. (Main link via C18-L.)
comment posted at 7:04 PM on Jan-4-08
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