January 2009
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Academic Earth →
unalone:
This is incredible, and doesn’t cost $160,000. Free lectures from Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, covering a ton of subjects, for absolutely free.
More than lectures, AE offers entire courses. This Yale course on the American novel, for instance, spans 25 lessons.
Also of note: the @Google series of lengthy interviews, including a month-old one with Chris...
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Schadenfreude
(n) : the malicious glee experienced from someone else’s misfortune (ninjawords.com)
This is my favorite pastime.
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Sextuplicate
(n) : a series, set, collection, or group of six identical copies of something (ninjawords.com)
I had never even heard of this word before today; when we stumbled across it in the dictionary and decided it was more appropriate than sextuplet or sextuple. Ah, the mysteries of the English language never seem to cease.
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I hate broccoli
And think it totally sucks
Why is it not meat?
– Deadpool, a haiku from Marvel Ultimate Alliance
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The world is so much better when you’re dreaming…
– The Youth Ahead (via littlemiss)
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325. When excusing yourself from the table, you...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
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It is all I can afford, I live in a trailer!
– Britney, on why she only has Guitar Hero III and doesn’t have World Tour. (via TheTumbler)
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