Dystopias

10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore
Esther Inglis-Arkell

Shamelessly Stolen from andrewducker

Krugman on Yrp and the Recovery Now vs The Dirty Thirties

Replaying the 30s in Slow Motion

It's Google Maps...

For the Roman Empire: ORBIS

Shamelessly Stolen from FilkerDave

Tired of War on Nouns?

Obama moves on to viri

Museums

Nice list

Bestest Linguistic Challenge

Whilst in France buying some pain au chocolate in the second-best bakery in Azay-le-Rideau, the English woman in front of me kept asking the ignorant French woman who was working the register for "Jam" for the croissant she was buying. No matter how loud or slow the nice English lady pronounced it, the ignorant French woman just didn't get it. Finally, in a creative burst of linguistic genius, I said "Confiture?" to the ignorant French woman, and she instantly pointed to the jars of jam sitting on a shelf on the wall, which were not the to-go size that the nice English lady wanted, of course, nor free. I was about to, in a stroke of brilliance, put together "petite," "confiture," and "togo," saying the last part quite slowly and very loudly of course, so that I might be better understood, but by the time the blinding insight had struck, the English lady had paid and left.

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• Mon, 14:27: RT @tomscott: New video! Scotland is rising and England is sinking. Literally: http://t.co/7egl8CS3zA
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• Mon, 14:35: RT @andrewducker: John Oliver on Scottish Independence - Utterly Hilarious http://t.co/vejMdeIVKv
• Mon, 18:54: RT @voxdotcom: The Midwest is so much more than a bunch of "flyover states" http://t.co/He7RZnyCfb http://t.co/2NcNQ9m8LZ
• Mon, 18:55: RT @NYTimeskrugman: More Than My Head Talks http://t.co/aVc6scSi3M
• Tue, 06:32: Dystopias http://t.co/GoNiPdy3Km
• Tue, 06:45: Krugman on Yrp and the Recovery Now vs The Dirty Thirties http://t.co/TMDh3ogTAw

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