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(NYTimes)
Public-health experts have been warning us for years that this situation is a public-health disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later, the profligate use of these antibiotics — in many cases the very same ones we depend on when we’re sick — would lead to the evolution of bacteria that could shake them off like a spring shower. It appears that “sooner or later” may be now. Recent studies in Europe and Canada found that confinement pig operations have become reservoirs of MRSA. A European study found that 60 percent of pig farms that routinely used antibiotics had MRSA-positive pigs (compared with 5 percent of farms that did not feed pigs antibiotics).

Rubiks Cube on plexiglass
from the Streets of Europe show at Jonathan Levine gallery

How to build an igloo (via coudal)

I bet you know someone with tattoos and breast implants. Meet a guy who got his tattoo some breast implants.

Take action at stopthespying and prevent Bush's ridiculous plan to let giant telecoms off the hook for illegally spying on their customers.

Huge Vintage Board Game box gallery!

Typical Republican behavior

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Amanda Visell has some very cool cartoon-pop artwork.

What do you get a geek who has everything? How about an interactive wall of CPU fans?

Chair pR0N: 100 Chairs in 100 days

Vintage Christmas Wax
mp3s from Edison Cylinders via metafilter

NYTimes 53 places to go in 08. I'll take Prague, Oslo, and Tuscany

[Photography] Camille Seaman's The Last Iceberg

Blues for Otis (popmatters)
But the reason Redding stands out as an immortal soul icon is rooted in much more than his broad musical palette. Intensely emotional on record and on stage, Redding unhesitatingly bore witness to pain, exposed his own vulnerabilities, and expressed emotions at odds with conventional and emergent notions of black masculinity. Tearjerkers like his “Pain in My Heart”, “Try a Little Tenderness”, “My Lover’s Prayer”, and the criminally underrated “You’re Still My Baby” spoke honestly and profoundly on the power of love, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

New Yorker's Emoticons during wartime
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GWEI - Google will eat itself

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The Dillards (Darlins) on A.G.S.

Kidnapping! It's not just for extraordinary rendition anymore!
(Sunday Times, UK)

AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.