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"I can’t believe I burned down a tree older then... →
plocool: motherjones: 26-year-old Sarah Barnes’s alleged response to allegedly burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world—a 3,500-year-old, 118-foot-tall bald cypress—while (allegedly) on meth. Barnes is allegedly from Florida. Reminds me of this Radiolab story.
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Scribner Books: Thanks for all the fish →
scribnerbooks: Thanks for all the fish I’m stepping out from behind the curtain to say goodbye. I’m moving on from Scribner and handing over the reins of this Tumblr to a very capable team. Thanks for being such a receptive and enthusiastic audience.  Follow me on my personal Tumblr: http://annadevries.tumblr.com/ for more editor-influenced fun. If you’re curious to know what else I did...
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Surfing at a Billion Bits Per Second →
From the street in the town of Sebastopol, Calif., only one thing hints that a house there has among the fastest residential broadband sold in America: an extra wire off the telephone pole, notably thinner than the adjacent electric, telephone and cable-TV wires. That fiber-optic cable provides on block in Sonoma County with downloads at up to one billion bits per second, or 1 Gbps. This...
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Concerned for Conservation: An open letter to... →
realcleverscience: mothernaturenetwork: mad-as-a-marine-biologist: Dear Tumblr, We are writing to ask you to consider adding a ‘Conservation’ or ‘Environment’ featured tag.  We’re not outright asking. We know that featured tags are those that have a certain amount of traffic, but please consider the following: 1. The field of conservation is wide-ranging. As a result related content is...
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A Dimension Of Mind...: Staff Blog Attack →
thenextweb: adimensionofmind: Good Morning, Afternoon, or Evening Tumblr Friends I must apologise for the Staff Blog assault in the last several hours whilst I’ve been soundly asleep. My bad it seems, as I was careless and stuck my password in when prompted to confirm my ID on a Tumblr saying it featured adult content, even… Phishing scam promising free iPhones and Walmart giftcards popping...
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Re: Public Policy Question for Coca-Cola →
joshsternberg: Wikileaks is dumping 5 million emails from Stratfor. This series is about Coke trying to get some info on PETA. Fascinating. Interesting, thanks Fred. Fred Burton wrote: The FBI has a classified investigation on PETA operatives. I’ll see what I can uncover. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ————————————————————————————————————— From: “scott stewart” Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:01:30...
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Kickstarter Expects to Provide More Funding Than... →
wow. social media ftw
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