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Pretty wild.

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Out of things to stick your dick in? Try this book.

Sure to either be a hit with or totally creep out the ladies.

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Kidding, but there are a few on the list that got me. Many are softballs though. Chromosome? Irony? Photosynthesis? Plagiarize? Impeach? I’m thinking the book might expand past the basic definition, or not:

“The words we suggest,” says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, “are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language.”

Full list after the jump.

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NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger isn’t sure. “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either,” he says. After declining profits and a $570 million loss at the Boston Globe, he is focusing on how to best transition from print to Internet.

Having a paper to feel in your fingers, visually reduce in size as you read each section and bring into the toilet is great, but the pain of delivery, cost, environmental impact and today’s 24 hour news sources should do it in fairly soon. I believe a full printed version will be around 10 more years, likely 20, but in the near future most physical ‘newspapers’ will be a thin flexible lcd screen.

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Can many humans pitch-in to write a single novel? I’m guessing it’s going to be a tad disjointed. “Crowdsourcing. The Wisdom of the crowds. Social networking. Collaborative enterprise.” works best for wikipedia.

“A Million Penguins is an experiment in creative writing and community. Anyone can join in. Anyone can write. Anyone can edit.”

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and it’s fantastic.

You can browse AP news by category(there’s about 10, ranging from sports to technology) or hop on the globe and look around by area. Each article is easy to read from the couch, unlike the Opera browser channel, and the categories run like an RSS reader, making for a quick visual scan. The globe browsing is great because you can see exactly where something is happening. Much needed for us Americans who generally lack geography skills.

Somehow I’ve missed this site that’s been around since 2003. The Blog of Death is written by Jade Walker, a former editor of The New York Times obituaries section.

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Slip on the Thumb Thing to make holding open pages more comfortable. It also keeps the spine of the book from being broken, increasing that amazon or ebay resell value. To complete the triple threat, it also acts as a bookmark.

update: here’s a similar product for shooting pool. (via seihin world)

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Entertainment Weekly interviewed 83 year-old Norman Mailer, covering booze, his place in history, Philip Roth fans and his new book, The Castle in the Forest (out Jan. 23).

“Do you really believe the devil was present at the conception of Adolf Hitler, as he is in the book?

Uh, yeah. I mean, if I say that, and you see it in print, it sounds bizarre, lunatic, unsettling. But if we can believe that God or Gabriel was present at the conception of Jesus, then it seems to me we can believe that the devil was present at the conception of Adolf Hitler.”

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9 pages of casino carpets! You play too much if you recognize any of these.

The site’s owner has written a number of books on gambling, his latest is Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling.

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Every issue of MAD Magazine on 2 dvds! Over 50 years for $42.49. That’s a steal! I think the last time I bought an issue it was $1.35.

“Over 600 complete printable issues, cover to cover, that’s over 17,500 scanned pages in full color. Includes video clip interviews from the MAD writers and clips of Spy vs Spy animation.”

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Volume 1 Issue 1 has photos, artwork and a few stories. The spine says October 2006, but it seems to be the most recent issue. It’s largely south florida artists, but the reader submissions include folks from the UK, California, Canada and New Hampshire.

Coincidently it includes the Shepard Fairey print “Nouveau Black” which was recently ‘exposed’ as borrowing from an 1899 work.

Also featured is Colin Christian’s sculptures. Check them out here.

Their website has some basic info, but should fill out soon. In the meantime, visit their myspace page

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A cool real time sketch. Being horrible at drawing, I appreciate seeing how it’s done.

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Apparently most kids these days wouldn’t make great cartographers (neither would most adults I imagine). Instead of giving the kids another 2 Xbox games, opt for this cool tool. Downloads target age appropriate learning activities including country capitals, leaders, populations, currency, language, weather, history, national anthems, election results and more. Features a wireless pen, 3D barcode technology and 9 languages with 3 versions of English.

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Driving with the Devil
Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Written by Neal Thompson

A history of how NASCAR came to be. Moonshiners running from the Feds needed fast cars and even better driving skills. Many things today’s corporate NASCAR doesn’t like to acknowledge. And perhaps solving the great Chevy vs Ford debate, it’s revealed that the first car of choice was the Ford V-8.

Some other interesting revelations:
-The South didn’t have pro sports(which obviously helped racing grow) until the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1965.
-The early Daytona track was just A1A and the actual beach.
-The first champion, Red Byron, had to have his badly damaged leg(WW II) attached to his clutch.

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