Rod, North Center, Chicago, IL

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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Sean Penn (via nicepants)

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deadsquare:

@carolemert just unlocked the “Dead Family in a Sandbox” badge on deadsquare!

I hope this becomes a thing.

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Business Cards for Fictional Companies (via grantkeller, hellofriend, peterwknox)

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Rolling Stone magazine goes behind the scenes of Mad Men. (via kevindwire, thedailywhat)

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"Many creatures, from mice and pigeons to lions, and dolphins, know a member of ‘our group’ from a stranger. All these creatures have been well studied in the past few decades, and the pattern is clear: fights within the group are limited and tend not to get out of hand, but fights between groups end in death. This in-group restraint, as the psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay as said, gave rise to the widely believed myth that animals don’t kill their own kind. In fact many animals — lions, gorillas, chimpanzees, hyenas — are happy to kill their own. The victim just can’t be a member of their little band.

Animals, though, don’t make decisions about who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out.’ A dog guards her puppies because they are kin, and members of her human family because they are friends. But no dog quits her humans because they have converted to Catholicism or put a peace sign on their lawn. People can and will make that sort of change, because people, unlike animals, make choices based on signs — crosses, uniforms, peace signs, oaths, and other indicators of a particular human kind. Animals have kin and animals have friends, but only human beings trust symbols to tell us who is kin and who is friend."

— David Berreby, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind (via savingpaper, desnoise)

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Google Chrome teamed up with the Arcade Fire and director Chris Milk to create a custom interactive video for their song, “We Used To Wait.” The experience is called The Wilderness Downtown and is best viewed in Chrome or other HTML5-compliant browser.

You start by typing in the address of the house you grew up in, then it loads a video of a guy in a hoodie running through the streets. Different windows pop open on your screen, some with graphics, some with videos. Google Maps and Street View images of your old neighborhood are incorporated into the video. Different windows open up triggered by the music, and you even see a fly-over of your neighborhood based on Google Maps.

h/t: Alex

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theeconomist:

Parking wardens clamped two unique supercars outside London’s Harrods, illegally parked by the luxury store’s new Qatari owners. Local joy was unconfined. Meanwhile, parking fines in Britain are a multi-million pound business.

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