A new Starbucks in Tukwila, Washington, constructed with reclaimed shipping containers. [via Starbucks Opens New Reclamation Drive Thru Made From Recycled Shipping Containers | Inhabitat]

A new Starbucks in Tukwila, Washington, constructed with reclaimed shipping containers.

[via Starbucks Opens New Reclamation Drive Thru Made From Recycled Shipping Containers | Inhabitat]

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How Microbes and Currents Teamed Up to Clean the Gulf: A fortuitous combination of ravenous bacteria, ocean currents and local topography helped to rapidly purge the Gulf of Mexico of much of the oil and gas released in the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010, researchers reported on Monday. (via Spill Study Explains How Bacteria Cleansed Gulf - WSJ.com)

How Microbes and Currents Teamed Up to Clean the Gulf: A fortuitous combination of ravenous bacteria, ocean currents and local topography helped to rapidly purge the Gulf of Mexico of much of the oil and gas released in the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010, researchers reported on Monday.

(via Spill Study Explains How Bacteria Cleansed Gulf - WSJ.com)

The Wall Street Journal

Number one: If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it would be a bar.
Jason Gay: The 27 Rules of Conquering the Gym - WSJ.com

The Wall Street Journal

YouTube Founding Myth in One Paragraph

Quote from New Yorker article: “YouTube was created by three former employees of PayPal, in a Silicon Valley garage, in early 2005. According to two of the founders, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, a graphic designer and a software engineer, respectively, the idea grew out of a dinner party at Chen’s home in San Francisco, in the winter of 2004-05. Guests had made videos of one another, but they couldn’t share them easily. The founders envisioned a video version of Flickr, a popular photo-sharing site. All the content on the site would be user-generated: “Real personal clips that are taken by everyday people,” as Hurley described his vision. The third founder, Jawed Karim, also a software engineer, had an additional source of inspiration: Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” on CBS’s broadcast of the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. The incident spawned an enormous amount of commentary, an F.C.C. fine, and a lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court, but if you missed the live broadcast you were out of luck.”

[via: The New Yorker, Jan. 16, 2012]

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Geek nostalgia: Relive your favorite old-school re-booting experiences at TheRestartPage.com.  [via: Waxy.org/links]

Geek nostalgia: Relive your favorite old-school re-booting experiences at TheRestartPage.com. 

[via: Waxy.org/links]

Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) allows you to quickly and easily search more than 400 million words of text of American English from 1810 to 2009. You can see how words, phrases and grammatical constructions have increased or decreased in frequency, how words have changed meaning over time, and how stylistic changes have taken place in the language.

[via: Metafilter.com]

Unemployment rates and re-elections

Obama can take comfort in President Ronald Reagan’s experience. In November 1982, the economy was in the last month of a deep recession, and unemployment was 10.8 percent, the highest since the Great Depression. A year later, unemployment was down to 8.5 percent. By November 1984, it was still a relatively high 7.2 percent, but the downward trend was unmistakable. Reagan was re-elected that month in a 59-41 percent landslide.

[via: In elections, jobless trend matters more than rate (AP)]

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Did you see that sketch on Portlandia?

Paul Kuharsky (espn.com): The Titans have several games they can look back on that ultimately cost them a shot to be in the postseason in Mike Munchak’s first season as their coach. They lost the season opener in Jacksonville by 2 points, lost a home game against Cincinnati by a touchdown, dropped a 6-point game at Atlanta, missed a chance to upset New Orleans in Nashville and played terribly in Indianapolis, serving as the Colts’ first victim of the season. Tip any one of those the other direction and Sunday’s game at Houston could have ensured they’d keep on playing.
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Marco Arment: “Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you’re willing to tolerate.

Bullshit – Marco.org: A succinct bullet-pointed post on the crap our favorite companies dish-out and we eat-up.

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