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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Or as the Chinese, Jewish, and Mayan calendars would call it, Sunday.

Posted by Patrick at 14:08

Labels: Holidays

Yao Ming commutes to college, eats a bagged lunch, is an obedient son.

Yao Ming was China's most notable athletic export since...well, ever. But despite crisscrossing the globe as China's most famous...
Vincent van Gogh didn't have a dominant blue period so much as maybe more a blue fling with green undertones.

Brett Kebold is a data analyst who enjoys finding representations of life all amongst us, and decided to utilize his skill at data analy...
Map of banned books shows that Texas and Connecticut finally have something in common.

Being Banned Books Week--the American Library Association's week-long focus on everything censored in literature-- the Huffington Post...
When Writers Go Weird: That time Ken Kesey faked his suicide.

Are writers ever normal? No, otherwise they'd be productive members of society. 'When Writers Go Weird' is when we remember wri...
Famous Writers with Dogs: Enid Bynton

Writers need inspiration somewhere in life, and for many that inspiration comes from their pet dogs. This is a running series where we po...
Personally, I always thought The Grapes of Wrath would've been a great video game.

Just think of it: An old jalopy of a truck overburdened with passengers has to careen down a dirty highway in the American southwest, veer...
Time Magazine and the writers who actually made the cover, 1930s edition

As should be obvious, Time Magazine is a news source, most famous these days for naming their Person of The Year every late December a...

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