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Overheard at the Record Store-15

“Don’t you guys have enough pretentious crap from your own generation? Do you have to take it from mine?”
“I’m going to New York, getting a new tattoo and seeing Exene Cervenka in the same week. Life is good.”
“Look, man. If I can’t be drunk in here, then you can’t either.”
“Do you have something really annoying?”
“Why, [...]

Mind-Bending Illusion

Here’s something fun to wrap your brain around:
In this image, created by Edward H. Adelson, the squares that are labeled A and B are the exact same color.
But, you don’t have to take my word for it. There’s another image that will leave you rubbing your eyes and scratching your head. The two bars below [...]

Library on a Donkey

In a world of meetings and agendas and bureaucratic gotchas, it is wonderfully inspiring to see people who have taken matters into their own hands, and are contributing to the betterment of their communities and our collective future in their own, unique way.

About the donkey: is it me or is that an enormous load? I [...]

Back to the Future?

Who is that guy? See him? The one who looks like a modern hipster that ended up in the 1940s. A little odd, right? While the various theories of hipster time-travel that have been accompanying this image around the internet are all a bit tongue-in-cheek, I am quite curious about this fellow’s unlikely attire.
University kid? [...]

Humans & Music

Watch in amazement as Bobby McFerrin taps into the inherent human understanding of music, and without a word, draws an entire audience into his world.
If your exposure to Bobby McFerrin’s music begins and ends with that one hit from the 80s, do yourself a favor and dig a little deeper. He is a compositional genius [...]

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