26 days ago
wearehugh : BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | All the lonely people
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3 month ago
deusx : iconocla.st -- a weblog by Schuyler D. Erle - ""When you put a thing on your to-do list, you are making a committment to do it," he says to me. "Meaning you aren't going to do some other things." He pauses. "So you have to choose between those things. Now, why do yo
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4 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Why dying is forbidden in the Arctic - "The town's small graveyard stopped accepting newcomers 70 years ago, after it was discovered that the bodies were failing to decompose."
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10 month ago
nelson : What I killed today - A veterinarian's record of euthanasias
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deusx : Docs Change the Way They Think About Death | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com - "The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself."
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10 month ago
adamrg : When Is a Makeshift Best Buy Tribute to Heath Ledger Too Soon? The Answer: Always. - Too soon.
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11 month ago
adamrg : Andrew Olmsted: Final Post - .
Andy Baio : Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post - blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 [via]
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12 month ago
Andy Baio : RPS reviews Passage, an pixel art maze game about death - can a game that's only five minutes long make you sad? surprisingly, yes
nelson : Passage, a melancholy game - Bittersweet and poetic, the review does it justice
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12 month ago
deusx : passage 2 - "Your interpretation of the game is more important than my intentions. Please play the game before you read this."
nelson : Passage statement - Description of what the artist intended
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17 month ago
nelson : Self Mummification 1 - Amazing story of extreme faith
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18 month ago
wearehugh : Getting Access to Gmail Accounts of the Deceased - i've been having sporadic discussions about this (and other tech+death issues). passwords? accounts? encrypted backups?
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19 month ago
jimray : 10 strangest deaths - Death by "receiving oral sex?" Sure. Death by spending too much time playing World of Warcraft? No thanks.
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19 month ago
jimray : Film industry lobbyist Jack Valenti dies - Who will censor our movies? Who will keep us safe from the Boston strangler that is the VCR? Who will lobby against our fair use rights so Hollywood can keep selling us the same crap over and over?
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20 month ago
adamrg : Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - New York Times - Well, this seems like as good a time as any to churn through his works again.
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jimray : What happens when you die on a plane - Just the thought that I could piss off the smarmy bastards up in first class is reason enough for me!
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deusx : YouTube - gnome Death race - "Gnome death race 25/10/06 on ravenholt server"
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24 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : graph of odds of dying of various causes - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
Rod Begbie : Your odds of dying - Graph of your odds of dying by various causes. [via] #
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25 month ago
jimray : World of Warcraft obit - So, a gamer dies in real life, his brother writes a quick obit in the WoW forums, and this is the reply. Also why it's worth having real friends.
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Croc Hunter Steve Irwin, dead in freak stingray accident - died doing what he loved
jimray : Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin killed in freak stingray accident - Fitting that he died with his boots on, so to speak
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29 month ago
jimray : Ken Lay, lynching victim? - Compared to Jesus, JFK, Martin Luther King. Are these people totally insane?
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31 month ago
jcgregorio : Bloglines | API Documentation - Their API comes in two flavors, one where you completely violate all that we've been talking about in using HTTP correctly by using GET to ping, or one that uses XML-RPC. It's a sad day when you innovate and undershoot XML-RPC.
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Have any television or radio presenters died while they were in the middle of a live broadcast? - I don't know the answer to this question, but I want to, so I decided to ask Yahoo Answers. All inspired by Simon asking whther they'd cancel Eurovision if Terry Wogan died unexpectedly.
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36 month ago
kayodeok : John Spencer, the actor who plays Leo McGarry on The West Wing, has died, at 58 - John Spencer, the actor who played vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry in NBC television's The West Wing, has died of a heart attack at 58
plasticbag : John Spencer, who played The West Wing's Leo McGarry, has died aged of 58 - God, what terrible news. I'm astonished that he was only 58 - he looked ten years old at least. HIt turns out that he was younger than my stepfather.
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