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Thursday April 3rd

History of Stonehenge 18061

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7322444.stm (score:306 / approval:100%)

by coolguy Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 11:48pm (from #bor)

This animation from BBC Timewatch reveals the 4,500 years of history behind Stonehenge.

history, intresting, leave me alone, stonehedge

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Saturday August 25th 2007

Language, Bitches 16209

by mtoots Fri Aug 24th, 2007 10:48am (from #bor)

history, language, linguistics, roots

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Wednesday June 13th 2007

FoxNews through out history 15528

by threeiem Tue Jun 12th, 2007 12:34am (from #bor)

foxnews, history, spin

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Thursday April 19th 2007

A Not So Wonderful Night for a Moondance 14291

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/02/13/a_not_so_wonderful_night_for_a_moondan... (score:267 / approval:100%)

by oblio Thu Apr 19th, 2007 6:19pm (from #bor) Bumped by oblio

A Not So Wonderful Night for a Moondance

Continuing the trend on lower Sixth Avenue, The Moondance Diner, made famous by appearances in Spiderman, Igby, and Sex in the City, will soon shutter to make way for condos. The diner, along with an adjacent parking garage and lot, will be converted into a 66,734-square-foot residential building with ground floor retail by Extell's Gary Barnett. The site has already received the necessary variance to build the nine-story residential tower in an area zoned

condos, diner, history, nyc, pfftshaw

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Friday March 23rd 2007

The history of blogging. 14123

by jellynail Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 9:57am (from #bor)

People who are compelled to post 140 characters of drivel every three minutes are abandoning real blogging services in droves! Help spread the word about Twitter, and make the rest of the internet a better place!

blog, blogging, cat, history, twitter

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Tuesday August 8th 2006

FU BOB! 9498

by mite Tue Aug 8th, 2006 10:16am (from #bor)

Feudalism, property ownership, then things fell apart...

feudalism, history, property ownership

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Saturday July 22nd 2006

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tut's gem hints at space impact 9243

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5196362.stm (score:286 / approval:100%)

by Xavier Sat Jul 22nd, 2006 4:29pm (from #bor)

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tut's gem hints at space impact

Tut hits the glass dick

egypt, history, king tut

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Friday January 20th 2006

World's First Web Server 6191

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:First_Web_Server.jpg (score:481 / approval:0%)

by coolguy Fri Jan 20th, 2006 10:08am (from #bor)

This NeXT workstation (a NeXTcube) was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first Web server on the World Wide Web. Today, it is kept in Microcosm, the public museum at the Meyrin site of CERN, in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

computer, history, server, technology, vintage

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Tuesday August 9th 2005

Music: Amen break 5048

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break (score:443 / approval:0%)

by oblio Tue Aug 9th, 2005 12:17pm (from #bor)

The "amen break" is one of the most-used sampled drum loops in jungle and drum and bass music, together with the "funky drummer" drum loop. The amen break is four bars of the drum break lifted from the song "Amen Brother" as performed by the 1960s funk/soul outfit The Winstons. The song is an uptempo, instrumental rendition of the gospel music classic "Amen". The Winstons' version was released on a 45 rpm 7" vinyl single in 1969 on Metromedia, and is curren

And watch it play! http://www.nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html

audio, drum and bass, history, music, sample