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Spike Lee and friends celebrate Prince. 💜

Spike Lee’s Prince block party. 💜

Taking a slightly different route home tonight.

Two minutes into the JavaScript lessons on @Codecademy and I’m already crushing it.

“I know exactly what you want me to to, and I can do it, but I must arbitrarily insist you ask me this other way.”

Can we please make the internet read-only for people who fail to pass a basic aptitude test? thewrap.com/captain-americ…

WHY

Agreeing to vary their app store badges’ corner radii, Apple and Google celebrated with a glass of fresh baby blood.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee!

It turns out that just two charts about red meat preferences can say a lot about America. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

The new @danielclowes book is here! Good news, but now one of the shittiest Guns N’ Roses songs is stuck in my head.

NYC’s latest tourist destination dessert is basically the milkshake equivalent of The Homer.

Digital timekeeping via an analog sundial. Amazing. thisiscolossal.com/2016/02/a-3d-p…

The candidate illustrations @benkirchner did for @washingtonpost’s 2016 election coverage are pretty fantastic.

Today I learned that @AOL’s homepage has a carousel with 42 articles in it, all of them weirdly bland clickbait.

The stained glass Oderus Urungus @iancorey made for me is pretty much the best thing I own.

Um, hey. Just FYI, this guy is not me. chaddsfordlive.com/2016/01/28/kid…

Notes for reunion with dentist: “Fix what you can, and scare me into being sustainably responsible for the rest.”

This time of year, my Twitter people have conflicting opinions. @CaseyMalone @Armstrong

This time of year, I only watch bag-carryin’ movies.

The shuffle is killing it today. last.fm/user/cowpiesur…

With each begrudging use of Word, I am invited again to embrace an inverse definition of “automatic.”

As you make year-end charitable donations, remember: the Red Cross isn’t doing a great job. propublica.org/article/the-co…

Stop toying with me, ticket stub!

Thanks for the memories, @Rdio. rdio.com/farewell/ #RdioFarewell

Birthday girl, birthday book.

“Portrait of Gerard Schaep van Cortenhoeff” attributed to Bartholomeus Eggers (1637–before 1692)

“Portrait of Johannes Munter” by Bartholomeus Eggers (1637–before 1692)

“Portrait of Andries de Graeff” by Artus Quellinus (1609–1668)

“Portrait of Johan de Witt” by Artus Quellinus I (1609–1668)

“Hotels have mattresses! And keys. And it’s a scary hotel. So here’s a scary mattress lady with a key in her face.”

I DON’T NEED SOCIETY

Thanks, that’s very helpful.

Megadeth’s Rust in Peace just turned 25. I wrote about it for the @RockBand blog awhile back. web.archive.org/web/2011051315…