Stuff I found while looking around

| September 20, 2013

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– This Guy Turns OCD Hoarding Into Amazing Photos

– Louis C.K.’s Girls Can’t Have Cell Phones

– A collection of memorable falling scenes in cinema and TV.

– What PTSD is:

It was never the snap trauma, the quick moment of action that breaks a person. PTSD is the wages of a life spent in crisis, the slow, the­matic build that grad­u­ally changes the way the suf­ferer sees the world. You get boiled by heating the water one degree each hour. By the time you finally suc­cumb, you realize you had no idea it was get­ting hotter.

– Sad desk lunch

– What I’ve Learned: Michael Wright

I now know what it’s like to have a 110-story building that’s been hit by a 767 come down on my head. For better or for worse, it’s part of my life. There are things I never thought I’d know that I now know.

– Starfish Hitler

– This is so Memphis.

– The Official “Fun vs. Effort” Graph of Pets. I love that there’s a baby on here and its placement on the graph.

– Favorites: Favorites is a weekly email of amazing photography curated Heather Champ. Subscribers can send in their best photo of the week and I’ll select a few to share with the list, complete with the photographers’ names, descriptions, and links to their sites.

– Brilliant: Gay Liberal Lawmaker Releases Ad Featuring His Tea Party Republican Dad

– If Picasso had painted superheroes

– Wonderful animated soccer vignettes

– Without the freedom to play children will never truly grow up:

Playing is learning. At play, children learn the most important of life’s lessons, the ones that cannot be taught in school. To learn these lessons well, children need lots of play — lots and lots of it, without interference from adults.

– It is, in fact, fun to stay there.

– Ricky Gervais tells a story about how he learned to write.

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