jane-fucking-doe:

makes my hair look like shit hah

theatlantic:

After the Fall: The Economics of Shattered iPhones

Things happen. Even if your brand new iPhone is all smashed up it still keeps 72% of its value. Heck, you can drop it in the toilet and it’s still worth a good chunk of change. There is little need to live in fear and smother your phone with protective measures. There is entire ecosystem that takes broken phones and makes them whole again, so prices of broken phones aren’t even that low. You don’t walk around with a bumper case around your head and that’s pretty valuable. If you’re phone breaks, you can just fix it. It will be okay.

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figure it out

chels:

Fairytale of New York  |  The Pogues

I’ve heard this song pretty much everywhere I’ve been for the last few weeks. And I’ve just found out why: evidently, it’s the most-played Christmas song of the century.

And while it certainly is set at Christmas, it’s basically an angry, drunken fight between two lovers. Exactly the homey, Christmas feel you want, eh?

Bless

Ermm.. Perfection?!

laughingsquid:

Zombie Exit

peterwknox:

(via Ray Wasnieski builds the Freedom Tower and sleeps at Zuccotti Park, without telling his co-workers | Capital New York)

tballardbrown:

Watch the Throne therefore should not be judged as an album, but rather as a move in this savvy strategy of institutionalizing hegemony in the face of potential decline. Kanye and Jay-Z’s alliance offers a new blueprint for managing decline in a turbulent world from which international relations scholars and American foreign policy practitioners alike should learn. And if political scientists don’t want to take lessons from hip hop artists, then allow me to give the last word to Cyhi Da Prince: “my haters got PhDs, y’all just some major haters with some math minors.”

Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye | Marc Lynch

*drops mic*