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...kept asking him. “It’s going to be the best summer ever.” We made brochures. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: To the person who stole my Indonesian ritual bat kite from Cabot storage: You are scum. Give it back. Favorite childhood toy: This outrageously large and unwieldy Nerf gun called the Razorbeast. It fired 15 suction-cup darts in two seconds. Sexiest physical trait: Fabulous muscles. Favorite part about Harvard: Chocolate milk at every meal. Describe yourself in three words: World’s deadliest snake...
Dance-punk guru James Murphy is at it again with LCD Soundsystem’s new over-the-top single, “North American Scum,” and its deliciously scummy space-themed music video. If you’re looking for a carefree journey to the moon, complete with a space battle, mechanical failure, and a hypnotic voyage to an autumnal parallel universe, this is the video for you. “North American Scum” begins with a vainglorious earth-bound photo shoot, followed by frontman Murphy’s opening of a door labeled...
...wide. That is the width of newly discovered microbes that may be the smallest form of cellular life, according to a story in the New York Times this week. In "drainage water as caustic as battery acid," these hard-ass teeny-weenies have the flair to form "a pink scum on green pools...
...Alexei of the Shultz88 group told me: "The time of our shahids, and our bombings, has come." He was talking of groups or individuals who would create a Nazi al-Qaeda by linking through the Internet. Two years ago, I thought that the government could still roll all this scum back within a week. Monday's bombing seems to indicate that it might be too late - even if the government actually wanted...
...Procter & Gamble's website, where I found tips about how to use the products but still no list of ingredients. It turns out that companies aren't required to tell us what makes their products work; there is no government agency that regulates what's in soap-scum spray and other useful items. Digging deep into the site, I did find Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSes) for many P&G products, which are posted by law in factories where they're made, listing information about a cleaner's chemical components and known health effects. The government also has a website...