Twenty favorite things from two thousand ten.

Retrospective.

1. Making Time - The Creation
2. We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool and D-Cup
3. Calabria 2008 - Enur
4. Bulletproof - La Roux
5. Carnival - The Cardigans
6. The Shining Path - RJD2
7. Hey Young World - Slick Rick
8. I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group
9. Intermission
10. Redondo Beach - Patti Smith
11. Fronteir Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
12. Maybe the People Would be the Times - Love
13. Richard Cory - Them
14. Jackson Cage - Bruce Springsteen
15. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
16. He War - Cat Power
17. Stage Fright - The Band
18. Gotta Gettaway - Stiff Little Fingers
19. You Gotta Move - RL Burnside
20. Home - LCD Soundsystem

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well played, ray

Designed in 1952 by Raymond Stegeman for Bausch & Loam

a true respect for work

"Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits"

-Studs Terkel (b.1912 d. 2008)

author of Working (1974)

p'recious

well hello again, mr. buffett

Mr. Buffett has long had a fascination with Goldman and first visited the firm when he was 10 with his father, according to someone familiar with the matter.

-from "Buffett to Invest $5bn in Goldman" on http://www.wsj.com/

coolness confirmed

Echeveria Metallica II
Family: Crassulaceae


A seldom offered hybrid that resembles the famous Bittersweet but doesn't grow quite so large. It is deep red with a purple overcast and bright red edges.

from www.highlandsucculents.com

they can be really scary, you know?

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hey, bo diddley

"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.”

- Bo Diddley (1928-2008)

the big picture delivered in under an hour

This American Life (radio) 355: The Giant Pool of Money

Prologue.
Ira talks with NPR business and economics correspondent about two gatherings he attended. One at the Ritz Carlton and one at a community college in Brooklyn. The first was an awards dinner for finance professionals who created the mortgage based financial instruments that nearly brought down the global economic system. The other was a non-profit conference for people facing foreclosure. Ira explains that today's show lays out how the finance guys and the people facing foreclosure are connected by a chain of middlemen, and that together, they all brought about the current housing and credit crisis. (4 minutes)

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conspiracy theory well worth support

"And I am working on being more grateful. I'm aiming my thanks at the thousand of things we take for granted, things that would be a miracle if they only happened once. I noticed a pigeon the other day. It had fantastical colors, incredible bearing, and shimmering feathers. I feel sure that if there were only one of these specimens alive in the world, we would all agree it would be the most beautiful bird in the world. We'd push and shove to see it. Almost every moment in our lives is a pigeon overlooked. "

-Kevin Kelly

Listen to his essay "The Universe is Conspiring to Help Us" for NPR's series This I Believe