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It's Pi Day today! (3.14 - get it?)

To mark the day I suggest that you do something either irrational or transcendental -- or even better something that is both -- since these are characteristics of the mathematical constant we call Pi () that expresses the relationship between a circle's diameter and its circumference. Those that are rather particular about their favorite ratio observe Pi...
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Today is International Women's Day. A recent White House survey - the most comprehensive in 50 years - finds that women still only earn 75% of what their male counterparts make. Just saying...

Neil Strauss has a talent for honing in on the very essence of who a person is. It's an attribute that has served him well as an interviewer for publications such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone, as a writer penning biographical books with the likes of Mtley Cre (The Dirt) and Jenna Jameson (How To Make Love Like A Porn Star), and...
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"400 obscenely wealthy individuals....now have more cash, stock, and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined." Michael Moore, America Is NOT Broke.



Anyone know where I can buy a "Support the WI 14" T-shirt?

So proud that America has finally found its spine.

I first became aware of Dave Navarro's penchant for cute things bearing the likeness of Sanrio's Hello Kitty character while doing the SuicideGirls Radio show. We broadcast each Sunday out of Indie1031.com's studios, which at the time also served as home for the wild living and hard rockin' Jane's Addiction and Camp Freddy guitarist's Wednesday night Dark Matter show (which has since moved to Moheak.com's...
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Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's bloody epic Santa Sangre, which was inspired by the story of Mexican serial killer Gregorio "Goyo" Crdenas Hernndez, has been praised as "a throwback to the golden age, to the days when filmmakers had bold individual visions," and derided as "a massive clearance sale of leftover psychedelia." It's story and imagery has been dismissed as "a series of banal Freudianisms involving...
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So just before the holidays my legs decided to randomly crap out on me in a really painful way. After a week in hospital it was decided my partial paralysis was due to a herniated disc, and as soon as my very expensive health insurance decided to retroactively not pay, they sent me on my merry way - with some groovy painkillers in hand.

This...
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Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film that defies explanation, and ones ability to suspend disbelief. Indeed the plot would be utterly ridiculous, if it werent for the fact that its true.

It started out life as a simple documentary about street art as seen through the lens of Thierry Guetta, a French national living in Los Angeles. Thanks to a family connection, and...
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Can't wait to see the BBC's new TV series based on Douglas Adam's Dirk Gently novels.

Actually preferred Adam's stories about the holistic detective, who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, to the author's better known Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy books, and am excited that these lesser known works will finally be exposed to a wider audience.

It was very possible to lose one's mind...playing Catherine, says Mena Suvari, referring to her role in the film Hemingway's Garden of Eden, which opens in select US theaters today. Indeed the character at the heart of the Ernest Hemingway book, upon which the movie is based, is considered to be one of the writers most complex.

The novel itself has a complicated and intriguing...
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