TheBlueNebula

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Kind of the opposite of a wish-book.

The Worst Things For Sale

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From The Cloud Appreciation Society manifesto:

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.
Life would be dull if we had to look up at
cloudless monotony day after day.

I'm down with--and maybe up for--that. Give me gray skies any day! And blue nebulae are nice, too.

The Cloud Appreciation Society

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Want to give some aliens a piece of your mind? Here's a site that can help you get that job done.

Lone Signal

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A limited but charming gallery of examples of aesthetic inferiority.

Museum of Bad Art

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"Things fall apart;
The centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" 

Doing It Wrong

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This site's owner claims to be interested in calling attention to failures of critical thinking. It seems to me that it would be a failure of critical thinking to take all of the various unfortunate outcomes listed here as irrefragable failures of critical thinking 

I think a more pertinent question may be "What's the point?"

What's The Harm? 

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Some to read online, some downloads, even some audio book links.

Open Culture Free Science Fiction Classics on the Web

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Here is an interesting and valuable blog focused on covering news of retractions in published scientific research. The authors refer to it as "a window into the scientific process." I see it as a buttress supporting transparency and accuracy in the scientific publishing process. 

A lot of things can go wrong when people are doing science. Retractions are not always the result of misconduct or incompetence. Browsing through the posts affords even a casual reader some insight into the difficulties surrounding modern academic research practices.

Retraction Watch

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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau 

A worthwhile blog, featuring posts about law, freedom, social criticism, popular culture, and more. Interesting topics appear regularly here.

Popehat

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I'm not a real militantly dissatisfied customer, but I play one on Youtube. (Real actors read Yelp reviews . . . beautifully.)

Gotta Kid to Feed Productions - YouTube

Originally posted 7 Jan 2013 on Google+