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last week

• According to HBO version of Game Change, Palin wasn't aware that the Queen doesn't run UK government.
  (Feb 18, 465 views)
• Lemonade: Detroit. A short film about those who've built a new life in a once-dying city.
  (Feb 17, 373 views)
• Hey! Four-and-a-half stars! Great work, government employees!
  (Feb 17, 263 views)
• Touring the ruins of Tatooine.
  (Feb 20, 222 views)
• ESPN headline after Knicks loss: "Chink in the Armor". Clean out your desk, jackass.
  (Feb 18, 189 views)
• Photos of a Chinese sex doll factory. Not safe for work, but pretty tame.
  (Feb 19, 149 views)
• It is unbelievable that this is so hard: who said it, Rick Santorum or Megadeth?
  (Feb 22, 145 views)
• Dog On Wire.
  (Feb 19, 138 views)
• You hear about The Atlantic's big get today? No, not that one. This one. (But, oy - that lede.)
  (Feb 22, 137 views)
• My first concert, found on YouTube.
  (Feb 19, 132 views)
• Harvard, Cornell sees your Jeremy Lin and raises you this.
  (Feb 19, 128 views)
• Filling a hole in your Internet: this is the animal matrix.
  (Feb 21, 119 views)
• Coming soon: meat from a Petri dish and flowers from the Ice Age.
  (Feb 20, 116 views)
• Driving to New York, I asked China to name every basketball player she could.
  (Feb 18, 113 views)
• When Coca-Cola extracts the cocaine from coca leaves for its formula, what do they do with it?
  (Feb 22, 111 views)
• The Costa Concordia, from a plane flying overhead.
  (Feb 18, 108 views)
• Maddie the coonhound stands on things.
  (Feb 20, 107 views)
• Another great image from Shorpy: a Jewish neighborhood off Rivington on the Lower East Side, 1909.
  (Feb 19, 104 views)
• But Lin's ball-handling skills pale in comparison to this little bird's.
  (Feb 19, 102 views)
• Bill Keller: Wikileaks may not have upended global politics, but at least I got a free trip to Spain!
  (Feb 19, 98 views)

all-time

• Sign at Subway shop in Manchester: "Due to imminent collapse of society we regret to announce we are closing at 6pm"
  (Aug 9, 2011, 47,517 views)
• Three days ago, Lieberman said he'd reintroduce a bill allowing the gov't to switch off net access - like Egypt today.
  (Jan 27, 2011, 20,830 views)
• Wow: New York City already has a "how to get same-sex married" guide up. Nicely done.
  (Jun 24, 2011, 14,292 views)
• Two women in a canoe happen upon a flock of starlings.
  (Nov 3, 2011, 13,557 views)
• A Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, was firebombed last night.
  (Jul 27, 2011, 8,596 views)
• The Smoking Gun dives deep on the guy who discovered the Weiner photo. He might have issues.
  (Jun 2, 2011, 8,586 views)
• In which, via Shazam, I share info on whatever garbage music the NY Senate is livestreaming.
  (Jun 24, 2011, 7,268 views)
• NPR confirms: Giffords, six others dead.
  (Jan 8, 2011, 6,615 views)
• Jay Rosen has a good look at CNN's we'll-have-to-leave-it-there problem - but misses a few practical challenges.
  (Jul 3, 2011, 5,133 views)
• Holy crap. The satellite photo of today's monster storm doesn't disappoint.
  (Feb 1, 2011, 4,808 views)
• Here's SF Channel 7's map of the location of the San Bruno fire:
  (Sep 9, 2010, 4,148 views)
• Interviewing children who've watched "Friday." The 5 year-old is adorable. "It's like a dessert with a pig on top!"
  (Apr 10, 2011, 3,655 views)
• Times of London (a News Corp property) runs a jaw-droppingly offensive political cartoon about the scandal. #bigshock
  (Jul 21, 2011, 3,516 views)
• Former Senator Larry Craig has a new job, lobbying for the coal industry.
  (Dec 23, 2011, 3,376 views)
• Great photo of the tsunami surge entering San Francisco Bay.
  (Mar 11, 2011, 3,078 views)
• Journalists debate the urgency and extent to which news articles should include links.
  (May 17, 2011, 3,035 views)
• Photo taken from Manhattan, in the East 20s, of the East River spilling over its banks. UPDATE: No.
  (Aug 27, 2011, 2,991 views)
• Video of the approach of the towering Phoenix duststorm.
  (Jul 6, 2011, 2,811 views)
• If someone fired a machine gun on Constitution at 16th, as reported, only relatively near the White House. Closer to Washington Monument.
  (Nov 11, 2011, 2,767 views)
• Poor baby Trump has finally settled on his comeback: Seth Meyers is a stutterer. #oohburn
  (May 1, 2011, 2,761 views)

this day on pbump

2011

• In case you wondered how much water there was for every human on Earth (salt and fresh): 200 billion liters. #drinkup
• Hey @questionauts - Boing Boing found the original classified ad for your jobs. http://bit.ly/eujUcn
• A bit of insecurity to help you sleep: this cross-eyed opposum has 70,000 Facebook fans.
• Guess which one played R2-D2.
• Footage from JFK's last night on Earth is now online. Unexpected component: mariachi.
• When US planned to give weapons to Taiwan, China leveraged our debt in opposition - because Chinese public would object.
• I wish Powerpoint had a part I could punch.
• Did I? Because I read "busing". MT @tpmmedia: IN state House Dems flee to IL to shut down union-busing bill. Yes, you read that right
• Thanks, Thrillist, for a nice write-up of Terrible Movie Night! Nice to have the word "crappy" not apply to the site.
• That Muammar Qaddafi is no Bernie Sanders. #hourstogo
• The Times discovers that Little Italy is getting littler - something that doesn't take a lot of journalistic legwork.
• Wonkette finds what might be Sarah Palin's pseudonymous Facebook page, used to "like" all things Palin.
• If my sister Erin would move to Honolulu, the Bump kids would be rep'd in the top three most livable cities in the US.
• Onion: Same Americans Who Made Taylor Swift Popular Polled On Constitutionality of Healthcare Reform.
• Santorum talking about what happens when you Google his name prompted a lot of people to Google his name. #frothymix

2010

• High speed footage of water droplets. In essence, small spheres bounce on the surface until they are absorbed.
• On the constituent elements of civic happiness. Factors: creativity, technology and education.
• Stumbled across a bad-ass New York magazine from 1977 relaying the salaries of prominent folks. They made less.

2009

• Sean Penn's hands are shaking.
• Maybe Queen Latifah should become a rapper.
• Just showed that ad where the kids that lose a soccer game get Happy Meals. Uh, maybe that's why you lost.
• I thought the tackiest Oscar moment would be jumping into jokes after the Milk writer's incredible speech. Maybe not.
• Nate Silver is 0-for-1.
• 'The Day Wall Street Exploded' looks at a 1920 bombing of Wall Street by anarchists. Buildings there still bear scar
• Just saw Notorious, the Biggie Smalls biopic. Did you know he was a saint? Apparently he was!
• Not much to say here except: Chairman Meow.
• For some reason, the new Gatorade campaign is based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Starring Kareem as Tim.

2008

• ???(What will four question marks be?)
• Who's Xeroxing what?
• If you're going to be lax in your screening attendees to a rally for Barack Obama, maybe don't do it in Dallas? E
• Where and how much the top four candidates for President have spent money.Note to H.C.: good job having $20 mill

2006

• why the censored did they give up ariza?
• keillor is pro-military for electeds
• kitty pat is an e flat
• oh lord how fake fact rule over this

2003

• netmood is broken. ugh.in la, with brian.

2002

• is it because they're southern? is it because they are in a frat? from wired news:Boys Will Be BoysThe boys at the University of Tennessee's chapter of Kappa Alpha Order have had a stormy relationship with their fraternity's national headquarters.
• bush at the great wall: shades of nixon. good role model.i am writing today, though, to talk about nationalistic selfishness.