TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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"Tai-wiki-widbee" is an eclectic mix of trivialities, ephemera, curiosities, and exotica with a smattering of current events, social commentary, science, history, English language and literature, videos, and humor. We try to be the cyberequivalent of a Victorian cabinet of curiosities.

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  • Al Jazeera English
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  • TreeHugger
  • Videosift
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  • Wired Science
  • Wisconsin State Journal
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My weekend reading

  • Bad Newspaper
  • Bits and Pieces
  • Book Porn
  • Cabinet
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  • English Russia
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  • Fritinancy
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  • Futility Closet
  • Hennepin County Library tumblr
  • James Fallows
  • Kuriositas
  • Lapham's Quarterly
  • Lens (NYT photoblog)
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Lowering the Bar
  • Lushlight
  • Mad as a Marine Biologist
  • Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities
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  • NASA earth image of the day
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