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Rives: Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?

http://www.ted.com Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning. TEDTalks is a daily...  
 
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tvstealer (2 days ago) Show Hide
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when i was watching this, it was 4am in the morning in taipei
craZgirl1091 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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extraordinarily engaging!
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WOW! Amazing... I'm writing this in my hotel room at a business trip and it's just a few minutes to 4 in the morning. How did it happen? Freaky
stikmanpainter4jc (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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i found a site with college pranks and this as one of them

*Set the 4:00 am wake up alarm in the victim's alarm clock and hide it in the corner of the closet and remember to sleep in your room.
amiin500 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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11;00am is teh new midnight..
lordphoenix316 (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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lol started watching this at 3:50am :P
vickyd217 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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its four in the morning grandma YOU WIIIIIIN
JDAFilm (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Started watching it at 4:00 on the dot, myself... what a conspiracy!
frankkalani (1 month ago) Show Hide
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i watched it at 8:00 twice. and 8 is twice the time of what??

4:00!!

How do they do this!?!?!
zmgnowai (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I, too, watched this at 4. Hmm!

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