January 2010
Ah, there we go..
Dick Clark on ABC.
New Year's Shows?
What are you watching? I just want cheesy standards and the Times’ Square ball drop.. the networks seem to have, er, dropped the ball..
ah, the joys of parenting.. home on New Years. :)
slacktivist: Things I don't understand →
One of the things that has mystified me over the past year has been the opposition to the proposed closing of the United States’ offshore prison in Guanatanamo Bay, Cuba, and the related proposed trials for the terror suspects imprisoned there.
I haven’t been able to address these topics because I haven’t been able to engage the arguments against these things. I haven’t...
What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on... →
dawnowar:
foomandoonian:
Casino Royale, Marilyn Monroe’s Playboy cover, The Adventures of Augie March, the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Crick & Watson’s Nature article decoding the double helix, Disney’s Peter Pan, The Crucible …
List of unusual deaths
yellelove:
430 BC: Empedocles, Pre-Socratic philosopher, secretly jumped into an active volcano (Mt. Etna). According to Diogenes Laërtius, this was to convince the people of his time that he had been taken up by the gods on Olympus.
270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus of Naucratis to have studied arguments and erroneous word-usage so intensely that he wasted away...
December 2009
let's say, for the sake of arguement, that...
gilmoure:
gamesockson:
warrennotg:
ummm, “The Tens” sounds just as stupid as “The Aughts”
Frankly, I can’t wait ‘till “The Twenties.”
Flappers? The Charleston? Yes ma’am.
But how about no Prohibition, ‘cuz that would suck great big F. Scott Fitzgerald dick.
The Naughties?
It will be “the Teens,” like it or not. Nothing you can do about it.
I'm an American who pronounces it "SHED yule."
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INFIDEL!
Gamasutra - Features - Sponsored Feature: Restless... →
“We use blade architecture heavily for Warhammer Online,” Mann noted. “Almost every server that we deploy is a blade system. We don’t use virtualization; our software is somewhat virtualized itself. We’ve always had the technology to run our game world across several pieces of hardware. It’s application-layer clustering at a process level. Virtualization...
Inch by inch, Barack Obama is moving mountains -... →
peacockharpy:
“The disillusioned are those who weren’t listening in the campaign or not watching closely in the first year. The right has failed to register his steeliness and persistence and the left has preferred to ignore his temperamental and institutional conservatism. Both sides still misread him — hence the spluttering gloom. And there is indeed something dispiriting about the relentless...
Can farming save Detroit? →
muppetpants:
meganmcisaac:kateoplis:
With a net worth of more than $100 million, John Hantz is one of the richest men left in Detroit. Once a star stockbroker at American Express, he left 13 years ago to found his own firm. Today Hantz Financial Services has 20 offices in Michigan, Ohio, and Georgia, more than 500 employees, and $1.3 billion in assets under management. One day about a year...
“Rush Limbaugh was taken to the same hospital President Obama was born in.. I...”
– thepoliticalpartygirl (via brooklynmutt:apsies)
vruz: oh, but they only accept islamic faith people there, don’t they?
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TUMBLRRRRRR!!!!!
(done in my best Stephen Colbert scream)
I'm listening to Dark Side Of The Moon on vinyl...
inothernews:
ewokonline:
It’s better than I remember.
Memories. Involving a planetarium. Sigh.
Me too, but you can quit repeating yourself now..
I'm listening to Dark Side Of The Moon on vinyl...
inothernews:
ewokonline:
It’s better than I remember.
Memories. Involving a planetarium. Sigh.
Me too, but you can quit repeating yourself now..
“Popularity contest http://bit.ly/4AuZKe See “Most admired man, by...”
– GreatDismal (William Gibson)
From Gallup’s “Most admired Man/Woman” Poll - taken in the US, obviously.
Notable women in the list..
Hillary Clinton
Sarah Palin
and the men..
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Nelson Mandela
Glenn Beck
The Pope
/headdesk
Taxes: Let’s Just Go Back To A Simpler Time →
jhnbrssndn:
azspot:
Are you concerned about the country’s large budget deficits? Are you wondering how we are going to pay for two wars, bank bailouts and economic recovery projects while continuing to maintain our roads and bridges and pay for our schools and police and firefighters? Are you wondering what we can do about the great concentration of wealth and income into the hands of a...
BREAKING: GM reportedly extends bidding deadline... →
“[Glenn Beck] raised the stupid bar and now it’s nearly inapproachable.
I worry...”
– Stephen Colbert (Atlantic Monthly) (via ibnabeeomar) (via fuckyeahstephencolbert) (via gilmoure)
Hullabaloo: "A Mere Resistance To Comply May Not... →
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit affirmed the trial judge’s ruling on Monday, concluding that the level of force used by the officer was excessive. McPherson could have waited for backup or tried to talk the man down, the judges said. If Bryan was mentally ill, as the officer contended, then there was even more reason to use “less intrusive means,” the judges said....
“[N]ever before, there was an hegemonic empire with the power to destroy planet...”
– united colours of vruz - Dear the rest of the world: overall, Americans aren’t stupid.
Seeing the Forest: Does Corn Syrup Cause Obesity? →
All you have to do is look around to see that something has changed in the American diet. Everyone is gaining a lot of weight. It isn’t “personal responsibility” if it is systemic. You can’t blame everyone who is getting fat if everyone is getting fat at the same time.
Many have suspected that corn syrup has something to do with it, and the timing certainly makes it look...
newdisaster
gilmoure:
laughterinmyeyes:
I am asking for your personal thoughts. What is good/real music to you?
Warren Zevon, Jethro Tull, Muddy Waters.
On the one hand.. Smetana, Wagner, Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Orff, on the other, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sex Pistols, the Clash, Bauhaus, NiN, Nirvana…
Dear the rest of the world: overall, Americans...
inothernews:
michaelmcgee:
inothernews:
Only some of us are stupid, just like some of the people in your country are stupid. Stupid is as stupid does everywhere. It’s true! It’s a rule. Or a law? Or something. Your country isn’t better than ours, just like America isn’t number one!
(And please don’t mind those Americans who like to say “We’re number one!” They’re just hopped up on...
The powerlessness of pink : Pharyngula →
peacockharpy:
Glad that Santa brought our daughter a bright ORANGE microscope…
“Both the telescope and the microscope come in special pink versions, just for the girl who is apparently more interested in getting an instrument that matches her nail polish than being functional, and note also (you may have to click through to see the larger image) that in every case the pink model is less...
“The concept of “no-fault” divorce is certainly repugnant to most Christian and...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Rove: Champion of “Traditional Divorce” (via apsies) (via bringmethathorizon) (via vruz)
gilmoure:
moorewr:
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.”
—
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (43 BCE)
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The more things change …
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Ciceroreblog
Well, after reading about authors and their quirks in the bedroom, I guess I see why I have never written a book. I’m too boring and...
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a...”
– -Marcus Tullius Cicero (43 BCE)
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The more things change …
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