February 2012
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“My favorite character was easily Saul Tigh. I can only dream of the day I will...”
– In a comment from a Reddit thread on BSG.
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Bear McCreary reveals the physics behind your... →
Like string theory, music theory is over my head but still amazing.
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Dudes on Pinterest
convincingindie:
Toby: “Welcome, you are now in the minority. Enjoy.”
Me: Severe minority. In fact, I think it is just you and me. I am pretty sure.
Toby: Huddled in a secret corner.
Toby: “Hello, engaged ladies and college freshman girls. 30-something white male here. Is this seat taken? … Yes? Oh, okay…I’ll just, uh…”
Me: We are smoking in the alley out the back door of Pinterest. We can...
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iOS Address Book access should prompt the user for... →
marco:
We can’t prevent developers from being creepy, so Apple needs to step in.
Indeed!
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Surely They Jest →
Here’s a Top Ten list of what’s strange but true in the campaign so far:
(10) — Newt Gingrich’s proposal to have school kids work as janitors, starting at age 9. He would fire the “unionized janitors” and replace them with low-paid students, working under a “master” janitor. It’s hard to imagine a plan that sweepingly offends more people — educators, students, parents and janitors, to name a...
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“I fully believe this issue is a failure of Apple and a breach of trust by Apple,...”
– Stealing Your Address Book - by Dustin Curtis
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“I started noticing that the French families around us didn’t look like...”
– Why French Parents Are Superior - WSJ.com
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“The current mainstream of self-identifying Tea Partiers loathes Ron Paul because...”
– With Ron Paul, Fighting for Minnesota | The Awl (via themattsmith)
Awesome explanation.
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Thirty More Years of Hell →
Whereas the average state tuition in the early 1980s ran around $8k (in 2008 dollars) for four years, most Millennials are forced into the mid-five-figures range for a second rate public university education. (Pell Grants—when the Boomers were attending college—covered 77% of the cost for a four-year public university. For us, the figure is 35%.) And it’s a servitude from which we can never...
wilwheaton:
Just so I’m clear: Misogyny in advertising on TV is totally okay. Violence on TV is totally okay. Encouraging people to self-diagnose mental illness on TV is totally okay.
Flipping the bird on TV, though, is totally not okay.
Is that pretty much it?
Okay, that’s what I thought. So, allow me to just say something real quick here, okay?
For fuck’s sake, America, it’s not the 1950s...
“All those times you told us about how everything you did—the back-breaking work,...”
– David Frum quotes from a HuffPo Canada article “Stop Whining, Grandpa and Get Back to Work.” Frum’s response?
There’s actually a serious and true argument here, and oldsters (those of us who are soon-to-be-oldsters) will soon be hearing it more and more often. Better get used to it early.
(via...
scottfriday:
muffpunch replied to your post<span >: <em >road house has been mentioned on my dash twice in the last five minutes
What’s his best movie? (This is important.)
fucking dirty dancing, are you kidding me?
in no other of his films is he simultaneously the coolest guy - the baddest motherfucking “i wanna be him” character - and also the head of the dance department. you...
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Watchrelright:
sumadremia:
Ok. I’ve decided that I absolutely NEED these immediately.
they move so lovely
it’s also nice to see them in motion
I would fall in these though because I have a habit of rocking back and forth on my heels
Here, I found an outfit to go with them.
clientsfromhell:
Me: Okay, let’s see if I can troubleshoot the problem. What internet browser are you using?
Client: Dell.
Me: No, what do you use to get on the internet?
Client: Oh! Google.
Me: Do you have the internet up right now?
Client: Yes!
Me: On your internet page in the upper left hand corner, is there an “e” with a swoosh around it?
Client: Yup! That’s Google.
Ugh. Call me...
So you thought you liked Steven Spielberg movies,... →
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Today in strongly worded emails that will change...
hotblondecocktail:
Dear Susan G. Komen for the Cure, I was so excited and glad to be part of a group that empowered and helped women across the country and in my own community by making knowledge and resources available to those in which it previously was not. After reading today’s news, I am ashamed that I spent so much time and effort raising money for an organization that now obviously...
January 2012
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Interesting evening -- book signing & Borchardt...
After picking up a tip on Twitter Monday afternoon, I went to the Boswell Bookstore for a book signing by Steve Boman, the Minneapolis based author of Film School: A Memoir That Will Change Your Life. (Also known by its alternate title, Film School: The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the the World’s Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a...
The only thing I'll say about Lana Del Ray
themattsmith:
if you, at any point, say you “hate” Lana Del Ray- go outside and take a walk.
I just dislike, and avoid, hearing songs by Lana Del Ray. (But can I still go out for a walk?)
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Patiently waiting for the Instagram fad to pass.
But becoming less patient with every new photo — taken by a 20-year-old hipster with a fantastically high-resolution digital camera phone — that’s been processed to look like a shitty, aged mid-century polaroid snapshot left in a moldy box in the basement for 40 years.
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Milwaukee Gets Arty in the Third Ward →
A nice little slideshow at the New York Times.
QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of... →
Plenty of people call QR codes today’s CueCat — but a roller-skating horse is much funnier.
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Daily Kos: Scott Walker raises $4.5 million in... →
wilwheaton:
While volunteers were gathering signatures to recall him from office, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was allowed to receive campaign donations of unlimited size. Never one to shy away from talking to rich people, over the last five weeks Walker used this opportunity to raise$1,000,000 from just four donors, and over well $2,000,000 from 33 donors
During his time as governor, Scott...
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