September 2010
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August 2010
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his...”
– William Mo’ Fuckin’ James
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“Closely linked to the necessary de-fetishization of ‘democratic institutions’ is...”
– zizek (via zizekianrevolution) (via sendmelies)
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Sarah Palin's Speaking Contract Revealed →
technipol:
A judge recently made public Sarah Palin’s speaking contract amidst allegations that school officials who hosted Sarah Palin were seeking to avoid public disclosure laws regarding the the contract. CNN reports:
So just what does it take to get Sarah Palin to speak at your fundraising gala?
A “deluxe” hotel suite, a first class ticket or a private jet (“Lear 60 or larger”),...
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“I could give a flying crap about the political process. We’re an entertainment...”
– Glenn Beck (via adailyriot)
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Star Made Entirely of Diamonds Thrills Researchers... →
Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.
Astronomers have decided to...
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“Building your success on being more in sync than everyone else is a sharp edge...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot) (via adailyriot)
This has actually become my approach to technological advances. Smart phone? Fuck it. Digital Cable? Eat a dick.There are so many “advances” which aren’t really advances at all. If it’s going to take me 30 minutes to enter my life...
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College Dropout Factories →
givemesomethingtoread:
School reformers, including President Obama, often talk about high school “dropout factories.” These are the roughly 2,000 public high schools, about 15 percent of the total, with the nation’s highest dropout rates
I wish these were the sort of problems you could just throw money at. Why isn’t this a priority? What else do we have to blame for social decay?...
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“If male domination is natural, based on biological imperatives, why, asks...”
– Michael Kimmel (via femonster) (via thefistofartemis) (via ihatethismess) (via zurik) (via pridenotprejudice) (via veisalgia) (via sluthaditcoming)
Seriously? To keep order imposed on free-thinkers, duh. Something can be both a natural consequence and yet still deserves teaching. You have to tell...
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"The End of Shame" (a 24 hour SXSW experiment) →
melissa:
Oversharing about oversharing. I pitched this SXSW Interactive panel called “Gossip” panel will go down as one of those you-had-to-be-there-and-cry-in-your-seat-at-how-true-it-all-is SXSW events.)
Who is going to be there? Whoever needs to be. Consider this not just a conversation but a super-fast practicum in having no shame. Really. Show up and be loud and help us determine the...
On Secretly Aspiring to Nerdom
I like technology, I like gadgets. I play video games regularly, and enjoy them. But I’m no nerd. No sir, not me - I have social skills thank-you-very-much.
I wish I were more of a nerd though, I seem to have picked up all of their socially disdained qualities without netting an education in computer science or electrical engineering.
Also, it just occured to me that the phrase...
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Blue Power Ranger reveals he quit show due to... →
(via ryking)
I KNEW he was gay. I KNEW IT.
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? →
givemesomethingtoread:
Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century.
I’ve always felt that language served as a perimeter to our emotions, wherein we are only allowed to pinpoint the emotions that we have words for, discounting the rest.
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Dear Coke Talk: On Becoming a Whore. →
I need money. Badly. 100% of my paychecks go towards my tuition, and it’s not nearly enough. A couple days ago, a guy offered me $50 for a blowjob, $80 for sex, and double that if I could find a friend to join in the fun. He’s got a great dick, and we would use protection. It seems like an easy…
Click through to see CokeTalk’s response, right on the money with this one.
Full Body Scanners: From Airports to the Streets? →
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azspot:
Andy Greenberg at Forbes.com reported yesterday that company representatives told him that backscatter X-rays mounted in vans that can be driven around the public streets have been sold to, and deployed by, domestic U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Backscatter X-rays are one of the technologies that are used in full body scanners at airports (over our...
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The Wikipedia Entry for "Pair of Pants" Is Much...
Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_of_pants
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The World's Greatest Con Man: Helg Sgarbi →
givemesomethingtoread:
Seducing, swindling, and blackmailing European matrons, Helg Sgarbi perfected a scam that made him a fortune. Then one day he met the billionaire BMW heiress.
I can’t vouch for the sweetness of this article, as I haven’t read it yet - but it certainly looks promising. I’m mainly reblogging it to ensure I don’t lose it.
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Sleep-Cycle App Wakes You Up at the Ideal Time →
Tired of being tired in the morning? This had officially made it onto my list of reasons to want an iphone. Sadly, this tops the list.
I’m so disenchanted with Apple. I admire the quality and design aesthetic behind their passion, nevertheless I find it hard to care deeply about them.
The Sleep Cycle app watches your slumbers and wakes you when you’re lightly dozing, instead of...
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A chronology of human experimentation in the... →
kateoplis:
In 1945, as part of Operation Paperclip, the United States government recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists, many of whom had performed horrific human experimentation in Nazi concentration camps. The scientists were offered immunity from any war crimes they had committed during the course of their work for the Nazi government, in return for doing research for the United States...
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WatchThis is the opening scene from a comedic pilot/webseries a buddy and I are writing and directing together. It’s called Austin is For Lovers and is loosely autobiographical. Shot on a Canon D70 DSLR.
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“I don’t know what the fuss is about. It’s just a cat.”
– Mary Bale, the 45-year-old Coventry resident who sparked an uproar when CCTV footage of her casually tossing a tabby in a garbage bin surfaced on the Internet.
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(via thedailywhat)
I watched this video last night, and it is disturbing - not because of the action of tossing a cat into...
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BBC News - Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning: Did the... →
That view remained largely unchallenged until 2009, when an American investigative journalist, Hank Albarelli, revealed a CIA document labelled: “Re: Pont-Saint-Esprit and F.Olson Files. SO Span/France Operation file, inclusive Olson. Intel files. Hand carry to Belin - tell him to see to it that these are buried.”
F. Olson is Frank Olson, a CIA scientist who, at the time of the Pont...
