January 2012
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton is wise.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
(via neil-gaiman)
I wish I had summed it up so smartly. But you know me: talk talk talk.
(via areasofmyexpertise)
In which Dresden Codak author Aaron Diaz reblogs something from Wil Wheaton who reblogged it...
“After filming The Postman, she spent time in Bolivia studying spectacled bears...”
– Olivia Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because she wasn’t already badass enough as Adelle DeWitt in Dollhouse.
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In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
And at last the warrior arrived at the Router. It was a dusty black box with an array of shimmering green lights, blinking on and off, as if to taunt him to come any further. The warrior swiftly maneuvered to the rear of the router and verified what he had feared, what he had heard whispered in his ear from spirits beyond: all the cords were securely in place.
The warrior closed his eyes,...
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Campaign Manager Comes Home To Find Cat Killed;... →
Last night, I got the most chilling phone call I have ever received. It was Jake Burris, Ken Aden’s campaign manager. Last night, Jake and his four kids had come back to their Russellville home. As they were getting out of the car, one of his children discovered their family cat dead on the front porch. One side of the animal’s head had been bashed in and an eyeball was hanging out of its...
Rep. Barney Frank is a total BAMF
thewordunheard:
cognitivedissonance:
His latest interview with The New York Times is fantastic. An excerpt:
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
Interviewer: I thought you might...
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UPDATE: Sherlock Fandom I've Just Discovered a... →
gallimaufrygray:
UPDATE: Sherlock Fandom I’ve Just Discovered a Golden Egg
ununpentium:
earlfoolish:
my-kind-of-stuff:
Sherlock Fandom, I’ve made a discovery:
I was watching Sherlock again, paying attention to everything, trying to figure out how he’s still alive and I ran across this:
Look at his email address… he’s got an actual website, so I went and checked it out and to my...
Press Release: New falcon species named after... →
“Since its discovery, we’ve learned that the Millenium Falcon can be selectively bred to enhance certain traits more easily than with other species of falcon,” explained Dr. Ohlo. “Since discovering the species, I’ve done a few modifications myself, and the Millenium Falcon can now go point five past its previous flightspeed. We’ve put it through a series of tests, and it can complete the...
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The letter I've sent to my senators:
Dear Senator [Name],
Having attempted to reach your office by phone and failed due to busy lines and a full voicemail box on your end, I am writing to encourage you to vote (and speak out) against harmful legislation like PIPA and SOPA.
While the entertainment lobby insists that it would prevent piracy and protect American jobs, there is plentiful evidence that not only is piracy a...
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“Better the government shut down than Wikipedia go on strike. That would be like...”
– Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Near
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In which Gary Johnson openly opposes SOPA/PIPA. →
In case anyone’s keeping track at home.
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“Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded...”
– MPAA: Internet Blackout is a PR Stunt, Users Are Corporate Pawns | TorrentFreak
This just in: the CEO of the MPAA is the most disingenuous human being ever to exist.
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“Professor Goldman argued that, to the degree to which blogging hastens the...”
– A Beginner’s Guide to Freedom: Media Matters
This quote does not, in fact, seem to be intended as parody or satire.
Nine reasons Michele Bachmann’s campaign fizzled →
horrorwine:
maspower:
thesimplebest:
Jennifer Jacobs:
Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. He wrote it in June, but it surfaced on the campaign trail in the fall.
“The question then comes, ‘Is it God’s highest desire, that is, his biblically...
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An unexpected number →
thesimplebest:
59% of American Mormons say there is a lot of discrimination against gays and lesbians in the U.S., while only 46% say there is a lot of discrimination against Mormons.
I wonder what percentage of Mormons would say that there is a lot of discrimination against gays and lesbians in the Mormon church.
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Nine reasons Michele Bachmann’s campaign fizzled →
thesimplebest:
Jennifer Jacobs:
Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. He wrote it in June, but it surfaced on the campaign trail in the fall.
“The question then comes, ‘Is it God’s highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will, …...
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Morality and Persecution →
Matt Gemmell:
From the moral perspective of His Holiness (and most of the wildly differing, contradictory, and all equally human-originated and fabricated religions), homosexuality as a whole is “wrong”, and is at least partially sinful (I say “partially” because the current version of Catholic dogma fatuously distinguishes homosexual ‘tendencies’ as not being a sin, but homosexual intercourse...
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“During his successful campaign for the presidency in 1912, Woodrow Wilson,...”
– Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes - Religion - Salon.com
The rest of the article is terrible, but ask yourself this: exactly how many steps backward has American scientific literacy taken in the last one hundred years?
evanfleischer:
Sam Wollaston over at The Guardian wrote this —
It’s going to be harder for Steven Moffat and co to do it convincingly. (Oh, stop reading now if you haven’t seen it.) Moriarty is dead (or is he?) but Sherlock still must kill himself in order to save the people he might possibly have some feelings for. We see him jump, and then crumpled on the pavement, dark blood flowing from his...
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