December 2009
President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA →
President Obama, don’t let this attack—this one attack that was thankfully stopped by smart, fearless passengers and airline staff—take us further in the wrong direction. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this way. Americans of all stripes and affiliation standing up to say, “This isn’t working. We gave you our money. You’re not making us safer.” We...
“I wish I had at least one nice person to talk to, maybe over e-mail or...”
– Pantsbomber psyche laid bare in messageboard archives » Boing Boing
Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab seems pretty human. Shame about the trying to kill people and terrorise a nation part.
Kindle for Mac Notification Signup →
malumelegans:
The app looks just about as ugly and non-native as possible (have a closer look at that scrollbar), which is to be expected considering how much Amazon seems to care about Mac and iPhone users. I can’t help but wonder, though, whether Jeff Bezos knows something we don’t about the Magic Slate and Apple’s plans for ebooks, and is snubbing Mac users as a result.
Success! →
I’m on Cute Boys With Cats!
A bone to pick with This American Life
inkyeagle:
ericapolis:
In their recent piece on the #1 party school in America (Penn State), This American Life listed the bad things that too much alcohol consumption can lead to, among which was “unwanted sex.” Why the euphemism, Ira Glass? Would you call murder “unwanted death”? Just say it: rape.
Because they’re not just talking about rape. They’re also talking about sex...
Note to self:
Kindle books are not real books. Adding comments to a Kindle book does not hurt it, and in fact can go unnoticed unless you set them to appear.
“Continuing his journey, the Fool comes upon a beautiful and mysterious veiled...”
– The High Priestess tarot card (via jacquelynn)
Entirely unsurprisingly, my secondary tarot identification is with the Fool and I feel a strong attraction toward the High Priestess and all she represents.
“At least 20 percent of American men born between 1933 and 1942 had their first...”
– SuperFreakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
I think the moral indignation we have as a country is pretty funny.
See also: hypocrisy.
Ways of reading / from a working library →
I don’t always agree with marking a physical text, but I like a lot of this; I need to do more reading.
cute boys with cats →
New goal: get my picture on this Tumblr.
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such...”
– Alan Watts
Also:
The only real crime is that you won’t admit that you are God.
I like this guy.
Well-played.
Thing One: You'll know that something is edging impropriety if I blush bright red.
Thing Two: Oh, now see, that's not fair because I like seeing pretty girls blush.
Thing One: That, for instance, made me blush. Damn you.
“I rented it to deal with the empty spot in my evening where a movie should be,...”
– A very perceptive friend, on watching (500) Days of Summer.
Charles James Fox →
He was taken out of school by his father in 1761 to attend the coronation of George III, who would later go on to become one of his most bitter enemies, and once more in 1763 to visit the Continent; to Paris and Spa. On this trip, Charles was given a substantial amount of money with which to learn to gamble by his father, who also arranged for him to lose his virginity, aged fourteen, to a...
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Russell T. Davies is a big fat thief.
All I’m saying is that he totally ganked one of Steven Moffat’s (admittedly excellent) Ninth Doctor plotlines for this Christmas special. And if you’ve watched the special and don’t see it, please reblog, comment, or IM me, as I have some incredulous screaming to do.
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Heh.
me: Is 30 seconds long enough for this tofu?
jo: Probably not.
me: Well, I'll just flip it over and do it some more.
me: Heh.
“Obama was never liberal. He’s moderate all the way down the line. That’s how he...”
– Ubuntucat » Divided States of America
“…merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R...”
– Sarah Palin, posted 12-22-09
I am completely at a loss for words.
On Coed Bathrooms And Showering With Guys →
Anna North over at Jezebel nails it. I just don’t understand what’s so terri(ble)(fying) about all-gender facilities.
Night terrors
I have twice recently awakened, freaking out, from dreams involving zombified/psychotic/rabid domesticated animals. I’m not sure what this says about me as a person—probably that I should not take up farming—but each time it has resulted in what I regard to be one of the world’s least pleasant experiences:
Since I’m asleep, my bloodstream gets a giant helper boost of adrenaline...
meeting paralysis |ˈmēti ng pəˈraləsis|
noun ( pl. -ses |-sēz| )
the state that results when coworkers have so many objectives they want you to accomplish that they fill your available time with meetings and you cannot actually accomplish any of those objectives.
See also: thrashing.