November 2010
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Word of the day
cemetery |ˈseməˌterē| • noun
a burial ground; a graveyard.
ORIGIN late Middle English : via late Latin from Greek koimētērion ‘dormitory,’ from koiman ‘put to sleep.’
October 2010
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This is roughly equivalent to the rediscovery of...
clientsfromhell:
Client: ”The site looks terrible. The columns don’t line up, and the text is all over the place. I’m seriously concerned. We had an agreement and I will not pay your invoice until you resolve these issues. “
Me: ”The site looks fine to me in Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari. Which browser are you using?”
Client: ”I use Internet Explorer on a Mac.”
Me: ”That’s a dead browser...
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So, remember that story about grave-robbing bears? →
The link above is to a Google search for English-language pages including the name of the village (“Vezhnya Tchova”) and excluding pages including the words ‘bear’ or ‘bears’.
Google Maps doesn’t know about Vezhnya Tchova.
Converting “Vezhnya Tchova” into Cyrillic—”Жезхнъа Тчожа”—produces no hits on either DuckDuckGo or Google.
...
Violet Jessop » Wikipedia →
Violet Constance Jessop (1 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse who achieved fame by surviving the disastrous sinkings of sister ships RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic in 1912 and 1916 respectively. In addition, she had been on board Titanic and Britannic’s other sister ship, RMS Olympic, when it collided with the HMS Hawke in 1911.
She also—against all...
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
thewordunheard:
I get that it’s easier and funnier to seize on things in candidates’ personal lives! I understand that! It’s much simpler to name drop a politician at the water cooler if there’s a story referencing genitalia attached to it. But here’s the thing — I don’t give a shit. I just don’t! I don’t care if Barack Obama hosts combination orgies-slash-Tupperware-parties at the White House....
“Today I don’t have to think about politicians saying bigoted things about me to...”
– Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today « Whatever
Via Total Drek.
Russian bears treat graveyards as 'giant... →
From a distance it resembled a rather large man in a fur coat, leaning tenderly over the grave of a loved one. But when the two women in the Russian village of Vezhnya Tchova came closer they realised there was a bear in the cemetery eating a body.
Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemetries, alarmed...
Arkansas School Board Member Says Gay Students... →
politicallyreligious:
It’s scary to think that a person who believes gay kids deserve suicide has a position of power within a school district. But sure enough, Clint McCance is a school board member at Midland School District in Arkansas. And he has some absolutely troubling and disturbing views when it comes to homosexuality, according to HRC Backstory.
McCance took to his Facebook page...
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“I’ve not taken ten minutes on Lady Chatterley’s Lover, outside of...”
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The quoted is Senator Reed Smoot, who supported the practice of having U.S. Customs censor ‘obscene’ books imported to the United States.
I think I shall have to read LCL; it sounds interesting.
The obvious solution
amazingaysian:
Since we both hating getting up in the winter and wish to sleep all the time, Kelly and I decided the obvious answer is for us to become bears.
Yes, bears.
We will hibernate for the cold months out the year and then eat a lot during the warm months to sustain ourselves during hibernation.
No, I have not lost my mind.
Maybe a little.
It IS Monday after all.
But, yes, bears....
Since my Tumblr cloud won't actually post to my...
Look: Time, life, world—believe! Feel! People, pretty words, free little awesome internet! American, actually; post-college. Wikipedia.
If it’s a tad awkward, that’s because I decided to use the words in the order they were given and just add punctuation.
All this simple/minimal fetishism is making me... →
jhnbrssndn:
Oo, look at me! I’ve got no wires on my desk! I only own a toothbrush! There are no words or pictures on my website! I draft emails to my mom in TextEdit!
Where did this fetish spring from?
See, the problem here is that I will be flying home tomorrow and there is a list of items to take with me—as short as I can make it—on my desk as I type, so I can’t really appreciate...
Sex in Space » Wikipedia
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was quick to point out in a letter to the editor that he had beaten Collins to addressing the matter in the novel Rendezvous with Rama (1973):
“ Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. It was bad enough when they were motionless; but...
'Hang them': Uganda paper publishes photos of gays →
The Oct. 9 article in a Ugandan newspaper called Rolling Stone - not the American magazine - came out five days before the one-year anniversary of the controversial legislation. The article claimed that an unknown but deadly disease was attacking homosexuals in Uganda, and said that gays were recruiting 1 million children by raiding schools, a common smear used in Uganda.
I don’t even...
“Future commercial operations will be at Spaceport America in New Mexico where...”
– VSS Enterprise Completes First Manned Glide Flight | Virgin Galactic
This means Spaceport America’s first proper runway will be open for business very soon. Badass.
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“This bread is amazing. I forget what even 60% whole wheat bread is like, to make...”
– @sanitize, Twitter (via oberlinfood)
Well, now I know what I’m bugging geopsych for while I’m home.
So AT&T is upset with me
sweetmactips:
vb:
I got a call this afternoon from the (once) nice woman on AT&T’s Executive Response Team. She started off asking how I made out and I explained that it works great.
Then she turned. It was a ruse.
Because I wrote about my David vs Goliath complaint (and win) over my poor service at home apparently they’ve gotten a bit of a deluge asking for free MicroCells.
Whatevs...
Today in Rape Culture
sisterhoodispowerful:
Rah, rah, sis boom bah: Silsbee High School in Texas wants their cheerleaders smiling, energetic, and willing to cheer for their rapists by name. Go team! H.S., a Silsbee student, reported being raped by Rakheem Bolton with the help of two of his friends, a fellow student and athletic star. In the end, Bolton ended up getting off without serving any jail time by pleading...
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because...”
– Apollo program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The quoted, of course, is President John F. Kennedy, speaking at Rice University.
“All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable.”
– Malleus Maleficarum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heh.
“Learning is about finding out who you are, what you are, where you are, and what...”
– Tiffany Aching in Terry Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight
Emphasis mine. Fundamental truth of the universe everyone’s.
“Rockwell: Good. Just so we both know where we stand, I’d like to make...”
– Playboy - Interview - George Lincoln Rockwell
In 1966, African-American journalist Alex Haley bravely walked into the headquarters of the American Nazi Party and interviewed their leader, who kept a loaded pistol on the arm of his chair for the duration of the interview.
I can’t imagine the...
I've never seen the movie, but this still cracked...
Bones: I'm an excellent driver.
Booth: Yeah, okay, Rain Man.
Bones: I don't know what that means.
“In the darkness, to form the earth, the deep surface of the water was moving on...”
– Translation Party
Well, there’s a part of the Christian creation mythology they never taught in Sunday School.
But seriously, Translation Party must have switched their translation engine. That excerpt used to get you something about how the Spirit of God was emo. That made a lot of sense to...
