August 2010
“Students have been told Noah collected dinosaur eggs to bring on the Ark, and...”
– Creationists hijack lessons and teach schoolkids man and dinosaurs walked together | News.com.au
Well, good. I’m glad to hear there’s another country where the education system is as fucked up as it is here in America.
No, wait. Not glad. Fucking pissed. Hell—there’s not even a...
July 2010
“If Helvetica is Julia Roberts - pretty enough - then Univers is Uma Thurman -...”
– Do Typefaces Really Matter? (via Ziked)
(via inkyeagle)
COINCIDENCE: I like neither Univers nor Uma Thurman, but I am rather fond of both Helvetica and Julia Roberts.
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...”
– E.B. White (via tmblg)
An old favourite, and always true.
“Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of...”
– Arab Proverb (via robot-heart)
Yet another way of saying, “If you really want it bad enough, you can find a way to make it happen.”.
“When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically...”
– Duck Duck Go Privacy Policy
This is why I like this search engine.
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DuckDuckGo →
My new favourite search engine. Excellent results (better than Google in some cases), no user tracking, lets you choose the results typeface, and asks what you mean when it’s not sure. There’s more, but I’ll let you find it for yourself.
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The Xth Parallel
In Star Wars:
LUKE: No, my father didn’t fight in the wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.
BEN: That’s what your uncle told you. He didn’t hold with your father’s ideals. Thought he should have stayed here and not gotten involved.
LUKE: You fought in the Clone Wars?
BEN: Yes, I was once a Jedi Knight the same as your father.
LUKE: I wish I’d known...
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Typekit » Chennai Slab →
Looking at this font, I had the urge to call it “you weird-ass Comic Sans-lookin’ slab serif motherfucker”.
I’m not sure which part of this is the most troubling: that I wanted to talk to a typeface, that I sounded like a character from Pulp Fiction, or that “Comic Sans-lookin’” is one of the worst insults I can come up with.
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These things happen.
nickholmes:
If I’m not mistaken, that’s Randy Johnson, who routinely throws over 100MPH, nailing a pigeon with a fastball. I bet the bird never even felt a thing.
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Thursday Night Win
I just spent some time naked in a thunderstorm for the sheer wild beauty of it.
If your Thursday night has not yet risen to at least that level of awesomeness, you should probably go do something about that.
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Oberlin Stories | On Living in Sci-Fi Hall →
Miriam Rothenberg:
My gamble paid off. I joined a group that appreciates my idiosyncrasies, and accepts me all the more for them. I have become a more confident person as a result of living on Hall and interacting with the characters here. I have even managed to pull my GPA up, despite the constant distraction of friends, because of the support that these friends have given me. It has been a great...
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The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu →
I figured the photo of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu that’s been making the rounds today had to come from somewhere, so I went looking. Turns out it was an “Interspiritual Panel Discussion” at the University of Washington.
Oh—and did I mention that you can watch all of it? Go ahead and click on that link up there. The rest of the world can wait.
“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement...”
– Oscar Wilde, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“I get this writer’s block; it comes as quite a shock,
And now I’m...”
– Writer’s Block, by Just Jack
Tomorrow could be normal.
Susan Calvin: Do you *ever* have a normal day?
Detective Del Spooner: Yeah. Once. It was a Thursday.
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“Checking whether build environment is sane… build environment is grinning...”
– XKCD: Compiler Complaint (it’s in the hover text)
Every time I compile a UNIX app, I see that line and wonder what exactly would qualify my build environment as insane.
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“I’m sure that I’m not the only person in my position. I’ve been disabled for 12...”
– Old-fashioned.com(mentary) on online world (via azspot) (via inkyeagle)
The real culture war will not be televised. It will be streamed.
“We’ve got a shuttle fleet somebody is eyeing for a museum. An...”
– One Giant Creep for Mankind - Politics - The Atlantic
It really is time for private concerns to step up in space.
“I have sold all your crap, now. I am using the money to build a rocket ship.”
– Avery Edison’s Internet Website
Have I mentioned that you should be reading everything Avery writes? Because you should.
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A Trip to Misery
I can’t remember where I’ve been, but I’m back again. The mist in the air and the grey of the trees are proof enough of that. I don’t need proof, though; this place is hard to forget once you’ve been here. The houses below the hill I’m on are nearly identical, winding in congruent lockstep down the suburban lanes below. Going down there is dangerous; staying where I am now would be suicide. At...
My recent Tumblr history supports my theory:
Season 5 of Angel may be the best season of Buffyverse TV.
(Don’t worry, I’m two episodes away from the end.)
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Pandora's Ex
SPIKE: Can't we just... lock her away in a box where no one can ever touch her? You know? Like we did with Pavayne?
ANGEL: (considers) I don't think she'd let us. She's… she's pretty strong.
Morchella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
I don’t know why, but I’ve been craving morels like the dickens since this month started.
staff:
iPhone users: Grab the update to Tumblr for iPhone 1.2.1 for more multitasking support, Retina graphics, and bug fixes!
Someday there will be a version of Tumblr for iPad. Someday.
This is Why I'll Never be an Adult →
I didn’t realise this was where the “clean all the things” comic came from. Story of my life.
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