January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
2 posts
“Civilization, it is immediately apparent, is simply organized resistance to...”
– Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements)
… and continued:
“Oxidation betrays the march of time and the inevitable triumph of entropy. The gas gives life, and in doing so brings death closer.”
(via jtotheizzoe)
It was fun while it lasted.
In which Jack Dorsey reveals that Twitter really wants to be Facebook now. (11/13/2011)
For Reference
November 2011
4 posts
Michael Steeber: Apple: We Have No Plans To Bring... →
michaelsteeber:
Apple has allegedly given the official word that Siri will not be coming to older iOS devices, at least not any time soon. I received word yesterday from someone who contacted Apple with a bug report, suggesting an optional build of iOS with Siri included, available as a paid upgrade.
It’s a nice idea, but this is about up-selling newer, more profitable hardware. Getting...
WatchI’m naturally a shameless offender, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true and I can’t laugh at it.
Louis C.K. on Coco about Twitter.
Truthful Tuesday
I can’t remember who said this, where I read it, or even what the context was, but I remind myself of it a lot:
“Social media makes you feel both more and less important than you really are.”
October 2011
10 posts
Anonymous asked: Mince pies or fruit pies?
Just for the record, I help Beth set up her webhost and blog almost two years ago. Her husband paid me for it. Some of my information is in the whois record as a contact. There is no conspiracy or other connection than me setting it all up initially.
Like a lot of you, I am very sad, disappointed, and just confused by all of this stuff. I don’t even know where to begin and maybe will write...
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jorshuwah replied to your quote: “You turn the 9-9-9 plan upside down, and the…
If it wasn’t such an important topic it might be funny. I mean it’s definitely laughable, it’s just not funny.
Well said!
“You turn the 9-9-9 plan upside down, and the devil’s in the details”
– Michele Bachman, responding to Herman Cain’s 9% flat tax proposal while couching her anti-thought dog whistle tripe as a “humor.”
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September 2011
7 posts
4 Americans Get Pot From US Government →
makes me wonder if G-13 is real.
New Tori Amos - Night Hunters →
Virtuoso at work — Individual tracks available for streaming.
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in the fade: the image of poverty →
inthefade:
You want to know what poverty looks like? You want to know what the middle class looks like?
Neither of those things look like what you think they do because your notions about them are either antiquated or biased.
I look into their faces every single day. The poor, the downtrodden, the…
Click-through to read the whole post. It’s the truth.
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via nikki-next-door)
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August 2011
15 posts
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the...”
– Michele Bachmann - 8/28/2011 - officially entering the ranks of such serious commentators as John Hagee and Pat Robertson while running for President of the United States. (and being a sitting US Representative)
“Slashdot has been read by kernel engineers and billionaires. By sys-admins and...”
– Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda in his resignation letter to Slashdot.
Thanks to CmdrTaco for providing the most reliably awesome destination on the web for news and stuff that matters to nerds for the last 14 years. There’s been periods of time where I haven’t visited for while, but...
WatchMoods of Twitter.
(How about an actual applause meter for favstar?)
WatchThis guy and his cars are awesome.
Carroll Shelby - Automotive designer (8:20)
Recent Genetic Science and Christian Theology on... →
“My view is that any Christian denomination that can’t articulate itself credibly in ways in which science is regarded as true is in danger of being marginalized. That’s what I was trying to do. I was trying to be constructive.”
John Schneider on the scholarly paper he got fired for writing while acting as a professor of religion at Calvin College. This is that paper....
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John Mayer: "Manage the Temptation to Publish... →
Wherein John Mayer is getting all creatively mature and stuff…
Truth.
I feel downright physically ill about the political situation in this country. I want to ignore it but my obsessive nature won’t let me not consume every fucking shard of available information I can find on the web about it. It’s like a sickness. LAME!
Art is better with cats
thefrogman:
July 2011
19 posts
Reality as failed state - tl;dr version (I like...
steelweaver:
So maybe what we have today are not problems, but meta-problems.
It is very useful to confirm our understanding with others, to meet with fellow humans – preferably face-to-face – strength flows from this.
However, disquiet remains - no pre-catastrophic change of course seems in any way likely. What we might call ‘Fabian’ environmentalism has failed.
Occasionally a...
What Were They Thinking? →
Super smart article about how all this debt ceiling nonsense got so out of control.
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ashamedtosay replied to your post: The Tumblr Entrepreneur Association is offering Tumblr members a way to work at home and make money on the Internet. No Bullsh*t. Go to this news article for more info storylinker9(dot)com
Fine - you get to make money - I get someone’s nasty junk shot. HOW IS THAT FAIR?
Fair is not your strongest argument, Kris. Right is, need is, but fair is not.
(I fucking...