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| 07.04.09 |
Tuesday |
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| 10:35 pm
- I want this poster.
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| 01.02.09 |
Sunday |
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"There's an American TV show in which the president of the US is black. People say, 'Oh look, that's OK, there's a black president on TV.' That's completely humiliating because that's not how it is. There's no black president. Political correctness kills discussion." - Lars von Trier.
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| 15.01.09 |
Thursday |
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| 10:14 am
- Self-Righteousness
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Have I mentioned how much I adore Roger Ebert lately? "Art-directed in gloomy House of Tudor colors, "The Other Boleyn Girl" offers high-toned pulp for those who like to imagine themselves superior to ranch-colonial Desperate Housewives, and who don't like to feel so guilty about the pleasure they get from vicarious lust and treachery. Movies like this are designed to let the art-house crowd revel in marginally educative vulgarity without getting their sensibilities dirty."
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| 11.11.07 |
Sunday |
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| 02:37 pm
- Dead Baby Jokes
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Stolen from uncelestial. I was mildly amused up until the third frame, at which point I honestly couldn't stop laughing.
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| 27.08.06 |
Sunday |
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| 12:05 pm
- When nerds fly.
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audiguy sent me this first person account of a guy who accidentally dropped his iPod in the toilet on an airplane, causing the entire flight to be rerouted and searched. Oops.
This reminds me of something I saw a few years ago, before September 11th. There was a huge hold up at the metal detector; it ended up taking about thirty minutes to make it through. At the front there was a crowd of police, security officers and customs officials. This was before they had the onsite screening rooms, so you could see everything.
Anyway, the commotion was centered around this guy that was the total poster boy for nerd stereotypes. He was trying to bring on the plane a suitcase full of computer parts. Every nerd has a box of this stuff at home; old couplers, random cables, a few odd sticks of RAM, various boards, possibly a soldering iron - but to the untrained eye it could easily be mistaken for a bomb. I can't even imagine the rundown you'd get for something like that today.
Only somewhat related: When I was a kid, I used to love playing scavenger hunts and would organize one for every excuse I could find for a party. My favorite place to go for scavenger hunts was the airport. This is before they required a ticket to get into the terminals (remember that?). So I'd go to the airport ahead of time with my pockets full of random trinkets like magnets, hooks, tubes/fuses, etc and hide them all around the airport. Sometimes these scavenger hunts would be augmented with challenge/response phrases that I'd either give to random strangers who were on long layovers or to friends of my parents who agreed to help. And then twenty minutes later you'd have twenty or so kids let loose on the airport tearing the place apart looking for these trinkets and harassing passengers.
I guess I'll never be doing that again - ha.
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| 15.08.06 |
Tuesday |
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File under "Why didn't I think of this?". Automate date planning. Brilliant. And fun.
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| 01.06.06 |
Thursday |
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| 06:06 pm
- Regional variances in cost of death
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So, apparently an Iraqi civilian's life is worth $2,500 USD but an American's dog's life is worth $56,400 USD.
This begs prompts the question: if you could buy one dead dog or twenty-two dead Iraqi civilians which would you choose?
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| 18.04.06 |
Tuesday |
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| 01:32 pm
- Europe as the liberal holy land
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I was going to make a post talking about how many liberals will put Europe on a pedestal, but crescimento happened to beat me to it in his post "Screw you Europe". So, instead of recreating the wheel, I've just left a lengthy comment there and am providing this entry as a reference for those of you who have something to say about the topic.
As an aside, for those of you who don't know my politics: I tend to be fairly liberal in some areas. The term "liberal", however, has become synonymous with ignorance to me; it's very similar to how I might be reluctant to call myself a "Christian" if I believed in God.
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| 13.03.06 |
Monday |
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The BBC has posted a shocking article suggesting that boys would rather learn about destructive technologies (like explosives) while girls would rather study things like the human body and healthcare (unbelievable!). And in response, some are apparently calling for segregation of classes according to gender sex.
I essentially agree with every one of monoecious's points on this topic so instead of restating them I'm just going to plagiarize her response:first thought: this could be exactly what people looking for gender equality or gender neutrality would NOT want.
second thought: they should just offer two classes and let the students choose rather than assigning them by sex.
third thought: the cynic in me thinks that even if they let the students choose, the classes would still acquire an association with gender, like shop and home-ec used to be. sigh. Now, the article isn't clear on how this would be administered or who exactly is calling for this segregation, but even the suggestion of it baffles me.
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| 20.02.06 |
Monday |
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| 06:26 pm
- All sorts of fucked up.
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I was going to make Katie sign this but apparently even I have some level of compassion.
So, instead, I'm allowing her to first cross out three terms of her choice, excluding the word "not" (although I retain the right to a one-time veto).
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| 01.02.06 |
Wednesday |
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| 03:13 am
- Letting Go of Roe
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"The Democratic Party's commitment to preserving Roe v. Wade has been deeply unhealthy for abortion rights, for liberalism more generally, and ultimately for American democracy." [Source; via langston].
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| 26.01.06 |
Thursday |
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Since I apparently no longer take my own photos (outside of snapshots), I'll resort to posting photos from other people who are far more talented than I am.

[+23; taken from jacknack's blog]
On a more personal note, I'm not sure why, but I've barely picked up my camera in the last month -- and it's been months since I've taken a photo that I'd consider valuable for anything outside of documenting various parties/locations on Flickr.
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| 11:30 am
- "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion"
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What happens when anti-choice women get knocked up? [Punchline]. Only it's not really funny at all. (From skiplogic).
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| 22.01.06 |
Sunday |
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| 03:54 pm
- Twentieth Century Castles
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It's too bad they don't have any of these for sale in the Seattle area, or my search for commercial real estate would be over ;-). (Link credited to thursdayrome).
[Buy a missile silo]
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| 17.01.06 |
Tuesday |
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| 03:51 pm
- I think it's time
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to revisit Lobster Stick to Magnet.
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| 16.11.05 |
Wednesday |
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IT Gigalo (link from audiguy). File under "why didn't I think of this?".
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| 06.11.05 |
Sunday |
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| 04:43 am
- David Lynch on Cats and Earth
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Last year, I posted a quote by David Lynch from his interview on the Eraserhead DVD. Reading it, though, doesn't quite do it justice; you really need to hear it as he tells the story.
[Watch video excerpt]
The video clip is five minutes long (thank you to sarevilo for grabbing it off the DVD). It's actually compiled from two parts of the interview with about twenty minutes in between; at some point he just starts talking about this damned cat again, which is really amusing. Katie did a great job editing it, though, so you won't get that full experience. If you're short on time, just advance the timeline bar to the last quarter of the video; that's the best part.
The interview is incredible and if you like David Lynch I highly recommend that you rent the DVD, even if you don't want to watch Eraserhead, just for the hour and a half of him talking about film school, the AFI, the making of Eraser Head, dead cats and whatever else pops in his mind. It's totally worth watching even if you didn't enjoy the movie (it's not my favorite of his by any means) or have never watched it.
Semi-related: ourmedia.org is a neat service by archive.org that provides free media hosting. Also, while iMovie and Windows Movie Maker are pretty handy, you can also download Avid Free DV which is a light version of Avid's digital video software and more feature rich than either Microsoft or Apple's offerings (very cool).
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| 16.10.05 |
Sunday |
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| 05:47 pm
- Let children live in peace
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Finally found a copy of that Belgian UNICEF commercial that everyone is whining about...

[Watch Commercial]
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| 27.08.05 |
Saturday |
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"A sculpture made with the pickled head of a dead fetus attached to a seagull's body has fueled a furor in Switzerland about the boundaries of art." [Source].
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| 21.07.05 |
Thursday |
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Hey, I don't want to brag, but when you got it, you got it. And when it comes to picking up women with severe personality disorders, I've got it. Seems like whenever I'm in the same room with a sexy young nutcase looking for some hot dysfunctional action, we lock eyes and I gaze right into the twisted, abnormal recesses of her psyche, and then—bam! We make an instant, undeniable, and incredibly unhealthy connection. What can I say? When it comes to women, ( I'm a fucked-up-chick magnet ).
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| 04.07.05 |
Monday |
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I should retrofit my Virtual Abortion Tour with this. [From A Softer World].
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| 25.06.05 |
Saturday |
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| 11.06.05 |
Saturday |
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12:00 pm
- Stolen from jameth...
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| 04.06.05 |
Saturday |
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...the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept.
- Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception
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| 04:40 pm
- A society of island universes
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We Live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies – all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
- Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception.
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| 16.05.05 |
Monday |
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| 07:05 pm
- Optical Illusion
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The squares marked A and B are exactly the same shade of grey.
[Found by thursdayrome on MIT's Open Courseware site]
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| 15.05.05 |
Sunday |
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| 03:48 pm
- I just fell in love
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 A person after my own heart - why did I never think of this?
[More secrets...]
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| 15.03.05 |
Tuesday |
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| 04:24 pm
- eBay Item #5564033855
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My Sisters DiaryBasically my F***in sister told my boyfriend that I cheated on him! >:( So NOW I'm selling HER SECRETS ON EBAY!!! I DON'T CARE about her life and whatever she does - why did she have to butt in mine!!!SURE I read it at times but I NEVER TELL ANYONE!!! She's such a jerk! Now here's your chance to OWN HER SECRETS! Thanks for cagekitten for this beautiful find. This is so goddamned funny.
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| 27.02.05 |
Sunday |
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| 10:20 am
- What Jesus Thinks of Me.
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"Jesus thinks you're a sanctimonious prick. He's tired of your shit. Nobody thinks you're different, or interesting, or cool. Certainly not the Saviour of all Men. Jesus wants you to quit being such a tool."
What does Jesus think of you?
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| 09.01.05 |
Sunday |
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This is a Java-based chess application that visualizes the artificial intelligence's thought process as it analyzes its strategy and plots the next move. It's a pretty good AI (read: it kicked my ass).

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