June 2012
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Loudon Wainwright III duets with Dame Edna...
May 2012
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“The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more...”
– G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare (1908)
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Our RISD: Fink Fans Celebrate Carr Haus Connection →
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When the students who manage Carr Haus Café unearthed the story of Professor Mike Fink’s colorful connection to the Victorian gem on the corner of Benefit and Waterman, they immediately knew they’d solved the puzzle about what to name the café’s gallery space. And this evening at 6:30 pm…
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I discovered this band via the inlay in...
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“Johnny Marr’s hair is like Neil Young’s sideburns: you know...”
– AV Club commenter Arsenio Billingham
April 2012
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“Plenty of things are “heritable” but not genetic — like taste in music. An...”
– Is the right really breaking up with its racists? - Salon.com
“There is no “mission” short of keeping as many of our people alive...”
– Kabul Bombing April 2012 - There Is No Mission in Afghanistan Anymore - Esquire
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Oh, Sergey: Google and the open web
There’s a lot to be lost, […] For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can’t search it.
Poor Sergey Brin. In an interview with The Guardian, he laments that he can’t trawl through my electronic diary for information to use to target me with ads, which is a Serious Problem for us all, because my thoughts on what I had for...
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I've always enjoyed this. Now with added Santorum.
Socialism: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.
Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.
Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.
Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.
Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..
Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow dropped dead.
A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......
Counter Culture: 'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'
Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows...
A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.
Rick Santorum: You have 2 cows, and they better not be gay, non-white, female, or immigrants.
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Plus One
I admit it: I’m kind of burned out on Social networks. I am, or have been, a member of: Friendster, Pownce, Orkut (possibly Jaiku, who gives a shit can keep track?), Twitter (2 accounts + around 6 joke accounts), Facebook, Tumblr (3 blogs), LinkedIn, Coroflot (when it was called something else), Identi.Ca, kvitre.no, Wordpress.com, Fluther (more of a community), MySpace, bebo, delicious,...
March 2012
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Nice to have Mad Men back. It amuses me (probably more than it should) that elsewhere, Lane Pryce is tring to blow up the universe, and that his wife was possessed by deadites a measly 19 years ago. Ideally, the series will end with Lane being arrested by Olivia Dunham in go-go boots while Bruce Campbell cameos as an obnoxious, one-handed elevator man who sends Glenn back to Hell.
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“I know that in writing class they tell you that you need to make the stakes...”
– Threat Quality Press on John Carter, making a bigger point about about the nature of heroes.
“LOSS needs to either be self-sustaining (which implies solar propulsion, along...”
– Pirate LOSS? An alternative … - Charlie’s Diary
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Broadway Melody
(In honor of World Poetry Day, here’s one I wrote myself. Don’t judge me too harshly.)
Perhaps my favourite moments are his entrances;
The sly, knowing glance he throws her way, the sauntering stroll onto stage, hands in pockets, swing in step, on feet that effortlessly adhere to other rhythms;
But most of all, the anticipation: knowing wonders of grace are imminent and that curious...
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How to make a goddamn Moleskine notebook
Do you have hair on your balls? Do you want to live and/or die the Hemingway? This guide will help you slap together one of the damned tools needed to put down on paper what you see and what you feel in the best and simplest way. (You poseur.)
Requirements: Devil-may-care attitude, some storebought stuff, whisky
Instructions:
Buy a goddamn notebook and some rubber bands
Get your grubby mitts...
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Leaving Posterous
I really liked Posterous at first; its post-by-email was easy to use, and its cross-posting abilities are admittedly impressive. Post once, read everywhere … it seemed like a dream for the would-be Internet mogul who doesn’t actually create all that much content.
February 2012
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“The best part of Ghost Rider as a property is that asking, “What if the...”
– I love Threat Quality Press
“I think that’s the worst thing about Pitchfork; how boring and drab it makes...”
– from Protagonist Complex
