December 2009
29 posts
homeofthevain:
No matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. A poor man is robbed of his overcoat; another poor fellow is turned into a beetle — so what?
There is no rational answer to so what. We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part...
“Tenant agrees that Tenant will not bring or permit any obscene or pornographic...”
– from my lease.
Zabbaleen - Wikipedia →
Garbage City - Wikipedia →
Streaming will never stop downloading →
jstn:
tedroden:
muxtape:
“Why would we voluntarily increase our reliance on expensive, scarce wireless bandwidth delivered by abusive thugs when we are awash in cheap, commodity storage that grows cheaper every day and which we can buy from hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of retailers?”
“Hard problems can’t be solved with technical denialism.”
Isn’t it fairly hardcore denialism to...
M.O.P. - Wikipedia →
WatchThat’s me with the aggressive “shushing”.
brookieoftheyear:
Last night we had a surprise party for the lovely Meredith Jacks. Was it her birthday? No. Anniversary? No. Half birthday even? Nope. We surprised her simply becasue she is awesome. And so is her boyfriend Max for dreaming this whole thing up.
Surprise is at the :20 mark
Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin... →
While this is highly sensationalistic and dubiously researched, the town is a fascinating phenomenom.
