December 2008
112 posts
Pong with Windows →
project-euh.com
Worth turning off your pop-up blocker for. :-)
Not on Windows, with windows. Horrible and awesome. Make sure to turn off any pop-up blockers before trying.
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November 2008
69 posts
Barack Obama has never fired a gun? →
regularfolksunited.com
(via randyhaddock)
This is terrible. Next you’ll be saying he never grew a mullet.
Nice attempt at (racist) humor there.
Call me crazy but I would hope for the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States to know how to handle a gun. I honestly don’t know how you make it to 47 without ever handling a gun. Especially someone who had aspirations of leading the most powerful Armed Forces of the world.Randy, you would be shocked to learn that not everyone has lived the same life you have and many people have no desire to ever hold a gun in their hands or fire one.
Correct me if i’m wrong but the Constitution does not require our Commander-in-Cheif the ability or desire to fire one in order to hold the highest office. After the last eight years, I actually prefer it.
I think if people want a gun to defend themselves they should have the right to do so, and I think most gun laws are ridiculous because criminals will get their hands on them regardless.
However I do not like guns, and see them as a necessary evil. I know how to fire a gun and can use one if necessary, but I sure as hell don’t want to.
The name of the website cracks me up too. “Regular folks.” The right does not have a monopoly on ‘regular folks’ and I think the past election proves that.
Lets not forget Joe Biden will pop a cap in anyone who tries to take away his guns. Joe Biden is not one to be flexed with.
Socialism, control of the media, and gun control seem to be the biggest, most irrational fears of the right. I’m willing to bet none of those fears come true over the next four years. You have bigger more important issues to worry about, along with the rest of us, you should be focusing your passion on those.
How to Write a Book Proposal →
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Great American Novel, here I come!
srsly:sunlit-skies: (via unicornology)
Referendum
I would like to say that everyone seriously supporting The Dark Knight to win Best Picture at the Oscars is a fat loser.
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Go straight to 7-11, pick up a Mega Gulp of Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheetos, then go to your basement and masturbate over photoshopped nudes of Hayden Panettiere. I mean Christ, people, it was an entertaining movie and Heath Ledger was great and the score was epic, but just because the Academy sometimes rewards undeserving movies doesn’t mean that should be the rule.
Fuck you, this is non-negotiable.
Thank you! Feel free to pass Go and collect $200.
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“Otherwise, no matter its commendable fearlessness, the album is a listless, bleary trudge along West’s permafrost.”
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Andy Kellman on 808s & Heartbreak
Uh-oh.
My new project
(not kidding)
It is about robots, the entertainment industry and time travel and eventually features the least flattering self-portrayal - ever.
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Lunchtime Round-Up: Random Stuff You Should Read While Eating Your Lunch
- In related news, MTV held its first African music awards.
Might be worth noting that the event is supposed to air on MTV2 in the near future.
surprisingly, you can work yourself up in to quite an emotional frenzy staying up all night listening to This American Life podcasts. i feel like we finally had a breakthrough, though. same time next week? by the way, i'm not sure if you got the change in my insurance information. well, i can just talk about it with the receptionist when i set up my time for next week. you have other clients waiting i'm sure and my hour has been up for awhile now. →
molls.vox.com
(via itsbedtime)
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QTip - Wont Trade
Off new album. Not too shabby, Abstract. Not too shabby at all.
'Hoop Dreams' film players remain friends; lives have diverged -- chicagotribune.com →
chicagotribune.com
Gates, a more promising player than Agee, blew out his right knee his junior year. A year earlier, his girlfriend, Catherine Mines, gave birth to a girl, Alicia. Gates was still able to accept a scholarship from Marquette University in Milwaukee, but the injury continued to dog him.
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“You should contact me if you are a skinny woman. If your words are a meaningful progression of concepts rather than a series of vocalizations induced by your spinal cord for the purpose of complementing my tone of voice. If you’ve seen the meatbot, the walking automaton, the pod-people, the dense, glazy-eyed substrate through which living organisms such as myself must escape to reach air and sunlight. If you’ve realized that if speech is to be regarded as a cognitive function, technically they aren’t speaking, and you don’t have to listen.”
—Personal Ads From an Ayn Rand Fan Dating Site — New York Magazine (via nickdouglas)
Phil Collins Facts
- Phil is a big part of Grand Theft Auto : Vice City Stories
- Phil and his wife were guests at the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Paker-Bowles.
- Phil wrote a song for his good friend Eric Clapton, when his son died. It was called “Since I Lost You”
- Phil is left handed.
- Phil played the starring role of Ronald “Buster” Edwards in the movie of the same name.
- Phil lived in Switzerland but moved to New York to work on the musical Tarzan.
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Some random person disrupts my book-writing.
- burningcoho: Happy Birfday!
- me: You have the wrong person?
- me: Not my birthday.
- burningcoho: ? i'm just replying to your im
- me: I didn't send you an IM.
- me: In fact, I have no clue who you are.
- burningcoho: Hi. "fishycoho @ 11:56 PM"
- burningcoho: same.
- burningcoho: ok then, bye
- me: Bye.
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Australian Sex Party set for political launch →
theage.com.au
“The party will be launched at the Melbourne Sexpo on Thursday.”
Christina Aguilera, you're doing it wrong.
The description of an item from one the RSS feeds I subscribe to. Weird.Christina Aguilera sat down with us to talk about her new look and new direction, which she described as an homage to Nico, Blondie and the works of pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
AOL, you're doing it wrong.
Most web users over 20 years old were introduced to instant messaging by AOL’s pioneering service. But the wide range of chat options is making it harder to compete for instant messages, says David Liu, senior vice-president of AOL People Networks. “Activity [in AIM] is going down because of all the different sites available,” Liu says. “So we’re working on making AIM more social and viral.”
Facebook’s Chatting ToolbarOne way AOL hopes to do that is by linking AIM to the company’s social networking site, Bebo. In early 2009, AOL plans to unveil an IM dashboard that travels with Bebo users from page to page. The selling point: Every one of AIM’s 30 million users will get instant access to a Bebo profile page that’s already set up with their “buddy list.”
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081116_918455.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
Dig Dug
Reblog and post a screenshot of your favorite 80’s or early 90’s video game. It can be arcade or console. Above, duh, is the game that did Space Invaders one better: Galaga.
Bad idea brigade
According to Rex Sorgatz and some YouTube video that has been taken down, The Roots are going to be the house band for Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show.
Uh-oh.
“I liked the Da Vinci Code, not so much for the religious aspect but more for the writing.”
—Today in “dating profiles of girls I won’t be contacting” (via nickdouglas)
STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF CONGO →
avaaz.org
The people of Congo need our help. They are being terrorised - murder and rape are rife, hundreds of thousands have fled their homes caught between the brutal violence of both rebels and the Congolese army, without food or shelter.
No-one but Europe can deploy a well-equipped, neutral force in the next two weeks. There’s no military solution but a neutral force in the region to protect civilians, helping to reconstruct the UN peacekeeping presence and putting real diplomatic pressure on Congo and neighbouring countries will greatly boost our chances of stopping this humanitarian crisis and starting to build a lasting peace. Serious European engagement alongside UN and African officials is needed and lacking, and the people of Congo need it now - sign the petition and spread the word.
Requisite celebrity musician update
Kevin Costner & Modern West have a new album coming out on Universal South tomorrow, entitled Untold Truths.
Consensus: Generic garbage that only would get a major to release if someone famous(-ish, when is the last time a film of his made money?) were involved.
Also, Best of Hillary Duff also sees release. It features a new single called “Reach Out,” which will have Rihanna reaching out to her lawyers because of Duff’s atrocious aping.
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“Summer Bird” by His Name is Alive.
Change.gov | momentvision →
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Start right now. Share your vision for what America can be, where President-Elect Obama should lead this country. Where should we start together?
“You like literary people, you like people who write well, you like intellectuals, well why don’t you go over there and join them!”
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Rush Limbaugh on his show moments ago, speaking to “moderate” Republicans he refers to as “Democrat-lite” that he wants to cast out of the Republican party. (via cajunboy)
When did stupidity become a virtue, and intelligence became a mark of shame?
Oh right it didn’t.
Move over John Melendez, Rush Limbaugh is the new hero of the stupid.
Do Republicans actually subscribe to this garbage that he spews? I honestly feel sorry for you if you do.
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Change.gov | Of the People, By the People →
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“Tell us your ideas and help us solve the biggest challenges facing our country”
Prop 8 Petition
This is for California residents only.
Please forward to friends/family if you do not currently reside in CA.
http://www.petitiononline.com/seg5130/petition.html
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break the bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
—President Abraham Lincoln (via aja) (via myownmelt) (via kaytee) (via soupsoup)
