January 2010
57 posts
Watchnewsweek:
andrewromano:
President Obama sparred with House Republicans today. Live. Without a teleprompter. For 90 straight minutes. Ambinder reports:
Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s...
WatchThe Knife, ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’
Things That at First Seem Funny but are on Closer...
newsweek:
Our Sarah Ball writes on the NYT:
TEEHEE, New York Times. ”Beaver” means vagina, sometimes, which is why you wrote this story—that, plus the fact that the “vulgar alternative meaning” of the word is causing philistine Canadian Web filters to block material containing “beaver” in schools. Poor Canadian National Historical Society, whose 90-year-old history magazine (The Beaver) is...
“Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools...”
– ‘Oral sex’ definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools, The Guardian
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“When you go to a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, you are at the Pizza Hut...”
– New York Music - Das Racist: Thanks, Internet! - page 2
(via aaronleaf)
This article blew my mind. These guys are genius.
(via towerofsleep)
Combination Pizza Hut-Taco Bell you say?
Greatest Craigslist Post of All Time →
newsweek:
frangry:
“This craigslist ad goes from great to batshitfuckinginsane in 3.5 seconds.” —nedhepburn
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“The City of Vancouver will debate Tuesday night whether or not to remove...”
– CTV British Columbia- City could relax liquor store laws in time for Olympics
Who cares!? Who’s buying a fucking spirit?! Let me buy a bottle of whiskey and some beer after 9pm!! This is not the liquor law that needs to be amended.
(via cameronr)
You know, Toronto has a shit-ton of sweet bars,...
“Opponents of gay marriage cannot have it both ways. If they want to say that...”
– Lithwick, on why California’s gay marriage trial should be televised (via newsweek)
WatchLa Voyage Dans La Lune, 1902
“E-books should be more than digital copies of a printed page… But the e-readers...”
– Inventor and technology futurist Ray Kurzweil, discussing his interactive book software Bilo (via go)
Hmm. We’re still not sold; until this brings the full functionality of a Website, including the ability to fully share text/photos, this seems to be an expensive toy that isn’t better than print or...
Seven Books We Lost to History That Would Have... →
(via henrycooke)
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I finally got around to typing my list of books read in 2009. Doing so made me realise that there is a lot of padding in there from out-of-copyright books I downloaded on my phone to read after Emily is asleep and I’ve turned the light off. I also started Ulysses in June, but I’ll be lucky if that makes it on to 2011’s list.
Norway Time Hole “Leak” Plunges Northern...
towerofsleep:
jakemadison:
Pakistan Daily - [T]he high-energy beam fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a “catastrophic puncturing” of our Plant’s thermosphere thus allowing into the troposphere an “unimpeded thermal inversion” of the exosphere, which is...
Norway Time Hole “Leak” Plunges Northern...
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jakemadison:
Pakistan Daily - [T]he high-energy beam fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a “catastrophic puncturing” of our Plant’s thermosphere thus allowing into the troposphere an “unimpeded thermal inversion” of the...
WaPo: Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo →
newsweek:
complicatedshoes:
Best. Headline. Ever.
Nwk approves.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Owen Pallett (12)
Passion Pit (11)
Dirty Projectors (9)
Black Mountain (8)
Fleet Foxes (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
This befalleth when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt... →
I cannot, in good faith, not reblog this.
skinnyghost:
towerofsleep:
lukesimcoe:
What if Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski
Somebody put a lot of work into this.
“The representation of the earth’s surface on the inside of a sphere has...”
– Alfred Russel Wallace (1896), referring to Wyld’s Globe (which I wish was still extant)
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Why would one assume that Cthulhu is automatically not an option? Yog-Sothoth, being an Outer God, is vastly more powerful than Cthulhu, a mere Great Old One.
I would pick Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.
towerofsleep:
fallingandlaughing:
If the rules of AD&D allowed you to import creatures from the H.P. Lovecraft bestiary, which would you import and...