August 2009
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David Bowie, “Always Crashing in the Same...
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Beating of the dead horse
mayafish:
danaynay:
So you are only allotted 20 stars a day on Favrd? Meaning, if you star more than 20 tweets in 24 hours starting at 8 p.m., they just don’t show up on that person’s Favrd page?
But they do show up on favstar.fm?
I don’t want starring to become a science, requiring strategy and timing and graphing calculators and levels and maybe some sort of cartography equipment. I just...
Soliloquy
Realize I have to burp;
Realize I also have to sneeze;
Draw breath sharply to accelerate burp and delay sneeze;
Snurbeezp.
(scene)
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moltz:
Just a thought, but if there was an affordable health care option then the people who didn’t want to work 30 or more hours a week wouldn’t have to and the people who need to work 30 or more hours a week would be able to.
The economy would be in better shape because people would be more able to pursue those wacky dreams and create things instead of toiling away as nameless corporate...
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My take on the Sharks/Cats thing
(Background: In August 2009, Tumblr did a very weird thing and started a contest in which users could identify as either a Shark or a Cat, and they kept track of the total Tumblarity of each team over about four days.)
Mostly harmless.
Wish they’d instead spend their time fixing the iPhone app, or maybe improving Search so that it goes back more than two months, or fixing Drafts so they...
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Why I don't read Boing Boing much anymore
I’ve seen some complaints that the quality of the content on Boing Boing has gone down recently. I don’t agree. They have more contributors than they used to, so the range of topics and voices is more diverse; and there are more ads than in the early days. But they’ve also managed to keep their RSS feed ad-free mostly ad-free, and they’ve partitioned some of the...
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The Orange
An orange ruled the world.
It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.
The orange, in a grove in Florida, humbly accepted the honor. The other oranges, the birds, and the men in their tractors wept with joy; the tractors’ motors rumbled hymns of praise.
Airplane pilots passing over would circle the grove and...
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Moxy Früvous, “Johnny Saucep’n”...
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Shooting billiard balls at wormholes
In response, another physicist named Joseph Polchinski sent them a letter in which he argued that one could avoid questions of free will by considering a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time. In this scenario, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along that path, it will exit the wormhole...
“No, thanks. Think I’ll pass.”
– Vanity Fair panning my sister’s play three weeks before it opens, based on the title alone
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Does anyone else read Avery’s Jesus and Judas in the voices of Baldrick and Edmund?
Just me then?
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“Isn’t this where we came in?”
– Pink Floyd: The Wall
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toldorknown:
irreverend:
dwineman:
That’s a Tobacco Hornworm (or possibly Tomato Hornworm) moth. I think the important question is why are you trying to get our children hooked on your deadly cancer-causing tomatoes?
I love that you know this. And obviously I hate children. Duh.
Where he lives, Tobacco Pests is part of the core curriculum for K-12.
Don’t be ridiculous. We...
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“I post quotes.”
– biorhythmist
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EXT. NEAR FENWAY PARK - DAY
By the side of the road, we encounter a flock of CANADA GEESE.
PERMENTER (making goose noises): Wak. Sweeneys. Wak wak. Sweeneys.
SWEEN (from behind, not having heard): MY COUNTRYMEN!
PERMENTER (under his breath): Beat you to it, asshole.
To all you gorgeous women who keep sending me...
Stop it. Try to see yourselves as the rest of us do. You’re all painfully, unfairly beautiful.
The little imperfections make you more attractive, not less.
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Watch@SeoulBrother sucks bone.
(Presented in TallScreen™)
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