December 2010
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“Edan got extremely mad at me when I deleted my blog, and she was right to do so....”
– The Feeling: Back.
I thought Patrick was taking the same break from the internet that Edan was taking, but then I found out he deleted his blog, which was sad news, but now he’s back, which is really really great news!
Yes, here we are. I am in here! Blogging, or at least the kind of...
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WatchA Christmas joke told while sitting in McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, from me to you.
Merry Christmas!
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WatchCedar Rapids - trailer
I have no idea whether or not this film will be good, but I love Ed Helms. Mostly I am posting it because any fans of The Wire should watch it RIGHT NOW!!!
I promise you, you will not be disappointed.
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Sweden
kateoplis:
has the highest per capita number of reported rapes in Europe.
That number has quadrupled in the last 20 years, as conviction rates have decreased.
On 23 April 2010 Carina Hägg and Nalin Pekgul (respectively MP and chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden) wrote in the Göteborgs-Posten that “up to 90% of all reported rapes never get to court.
Their serial negligence in...
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You pulled a tiny petal off my world just when I...
I’m torn between delighting in the irony of Julian Assange’s emails illicitly obtained to be shown to the world and the fact that Gawker is, well… you know, Gawker. Which means feasting on the flesh of whatever meat scurries by.
A rat to catch a rat? Or something like that?
Privacy is as privacy does… or does not?
thefeeling-deactivated20101220- asked: Re: NFL stadium location. I propose Sherman Oaks. It's close to several freeways and far away from where I usually am. So...win/win!
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Christmas Week: Elf (2003) →
brightwalldarkroom:
BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
by Chris Cantoni
When I was a kid the most exciting event marking the coming Christmas season was the delivery of the Toys-R-Us Christmas mailer, a multi-page full color catalog of all the hot toys waiting at the store for the grubby fingers of millions of children! I could go through it page by page circling possible toys to ask for. Hungry,...
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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples...”
– Maya Angelou (via crookedindifference)
A thousand times yes. I wish I could tattoo this across my heart as easily as my body.
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look will easily unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your...
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“It’s PG-13 with a lot of ethnic and gender sensitive language”
– The best (worst) query letter I have ever read.
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“In interviews, he demonstrates creepily little regard for the safety of the...”
– The Strange Justifications of WikiLeak’s Julian Assange, via slippy
Finally someone speaking some sense. A good article on both the strengths and weaknesses of WikiLeak’s version of transparency. Not everything that can be shared should.
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“17. When they demand to be “Taken To Our Leader”, just send them a link to Sarah...”
– A Bajillion Hits: 20 Ways We Can Use Social Media To Exploit Aliens Into Submission
NASA needs better PR. A leak just hours before the press conference? This never happens at Apple. They need more fanfare, more hype. More build-up! Get Steve Jobs in there, see if they can’t set up...
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