December 2011
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Good times, good times
A coworker bought us a book of works by Thomas Kinkaide Painter of Light© as a gag gift, and now we’re all engaged in a game of “spot the negro.” So far, no winners. Apparently, when it comes to idyllic landscapes, cottages, small town street scenes and pictures called “Stairway to Paradise,” whites only, please.
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC... →
sparverius:
climbingcowboy:
thefreebitchproject:
Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily...
it's a festivus miracle →
:: Sweet Jesus Magee, but this is charming.
SOPA Emergency IP list →
anglophonic:
So when these assfucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 imgur.com 173.231.140.219 google.com 74.125.157.99 youtube.com 74.125.65.91 yahoo.com...
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A great recollection from Graydon Carter →
“I can recall a lunch in 1991, when I was editing The New York Observer, and he and Aimée Bell, his longtime editor, and I got together for a quick bite at a restaurant on Madison, no longer there. Christopher’s copy was due early that afternoon. Pre-lunch canisters of scotch were followed by a couple of glasses of wine during the meal and a similar quantity of post-meal cognac. That was...
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via kateoplis)
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Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, With Wit →
Christopher Hitchens wrote in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell and trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa.
He may have been at times insufferable about them, but he was as clear-headed in his principles as any man I think I’ve ever read or heard. Bravo, sir.
word of the day
mcdspot:
Kummerspeck - German word referring to the excess weight one gains from emotion-related overeating. Literally: “grief bacon.”
:: I think I qualify for an entire Kummerschwein lately.
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So here's a question... →
Is it a museum if it’s empty?
“NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first...”
– Space.com, “NASA Telescope Confirms Alien Planet in Habitable Zone.”
Someone needs to invent warp drive already.
(via inothernews)
“I’m not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it’s unfair and irritating....”
– Viggo Mortensen qtd in Zoe Heller, Viggo Talks and Talks (T Magazine, 2 Dec 2011) (via tiiigerstyle)
“I doubt many people seriously believe that the programmers behind Siri are out...”
– Amanda Marcotte, on Siri (via greaterthanlapsed)
See also: Why all technology “for women” follows the “shrink it and pink it” strategy; because women are absolutely an afterthought in the tech world.
(via kataroo)
I’m so fucking glad I get to work with women at Microsoft.
(via spiralofbees)
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