July 2009
Quote of the day: “it is given that Vassar allows token elitist blue state heterosexual snobs to enter their den of Sotomeyer culture especially if they pay thousands of dollars of tuition, but that is not the agreement that the Poughkeepsie community has with the college”
via: protest against Vassar College - NoahDavidSimon - FriendFeed
June 2009
“Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share...”
– Chief Twit on Iran- “I Never Intended Twitter To Be Useful”
“But let’s get real. For every cynical slacker sitting around “ironically”...”
– Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher by Robert Lanham - The Morning News
China / censorship
Banned words in China:
“sex, Tibet, Falun Gong (a forbidden religious movement), Tiananmen, play-boy, fuck, multiple parties, Taiwan independence, police, whore, corruption, torture, public funds, anus, Jesus Christ, riot, insurrection, air disaster, 89, tyranny, North Korea, scrotum, dictatorship, pigeon, timeshare, penitentiary, Voice of America, bra, Geneva finance, shit.”
via...
Banned words in China
China News: Translation of the Filtered Key Words in Chinese Cyberspace | China Digital Times (CDT)
Rough analysis of this list: Falungong related ~ 20%; Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan ~ 15%; names of Chinese leaders and their relatives ~ 15%; democracy, corruption, politics ~ 15%; social unrest, police ~ 10%; names of dissident writers, political exiles ~ 10%; porn related ~ 15% .
insomnia sucks.
Monkey's Wedding
A sunshower is an unusual meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining [1]. These conditions often lead to the appearance of a rainbow, if the sun is at a low enough angle [1]. The term “sunshower” is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and parts of Britain, but is rarely found in dictionaries [2]. Additionally, the phenomenon...
Major Lazer - Baby
Best use of Autotune yet.
GOOD_WORDS = %w[love like awesome rad cool sweet neat clever rocks great fantastic interesting fun exciting nice] BAD_WORDS = %w[hate stupid dumb slow sucks sucky suck blows idiot]
if only it were that easy
too much dancing can get one into trouble
Jesus is gonna rock you
come on kiddies and grab your friends coz once in a life we get to pretend that life is a lemon and time is a tree and we are the sugar that makes it so sweet jesus is comin on down to our town he’ll be at the mall soon come sundown so grab the coors and hop in the truck he’ll sign your football for just one buck jesus is gonna rock you jesus is gonna sock you
-via...
Flaming lips play 'bohemian rhapsody' →
“The aluminum foil wrapping, which is present whether the customer is eating in...”
– San Francisco burrito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A new future is awaiting : Interview with Jacque... →
Conditions of misery, suffering, war, and war profiteering were the incentive and inspiration for my work. I was also motivated by the seeming incompetence of governments, the academic world, and a…
“The ultimate Bad Brilliance show that I can think of when the budget for it...”
– Interview: Bad Brilliance | Smartass Radio
Announcing 'Whatsonyourthing.com'
I started whatsonyourthing.com for a number of reasons
I find it disturbing when people unwittingly carve out a huge chunk of their day to interact on a small screen, whether it be for text messaging, web browsing, or for playing games. This is a lo-fi behavior in a hi-fi world. We can do better than this.
We often communicate with people geographically close to us at great volumes through...
DZR:P - Maybe tonight
(via...
Biophilia
whatsonyourthing:
An acquaintance of mine has a teenage daughter. Like most teens in this century she spends her day texting her friends, abbreviating her life into 140 character hints, flinging these haikus out to an invisible clan of mutual texters. It’s an always-on job, this endless encapsulation of the moment. During dinner, while walking, on the toilet, lounging in bed, or in any state of...
Exopolitics →
exopolitics is the study of the key individuals, political institutions and processes associated with extraterrestrial life.
