February 2009
44 posts
All the early leaks and reviews have been crowing about the...
– steampoweredboy
Well no, because what I did, the way I sort of convinced myself - And I...
– David Hayter (is a mentally retarded baboon)
The ending of the book shows just piles of corpses, bloody corpses in the middle...
– David Hayter (yeah, that’s a legitimate concern, if you’re a stupid American moron)
The filmmakers, given the task of adapting Watchmen for the movies, come up with elegantly choreographed slow-motion gratuitous fight scenes. There’s not even any blood. Great job preserving the aesthetics of the source material.
Why isn’t the Post Office being sued for “enabling” or “making...
– Jesper, Ridiculous
My name is Steven Berg and I am not a douche. →
the anti-Facebook social site
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
How the world is, is completely indifferent for what is higher. God does not...
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Nummer negen, the day I didn't turn with the world →
Franz Reichelt’s first and only test of his overcoat/parachute, optimistically from the Eiffel Tower.
Crispy Smashed Roasted Potatoes Recipe →
The first question to ask about any Recovery Program is, “Recovery for whom?”...
– Michael Hudson, Obama’s Awful Financial Recovery Plan (via Arthur Silber)
When can I use... →
Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should... →
When you watch these ads, the ads check you out →
Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there’s a slim — but growing — chance the ad is watching you too.
And is there really any possibility of discovering something in cyberspace? The...
– Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out (translated by Chris Turner)
Quick and Dirty URL Validation for Rails →
Are We All Socialists Now? Not at All →
We are participatory fascists, indeed.
The self-named blogosphere seems to me to be the country’s latest free...
– Who Is IOZ?: Manufactured Dissent
Building on his science and society lectures, the self-described “anarchist”...
– Erin Anderssen, globeandmail.com: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job
Grades poison the educational environment. We’re training students to be...
– Denis Rancourt
On the first day of his fourth-year physics class, University of Ottawa...
– Erin Anderssen, globeandmail.com: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job
To me, comedy writers should be anarchists, not liberals.
– Dennis Perrin
A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It’s all about them....
– Roger Ebert, Fanboys review
At midnight, all the agents and superhuman crew go out and round up everyone who...
– Bob Dylan, “Desolation Row”
It’s almost as if the Iranians are in league with ballistic missile...
– Mark Fitzpatrick, “specialist” on the “Iran nuclear program” [Yeah! Or maybe they just don’t base all their policy decisions on the fact that U.S. “hawks” wet their beds every night!]
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