January 2011
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Revolution without the Internet
But if protests on 25 January took place in the context of a veritable flood of information, yesterday’s massive demonstrations happened in a literal vacuum. Suddenly dragged back to the land-line communications era, the protesters didn’t know about Alexandria or Suez; they didn’t even know what was happening across the river. It didn’t matter. Protest organisers basically bypassed the idea...
Jan 30th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Flight of the Conchords (52) White Lies (47) She & Him (44) Freezepop (39) The Killers (35) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Premakes: Turning movie trailers into old fashioned trailers in the 50s and 60s. Check out Ghostbusters.
Jan 28th
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50 most loathesome Americans
What, just 50? That’s a hard list to make, then. The usual suspects are there, like the Tea Party, that nutter who is the de facto leader, Jenny McCarthy, even Andrew Breitbart, the man skilled in twisting words to suit his moronic political agenda. Number one? You. Why? Because statistically speaking, you are fucking retarded. Your brain’s been cobbled together over millions of years of...
Jan 27th
No Great Illusion: This is Something That Happened... →
nogreatillusion: I can’t sleep. It’s 5 AM. I need to write this all down so I can stop thinking about it. I work evenings and get home very late, usually around 12:30 or 1 AM. When I got home a few hours ago, I found that my key wouldn’t open my apartment door. I had had this trouble with the door to the building…
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Literal captions of the New Yorker cartoons
New Yorker cartoons with literal captions as opposed to hit/miss humor.
Jan 23rd
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Set your DVR and tilt your satellite dish slightly to the left - Anna Chapman, the most famous spy ever, known for her incompetence as a secret agent embedded in the US has her own TV show on Russian television. Clearly being bad at your job makes you famous and richer and gets you on TV. Also being rather attractive helps too. But the first edition of “Mysteries of the World With Anna...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 14th
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Every Star Trek episode for free
Totally not legal but enjoy it while it lasts. Quality is damn good for a stream but you can bet eventually this thing will be sued out of existence or at least shut down in the (very) near future.
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 3rd
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What New Year's Eve looks like in Vancouver
Thanks a lot, Metro Vancouver.
Jan 1st