January 2012
1 post
“Before 1998, the Japanese market for antidepressants was untapped. To the...”
– “Gentlemen, congratulations. You’ve successfully brought depression to Japan.” (via seedz)
December 2011
4 posts
Ineffectively Corrupt
I see this in lobbying all the time. Because, I am a soulless technician who will faithfully advise anyone and everyone who asks I see the back rooms of opposing lobbyists all the time.
Here at the state level I can safely say that virtually no one has any idea what they are doing. That is, for the most part the lobbyist do not know and indeed are not particularly interested in what is in...
October 2011
6 posts
"I'm thinking printers" →
fiatluxemburg:
Why subscribe to a magazine when you can subscribe to the raw materials?
4 tags
“Unless I am very much mistaken, your dialectic lacks one thing: mediation.”
– Theodor Adorno, in a letter to Walter Benjamin
(via sonofapritch)
September 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
Naomi Wolf on al-Jazeera →
“As with any addiction, it is very difficult, for neurochemical reasons, for an addict to stop doing things - even very self-destructive things - that enable him to get that next hit of dopamine. ”
June 2011
6 posts
BBC - The sound of ancient Mesopotamia →
A guy speculatively pronounces Akkadian, the language of Babylon.
Tamil Numerals
௧ ௨ ௩ ௪ ௫ ௬ ௭ ௮ ௯ ௰ ௱ ௲
5 tags
May 2011
2 posts
Is Google censoring UbuWeb for some reason?
Iran Plans to Unplug Internet, Create Its Own →
April 2011
2 posts
I just realized that...
endasher:
what Groupon does is replicate the consumer economy of Soviet Russia. Here are the five things you can have today; they are much cheaper than in the West.
2 tags
March 2011
12 posts
“The drama of Africa is that the African man has not entered enough into history....”
– Nicolas Sarkozy, Wikileaks (via endasher) savage find!
Onion Borges meta-homage →
actually more meta would have been nice
hyperforeignism →
likepolishingfirewood:
A hyperforeignism is a special type of hypercorrection resulting from an unsuccessful attempt to apply the rules of a foreign language to a loan word (for example, the application of the rules of one language to a word borrowed from another), or occasionally to a native English word believed to be a loan word. The result may be “absurd,” reflecting “neither the … rules of...
Solar Shit v. Star Stuff →
endasher:
fattailed:
The use of nuclear power demands a time perspective which is on the scale of geological periods and therefore utterly unsuited to human brains and human culture.
By this token of “geological periods,” aren’t fossil fuels even less human-appropriate? Does anyone know what “natural gas” is?
The energy in natural gas came from the sun via plants; radioactive materials...
Endasher: Attn: Self-righteous Critics of Media... →
Endasher reacts to criticism of a NYT article that publishes inadequate reactions to gang rape without explicitly condemning them.
endasher:
Am I an abnormally enlightened or especially perceptive reader to come away from the Times article horrified about the town, and newly vigilant about blame-the-victimism in general (not least in my own thinking), even though the reporter never writes what...
ASL for ‘party’ (sorry, doesn’t embed).
Related: ASL for “Party in the USA”
“If Savage’s ethical guidelines—disclosure, autonomy, mutual exchange, and...”
– How Dan Savage has become America’s leading ethicist Benjamin J. Dueholm (via somethingchanged)
‘metanarchism’ subreddit
February 2011
6 posts
I've decided to go abstract with my humor
fattailed:
Carefully worded observation of everyday event, followed by wry punchline involving wordplay and making reference to subculturally specific bit of knowledge.
::laughter::
Hey everyone, I get it!
along the same lines
This was something I learned from watching my mother, who knew all too well how to root out a good con. Her defining scam was the Christmas special, when, on the day after Christmas, she’d gather up the presents from under the tree and return them to the stores along with the masses — poor Mommy forced to return all of her thoughtful gifts. But unlike most of those people,...
Scams
Best of Wikipedia’s recent feature, Goldbricking, leads to a whole list of confidence tricks, including:
Art Student
The art student scam is common in major Chinese cities. A small group of ‘students’ will start a conversation, claiming that they want to practice their English. After a short time they will change the topic to education and will claim that they are art students...
“Most cool girls are totally fucked up because they are used to guys telling them...”
– This Recording. (via seedz)
troll troll troll theatre
What probably happened: in an attempt to troll Anonymous the Westboro Baptist Church writes a letter from Anonymous to the Westboro Baptist Church. (ETA: obviously there are many possibilities, including a (double) false flag, third party, etc…)
That is to say, this is what results when the WBC does their best Anonymous impression (ETA: or, you know, when someone does their best WBC doing...
Give Me A Dollar - King Missile III
January 2011
4 posts
sorry
While dysfunctional attitudes reflect the content of themind (i.e., what a person thinks about), rumination is associated with the processes of the mind, that is, how a person relates to the content of the mind. Rumination has been defined as passively focusing one’s attention on a negative emotional state like depression, its symptoms, and thinking repetitively about the causes, meanings, and...
Looks sort of interesting but isn’t the IAT not much better than psychoanalysis?
December 2010
3 posts
Bank of America prepares for WikiLeaks
According to Domain Name Wire, the US bank has been aggressively registering domain names including its board of Directors’ and senior executives’ names followed by “sucks” and “blows”. For example, the company registered a number of domains for CEO Brian Moynihan: BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and...
the ch!cktionary: Someone got venture capital... →
Dear Lena, Please see the attached press release for HowToGetTheManOfYourDreams.com’s new Urgent Response Mobile Application, which offers quick, personalized dating and relationship advice for women on the go. Please let me know if you have any questions and have a great day! Thank you,
[redacted]
UM, I love poorly targeted PR emails in the middle of the afternoon. (I am the recipient of...
“Levi Ajuonoma, a spokesman for the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum...”
– This is the definition of “he doth protest too much.” If you thought you knew about Shell & Nigeria, read the whole story. It’s worse than you thought. (via fattailed)
Forgot about Shell.
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
4 posts
leoncrawl:
Just decided that descriptions of private but universal experiences related to internet use can never be anything but low-hanging fruit, and more often than not they will be pandering and terrible. Not gonna do them anymore.
The turning away.