May 2009
11 posts
Stuff I think tumblr needs
librarianpirate:
enjoli:
sade:
- Private messaging ala Twitter
- Search feature in your ‘Likes’ page
- ‘Likes’ sorted by audio, video, photos, quotes.
- Ability to sort through your ‘Likes’ by author. Example, I want to be able to see all the posts by theduty that I’ve liked in the past.
Anyway, that’s just off the top of my head, feel free to add to the list or detract from it!
I...
April 2009
49 posts
Senator McCaskill: Why I Tweet
As a professional political communications guy, I cringe at the thought of my candidate speaking in public. I much prefer a sanitized sound bite that I write, the candidate shapes, and I deliver. So my heart goes out to Senator Clair McCaskill’s aides, and the torment they must feel as she tweets 4-5 times a day.
But I am not on her staff.
The fact is, I absolutely love reading her tweets....
Sigur Ros Vs. Mobb Deep — “Shook (Emancipator Mash...
“We are America! I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps! We do not fucking...”
– Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith, making his (but probably not his network’s?) feelings known about torture, during a live broadcast seen here.
(video via Fark via The Daily What) (via inothernews:msbadkittie:apsies:soupsoup)
Hunter Thompson Can Eat It
I’ve never thought of myself like this, but someone just reccomend me on LinkedIn:
Details of the Recommendation: “Let’s face it LinkIN, modern political writers are boring and straightlaced. In the good ole days, reporters all had a little gonzo Hunter Thompson in them. They drank too excess. They cursed and swore in public. They hung out at seedy establishments, etc. I’m...
Watchvia HuffPo:
Playboy.com journalist Mike Guy underwent waterboarding by a trained member of the U.S. military in the site’s new Lab Rat feature.
Guy bet that he could endure 15 seconds of the interrogation technique used by the Bush administration on al Qaeda chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.
It’s kinda freaky how strangely calm the whole thing is.
“Religion is about faith, not evidence. Comparing science and religion...”
– Paleontologist Jack Horner in Wired
(He’s by far my favorite dino-guy.)
PLAY This With HEADPHONES… This was originally...
Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
“First of all, the Ewoks do not suck. “The Ewoks suck” is the kind of thing Star...”
– Sean T. Collins, in defense of Ewoks. “They look like teddy bears and fight like the Viet Cong.” What a great line. (via perpetua) (via bg5000) 110% truth. In Aaron’s words: Fuck the Haters (via ackb)
Hell yes. Hurley can suck it.
WatchWatch as Disney rips itself off and reuses frames from older Disney films…identical dance moves.
Disney is a buncha tracing copycats!
(via willzone)
Travel Can Make You Happier Than Buying Stuff →
Duh.
“A recent study says that spending your money on possessions can make you happy, but that spending money on experiences such as travel will make you happier longer.”
(via someone, now lost to the universe.)
Why is everybody freaking about this switch to digital TV? Why the fear that some Americans might - gasp - be left WITHOUT TV! Since when did Dancing with the Stars become a univesal human right?
Republicans Twittering away credibility →
Great article on how Republicans, and specifically Newt Gingrich, are screwing themselves by refusing to acknowledge Obama’s success in his handling of the dread pirate menace:
Here’s the problem: If Republicans can’t allow that the president did his job well in this unambiguous case, why should we believe their complaints about anything else? If they can’t pat him on the...
Pentagon preps for economic warfare →
The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis. … “It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise told POLITICO. But instead of military brass...
HAPPY EASTER!
Just want to wish all of my Tumblr friends a very happy Easter! And if you’re not Christian, then I hope you enjoy lots of chocolate bunnies, hot cross buns, and - my personal favorite - cadburry eggs today in celebration of the rebirth of spring.
“When all men of all religions … shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an...”
– John Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785, quoted from Albert Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom (1991) (via State of Affairs)
Island DIY: Kauai residents don't wait for state... →
The libertarian in me loves this. And while I certainly believe the goernment has a role to play in our lives, I also like it when people say, “Fuck that, I’m not waiting for the state to get around to fixing this. I’m just going to get it done myself!” From the article:
Their livelihood was being threatened, and they were tired of waiting for government help, so...
“To me, the most important thing in trying to speak any foreign language is to...”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via maddieness) (via out-of-my-dreams) (via sunnynsassy)
“If you tell any man, ‘Today I am your sexual servant. You can tell me whatever...”
– Charlotte Roche (via syntheticpubes)
I feel like such a failure as a computer nerd. They had Wi-Fi on my flight - and I didn’t spend the ten dollars to try it out. :-(
“France has prevailed in this issue in that it has has succeeded in...”
– China: China-France communiqué and G20, a glorious defeat?
