January 2012
thecallus:
“There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy. The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock...
Life imitating art
prettiestgirl:
Last night at work I tried to imagine what Jessican Lange would say whenever I was in the middle of small talk with a customer. Two women were sitting at their table discussing an ex-boyfriend moving on and seeming very happy with his new girlfriend, to which I interjected:
“Grapes are their sweetest just before they rot”
and then I winked..
Needless to say, it was a success...
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Twitter will 'censor' tweets by country →
kopoint:
In what marks a u-turn for the microblogging company, Twitter has now announced it will censor certain tweets depending on the rules of each country. Prior to this technology being activated, if Twitter blocked a tweet, it was deleted across the service globally. The new system allows it to block tweets which may not comply with a certain country’s laws just in that location, but the...
emadness asked: New music on the dropbox, homeslice
“Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion—and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined. The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score, and governs what we learn from living, and it is the one that makes decisions. What we learn from the...
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Citizen Philosophers →
zeitvox:
Teaching Justice in Brazil Carlos Fraenkel »
In 1971 the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 eliminated philosophy from high schools. Teachers, professors in departments of education, and political activists championed its return, while most academic philosophers were either indifferent or suspicious. The dictatorship seems to have understood...
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“God will forgive you,
because you knew no better.
Come now, be a man!”
–
Feodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
(via accidentalhaiku)
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mno-bimaadiziwin asked: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
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An Email
Dear Ball Fans: Just an early note to let you know that the Boston Red Sox will be the visitors for this year’s Blue Jay opener on Monday evening, April 9, 2012 at 7:07 pm. Despite unprecedented demand for the Blue Jay Opener this year, Tom has managed to secure a block of tickets much closer to home plate, in Section 128, rows 13 to 16. However, these excellent seats come with an...
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Dear Diary,
In recognition of my fetish for televisions, I’ve decided to start tracking them with the #televisions tag. I’ve already retroactively applied it to each applicable instance within the last year.
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get into the store, boss is blasting dubstep
This is my employment
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“and i have been neither drinking, nor, as much as I would like to existentially-reify Team Fortress 2, have I been accumulating hats by the hour”
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abcsoupdot:
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true. And I also got very grumpy...
“anyone that hasn’t forcibly intruded my consciousness in the last five years is...”
– Messageboard post, Greedo, NTC (via magnificentruin)
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basically I think I just keep running into these existential questions, that, like all existential questions, are kind of hard to ignore, and so I keep finding new coping methods, and new excuses, and finding new stamina to run from them in to something we call, at whichever cited convenience, “discourse” or more simply, “art”
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“It’s true that website-seizures-without-trials are not quite as lawless as...”
– Glenn Greenwald on the Megaupload indictment and seizure. [Link] (via manicchill)
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apropos →
MMMM TASTY TASTY COFFEE
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“Should I kill myself, █ have █ cup of ██████?”
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Who wants to be a hand-model for a night?
*Compensation ranges from $0 to some free booze
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Homework
Light stands (3): $300
Four 500w tungsten bulbs: $40
Red cellophane: $3.75
Black body-paint: $7.95
Can of chalk: $7.25
Can of catfood to prevent an irritated animal from knocking out $110 of equipment in one pass: $0.45
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The feet are chilly tonight
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“The time is not distant when it will be understood that every literature that refuses to walk hand in hand with science and philosophy is a homicidal and suicidal literature.” —Baudelaire
“In film, black people are also shown in a stereotypical manner that promotes...”
– Wikipedia (via usike)
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"All attempts at using vows, contracts, and hoky...
— Severin
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Well, I wasn’t a real big fan of the Resident Evil movie series, but since this new flick has portions of the Tron: Legacy soundtrack in the trailer, I’m pretty much guaranteed to go see it now.
