January 2011
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Not as sexy as Elvis, but just as apt for the...
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December 2010
God of the gaps →
bestofwikipedia:
God of the gaps refers to a view of God as existing in the “gaps” or aspects of reality that are currently unexplained by scientific knowledge, or that otherwise lack a plausible natural explanation. According to John Habgood in The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology, the phrase is generally derogatory, and is inherently a direct criticism of a tendency to postulate...
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I now have a 'photoblog'. →
To honor satirize my own blog, ‘nhaler’, it’s being called xhaler. If all this media and musings and crap is just poorly-retained input to my brain, then the photoblog is the cheap processed output of it. Hopefully the input somehow positively affects the output. (I am still sort of drunk since entering the new year, so the 2011 content will probably reflect that.)
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long live the new flesh: “I gotta say, the... →
gadgetry:
“I gotta say, the ‘hipster racism’ article came off as a little uninspired, and even fell victim to a few argumentative fallacies. I feel like if you were riled up enough, you’d provide a more reasoned and less-cheap exhortation of the same values.” — nhaler
I mean, I could reword it very…
I’m probably just annoying you by now, but I feel like there’s still much...
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oldhollywood:
Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer’s...
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“Because if this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert, from this clip. (via quietbrava)
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Older Facebook Apps May Still Have Unfettered... →
chaoticplanet:
And if the fact that old apps you signed up to a couple of years ago still have access to your details doesn’t worry you then you are a hell of a lot stupider than I thought. Hmmm, might be doing some cleaning tonight.
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I'm getting a haircut for my family Christmas... →
Click to see.
Where's your platform?
That needs to be the goal when you seek out a job.
Bob Dylan earned the right to make records, and instead of using it to create ever more commercial versions of his old stuff, he used it as a platform to do art.
A brilliant programmer finds a job in a small company and instead of seeing it as a grind, churning out what’s asked, he uses it as a platform to hone his skills and to...
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“Do women in the Tron world get their light cycles every couple weeks like women...”
– (via tazar)
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“Republican senators were so worried about meeting with 9/11 responders who came...”
– Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) calls cops on 9/11 responder advocate John Feal amid protests (via brooklynmutt)
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Dear Diary,
I had the worst sleep of this whole year last night…
Worse than the time I passed out in my own puke and woke up in a blazing-hot tent at 6AM in the middle of July on my birthday, worse than the time I couldn’t pass out on a leather couch with 3-month-old contact lenses stuck to my eyeballs shortly thereafter, and worse than the time I slept with a faux-brunette (she was a redhead,...
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I [told Lyndon Johnson] I wanted to run for Senate. And he said, “The difference between the Senate and the House is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit.” Johnson was amazing.
—George H.W. Bush
God as man-God: the modern individual
“If all God used to create man was physical energy, then man could have done it himself with the help of a few afternoons in the gym, an army to back him up, some ideology for comfort and a good PR campaign to drown out awkward questions. ”
-John Ralston Saul
Rosenhan experiment →
readmorewikipedia:
The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by psychologist David Rosenhan in 1973.
The first part involved the use of healthy associates or “pseudopatients” who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 different psychiatric hospitals in five different states in various...
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Gawker CMS now hacked: Hacker takes over... →
ronworkman:
We have discovered various copies of our source code available for download… We ask you to NOT download this, as this WILL infringe our copyright.
Amazing!
Are they sure about that?
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What is the ego?
What is the individual?
… what is the difference?
I think there was a time when the two were separate. When the two were words for the manifestations of two different things. But then, I think the concept of the individual was consumed by something else. The refuge, then, was the ego.
And I think that—or shortly thereafter—is when it was cleverly marketed to people that...
Whistleblower watchdog attacked her own staff,... →
abcsoupdot:
From The Globe and Mail:
Christiane Ouimet was supposed to shield federal whistleblowers from reprisals and expose government employers who were operating outside the lines.
But Auditor-General Sheila Fraser says Ms. Ouimet, Canada’s first public-sector integrity commissioner, instead engaged in the very activities she was hired to prevent, berating and marginalizing her...
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Breaking News: Fox still not "Fair & Balanced" →
creepysleepy:
On Oct. 27, the day after Senate Democrats introduced a bill with a public insurance option from which states could opt out, Bill Sammon, a Fox News vice president and Washington managing editor, sent the staff a memo. Sammon is a former Washington Times reporter. “Please use the term ‘government-run health insurance,’ or, when brevity is a concern, ‘government option,’ whenever...
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Dear Coke Talk: On adderall. →
dearcoketalk:
Have you ever taken adderall? Is it similar to cocaine?
Adderall is amphetamine. It’s the socially acceptable, doctor approved version of speed, so chemically, it’s more like meth than blow.
It’s a favorite of hipsters with health insurance and tweaked out college kids, pretty much anybody…
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U.S. embarasses themselves; host of 'World Press...
With the phrase ‘Diplomacy in action’ emblazoned across the banner without a hint of irony, the U.S. Department Of State announced today that Washington, of all places, would host the World Freedom Of Press Day.
According to the press statement,
The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in...
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4chan →
danpatterson:
Now this is getting interesting…
/via @creepysleepy:
The forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan’s hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance, and other sites that have hindered the whistleblowing site’s operations.
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