August 2008
39 posts
Modern Jackass (Defined by the NPR show This American Life)
A person that talks expertly about something he/she actually knows nothing about.
Usually occurs in a conversation when you know a little about a subject and when asked to expand upon it, you extrapolate completely unrelated nonsense.
via urban dictionary
You wear your skirt like a flag
And everything surrounds you, and it...
– The National - Lit Up
If a god is what you turn to when all else fails, violence certainly functions...
– Facing the Myth of Redemptive Violence | Ekklesia
“The Old Prince Still Lives at Home” by Shad
An ill frugal-rap by a London, Ontario (where I was just this weekend, holla!!) based Shad. Although I could swear that I recognized some Toronto neighbourhoods in a few of those scenes.
And hygene ain’t no reason to buy things Like soap or visine or getting clothes dry cleaned I don’t throw away dough on no facials Yeah I...
If you start a company and manage to sell it or IPO, then you really are...
– An Article About Startups That Wasn’t Written By A Pretentious Asshole - Ted Dziuba
This is about you, the reader of music/mp3 blogs. This is about your best...
– PITCHFORK STARTS WAR WITH ELECTROBLOG COMMUNITY
It goes on for a while more…
Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the...
– And the winner of the worst writing of 2008 is …
Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s...
– Universal spinning ‘Wheel of Time’ - Variety
Ace… I used to read the series back in highschool! There are like a dozen books, each 1000 pages or so, it’s gonna be interesting how they can shoot it.
In the letter “Rent Payments,” the letter writer described his...
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Corrections to Last Month’s Letters to Penthouse Forum.
Prince of Persia trailer E3
This looks all sorts of pimp! Digging the Sigur Ros in the background.
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles...
– Maya Angelou
(via gtmcknight)
The irony of the web is that the tactics work really quickly. You friend someone...
– Seth’s Blog: The secret of the web (hint: it’s a virtue)
Conspiracy
biteofpythias:
people have actually looked at the high levels of sexual intermixing that occurs at the olympics. we used to have to have wars for that… now we have the olympics for sex and we just have the wars for the lube
By banishing computers from their lives, Erasmus’s reclusive colleagues...
– Neal Stephenson’s new novel makes me want to kill the Internet
Ok, so right now I’m about to finish re-reading Baroque Cycle, then I’ll read the newly aquired Cryptonomicon, and after that is done I’m purchacing Anathem.
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad