April 2011
Incredible collection of obscure photos of famous... →
If you don’t have time to look at them all, just ctl-f “dali”.
March 2011
in which i am grateful →
My contribution to "What's the most fucked up... →
America is Giving Up: Why Geithner and GE CEO Must... →
General Electric earned more than $14 billion in profits last year. They paid ZERO federal taxes. In fact, the government GAVE GE more than $3 billion in tax credits. So General Electric is basically a corporate welfare king.
But it gets worse. Not only did they pay zero taxes. Not only did they get $3 billion back from you and me. GE has slashed nearly 20% of its American workforce. So for all...
Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in... →
The new leader of Libya’s opposition military spent the past two decades in suburban Virginia but felt compelled — even in his late-60s — to return to the battlefield in his homeland, according to people who know him.
I’m sure this and Obama’s secret order to secretly arm the Libyan rebels in secret has absolutely nothing to do with the CIA.
So color is evil, but at least their founder is... →
seanbonner:
Photo sharing is not our mission. We think it’s cool and we think it’s fun, but we’re a data mining company.
Bill Nguyen, Founder of Color, Business Insider
Let that soak in for a minute.
OK, got that?
The app is photo sharing - plain and simple. You take photos…
“It’s a soulless lack of self-reproach that makes the predominant Perez...”
– Charlie Brooker
“I was devastated when I received my first negative reviews in national...”
– Mike Doughty on Rebecca Black, trolling, cruelty, and satire.
“The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country...”
– Losing Our Way (Seriously - read the whole thing.)
Eschaton: Same As It Ever Was →
It would be nice if reporters would recognize that the Tea Partiers are just the same tribal 27percenter social conservative Republicans that we’ve always had with us. They don’t give a shit about “fiscal issues,” and they never did. They might care about tax rates, but they still want their Medicare. They care that their perceived tribe is not in charge, and are animated...
14 sci-fi actors we'd watch in ANYTHING →
I can’t believe I am included on this list. The actors here are just incredible.
Agent to the Stars gets a really nice review at... →
Wil Wheaton, a Star Trek: The Next Generation alum, is a canny choice for narrator of this intersection of science fiction and Elmore Leonard-esque Hollywood farce. In addition to being a rather prominent footnote in sci-fi history, Wheaton’s also got a great voice — sonorous, with an inflection similar to a late-night radio DJ who’s bemusedly sharing an anecdote on air between tracks.
His...
I Hate Wil Wheaton | Facebook →
I can’t tell if this is serious, a troll, or what … but it’s pretty goddamn funny to me either way.
It's Wednesday, so here's a post about comic books →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
Daft Punk (45)
Judas Priest (12)
Scorpions (8)
Rush (8)
The The (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A Marvel Universe Primer →
When I was a kid, I was a DC Universe guy all the way, with rare forays into X-Men books.
I realized last week, though, that the DCU does absolutely nothing for me these days, and I’ve stopped reading DC books, even Batman, which I don’t even recognize at the moment.
The Marvel Universe, though, has been blowing my mind and pleasing me greatly for at least the last year. I’ve...
“I’ve learned something very interesting the past few days, which is that after...”
– Balloon Juice » This Is What I Hoped To Avoid
“The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging...”
– Food for The Eagle - Adam Savage’s speech to Harvard Humanism Society
Read the whole thing.
The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya →
“What I cannot understand at all is how people are willing to believe that the U.S. Government is deploying its military and fighting this war because, out of abundant humanitarianism, it simply cannot abide internal repression, tyranny and violence against one’s own citizens. This is the same government that enthusiastically supports and props up regimes around the world that do...
“ICANN have approved .xxx. Sigh. If I were an American, I’d now be saying...”
– Tom Morris - .tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic
BBC sued over Who first drew the evil Dalek... →
Davros, the evil leader of the Daleks and one of Doctor Who’s most formidable opponents, has endured his fair share of intergalactic struggles.
But now the mutant megalomaniac is at the centre of a very different kind of battle here on Earth.
A lifelong Doctor Who fan claims he dreamt up the character when he was just 13, and is suing the BBC for breach of copyright.
The best part of this...
in which a good person is kind →
