February 2012
34 posts
Jesse Thorn's call for humane rhetoric →
jessethorn:
ibrill:
In the latest episode of JORDAN JESSE GO!’s second segment, which is 39:03 in, Jesse, Jordan, and guest Eliza Skinner have a wonderful and wide-ranging discussion about what’s wrong with the tone of so much rhetoric today, and how it can be improved. Jesse uses today’s politics as a jumping off point, but I feel his points can applied to so much of what we see today. It’s...
Apple Seeks Ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus (via The... →
SO MUCH “WEEEEEEEEE.”
Anywho, the Galaxy Nexus is easily the best phone I’ve ever owned. And I’ve owned every Nexus thus far. Sure, the camera blows…but there’s workarounds for that, and it’s superquick…so whatever.
I also remember the Google Search app on Android allowing you to search multiple sources all the way back to Android 2.1, so...
Since I’ve been neglecting my mix-making duties, because of a combination of laziness/fam drama/school…I’m posting this “compilation” I threw together a while back.
Throwing this up mostly because I caught a glimpse of a Twitter convo between @SporTech, @Rizzmiggizz, and a few other folks.
As an aside; when the whole Nas vs. Jay-Z thing was at it’s...
So, at 9am, Moms has an appointment with her doctor, and we should be able to finally figure out WHAT THE EFF happened on Friday/Saturday.
In the meantime, I’ve had to deal with phone calls from people insinuating that we’re ignoring signs/symptoms of a larger problem.
My Mom was senile on Friday and Saturday. She asked me who I was multiple times. Then after some antibiotics and...
I came across this article yesterday: Careful with custom Android ROMs, you could be the problem (via ZDNet)
And it reminded me of this article from a while back: Editorial: Firmware, forums, and desperation — the dark side of Android hacking (via Engadget)
Basically, I should be working towards a degree in Journalism instead of Computer Science, because there are a lot of dopey tech...
“The thing I don’t understand is people who support George Bush and who...”
– Patton Oswalt
Just gonna leave this here while everyone goes apeshit over Romney’s “not concerned with the very poor” quip…
January 2012
29 posts
“You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can...”
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- Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China (via New York Times)
I know this isn’t a phenomenon exclusive to Apple products. I own a PS3, and Sony is also a client of Foxconn’s. But holy s**t at that quote.
Once Samsung starts manufacturing their own gaming...
Anti-gay Twitter hashtag hijacked by wit (via... →
This kinda made my morning.
all the small things: quickdive: saltmarshhag:... →
quickdive:
saltmarshhag:
joetomcollins:
occupythedisco:
I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a…
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus: For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it [censored] wanted to. That's the [censored] reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Mr. T.: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Molly Yard: It was a hen!
Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.
Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.
Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
Othello: Jealousy.
Dr. Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.
Mrs. Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.
Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.
Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.
Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.
Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter.)
Hamlet: That is not the question.
Donne: It crosseth for thee.
Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.
Constable: To get a better view.
Yeats: She was following the Faeries that sang to her to come away with them from the dull, bucolic comfort of the farmyard to the waters and the wild.
Shelley: 'Tis a metaphor for the pursuits of man: though 'twas deemed an extraordinary occurrence at the time, still it brought little to bear on the great scheme of time and history, and was ultimately fruitless and forgotten.
Tolkien: Chickens are respectable folk, and well thought of. They never go on any adventures or do anything unexpected. One fine spring day, as the chicken wandered contentedly around the farmyard, clucking and pecking and enjoying herself immensely, there appeared a Wizard and thirteen Dwarves who were in need of a chicken to share in their adventure. Reluctantly she joined their party, and with them crossed the road into the great Unknown, muttering about how rude the Dwarves were to take her away on such short notice, without even giving her time to brush her feathers or fetch her hat.
jodes0405:
kuragehime:
i have this weird self esteem problem where i hate myself yet i still think i’m better than everyone else
Accurate.
