February 2012
This article never gets old →
Following the tragic falling death of 32-year-old methamphetamine addict Phillip Diggs, who was reportedly attacked by spiders while scaling a large construction crane near Palo Alto, CA, thousands of outraged and confused meth addicts marched frenetically on Washington as part of a week of activities urging the federal government to address the nation’s growing spider epidemic.
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“Why would a banana grab another banana? I mean those are the kind of questions I...”
– Nichael Bluth
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This logic is absurd: book > human life. Please fuck off if you are a part of that.
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My uncle popped over this morning to teach me about irony, inconsistencies, and economics. Here’s what happened.
I told him that I was gonna pull the weeds in the yard and do one final rake before I left my deceased grandfather’s property for good. He said I shouldn’t bother because he was getting paid by my aunt to do it. Basically, he understood that if I cleaned up out of...
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I am starting to believe, with great sincerity, that Arrested Development has arrested my development. Maybe not my development of a sense of humor and appreciation, but certainly of other, more professional prospects. This is but a small price to pay to laugh so much and so often.
In many respects, I’m not so much afraid of the average or being average. The mode is what scares me and what I try to avoid. If that doesn’t make sense, you may be a part of the mode.
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Carnival creeps me the fuck out.
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The first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
"Oh, so you're saying we shouldn't burn Qurans if... →
Religious materials — including Qurans that were burned at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, sparking Afghan protests — were removed from the library of a detainee center “because of extremist inscriptions” on them, a military official said Tuesday.
There was “an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications,” a military...
WatchLinsanity Postgame
People seem to think that being alone for four months means you must be bored, that walking a mile one way to a grocery store is crazy, that reading a book a day is taxing, that cooking on a hot plate is less healthful, that fasting is harmful, that taking cold showers is masochistic, that going barefoot is dangerous, that living without heat and air conditioning is preposterous, that typing on...
Against TED →
When did TED lose its edge? When did TED stop trying to collect smart people and instead collect people trying to be smart?
Started as a one-off conference nearly 30 years ago, the TED (“Technology, Entertainment and Design”) phenomenon has grown to two large annual events and many smaller regional TEDx events, focusing mostly but not exclusively on technology. TED has posted more than 1,100...
It’s guaranteed that if I go to your actual tumblr page I will get confused by the “next” and “previous” buttons. These days it’s up there with death and taxes.
What does a free market in cabs look like? →
But what would London look like without TfL’s regulations and licenses? A real world example of an all-but-free taxi market can be found in that renowned hub of capitalist free-marketeering, Tehran. In the Iranian capital, any car is a potential taxi and anybody who wants to pick up a passenger does.
There are 22,000 black cabs in London and another 49,000 vehicles licensed for private hire....
A life without cheese is not a life.
Many aren’t aware of this, but DJ Shadow has one... →
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Tonight I really wanted to write something. Truly, I did. Instead I simply ate an entire pint of bonnaroo BUZZ, sipped whiskey, and contemplated how my life has gone and how my inability to “get it” has gotten me where I am. Ironically, that led to writing. The universe wins again!
If there is a God, or gods, or even if there isn’t or aren’t, at the very least I’m thankful for what I have and...
Be forewarned: If you have a shitty freezer and you happen to buy a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, you will most likely have to eat that entire pint in one night.