February 2008
“The staff at the Ministry of Defence army recruitment office in Liverpool have a...”
– Error Gorilla (via errorgorilla)
L'esprit de l'escalier →
nostrich: I knew there had to be a term for this. L’esprit d’escalier (literally, stairway wit) is a French term that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late. I think we’ve all been there. Blimey, talk about le mot juste.
@squashed: SquasheD has a ring to it, I think you should embrace your old skool hip-hop heritage. Why not go the whole hog, and go by MC Squashy Dee?
Will this week never end? It’s 1.01 am, and I’ve got ALL of tomorrow’s stuff to prepare.
Make that motherfucking Mac-off a threesome
@highindustrial and lonelysandwich: if I weren’t pullling an all-nighter, and if the scanner weren’t a) so noisy and b) next to my daughter’s bedroom, I’d join you with my Performa boot CD, full-colour Apple stickers, etc. But it’ll have to wait till tomorrow. Then we’ll see who the loser is.
Glorious Nonsense →
nostrich: A rather extensive page of Jabberwocky trivia. Excellent! Among the things listed are a version of the poem as interpreted by handwriting recognition software (on an Apple Newton): Teas Willis, and the sticky tours Did gym and Gibbs in the wake. All mimes were the borrowers, And the moderate Belgrade. A version ran through a spellchecker: ‘Tweak brim, and the slits tow Did...
Dear Jesus →
marco:Fun tumblelog I found on the map. Who the fuck is “Jesus”?
Europe Fines Microsoft $1.35 Billion →
It's like the Vietnam war
HER: How's the marking going?
ME: I've done my 80 first-year ones, now I've got
- 7 final year group projects
- 9 MA essays
- 5 UG dissertation drafts
It's like the Vietnam War, it never ends
HER: Blood hell! [sic]
To last night's unfollower
I can’t even work out who you were You’ve been replaced already Not that I’m bitter or anything
“US opinion, shared with the West generally, flatly rejects the lofty American...”
– Democracy Now! | Noam Chomsky: Why is Iraq Missing from 2008 Presidential Race? via youletthishappen
Obama's the man for capital →
Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the... →
AisleOne →
An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.
CNN: Hitler, Frankenstein run in Indian election →
aatw:
zetahydrae:
When indigenous tribespeople from Meghalaya, a remote part of India, started converting to Christianity, the locals named their children after the missionaries they were fond of. However, subsequent generations started selectively favoring English words and famous figures and named their children after them. Usually, they picked words and people that they knew of, but didn’t...
The Washington Consensus | Naomi Klein →
Watchthedaytheytriedtokillme:Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Poll Shows Obama Is Seen as More Likely to Beat... →
New York Times: TimesMachine →
This is like a poor man’s version of this.
Thanks, cameronio.
AlterNet: Election 2008: Run, Ralph, Run! (But I... →
Interesting critique of conventional wisdom on the Nader Effect.
NYT: Studios Try to Save the DVD
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=C602FDF7F95AA8D202F2A5F4BB3B8754.w6?a=143673&f=23
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-24) →
Lalo Schifrin and John E. Davis
Lalo Schifrin
Dorothy Ashby
Sugababes
Ramsey Lewis
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The Future of Reputation: gossip, rumor and... →
Frank Rich - The New York Times →
“The Obama campaign is not a vaporous cult; it’s a lean and mean political...”
– Frank Rich’s regular skewering of the HRC campaign always makes me chuckle.
Nader enters race →
squashed:
Why?
Oh, I think I know this one! Is it “to hand the election to the Republicans by shaving the Democrat vote”?
“If you have a social need, you’re with Hillary. If you want Obama to be...”
– Unnamed Clinton adviser
So that’s what HRC means by delusional…