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Colonel Panic (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:41:51 +0000

Colonel Panic (Taken with instagram)

Paul Mason has a Tumblr.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:03:31 +0000

Paul Mason has a Tumblr.:

Yes. ThatPaul Mason.

"Users, it’s time to wise up. It’s not just about being open, it’s realizing that you have more at..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:12:47 +0000

“Users, it’s time to wise up. It’s not just about being open, it’s realizing that you have more at stake here than you might think. The people who run these companies are just like people who run all companies. They don’t know you, care about you or look out for you. If there’s something they can do to make a buck, no matter how cheap or sleazy, they’re going to do it.”

- Scripting News: Glad I don’t use Path (via apolloniusofperga)

GIRAFFE BREAD

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:24:26 +0000

luvandhat:

LUV - Oh come on. What are you, made of stone? How can you not be moved by:

a) A three-year-old girl writing to Sainsbury’s to ask why tiger bread is called tiger bread when it looks more like a giraffe (and then drawing a picture of Beaky, HER IMAGINARY DOG, at the bottom of the letter):

b) Sainsbury’s - big, corporate, trundling capitalist machine Sainsbury’s - then replying with this:

I think renaming tiger bread giraffe bread is a brilliant idea – it looks much more like the blotches on a giraffe than the stripes on a tiger, doesn’t it?

It is called tiger bread because the first baker who made it a looong time ago thought it looked stripey (sic) like a tiger. Maybe they were a bit silly.

Chris King (age 27 & 3/4)

And finally c) Sainsbury’s THEN CHANGING THE NAME OF TIGER BREAD TO GIRAFFE BREAD:

How can you not be moved? It’s adorable. It’s the third most adorable thing I’ve ever heard, after surprised kitten and basically all of Finding Nemo.

How can you not forward the article to all your friends and go to Sainsbury’s to scoop up millions of loaves of giraffe bread and shove them into your maw, dribbling and showing the whites of your eyes and chanting JRARF BRED JRARF BRED JRARF BRED JRARF BRED JRARF BRED?

Because Lily Robinson is right. It does look more like a giraffe than a tiger. Also:

1. It displays great customer service
Recently, Specsavers wrote to me to tell me it had been 500 YEARS since my last check-up, and the last time I went to a restaurant the waiters ignored me for ages, then loudly told me to sit down. And I was already sitting down. Thanks to Lily Robinson, though, these dark days of poor customer service are over. She’ll be sending unsatisfactory dishes back to the kitchen by her fifth birthday, mark my words. Lily Robinson is basically the John Connor of customer power.

2. It wasn’t a completely shit meme
A pointless meme, yes, but it did mean that for five minutes, the entire internet stopped honking on about LOLcats, saying “end of” or shouting “FENTON!” at me. Five whole minutes. Just imagine.

3. I’m not dead inside
Like some people.
- Robyn Wilder

HAT - Oh, fuck you. Fuck you Sainsbury’s, and fuck your fucking WHIMSY. Giraffe Bread? You’re fucking renaming a product Giraffe Bread just because a bloody child decided that you should? You absolute, unstoppable shower of cunts.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Giraffe Bread story then a) please let me swap lives with you because I envy every single cell in your body and b) allow me to explain what’s happened:

A kid recently wrote to Sainsbury’s saying ‘Why is Tiger Bread called Tiger Bread? It looks more like a giraffe’ even though it clearly fucking DOESN’T. Then a Sainsbury’s customer service employee - instead of either throwing the letter in the bin because he’s an adult human being with a proper job, or replying to the child with a letter reading ‘Dear tiny bellend, I am an adult human being with a proper job. Why don’t you stop WASTING MY TIME you OBNOXIOUS ATTENTION-SEEKING DIPSHIT?’ - actually replied to the letter in such an insufferably patronising way that he may as well have replaced every word with ‘Diddums’. And THEN the kid’s fucking dad posted it on Facebook. Like a SMUG DICK. And now Sainsbury’s has renamed all Tiger Bread as Giraffe Bread.

Sainsbury’s let a child - worse still, a child whose parents are obviously the awful sort of arseholes who force you to look at photos of their offspring every five minutes and then get offended when you fail to respond to stories about their normal human development with a sufficient level of awe - to choose the name of a supermarket product. A child. Why? Children are idiots. They wet themselves. They can’t pronounce the word ‘domino’ properly. If children weren’t idiots then they wouldn’t need to spend 12 years in a classroom learning what red things are. But they DO. Because they’re IDIOTS.

The worst part of all of this is that you morons lapped it up. It doesn’t matter how you lapped it up - whether you’re one of those ‘Aww, isn’t that cute’ arseholes or one of those ‘Oh, that’s assherly rally grate implementation of social media, assherly’ arseholes. The point is that you contributed to this mess. And I genuinely, GENUINELY, hate you for it.

Because you know what’s going to happen now, don’t you? A fucking supermarket cute-off, that’s what. Tesco will rename its baked beans ‘Orange Boingies’ because a fat three-year-old with too much time on its hands wrote its head office an adorable letter. And then Sainsbury’s will fight back by calling its laundry detergent ‘Unicorn Dust’. Before you know it, you’ll find yourself pushing a fucking bibblekart around a shoppywop to buy numnums for your tummy-wummy. And then you’ll go home and you won’t understand why you can’t stop crying.

In summary, everyone in the world is a dickhead except for me.
- Stuart Heritage

blaaargh: 1965 Saab 99 Paddan Prototype & 1965 Saab 96

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:16:04 +0000

blaaargh:

1965 Saab 99 Paddan Prototype & 1965 Saab 96

blaaargh: 1980 Citroën Karin Concept by Coggiola Phwoar....

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:15:25 +0000

blaaargh:

1980 Citroën Karin Concept by Coggiola

Phwoar. Where’s Brown Car when you need her?

"After sex and sleep, bacon is one of nature’s most powerful primary reinforcers, partly due to its..."

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:31:32 +0000

“After sex and sleep, bacon is one of nature’s most powerful primary reinforcers, partly due to its high fat and protein content in comparison to other meats. Bacon has become known as the “gateway meat”: the smell triggers intense cravings, even in vegetarians.”

- In the middle of an article about games and “games”, this little gem.

The Zynga Abyss - Benjamin Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic

(via benkraal)

Photo

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:26:35 +0000

"From the economy and the collapse of the middle class to climate change and the pursuit of endless..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:01 +0000

“From the economy and the collapse of the middle class to climate change and the pursuit of endless war, America faces as serious challenges as at any time in its history. They are issues of vast moral and even existential import. Liberals should shine here, and yet where are they? I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the minorities to re-align Congress, the millennials to recover their Obama-snuffed idealism or other fantasies. Don’t tell me about Occupy Wall Street: Not one Republican member of Congress fears for his seat because of this camp-out, whereas the Democrats could not capitulate fast enough when faced with some loud-mouths at district meetings and handfuls of white people in ersatz colonial dress. The whites will hold power for decades and too many of them are Fox viewers and pawns of the corporatists.”

- Rogue Columnist (via azspot)

"[T]he only way out of … deadlock is an electoral rout of the GOP, since the language of victory and..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:41 +0000

“[T]he only way out of … deadlock is an electoral rout of the GOP, since the language of victory and defeat seems to be the only thing it understands.”

- Andrew Sullivan (via squashed)

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(via PRINT/DISTRIBUTE: Egypt for Liberals | Deterritorial...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:17:59 +0000

(via PRINT/DISTRIBUTE: Egypt for Liberals | Deterritorial Support Group)

Complete archive of leaflets, graphics and posters from DSG, the...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Complete archive of leaflets, graphics and posters from DSG, the ultraleft propaganda machine in it for the lulz and full communism, from 2011.

University (n.) A place where one buys coffee. (Taken with...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:53:36 +0000

University (n.) A place where one buys coffee. (Taken with instagram)

Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse & The Self | Open Culture

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:30:24 +0000

Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse & The Self | Open Culture:

apolloniusofperga:

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations. He spent some time during the last years of his life at UC Berkeley, delivering several lectures in English. And happily they were recorded for posterity:

Four Lectures on Truth and Subjectivity (1980)

Six Lectures on Discourse and Truth (1983)

Three Lectures on “The Culture of the Self” (1983)

These last lectures are also available on YouTube (in audio format):

One of Foucault’s more controversial and memorable books was Discipline and Punish (1977), which traced the transition from the 18th century use of public torture and execution to–less than 50 years later–the prevalence of much more subtle uses of power, with a focus on incarceration, rehabilitation, prevention, and surveillance. Here he is in 1983 commenting on that book (thanks for the link to Seth Paskin). The Partially Examined Life podcast recently discussed the book with Katharine McIntyre, doctoral candidate at Columbia. Foucault’s image of the panopticon well captures modern privacy concerns in the electronic age.

Finally, we leave you with a Schoolhouse Rock-style presentation of Foucault’s book The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 and some vintage video of Foucault’s 1971 debate with Noam Chomsky. Foucault’s lectures have been added to the Philosophy section of our Free Online Course collection.

Do a youtube search for "zizek children of men" first and go from there. A recent book of his, "Living in the End Times," is a pretty accessible read and does a nice job of critiquing the current age through his Hegelian / Marxist worldview.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:37:03 +0000

Cheers!

25 20 years of excellence (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:21:00 +0000

25 20 years of excellence (Taken with instagram)

Two questions

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:49:52 +0000

I need a small tripod for an iPhone 4S. Recommendations?
I’ve never read any Zizek. Recommendations?
I see people criticising Zizek. What’s that about?*

*OK, OK, three questions. Jeez.

"The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and..."

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:22:07 +0000

“The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us. Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.”

- The next SOPA – Marco.org (via robot-heart-politics)

prostheticknowledge: Recipe: Sweet and Spicy Nutella-Coated...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:56:59 +0000

prostheticknowledge:

Recipe: Sweet and Spicy Nutella-Coated Bacon

I think this post could brake Tumblr as we know it ….

From The Detroit Free Press:

Serves: 6 / Preparation time: 10 minutes / Total time: 40 minutes

1 tablespoon light brown sugar

1 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Vegetable oil cooking spray

6 thick slices bacon (1/2 to 3/4 pound)

3 tablespoons Nutella

Fleur de sel or another coarse salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine brown sugar, chili powder and black pepper in a small bowl and set aside.

Read the rest of the recipe here

THIS IS WHY WE HATE YOU: A) That’s not bacon, that’s cardboard B) Sweet and savoury together is an abomination

Band name

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:41:12 +0000

The Violent Artichoke