December 2011
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#4
-“You make video games? Wow! That’s awesome! What do you do?” -“I’m a tester.” -“Wow! A tester! Lucky guy, getting to play video games all day.” -“Actually, I just play one game every day. I’ve played it for a year now. I know every inch of every map. I know every secret, every lie that has been stitched into a universe made of empty polygons. I know how to melt down the entire network with...
November 2011
2 posts
What to do with two Amy Ponds!
This IMDb user review of Doctor Who: Space and Time by user Tweekums is somehow perfect and heartbreaking:
“Being only eight minutes long including titles this is just a fun little incident rather than a proper story. While helping The Doctor carry out repairs to the Tardis Rory tells him how Amy passed her driving test despite being a useless driver… she distracted the instructor...
Seriously. SERIOUSLY. I mean, for REAL, people.
For me, the question that looms largest about the Penn State sexual-abuse scandal is this: How could someone see a man raping a child and fail to intervene? Fail even to call 911? I can contemplate many difficult, challenging, frightening situations that cause me to ask myself what I really would do if faced with them — and cause me to have no clear answer. This isn’t one of them. How...
October 2011
3 posts
The FBI finally recognizes Juggalos as a national...
While the other gangs listed in the annual report have the usual rap sheets of major drug trafficking, homicides, and the occasional dance-off, the FBI understandably has difficulty pinning down exactly what Juggalos are up to: “Juggalos’ disorganization and lack of structure within their groups, coupled with their transient nature, makes it difficult to classify them and identify their...
September 2011
3 posts
This is not what 'logout' is supposed to mean
A year ago I was screwing around with multiple Facebook accounts as part of some development work. I created a number of fake Facebook accounts after logging out of my browser. After using the fake accounts for some time, I found that they were suggesting my real account to me as a friend. Somehow Facebook knew that we were all coming from the same browser, even though I had logged out.
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“[T]he patterns that we used to use in American cities are patterns that were...”
– “Debunking the Cul-de-Sac” via Aaron White
WatchLet Us Play with Your Look - Yet another reason Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is the best late-night talk show ever. (Sorry, Conan, it’s true).
August 2011
1 post
Caffeine for iPhone! →
This is a great tweak for those times when you don’t want or need your phone to lock, e.g. in the car when it’s plugged in. Keep your iTunes, Spotify, or Maps app visible the whole time by assigning Caffeine to Activator>Power> Connected & Disconnected and voila! Your iPhone will no longer lock automatically when you plug in. Brilliant.
June 2011
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T-shirts should never be tucked in. Ever. And I mean never. I don’t care if it’s a thousand dollar, golden threaded, Ralph Lauren Purple label, or one of those disastrous Ed Hardy numbers… If you are tucking in your T-shirts then you’re so far gone help might not be available to you. Stop. End of story.
Man of the House: 4 Reasons Men Should Not Tuck in a Shirt
April 2011
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January 2011
3 posts
Here's a fun game
Fill in the blanks for x, y, and z…
“University of Michigan psychologist William McKibbin and his colleagues write in a 2008 piece for the Review of General Psychology, ‘No sensible person would argue that a scientist researching the causes of cancer is thereby justifying or promoting cancer. Yet some people argue that investigating [x] from an evolutionary perspective...
[U]nder rules in place, concealed handgun license holders (having undergone criminal background checks) can bypass long lines that could form at the Capitol because of the metal detectors now in place. Lots of lobbyists and several journalists have taken the [concealed handgun license] course for that reason.
There’s some buzz that to bypass the Texas Capitol metal detectors, you’ll...
December 2010
1 post
“How much would you pay for 12 chocolate truffles? What if the salesman told you...”
– The Great A.V. Club Swindle
November 2010
3 posts
Do yourself a favor
1. Go here: http://j.mp/hSDkAc
2. Enter code ‘GET3MP3S’ to get a $3 Amazon mp3 credit.
3. Go here http://j.mp/eDPbKo and download “How I Got Over”, the Roots’ best album to date, on sale for the ludicrously low price of $2.
4. You still have $1 in credit left. Now go buy “xx” by The Xx, also on sale for $2. You’ve now paid just $1 of your own...
“The fleshy drones in charge of UT security now have the ice-cold heart of...”
– AV Club: This week in adult diaper fraud
October 2010
3 posts
“If one team is good enough to warrant beating another in 55% of its games, the...”
– Leonard Mlodinow, quoted by Dave Berri (via ayjay)
“The worst thing about this World Series is that with the outstanding ability of...”
– [I’m starting to think I post too much of the Onion here, but I’ll be damned if I don’t find it hilarious.]
A-Rod Finally Leads Rangers To World Series
ARLINGTON, TX—Ten years after signing a record $252 million contract to play baseball in Texas, third baseman Alex Rodriguez finally delivered for the Rangers by leading the franchise to its first-ever World Series. “A-Rod came up big for us this entire series, all the way up until the last out,” Rangers manager Ron Washington told reporters during a postgame press conference,...
September 2010
5 posts
"It's like a safari, and we're the zebras."
If you ask tourists why they visit, the answers are similar to those you might expect to hear on Broadway or at the Empire State Building: “It was in all the guide books.” “My travel agent said that I just had to come.” “It’s so iconic from American movies.” Frequently, they’ll point to how different this style of worship is than what they are...
The Onion's 2010 Team-by-Team Analysis
Dallas Cowboys
Strength: Yes, there are positives, but reading them will only make you angry and listing them will only make us angry
Weakness: Other than being the most infuriating, knuckle-whitening, I-want-to-throw-a-brick-through-my-television-set-when-I-watch-them team in the league, are a little weak at free safety
Intangibles: Fuck the Dallas Cowboys and every fucking thing they...
Outbreak Of Va-Va-Vooms Traced To...
WASHINGTON—Officials from the Department of Ha-Cha WOWwa have traced a nationwide outbreak of va-va-vooms to one miniskirt-wearing blonde, last seen Thursday night working those stems like nobody’s business. “Since the first documented sightings in Indianapolis last week, we have observed a sharp increase in yowzas and hubba-hubbas emanating from the Midwest, with a wave of...
A Playable Duke Nukem Forever? Madness!
Gearbox prez Randy Pitchford told an audience…”You’ve got cameras. You’ve got cellphones with cameras on them. Take all the pictures you want […] We’ll even take the pictures for you.” You know, when Duke Nukem Forever was first announced, I didn’t have a cellphone yet … and the idea of a cellphone with a camera on it? Madness.
Christopher...
July 2010
2 posts
WatchThere’s no way the actual God of War movie will be better than this trailer.
[via Joystiq]
“[Apple CEO Steve Jobs] asked a questioner, bizarrely, ‘What would you prefer, that we’re a Korean company? Do you not like the fact that we’re an American company leading the world right here?’
What I’d prefer, since Jobs is asking, is a company that doesn’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s the ‘most revolutionary rain storm ever!’ A...
June 2010
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May 2010
2 posts
“Ingram goes onto say, “And perhaps Facebook doesn’t make it as clear as it could...”
– Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com (via ayjay)
“You know, even if Gold Class Cinemas is just the Alamo Drafthouse for assholes,...”
– The A.V. Club’s Dan Solomon
April 2010
3 posts
“Ideas like free Web-based e-mail, hosting services for personal Web pages,...”
– Jack Shafer and Jonathan L. Zittrain
Gee, Netflix, that's Brilliant
In a move sure to satisfy customers who hate new movies, Netflix has signed deals with Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and Universal, agreeing to delay all of the studios’ new DVD releases by 28 days…Meanwhile, the studios believe being forced to wait nearly a month to see films like Avatar—which sees official release on April 22, but won’t hit Netflix until May 20—will spur Netflix...
March 2010
2 posts
Grande Is the New Short
Starbucks is now testing an extra large cup. Dubbed the “Trenta,” this cup holds 31 ounces of your caffeinated beverage.
Folks in Tampa and Phoenix will soon be able to try any ice tea or ice coffee in this extreme size. It’s equivalent to 2 ½ cans of soda.
Undoubtedly some sluggish Americans will be thrilled to order a Trenta. But if the current Starbucks Venti (large) size...
January 2010
4 posts
“Talking about the various pressing problems that faced the world, such as...”
– Jason Pontin via ayjay
WatchJob Hunting: I think I just figured out what I’m doing wrong.
But no amount of tweaking will make wind chill more comprehensible. The language of “equivalent temperatures” creates a fundamental misconception about what wind chill really means. It doesn’t tell you how cold your skin will get; that’s determined by air temperature alone. Wind chill just tells you the rate at which your skin will reach the air temperature. If it were 35...
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But no amount of tweaking will make wind chill more comprehensible. The language of “equivalent temperatures” creates a fundamental misconception about what wind chill really means. It doesn’t tell you how cold your skin will get; that’s determined by air temperature alone. Wind chill just tells you the rate at which your skin will reach the air temperature. If it were 35...
December 2009
2 posts
Let’s all remember The Meaning of Christmas,...
The Best of TV Is Still Pretty Bad
The DVD box set is the newest and most terrifying form of ritualistic abuse we inflict on one another. In the past, a sick person received unwanted hardback books, but these days when someone is laid up with an illness, they are buried beneath an avalanche of DVD box sets containing hundreds of hours of television series.
“You must watch this,” devotees say. “You’re really...
October 2009
6 posts
Consuming the Corpse--with Relish
“Art is dead; Godard can’t change that,” the Situationists proclaimed in 1968. “Comrades, stop applauding, the spectacle is everywhere.” Jean-Luc Godard must have anticipated both of these sentiments when crafting Pierrot le Fou (1965). Quoting literary art at every turn, the titular Ferdinand-Pierrot insists that art remains very much alive… [continued]
Look at this f***ing hipster →
WatchWonderful! Lars von Trier’s The Perfect Human. Bigger version [here].
Alabaster!