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Jul 5 ’09

Jul 5 ’09
julyshewillfly:

allandonly: Finally.
I’ll wait until full details are released before I get full-on excited, but this is a long overdue and welcome development. Now I’m just waiting on you, Wonder Years.

julyshewillfly:

allandonly: Finally.

I’ll wait until full details are released before I get full-on excited, but this is a long overdue and welcome development. Now I’m just waiting on you, Wonder Years.

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Jul 5 ’09

oomb:

I don’t know if it’s possible to express the feelings of nostalgia and giddy expectation I have about this.

Trev told me about it the other day and my heart sang.

Here comes Guybrush Threepwood’s glowing sword of hot monkey vengeance.

I’m deeply ambivalent.  Monkey 4 was so awful.

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Jul 3 ’09
“People will pay for it if it is good enough. By good enough I mean that it will have to be: well researched; brilliantly written; perceptive and intelligent; professionally edited; accurate and reliable.
This is not the territory in which aggregator sites or amateur bloggers will do well…”
- John “Boofhead” Hartigan

“People will pay for it if it is good enough. By good enough I mean that it will have to be: well researched; brilliantly written; perceptive and intelligent; professionally edited; accurate and reliable.

This is not the territory in which aggregator sites or amateur bloggers will do well…”

- John “Boofhead” Hartigan

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Jul 2 ’09

Jul 2 ’09

Okay, I give up.

How can I get disqus comments onto my tumblog?

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Jul 2 ’09

"Verb" Clothing

oomb:

  • Transitive with respect to the wearer: sweater, leg warmer, suspenders, choker
  • Transitive with respect to the elements: windbreaker, flipper, clodhopper
  • Transitive with respect to the clothing, i.e. passive voice: pullover, slipper
  • Intransitive: bloomers*
  • Assisting the wearer in action (though not, necessarily, directly inducing it): jumper, romper, sneaker, boxers, loafer, boater, deerstalker

*named after a person, but the action fits nicely

(via annagrams)

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Jul 1 ’09
This video warms my heart :).  AusComePlay on youtube.

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Jul 1 ’09
These are not uncalculating politicians. By poking a stick inside this particular cage they are making a meaningful statement about media power: how it is evolving and diffusing; how the spectre of Murdoch no longer acts as a curb on politicians doing the right thing; how new media is recalibrating the unhealthy influence of the old media establishment; and how political leaders now feel confident enough to believe that the machinations of one newspaper empire can no longer unseat governments, destroy careers or turn political tides.

Crikey, on Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard openly criticising Rupert Murdoch’s Courier-Mail and Daily Telegraph. (via rachelhills) (via buyhercandy)

As I just tweeted, I think it’s possible to read too much into this.  My take is that Kevin just decided to get a bit of petty revenge on Madonna King by being nasty about her husband’s newspaper.  She has a way of getting on her interview subjects’ nerves.

Anyway, heralding the demise of print in making the news is, well, a dying profession.  Let’s face it: our politics and its messages are crafted towards and aimed primarily at broadcast media, which are as dominated by ancient rich oligarchs as ever.

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Jul 1 ’09
From Wikipedia.
Tama (たま?, born 29 April 1999) is a calico cat who is the station master at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
(…)
The publicity from Tama’s appointment led to an increase in ridership by 17% for that month as compared to January 2006; ridership statistics for March 2007 showed a 10% increase over the previous financial year. A study has estimated that the publicity surrounding Tama has contributed 1.1 billion Yen to the local economy.[2] In January 2008, Tama was promoted to “super station master” in a ceremony attended by the president of the company and the mayor; as a result of her promotion, she is “the only female in a managerial position” in the company.[3] Her new position has an “office” — a converted ticket booth containing a litter box
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From Wikipedia.

Tama (たま?, born 29 April 1999) is a calico cat who is the station master at Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

(…)

The publicity from Tama’s appointment led to an increase in ridership by 17% for that month as compared to January 2006; ridership statistics for March 2007 showed a 10% increase over the previous financial year. A study has estimated that the publicity surrounding Tama has contributed 1.1 billion Yen to the local economy.[2] In January 2008, Tama was promoted to “super station master” in a ceremony attended by the president of the company and the mayor; as a result of her promotion, she is “the only female in a managerial position” in the company.[3] Her new position has an “office” — a converted ticket booth containing a litter box

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