December 2010
46 posts
HaikuLeaks →
loscheiner:
Some smarty-pants wrote a code that searches for haiku patterns in Wikileaks cables. Several of the accidental poems are quiet lovely. Here are some that I enjoyed:
As is typical, the Pope stayed above the fray and did not comment.
Instead, he gulped three cans of Coca-Cola while inhaling his food.
Parts of the country are often cut off by snow and...
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-rosasparks-:
Never mind that the shit takes days or something. I do NOT understand that game at all. Which is probably why the creators were sloshed. Time is completely meaningless when you’re hammered. I guess the only way to enjoy cricket is to become pickled yourself, because sober, I am like ‘WTF is this?’
faithampersandbegorrah replied to your link: Wolverine can’t catch a break
And...
justtakemybreathaway asked: You're thoughts and views on things are quite intriguing! xo
“BOYS ARE DUMB AND MOSTLY RAPEST TREAT THEM LIKE CHILDREN”
– (*Trigger warning*)
(via lepus)
So, which of the attitudes that are being attacked and satirised here are *not* worthy of ridicule? Personally, I think that “it’s your fault, if you go home with a man, you’re going to wind up being raped” attitude is just about the most...
justtakemybreathaway asked: You're thoughts and views on things are quite intriguing! xo
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“This is some of the most flippant, derisive and condescending bullshit I’ve ever...”
– game|boy|color:
*Trigger Warning*
<Yes, because saying to men “rape is never, ever OK” needs to be done respectfully, without making eye contact, or hurting their big manly feelings, and taking account of the fact that, well gosh, sometimes men just really can’t help...
“There is only one conclusion to draw from these numbers: Americans are...”
– Walking Santa, Talking Christ: Shankar Vedantam, Slate
Interestingly in Nordic countries there is a comparatively high rate of participation (e.g. baptisms and weddings are almost always conducted under the auspices of the state church) but a much greater openness about a lack of theistic belief.
...
On second thought, I don’t know if I can be bothered.
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“If anyone had it in their heads that merely giving in to millionaires and...”
– Digby
“As much as I loved the Simpsons on The Tracey Ullman Show I never could have...”
– Word. The Onion AV Club Does the Simpsons
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Films at whose end I am ashamed to have cried: a...
Gattaca
Valkyrie
Snow Falling On Cedars
“This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this...”
– This was the entire text of an email I was just sent from someone I’m pretty sure I’ve never met.
I’m now checking it to see if there’s invisible ink somewhere.
“The unfocused nature of GetUp’s campaigns, their endless requests for money and...”
– GETUP! GETOUT!
An interesting post on GetUp!’s aims, practices and potential.
(via buyhercandy)
Mike Stuchbery = Concern Troll.
faith&begorrah: (Can I blame the internet for... →
faithampersandbegorrah:
[Of course I can.]
I’ve lost the ability to read. I’ve lost the ability to just sit in the quiet with a book or an article or anything of substance that is longer than, say, the height of my browser window - ahem - and just read it.
I have the same problem - effectively I can only read properly when I’m either on public transport or procrastinating from something...
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“…they’re concerned only with what they perceive to be the interests of the US,...”
– Nir Rosen (via azspot) This is very similar to a post I was thinking of writing.
“I have been struck […] by the discord between people’s Facebook lives and what...”
– Facebook acquaintances the new TV stars (via somethingchanged)
“I mean, this is ridiculous. Of course the US government, and several other...”
– Sady Doyle: Oy, Assange. (via robot-heart-politics)
“Lloyd reported that The Australian has defended the right of climate sceptics...”
– The best thing anyone has ever written on The Australian and climate change
“Lloyd reported that The Australian has defended the right of climate sceptics...”
– The best thing anyone has ever written on The Australian and climate change
“Now, I don’t doubt that Interpol’s response to the sexual assault allegations...”
– Feministe (via azspot)
THIS.
(via robot-heart-politics)
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Quick thoughts on Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and...
rachelhills:
You can tell a lot about a person by the sexual assault allegations they support and the ones they instinctively dismiss.
Think all those charges against professional footballers are just the product of overzealous fans with “post-sex regret”? Chances are you identify as a salt of the earth realist, in touch with your (and everyone else’s) animalistic urges.
Roman Polanski just...
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“If the CIA, or whichever shady power responsible for an alleged smear-attempt on...”
– It’s hard to smear someone if no-one thinks it’s a smear: Anna Winter.
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“ANCHOR: What do you think of the Justice Department’s actions so far to not...”
– This, on the other hand, is just too stupid to believe.
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“I am SO SICK today of people who can’t see that
1) Wikileaks is important and...”
– TBD commenter Woodscolt
(reposted because I screwed up the link the first time)
(via thecurvature)
A-fucking-men. Except I (Nick) think that Wikileaks might do bad work too.
(via nickdouglas)
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Oh, thank God.
Did you know?
topherchris:
.ch is the country code for Switzerland because Confoederatio Helvetica is the name of the country in Latin.
I sure didn’t.
And what we take from this is that Switzerland is a country with four national languages, and it works just fine.
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“I know all those involved haven’t got together at some late night meeting...”
– Martin Weller, A Conspiracy of Sentiment: On the ludicrous Paul Chambers case, but could equally said on the stupid #twitdef situation in Oz
November 2010
27 posts
