February 2012
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Metalections: GWAR's Oderus Urungus Endorses Death... →
As part of our ongoing project to catalog the 2012 presidential election from a metal point of view, we’ve been soliciting presidential endorsements from noteworthy American metal musicians.
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List of songs produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis →
WikiLeaks Goes Inside Corporate America's Wannabe... →
Adam Weinstein, motherjones.com
Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It →
youmightfindyourself:
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
This disconnect may be responsible for many of society’s problems.
With more than a decade’s worth of...
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave →
Mac McClelland, motherjones.com
In the center of the room, a video plays loudly and continuously on a big screen. Even more than you are hurting the company, a voice-over intones as animated people do things like accidentally oversleep, you are hurting yourself when you are late because you will be penalized on a point system, and when you get too many points, you’re fired—unless...
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Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and... →
It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services. The reactions from affected companies and services are not mild, with BitTorrent Inc., RapidShare and Vodo all...
“At its root literature is writing for nothing; a pathological extravagance whose...”
– Nick Land. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. 1992 hate-wizard (via thewww)
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's... →
By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com
Google is currently making a pair of glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyes in real time.
When I predicted this concept to Ben, I said that people would be able to watch live basketball games where the players could be on fire like in NBA Jam and you’d be able to see the ball ignite with your AR glasses (tho, I think it was...
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We listened to your feedback and, thanks to Ben... →
Dear Valued Customer,
See the tangible outcomes of our Reality™ Expo at the Control Room:
-readings by Benjamin Baxter,Brian J Pickett,Byron Campbell,Chelsea Leigh Musee Trescott,Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal,Seth Blake, and Hillary Kapan
-the Unreliable Library of Solipsis O. Nann
-the erotic comic of Scott Grunewald
-The Life and Death of Paul McCartney
-the existential video game of Mike...
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Anyone interested in my new site →
i lieked bill hitchert b4 it was cool
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“We should laugh at the idea of a plant or an animal inventing itself, yet there...”
– Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols (1964)
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“I met Dr. Chomsky and I can honestly say that he is a great person. Although he...”
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mansonboy2000 2 years ago 10
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The hysterical American decline →
At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching South Vietnam with...
My dj name is Chomsky
dj chomsky, drop the beat…
♫All Israeli Settlements are Illegal♫
Hacker Takes Down Porn Site →
thedailybeast.com
NOT PROTECTED A hacker affiliated with the group Anonymous said Saturday that he had aquired the personal information of more than 350,000 members of the porn site Brazzers after he broke into the discussion forum. The hacker, a…
Now I’ll have to change my password from fart420_BONGVILLAIN
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My body wakes me up every morning with a...”
– poker guy
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“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Charleston, Illinois on September 18, 1858
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Ben got interviewed for his horse_ebook thingy →
“What I wanted was to be able to take @Horse_ebooks’s non sequiturs and put them in a different context to (hopefully) amplify the comedic absurdity of the whole thing,” Nyberg wrote to the Daily Dot, adding that he loves seeing the bookmarklet used on Facebook pages.
THE BEST HORSE_EBOOKS THING
celebraterickysargulesh:
My friend Ben, who you can follow on Tumblr and Twitter, made the best toy I’ve ever seen. Ever.
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