February 2012
56 posts
“This is the first real time we’re seeing how damaged each one of these...”
– New Avengers trailer shows the mental damage Joss Whedon is ready to inflict on the Supers
YES PLEASE, give me MOAR extraordinarily talented heroes with severe emotional damage. Apparently this is my favorite genre of all.
(I noticed a while ago that pretty much all my favorite main characters can...
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iOS Mail crashes on reply to Exchange message sent...
I’m just putting this here for teh Googlez, since I had to wade through a bunch of crap to fix the problem I was having.
I noticed that my iOS mail clients (both iPad and iPhone, both with the latest iOS, which is 5.01 right now) were crashing frequently, but only when I was trying to send a reply to my boss. Seriously.
Turns out, it was only crashing when I was replying to emails my boss...
One Shell Of A Sauce
americastestkitchen:
Cook’s Illustrated assistant test cook Celeste Rogers plates up samples of scoops of ice cream covered in self-hardening chocolate topping during a test of whether a homemade version of a “magic shell”-style sauce holds up against one produced by a national brand. Results forthcoming! See more behind-the-scenes photos at: http://bit.ly/o0qi36
Homemade magic shell? Sign me...
“George Lucas believes that Star Wars is the story of Anakin Skywalker, but it...”
– The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order » Absolutely No Machete Juggling
Holy crap. This is so crazy it just might work.
(via tbridge)
Basically, the order the writer suggests structures the Star Wars saga rather like the first and second Godfather movies, in which you learn some of the...
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“The humility we aspire to at our very best is inseparable from the humus beneath...”
– The Spiritual Discipline of Staying Put: Planting Roots in a Placeless Culture (via azspot)
Yes, yes, yes.
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afgurri replied to your post: afgurri replied to your quote: Two different…
You’re right, go with the taser.
Gotta go with a baseball bat. It’s 100% legal to carry in every jurisdiction and doesn’t require recharging, specialized training, or lots of practice to be able to use reliably like a taser does. It also has the added bonus that if you’re carrying it,...
afgurri replied to your quote: Two different women could have completely…
This is why I always advise carrying a can of mace and being liberal in its application to scumbags like these.
My issue with that is just practical- too much chance of blinding innocent bystanders or myself if the wind is just wrong.
“Two different women could have completely different reactions to the same guy,...”
– Metro Transit Police Isn’t Taking Street Harassment Seriously - City Desk
Here’s a hint, dudes (and it always seems to be dudes who minimize this crap) who run transit and law enforcement agencies: Women are smart enough tell the difference between an honest compliment and threatening...
“To be sure, copyright owners are supposed to be able to control how their works...”
– La La La La La: The Internet Routes Around Copyright Censorship To Restore Daria | Techdirt
This is the worst reproductive strategy in the... →
Via my friend Ian, this is officially the species more bent on its own eradication than the giant panda.
dean terry: EnemyGraph Facebook Application →
therefore:
For the past six months my research group has been looking into an app that explores social dissonance on Facebook. Today we are announcing the public release of EnemyGraph. The project was developed principally by graduate student Bradley Griffith with invaluable help from…
“Pinterest succeeds on several layers of interaction. First, they maximize their...”
– Addictive UX: Why Pinterest Is So Dang Amazing | Design Shack
Buzzword bingo not withstanding, this article actually does a pretty good job of describing why Pinterest is successful where other image-based social bookmarking sites have failed to catch on.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Assimilate Or Go... →
I can’t even pull a quote out of this. I just spent the whole column nodding my head: Yes. Yes. This is how I feel exactly.
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fizzygoodmakefeelnice:
Dan Stevens on Have I Got News For You: Downton Street
Pure gold.
Tiffany, you might like this clip…
It’s true. I could watch Dan Stevens read the phone book, provided he promised to hilariously screw it up occasionally and be charming and bashful while doing so.
“It’s time we stopped treating our love like it’s a finite resource. People who...”
– Some Thoughts on Love And Grief | Remembering For Good
“At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon...”
– John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com
You have to read this obit. All it’s missing is, “He didn’t always drink beer, but when he did, he drank Dos Equis.”
Also? I LOVE the little detail about how his sole survivor is his wife, a professional...
The beginnings of the American Revolution,...
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
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gingerhaze:
White Collar is the story of an adorable couple that adopts a con man and raises him as their own. Together, they fight crime!
Yep, that’s about right.
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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant... →
I am simultaneously creeped out and fascinated. Read the linked NYT article this article is riffing on, too.
“Every time a man writes that Pinterest is successful because...”
– HOW TO STOP BEING A PINTEREST SEXIST | Clever Girls Collective
I am so fucking glad someone finally wrote this article.
(via meganwest)
PREACH.
(I have an account but have yet to really get into Pinterest. Clearly, my femininity is suspect.)
(via lizlet)
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Lamb Ragu for the American Lamb Pro-Am » We Love... →
I made this for dinner tonight and had a few people over. It was extremely successful. OM NOM NOM.
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The dark day that John and Sherlock discovered...
thereichenbachfail:
*giggle*
tiffany | This Is My Jam →
Now you can all see how truly appalling my taste in music is.
“The gospel is an embodied announcement about this world: it is good, and we’re...”
– Rob Bell (via azspot)
“The symbol of American success often involves having the biggest house possible,...”
– Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House - Lifestyle - GOOD
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“MADELINE Heilman at New York University once conducted an experiment in which...”
– How the Sex Bias Prevails (via stfusexists)
It’s so wonderful to live in a post-sexist world. Or is it only post-racism, since Obama decided that for us, once and for all? Sometimes I have trouble remembering.
(via undercovernun)
Anonymous asked: Do you think referring to any...
jwisser:
yoisthisracist:
Yo, tell your racist friend that that usage has been wholly co-opted by racists, so he needs to chill.
Here is another thing I would like to hear other people’s thoughts on.
My personal feeling is that avoiding the use of the word “people”—e.g., “blacks” for “black people”, “whites” for “white people”—makes it easier to forget that you are, in fact, talking about...
Cheddar, Beer, and Mustard Pull-Apart Bread →
We just made this. It’s a little bit of work but OH MY GOD I AM MAKING THIS ALL THE TIME NOW.
lizzindc replied to your photo: This guy is an asshole. (Taken with instagram)
He looks like he is thinking deep cat thoughts.
Yes, he was trying to decide how he was going to annoy me next, since I had taken everything off the nightstand that he could possibly throw to the floor.
Asshole.
“Mitchell is trying to tackle a disaster in her home state. And she is not alone....”
– The new Christian abolition movement – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
afgurri replied to your quote: I have to think deeper about social networks than…
I agree with you. But to be fair, Twitter has received its fair share of hate over the years, and there’s still the “who cares what you had for breakfast?!” crowd.
Certainly it does, but a lot of that comes from people who are not themselves avid social media users. A lot of the Pinterest hate comes from...