January 2012
lickypickystickyfree:
PM Dawn - Set a drift on...
Seriously the worst night of sleep I've had in...
Hoping that isn’t a bad sign for the weekend.
Falling asleep is almost always a chore, but last night decided to add in some nightmares, and then the bright idea of having me wake up, and unable to go back to sleep, at 4:45 in the fucking morning. But, somehow, it did happen, seemingly right before the alarm went off at 6:45. I get up, I check the forecast, I turn on Sportscenter, and I was...
Quick book review: The Lover's Dictionary
A very quick read, but there’s also a high likelihood it will cause you to think about many of your own previous relationships, the time since your last one, and pester you with questions of why that time was/is so long.
So it may keep you up long after you should have gone to bed, like a horror movie for single adults experiencing a crisis of confidence.
barelysarcasm:
lieslieslies:
Whitesnake, Here...
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“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005.
In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business. Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying...
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How The 2012 Conventions Will Leave A Permanent... →
With the help of $50 million in grant money from the federal government, Tampa, Florida is considering ways to beef up its law enforcement capabilities for the convention, which will be held August 27-30.
Assistant Police Chief Marc Hamlin told TPM that Tampa has been making preparations since May 2010 for the event, designated as a “national special security event,” in conjunction with the...
“HTML5 has entered the online video market, which is both exciting and...”
– The State Of HTML5 Video
Some interesting results here. What really jumps out at me is the browser breakdown: despite Apple’s massive gains over the last half-decade, less than 5% of all internet users (in this survey) use Safari. Throw in the mobile version on all those iPads and iPhones and...
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angels-and-angles:
Why the friendzone is bullshit and self-proclaimed “nice guys” are misogynists
Wow, accidentally deleted my original post. Reblogging so I can keep it in my archives.
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As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is...
synecdoche:
I think we need to get to a point in the future where it doesn’t cost that much money to take a flying machine across the country because there are so many people in California that I would like to hang out with and/or make out with and/or black out with and/or film funny things with and IT’S SO EXPENSIVE.
I agree with this, and think it needs to be extended to not just east...
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Jobs
bmichael:
Himanshu Suri:
Yo, they probably call him Steve Jobs cause he got ‘em He can give a job to anybody, man, no problem
Mitch Daniels:
The late Steve Jobs — what a fitting name he had — created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the president borrowed and blew.
Steve Jobs:
Those jobs aren’t coming back.
Pretty sure most of those “jobs” are in China, for...
“Poor people have shitty lobbyists”
– Jon Stewart (via anticapitalist)
If you had to sum up the entire wage disparity and income inequality argument in a single sentence.
-Joe
(via stfuconservatives)
*Sits down
(via mindbabies)
“The study, which appears in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, reviewed 29 previous...”
– You’re Never Going to Find Your G-Spot Because It Doesn’t Exist
Amazing about how details of human anatomy like this are still getting fingered out. My own first-hand research has yielded varying results.
“Make Sure Your Twitter And Tumblr Accounts Are In Good Shape, Because They May...”
– Business Insider
(via 61cygni)
If some HR flack has the time to go through all 25,000+ posts, the company should just hand me money.
“A Republican state senator from Oklahoma City introduced a bill Tuesday that...”
– Okla. senator introduces bill to ban human fetuses in food or for use in ingredient research - The Washington Post
Remember when someone posted a picture of a misshapen pancake and called it a fetus? Well, some jagoff anti-choice Republican state senator didn’t get the joke.