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I Majored in Talking Shit
Every feel like saying this? “Don’t say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I’ve been polite. If you say anything else – word one – I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a…
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Just Do It Anyways.
Read this today, it’s connected to the way my point of view has been evolving lately. There’s also a nice bridge here between “the nature of things” part of it all and the “why are we in this predicament” view of society at large. I’d been thinking mostly about the first half recently: it’s in…
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Even a Child Could Understand This:
Found this awesome video on Digg: Story of Stuff. It’s a 10 or 20 minute video about production, the supply chain, and consumption suitable for children’s education but with the truth instead of abstractions and suspiciously missing value judgements that I fear most educational material features. I didn’t think I needed to sit through it, but…
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Moved several posts to Private
I just moved a number of posts here to “private” status, just to make sure I don’t cause any stupid issues for myself. Pretty lame, but I’m shy anyhow so I hardly needed the excuse.
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Leopard’s Preview No Longer has Creepy Icon
The Preview application in OS X never rouses a lot of fanfare as it’s functionality is pretty basic, but it’s one of my favorite programs. As a PDF viewer, it’s thousands of time faster than Adobe Reader and that alone makes it priceless. But the icon has always been sorta creepy. In most aspects it…
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Commonalities
Common’s new album: Finding Forever is firstly awesome, but also has this cool detail of the Chicago skyline on the cover art that reminds me of the header image up above. Cool!
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The Original Hacker
Recent comments about “the hacker” character in modern movies and TV has lead me to a potentially uncomfortable realization. Penny Arcade posted a comic strip Monday on the matter. A couple weeks before goldenfiddle posted a chat transcript on the same idea. I think they were both inspired by Die Hard 4, which I haven’t…
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Where are the US's High Speed Trains?
David Wolman, writing for wired: Hey America, Make With the !@~$ High-Speed Rail Already!
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2007 Online Excellence
The Morning News has posted their 2007 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence, which has a nice selection of great websites that might supplant or enhance the years worth of time you spend online every freaking day. 2007 Online Excellence Awards
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Sean Haefeli Vector Art
Here is the original illustration that I used for Sean’s new album art, free from effects and surroundings. Crappy nasty gradient edition.