I’m lovin’ it
Ezra Klein:
McDonald’s is currently trying to convince people that its burgers can, in fact, grow mold. This is considered a selling point, at least in the modern world.
Sir Ken Robinson, animated
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Music Video
It has a Phil Bebbington vibe to it, no? The film is Over the Edge, if you were wondering.
headline of the day, II
Illinois Candidate’s Name Misspelled As ‘Rich Whitey’ On Electronic-Voting Machines
All Human Conflict
You’ll probably want to read the entire thing.
A Mark of Passage
There should be a word for the feeling you get (I know: “old”) when you visit a place you once worked or went to school–and nobody you knew is still there. A complete changing of the guard. When that happens I find myself looking around suspiciously, as if people have conspired to erase something from my memory.
A Favorite Scene from Good Will Hunting
See movie details.
the reification of pop culture recapitulates the fantasy of linguistic transparency
Write your own academic sentence, courtesy of the University of Chicago Writing Program.
Their sentence of the week is also pretty great.
(via David Michael)
headline of the day
Do robots have ethnic characteristics?
the shortest book titles
(via marginal revolution)
from the spam
I wonder why this world totally does not picture for a moment similar to us together with the web site master.
photo out of context
Should I unpack my boxes and cancel the movers?
Remember Gliese 581g? It might not exist.
Astronomer Francesco Pepe of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, who spoke Oct. 11 at an International Astronomical Union symposium on planetary systems, reported a new analysis using only HARPS data, but adding an extra 60 data points to the observations published in 2008. He and his colleagues could find no trace of the planet.
Once more, time travel
from the comments
Joni Mitchell is one of the few (are there any others?) god-given examples of magnificence of melody, complexity of the pop song form, sheer blinding vocal and musical beauty and deeply evocative lyrics all meeting in one place. God she was so beautiful. I’ve been on such a trip with Blue in my life, it’s shown up so often in the centre of my life, so many stories I can remember because Blue was right at the heart of them. When I hear Blue, I have to sing the whole album from start to finish, every note, also Court and Spark, really, and Amelia from Hejira. I used to sing Woodstock out on the street, in the bloody cold in Copenhagen, and it was this beautiful, soft, true, sorrowful, longing, transformative kind of place I could inhabit out there. I also used to sing Folsom Prison Blues and could really dig into that, but it was a completely different vibe.
today’s usage lesson
Impacted
The word impacted is a fucking adjective. It is not a fucking verb.
Correct:
Carol’s impacted earwax affected her hearing.
Incorrect:
The sluggish economy impacted sales.
Impacted. Get it fucking right.
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Internet dating, 8
27-year-old female receives this instant message from a 30-year-old male located sixty miles outside her metropolitan area:
can i tounge your ass really fast somtime. i want a woman who likes that
An excerpt of his profile:
Well, many people have been searching all there lives for one certain thing, which is love. To me love is when you wake up in the morning thinking about that certain someone, go throughout you day thinking about that someone, and then go to bed thinking about that someone. Love, is when you miss a person when you just been away from them for ever 5 minutes. Love is when you are with that person and you’ve never felt happier in your entire life.
A HEART is meant to be open, not closed. Id rather be single then to settle for less then the realist & best, then to be miserable with someone that half asses love I confess. I’m not ashamed to speak from the heart and don’t know why so many people are afraid too. I guess people aren’t use to being true to themselves …& ITS SUCH A WASTE OF LIFE NOT TO BE REAL TO YOURSELF AND NOT LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY TO EVERYONE ELSE. [...]
I’M EASING GOING AND RELAXING TO BE AROUND. I’M A VERY PASSIONATE PERSON! I WANT TO MEET A WOMAN THAT’S FIT AND IF THERE’S A CONNECTION WE WOULD TRY TO TAKE IT SLOW AS POSSIBLE. I’M BASICALLY WANTING A BEST FRIEND IN A WOMAN AND FOR HER TO BE OPEN TO A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP. I WANT HER TO BE GOOD COMPANY AND FUN NO MATTER WHAT SHES DOING. ALSO, IF SHE LIKES FITNESS THAT’S GREAT BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN STAYING HEALTHY. MOST OF ALL I WANT A WOMAN THAT IS HAPPY ABOUT HER LIFE AND IS COMFORTABLE WITH HERSELF. IN HER SKIN, AND CONFIDENT SO WE CAN BE HAPPY TOGETHER IN A LONG LASTING RELATIONSHIP. I PREFER WOMAN WHO ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THEMSELVES AND IN THEIR OWN SKIN, WHICH IS MORE ATTRACTIVE AND MORE COMFORTABLE FOR A MAN TO BE AROUND.
There might be some poetry in there.
“Do we know any other fuckin’ Beatles songs?”
(Via SC)
Memphis, I’m going to get that crocodile to eat you
water bouncing on a superhydrophobic surface
It reminds me of the Lotus Effect.
“dude, it’s changing colors”
(there is a bit of NSFW language)
found on The Toilet Book, a Tumblr dedicated to… toilets
from the spam
It’s funny how people with opposing views argue with each other as often as they do. More often (at least here on thoughts) do I see someone to say your wrong about this this and that, then I hear someone say, great post I totally agree with you. But here specifically in the religious sections this is so much more evident. It’s like we’re attracted to what sets us off. Or attracted to what we must correct (regardless if intentions are positive or negative).
from the spam
Lol, You wrote a big one.
24 Songs for The Fresh Prince
There is an original song for every episode of the first season of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
It’s name your price, so you can pay $0 if you like.
I really like “Mistaken Identity.”
