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“The Oxford English Dictionary has announced plans to add the word ‘amazeballs’...”
– Oxford Dictionary to cease after adding ‘amazeballs’ (via nostrich)
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Radiohead and the Angelical Howls →
I’m going to see Radiohead live this Wednesday in Tampa. I know it’s a cliche to say this, but no one, absolutely no one, loves this band as much as I do. So I’m in a reflective mood about it, listening to the albums and trying to remember the first time I heard them. Like most people, the first song I heard from them was Creep, but it wasn’t a song that really stuck out. It wasn’t a song...
Minimal Mac: TV Is Broken →
minimalmac:
Recently, while on vacation in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and visiting family, we stayed at my sister’s house. She was kind enough to let us have her place while she found accommodations elsewhere. She moved in to this place herself not too long ago and was proud to point out to us the brand new,…
The Internet is a Major Driver of the Growth of... →
Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over...
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The Limits of Non-Fiction →
And I like the idea of creative non-fiction, but very little people can do it well. I like my non-fiction, non fictitious. Nothing annoys me more than a magazine article that starts out with, “on a chilly Monday morning in mid October, on a hilly hillside in a three-story building, I asked Al Gore what he thought about Global Warming.” It’s an interview, not Lord of the Rings.
intercourse with biscuits: If Facebook had existed... →
brokenbottleboy:
If Facebook had existed when I was a teenager, I would probably be dead. I was bullied from the beginning of high school until around the start of fifth form (year 11). For me, the Brit-Pop years were about listening to Blur, wanting a swagger like Liam Gallagher had, fancying Justine…
