October 2011
37 posts
Of course Occupy has a message →
A kick-ass op-ed by Dahlia Lithwick smashes the myth that the Occupy movement doesn’t have a message: “Mark your calendars: The corporate media died when it announced it was too sophisticated to…
Oct 30th
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day →
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a stray bullet says she was unlawfully detained for five days by police officers who claimed she was lying…
Oct 28th
New Bipartisan Bill Will Allow U.S. Gov’t To Shut... →
You know how the politicians are always saying we need to be competitive with China? Well, we are about to get super competitive when it comes to internal censorship of the global Internet. Everybody
Oct 28th
Police raid on Occupy Oakland: the morning after →
Photo: Oakland North. Navy veteran Joshua Sheperd holding Veterans for Peace flag, Occupy Oakland, Tue. night. Last night, hundreds of police in riot gear from divisions throughout…
Oct 27th
One-percenter: why I support Occupy →
Shared by Austin // hear, hear Gaius, a self-described member of the 1% (“Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would save me roughly $400,000 a year in taxes, and President Obama’s tax proposals would cost…
Oct 27th
Amateur yeti filmmaker stands up for First... →
Jonathan Doyle, a performance artist, has appealed a case involving his right to film bigfoot skits in New Hampshire’s Monadnock State Park to the NH Supreme Court. He argues that the permit…
Oct 26th
Florida Teacher Somehow Broke Law By Registering... →
Grim hairless weasel Rick Scott’s idea of defending democracy is to pass a hated law to make sure that minorities and students (read: dangerous liberals) in Florida are never again…
Oct 25th
Fox And Friends Call Protester Mom ‘Filth’ For... →
The mentally ill dingbats at Fox and Friends devoted part of their program to calling kindly mom lady protester Stacy Hessler “disgusting filth” because she was so moved by the Occupy Wall…
Oct 24th
Cul de Sac for Sunday, October 23, 2011 →
Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 23, 2011
Oct 24th
Airplane graveyard →
Ransom Riggs’s photo-essay on the airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert features astounding imagery of ancient, rotting aviation hardware bleaching its bones in the desert sun. I thought…
Oct 23rd
Improv in Toronto: DARE TO FIGHT!? →
[Video Link] Good times at Improv in Toronto. Imagine this. A single ninja, standing silently by himself. Beside him sits a sign urging people to fight. Walking along the pathway, you…
Oct 22nd
Magical 80s Sitcom Writers Long Ago Foretold Year... →
Not yet ready to stomach the gruesome, hardcore images of Muammar Gaddafi’s capture and death flying around the Internet? Here for you then is a bland, insipid version of Gaddafi’s…
Oct 22nd
Raging Feminist Herman Cain Is Your New Pro-Choice... →
We are beginning to wonder if Herman Cain actually understands what “policy positions” actually are. Here is Herman Cain explaining to CNN’s Piers Morgan that he believes there should be…
Oct 21st
Pizza →
I’m not sure I have any comment for this, other than to say how pleased I am that puns work just as well in math. Via Vincent Knight
Oct 21st
Occupy Movement News Update of the Day →
Occupy Movement News Update of the Day: Feminist writer and activist Naomi Wolf was arrested last night while protesting with Occupy Wall Street members outside an event for New York…
Oct 20th
Get Your External IP Address with a Quick Search... →
Shared by Austin // helpful if you ever need it quickly Need to get your network’s external IP address on the quick—say for a quick round of port forwarding testing? You could…
Oct 20th
Occupy Movement News Update of the Day →
Occupy Wall Street News Update of the Day: What You Need To Know: – In a recent interview with ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, President Obama said the Occupy…
Oct 19th
Flickr Finds No. 6 →
Shared by Austin // these are all quite beautiful ar_gaff Andre Joaquim Simon B. Tom Rintjema Simon Gardiner …
Oct 19th
Citigroup Earnings Rise 74% As Cops Giggle Over... →
Cheer up, America! You might be spending your evening meal staring down that last half-can of reheated Spaghetti-Os salted with your own tears, but your old corporate person frenemy Citigroup…
Oct 18th
Elderly couple of 62 years plays piano →
Shared by Austin // this is SUPER-smile inducing From YouTube user havelah’s video description: An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a…
Oct 17th
Skin cell gun →
Shared by Austin // this is amazing Scientists have developed a spray gun that sprays the burn victim’s own skin cells onto the affected area heals them within a matter of days, not weeks or…
Oct 16th
New study suggests reality shows where girls... →
Shared by Austin // shocking, I know. In the most searing condemnation of reality TV made within the last hour or so, the Girl Scout Research Institute took a break from experimenting with new…
Oct 15th
Cheese or font? →
Shared by Austin // this might be the most difficult game you’ll ever play You’re given a name and you have to guess if it’s a cheese or a font. This might be the most difficult game I’ve ever…
Oct 14th
Text Expansion In iOS5: Set Up These Custom Typing... →
Shared by Austin // good advice It seems Apple added text expansion to iOS 5 and decided not to mention it. This is a great, highly-desired feature that can save you tons of…
Oct 13th
Glow-In-The-Dark Day and Night Poster Reveals... →
Jason Dean’s (previously) latest print appears to depict a quaint little town, but flip out the lights and a slick glow-in-the-dark treatment reveals a city…
Oct 12th
Non-Human Rick Scott Launches Jihad Against People... →
Shared by Austin // @wonkette, I love you. Space monster/invoked demon Rick Scott is clearly not a human. Children everywhere know Rick Scott’s face very well: It is what they see during…
Oct 12th
Right-Wing Journalist Crafts Heroic Spin To Prove... →
American Spectator assistant editor Patrick Howley is busy making himself famous on the Internet today as the kind of right-wing village idiot who shows up to “do a jernalizm” on one of…
Oct 11th
How to Turn Any Song Into a Ringtone for Your... →
Shared by Austin // this is what I’ve always used. works like a charm. Nokia may have released a dubstep version of their iconic ringtone, but undoubtedly the coolest ringtone…
Oct 11th
10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won't Die,... →
Shared by Austin // yay science! Every other week, new research claims one food is better than another, or that some ingredient yields incredible new health benefits. Couple…
Oct 9th
Dangerous Precedent →
Shared by Austin // holy shit, what an awful idea. Dangerous Precedent of the Day: Hot on the heels of a major crackdown by the Obama administration on medical marijuana dispensaries, the House Judiciary Committee yesterday passed a bill sponsored by chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that aims to criminalize the discussion or planning of any activities abroad
Oct 8th
Secret U.S. ‘Kill List’ Somehow Not In Rand Paul’s... →
Like everyone else in the nation, we have grown used to the stream of wingnut “gubmint gon’ steal ur gunz” Second Amendment action-alert emails always emanating en masse from the AOL…
Oct 7th
Surreal Collages by Philipp Igumnov →
Just discovered these fun collages and illustrations by Moscow-based artist Philipp Igumnov. He strikes an intriguing balance in his work with many pieces…
Oct 6th
Steve Jobs has died. →
Shared by Austin // whaaaaaaaaaat?! holy shit. RIP, Steve. Steve Jobs, former Apple CEO, passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Here is the statement from Apple’s…
Oct 6th
Tea Party Nation Hilariously Demands Americans... →
The illiterate twatmonsters of the Tea Party leadership hereby order Americans everywhere to boycott their sacred Monday Night Football viewing ritual until ESPN un-fires their beloved jizz…
Oct 5th
Breaking News of the Day →
Shared by Austin // whoa. Amanda Knox goes free. Breaking News of the Day: 24-year-old Amanda Knox — nicknamed “Foxy Knoxy” by the tabloid media — was acquitted today of the murder…
Oct 4th
Gorgeous globular hides hundreds of rejuvenated... →
Shared by Austin // globular clusters are seriously beautiful. I will never, ever get tired of insanely gorgeous images of globular clusters. Holy. Haleakala. [Click to embiggen, or get…
Oct 3rd
More than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters... →
The Guardian reports that 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested in “chaotic scenes” as a group of “several thousand” protesters move to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. At one stage 500…
Oct 3rd
August 2011
14 posts
Sad FL Tea Party freshman hates his stupid new job →
From Dave Weigel comes the sad tale of Rep. Steve Southerland, a “tea party” freshman representing Florida’s 2nd District. Southerland learned the hard way that being a congressman is not all fun…
Aug 27th
Appalling Aftermath of the Day →
Shared by Austin // D.C. is in disarray. Appalling Aftermath of the Day: The earthquake devastation in D.C. is almost too much to bear [FamousDC / ohryankelley.] Tagged: …
Aug 24th
Angry Millionaire Wants to Kill Dept. of Education... →
Ultra-rich old troll Harvey Golub threw his diamond-encrusted Depends around in a fit on the Wall Street Journal opinion pages after he read Warren Buffett’s recent NYTimes op-ed…
Aug 23rd
Cul de Sac for Sunday, August 21, 2011 →
Shared by Austin // LOVE Alice’s look of indignation at the end. Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 21, 2011
Aug 21st
Muphry's Law →
Muphry’s Law, as coined by John Bangsund, of the Victorian Society of Editors, states: if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written;
Aug 18th
How beautiful space photos are made →
The Hubble Space Telescope doesn’t just produce glossy, full-color posters on its own. It takes a little work to get from raw images to the photos we gawk over on the Internet. This video…
Aug 16th
World War II: Daring Raids and Brutal Reprisals →
Shared by Austin // a lot of death in this week’s photos In early 1942, as the Axis powers pursued their war aims, Allied forces were still reeling but working on a wider strategy. Japan…
Aug 15th
NASA After the Space Shuttle →
Shared by Austin // great photos Now that the final space shuttle has landed, budget cuts loom, and many thousands involved with it have lost their jobs, I thought it would be interesting to…
Aug 13th
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1763 →
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1763, a photo by Ape Lad on Flickr.
Aug 12th
Slo-Mo Thing of the Day →
Slo-Mo Thing of the Day: An eagle-owl coming in for tickles at 1000fps. [videosift.] Tagged: eagle-owl, Horned Owl, Slo-Mo Thing, Tickle Time!
Aug 9th
What Happened to Obama? →
Shared by Austin // amazing NYTimes opinion piece. There was a story the American people were waiting to hear — and needed to hear — but he didn’t tell it.
Aug 8th
Fancy Fighter Jets Costing Nation Zillions of... →
Shared by Austin // last paragraph wins the day. So what do these double super killer stealth F-35 fighter jets go for these days? A few million dollars? A hundred million? A BILLION…
Aug 6th
The history lesson Obama has ignored →
This originally appeared at New Deal 2.0 “The economic experiments of President Roosevelt may prove, I think, to be of extraordinary importance in economic history, because for the first time…
Aug 5th