February 2011
107 posts
A conference is an extended exercise in repeatedly hitting my tumblr bookmark and then cancelling it when I remember all the shirtless men on my dash.
January 2011
123 posts
There is a lot more accidental murder in Misfits...
Apparently, the main qualification for being a probation worker in London is a paper-thin skull.
The Colour Clock represents the time as the... →
It is beautiful. I want a real clock that does this.
Python has a single-line way to pretty-print JSON... →
Exactly what I just needed.
Francis Ford Coppola says the days when artists... →
And what of it? They used to make art for no money.
Egypt has been cut off from the Internet →
Not only can citizens not access the outside world, but Egyptian websites hosted in the country are down as well. This is pretty much unprecedented.
Misfits
I learned about this show entirely through reblogged animated GIFs on Tumblr. It is great.
Doritos is running some deliberately gay-themed... →
They’re not even offensive! They’re just ads for chips where the joke involves gay innuendo. IS AMERICA READY FOR THE NON-CONTROVERSIALITY? It’s kind of surprising that they’d run these during such a…
Yes, Chick-fil-A Says, We Explicitly Do Not Like... →
barkoncommand:
And so it goes like this: Chick-fil-A is a restaurant where franchises frequently donate to anti-gay organizations like the Pennsylvania Family Institute, Focus on the Family and others. The restaurant’s charitable arm, WinShape, holds conferences for opponents of gay marriage and praises their work. And this charitable arm’s Retreat program puts a blanket ban on gay couples...
Anybody else being hit with a wave of spammy-looking reblogs right now?
The full text of Obama State of the Union address →
“We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the...”
– Really? The State of the Union namechecks Facebook in the same breath as Edison?
Frank Turner - Photosynthesis →
An anthem to not growing up, from @arletterocks, who knows a thing or two about staying young.
Tim Pawlenty is going to CONQUER THE WORLD →
Completely over the top early campaign ad. What, you didn’t know the 2012 election season was under way?
Dear Tumblr
My god this is a brilliant idea. (Also, Tumblr gave me a tumblBeast WHILE POSTING THIS ENTRY. Fate.)
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
WatchI’m torn about posting this. I don’t know if it’s art but it’s definitely also porn. I don’t make a habit of posting porn here, but this is TOTALLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY PORNOGRAPHIC so don’t click it or even mouse-over it if that’s not okay. But it is also basically the hottest thing I have seen since ever, and also one of the most beautiful.
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On the biological basis of homosexuality →
As explained by slightly irritatingly self-righteous cartoons.
Tea party hero Thomas Jefferson favoured... →
[via @eparillon]
The New Yorker says Schmidt both jumped and was... →
The most surprising executive departure of the decade is fuelling enormous amounts of speculation.
Probably the weirdest thing about working for Yahoo is that after a while a five-way clusterfuck between marketing, product, engineering, design and legal begins to seem like best practice, rather than a complete disaster.
“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on...”
– Mark Shields (via azspot)
