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pretty much sums up my feelings for @davidfrum

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:03:00 -0400

Every once in a while I find something a little insightful from @davidfrum, but then I remember this:

If we’d found a single cache of biotoxins anywhere in Iraq, Frum would have been waving his warrior dick at CPAC last weekend. Instead, we hear about Dick Cheney, and Tony Blair, and how really sorry David Frum is for the hand he played in the deaths of so many people who are not named David Frum.

Kinda reblogged from @mat http://www.emptyage.com , he quoted this section, which is also good.

Shut up, all of you. Go away. You are complicit in one way or another in a giant crime containing many great crimes. Atone in secret. Wash the blood off your hands in private. Because there were people who got it right. Anthony Zinni. Eric Shiseki. Hans Blix. Mohamed ElBaradei. The McClatchy Washington bureau guys. Dozens of liberal academics who got called fifth-columnists and worse. Professional military men whose careers suffered as a result. Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets around the world. The governments of Canada and France. Those people, I will listen to this week. Go to hell, the rest of you, and go there in silence and in shame.

XKCD Time - at your own pace

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:25:18 -0400

XKCD Time - at your own pace:

I’ts oddly compelling

cycleboredom: CAT6 FOR LIFE!!

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:55:42 -0400

cycleboredom:

CAT6 FOR LIFE!!

Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:49:01 -0400

Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It:

Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…

Love, love love this response

"A few decades ago, Ottawa was drastically different: Sparks street was thriving, people were..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:29:30 -0400

“A few decades ago, Ottawa was drastically different: Sparks street was thriving, people were actually living downtown and at LeBreton Flats and a train could bring you to the heart of downtown. The narrow and institutionalized vision of bureaucrats, the rapid expansion of the car use and a generalized neglection of the architectural heritage changed the urban fabric of the Capital. The Gréber plan and the NCC transformed Ottawa for the worst. One building at a time.”

- Ottawa Past & Present - Archival photos compared to nowadays

An enemy’s insincere apology

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:51:14 -0400

An enemy’s insincere apology:

Why I hate PETA. Actually, hate is not nearly strong enough a word for completely dickish behaviour like this

"time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth."

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:06:01 -0400

“time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth.”

- Experience: I was swallowed by a hippo | Life and style | The Guardian

"I had a dream about New Orleans, back before the residents understood that the water table..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:00:48 -0400

“I had a dream about New Orleans, back before the residents understood that the water table encouraged caskets to sink into the underground channels and be swept away, only to re-emerge at some random location downstream. In my dream, thousands of caskets were drifting out to sea in a long sinuous line, a flotilla of the dead. Ancient, cracked coffins swelled with water and resealed themselves. Desiccated bodies bloated with brine and blew up like inflatable rafts. Animals spotted the line of floating boxes and soon seagulls, albatrosses, crabs and seals rode the coffins out to sea. Far from shore, a ship was on fire. The passengers and crew, the burning ones falling like meteors, dove into the water. None of them had life preservers, but they found the coffins and climbed aboard. In the middle of nowhere, the formation hit the doldrums or a freak outcropping of corral and stalled, massing together, forming a casket island populated by corpses, boat passengers and dozens of species of sea life. They floated together in silence, bobbing up and down in the black water and watched a gigantic moon rise over the horizon.”

- RICHARD KADREY is both weird and wonderful (via kadrey)

"Bicycle people are nice people. Car people are fascist people. They all listen to thumping stadium..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:12:50 -0400

“Bicycle people are nice people. Car people are fascist people. They all listen to thumping stadium rock and have no concern whatsoever for the environment. Nobody sums up the car culture better than Grand High Inquisitor Clarkson. The unstoppable rise of Top Gear and the concomitant deification of Lord Jeremy offer indisputable evidence of the way sitting within a metal stink-generator turns otherwise reasonable human beings into totalitarian bigots.”

- Bicycle people are nice people, car people are fascists - Life & Style | Trends, Tips, News & Advice | The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 20, 2013

True BS: How demeaning is this, demeaning and scary? My heart is in my mouth. I...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:34:05 -0400

True BS: How demeaning is this, demeaning and scary? My heart is in my mouth. I...:

billstrickland:

How demeaning is this, demeaning and scary? My heart is in my mouth. I can barely breathe. Is this going to hurt? The road hits me—hard. Ow! My eyes spring open, and I try to rise. The road hits me again and again, quickly in succession. It hurts. I make no sound, my face screwed up against the…

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhapy is where all crime starts. We must..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:59:38 -0400

“To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhapy is where all crime starts. We must try to contriube joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try”

- Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer - Chicago Sun-Times

"I had some kind of musical learning disability that prevented me from learning verbatim the U2 and..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:55:57 -0400

“I had some kind of musical learning disability that prevented me from learning verbatim the U2 and Police guitar parts that everybody else could play. It turned out to be a huge boon: when I played other people’s tunes, they were made new by default, because I used my own awkward chords.””

- Guest column - Six rules to create the perfect cover by Rosanne Cash & Mike Doughty - News - QTheMusic.com

This was also the secret to the Banditas…

The NewsBlur Blog: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:52:34 -0400

The NewsBlur Blog: Three Months to Scale NewsBlur:

newsblur:

At 4:16pm last Wednesday I got a short and to-the-point email from Nilay Patel at The Verge with only a link that started with the host “googlereader.blogspot.com”. The sudden spike in NewsBlur’s visitors immediately confirmed — Google was shutting down Reader.

Late night at the office

I…

The storify History that he posted a link to is something I put together for him because I just felt really bad for the guy, as well as happy for him. It’s every startups worst nightmare/dream come true

Poetry Corner

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:42:00 -0400

         How to Kill
 
 Under the parabola of a ball, 
 a child turning into a man, 
 I looked into the air too long. 
 The ball fell in my hand, it sang 
 in the closed fist: Open Open 
 Behold a gift designed to kill. 
 
 Now in my dial of glass appears 
 the soldier who is going to die. 
 He smiles, and moves about in ways 
 his mother knows, habits of his. 
 The wires touch his face: I cry 
 NOW. Death, like a familiar, hears
  
 and look, has made a man of dust 
 of a man of flesh. This sorcery 
 I do. Being damned, I am amused 
 to see the centre of love diffused 
 and the wave of love travel into vacancy. 
 How easy it is to make a ghost. 
 
 The weightless mosquito touches 
 her tiny shadow on the stone, 
 and with how like, how infinite 
 a lightness, man and shadow meet. 
 They fuse. A shadow is a man 
 when the mosquito death approaches. 
 
              Keith Douglas

twobluebikes: My first ever print story for Velo. Stoked.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:26:18 -0400

twobluebikes:

My first ever print story for Velo. Stoked.

The unexamined life is not worth living

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:40:24 -0500

A neat little paragraph from an article on Megan Phelps, former member of the Westboro baptist church.

Think of how hard it would be to have a fortress of faith built around you, and to have to dismantle it yourself, brick by brick, examining each one and deciding whether there’s something worth keeping or whether it’s not as solid as you thought it was.

Facebook Saved This 'Gay' Dog from Being Euthanized

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:44:01 -0500

Facebook Saved This 'Gay' Dog from Being Euthanized:

Ignorant, bigoted, and stupid. It’s a trifecta

roseaposey: “Judgments”I took this last year, but in...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:42:20 -0500

roseaposey:

“Judgments”

I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.

Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.

I’d like to think I’m more open now.

Hamlet, Part 2

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:46:57 -0500

Hamlet, Part 2

Hamlet, part 1

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:46:16 -0500

Hamlet, part 1