November 2008
“If you can convince a good Christian girl that she’s serving God by having sex...”
– Why Are Christians Having Better Sex Than the Rest of Us? - The Daily Beast (via aja)
vruz: agreed: separation of rock from the church is as serious business as separation of the state from church
The Stone Roses- She Bangs the Drums
A...
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Ben Franklin (via elt)
“I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.”
– T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
(via youroldarchenemycatwoman)
“The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think. It...”
– Roger Ebert, Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult!
Pixies - Hey
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from: info@fromthebasement.co.uk
date: 30 November 2008 13:36
subject: From the Basement
mailed-by: fromthebasement.co.uk
Our second series is now being delivered to broadcasters and if you are in the UK you can catch the first show with Gnarls Barkley, Sparks and The Kills on Sky Arts 1 at 10 pm on Wednesday 4th December. Subsequent shows will be broadcasting each week through December on Sky: Weds 3rd Dec - Gnarls...
Obama to officially nominate Clinton to Cabinet on... →
apsies:
(In addition to Clinton) Obama is also expected to confirm that he is keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post and naming retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones as his national security adviser at the White House.
vruz: hopefully this time the sources aren’t the clintonite palace gossippers. tired already.
2008-11-30 14:00 UTC :: fifty days and twelve...
who’s counting ?
oi, great... the restaurant has yesterday's fresh...
“In many ways, Twitter is a re-incarnation of the old Unix philosophy of simple,...”
– Tim O’Reilly.
And:
“There’s a real lesson to Facebook here about giving other services (like Twitter) access to their social graph. They have the best one going, but because they try to keep users coming back to their interface, and even the applications built on their service have to live in...
Lest We Forget
by Paul Krugman, The New York Times
—via robot-heart-politics:
Consider, in particular, what happened after the crisis of 1997-98. This crisis showed that the modern financial system, with its deregulated markets, highly leveraged players and global capital flows, was becoming dangerously fragile. But when the crisis abated, the order of the day was triumphalism, not soul-searching.
Time...
“Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by...”
– Sir William Haley (via elt)
“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent,...”
– Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (via blackalibi)
“Steve Jobs’s famous maxim “artists ship” works both ways. Artists aren’t merely...”
– The Other Half of “Artists Ship”
by Paul Graham
(via fred-wilson)
“The hundred days are happening now. That’s the real headline on...”
– Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
vruz: yes, whilst almost inadvertedly run, it’s a series of events of historical proportions
dear google, I don't want your fucking safe search...
Sources of Saturn Moon's Supersonic Water Jets... →
Jets of water vapor blasting out of Saturn’s moon Enceladus at supersonic speeds are coming from vents each about the size of a professional sports stadium, a new study says. Scientists first saw a plume of water vapor and dust shooting from the moon’s south pole in 2005.
Research later determined that the water geysers are gushing out at about 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) an hour...
“Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts. A paranoid is someone who knows...”
– William S. Burroughs (via reckon) (via vruz) Paranoia’s all about the ego, though. Are YOU really of that much importance to anyone else?? Chances are, you’re not. (via mogadonia)
vruz: whilst I like you a lot, moggy, that comment of yours was quick and wrongheaded.
chances are you don’t...
weirdly...
youroldarchenemycatwoman: this is what’s up at this late hour. i am thinking of my friend George Orwell… technology. friend or foe? i am scared.
and thinking…about weird shit late at night. ????
me too… thinking, more in disappointment than fear.
I don’t get scared easily, but it sure gets me thinking a lot.
I woke up saturday 4:30 AM … thinking
more of utter...
