October 2008
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Pittsburgh Penguins players take part in scavenger...
myownmelt:
acewepeel: The Penguins are in Stockholm, Sweden this week preparing for their opening game on Saturday. Today, they did a scavenger hunt, Amazing Race style.
The Penguins’ Stockholm “scavenger hunt” was won by Team Roxette, led by captain Matt Cooke. The other winning team members were Jordan Staal, Brooks Orpik and Jeff Taffe. Their prize? A copy of Abba’s Greatest Hits,...
September 2008
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Obama said the bill has been “misunderstood and poorly communicated.”
“When it’s called a bailout, nobody is in favor of a bailout,” Obama said. “This is not a plan to just hand over $700 billion of your money to a few banks on Wall Street. If this is executed the right way, then the government will temporarily purchase the bad assets of our financial...
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WatchThe clip I quoted from earlier from Colbert’s Begala interview.
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Make screw, not screw
Paul Begala: I'm a Democrat, I wouldn't know [about sex troubles], we make love, not war.
Paul Begala: Apparently, my Republican friends can't do either if you look at their track record in Iraq or Afganistan...
Stephen Colbert: Are you claiming the Republicans don't know how to screw anybody?
Complaint #289
whitewhine:
“I donated to Obama like three weeks ago and I still haven’t gotten my car magnet!” -Whine by Nick
Same, wtf is up with this bullshit.
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Woah
My iPhone springboard just crashed when I tried to unlock the phone. This has never happened before, it entered some sort of safe mode. After I resprung it worked fine but it was interesting to see that the iPhone has a sort of “safe mode”.
“Tell me the names of those people [who voted against the bill], and I’ll...”
– Barney Frank
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Dr. Bernanke or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
The prevailing theme I’ve seen is that people view the bailout as something like “corporate welfare”. While this is true, I don’t believe the intent behind the statement is true. The idea behind welfare is not just to give money to people coming on hard times, but to keep the economy going. Someone who looses their job stops spending money; the purpose of unemployment is to...
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I gotta be the only one
I wish the Dow dropped 9 more cents so it would be down $777.77 rather then $777.68.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
Nine Inch Nails
Talking Heads
Gnarls Barkley
Dave Matthews Band
Girl Talk
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Soup's debate commentary →
I think the “that’s not true John” comments really helped Obama. I agree that Obama fumbled parts of the earmark system, he should have brought up his ethics bill right away. Oddly I thought McCain did a little better on the economy then on foreign policy, although Obama did get backed into a nasty corner when talking about meeting with hostile leaders. On this subject I think...
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I just went back and saw the lenses used for the 5D MKII. ONe of the ones used was a custom built 7.5mm lens. 7.5mm!! I really wonder what the lines are like on something like that. It’s hard for me to imagine what a non-fisheye 7.5mm lens would be like.
I love me my wide angles and have never had the chance to shoot with anything wider then 18mm. Not even a fisheye.
The news of the 5D...
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Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store... →
This is fucking ridiculous. So, apple’s response to people (reasonably) bitching about app store rejections is to make it so they can’t talk about it. I’m not 100% on how enforceable this NDA would be. Even if it’s not enforceable this is another blatant example of using the cost of lawyers to protect yourself rather then the law itself.
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“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more...”
– Albert Einstein (via sarazucker)
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Did "John is right" hurt Obama?
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Watchdanhacker:
The new full trailer for Frank Miller’s ‘The Spirit’
There are equal parts of fantastic and awful in this trailer. I’ll say the falling on the “awful” side, Sam Jackson as the “The Octopus”, because “He’s got eight of everything!” Wow… brilliant writing.
This makes me slightly more interested then I was before, which was completely uninterested.
what does it mean to be "original"?
(via hilker)
I’d like to answer but I can’t think of anything that hasn’t been done before.
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“I mean, they lost both parents. That’s just careless.”
– Zach Braff on orphans
From (fake) Zach Braff quotes
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An interview with Obama
I was thinking, if I were to be in a situation where I could ask Obama a few questions, what would they be? Here are a few of the questions I came up with. Please feel free to answer them and come up with your own.
Having been a professor of constitutional law you well know that many people consider the US Constitution to be a living document. Would it be hypocritical for a supreme court...
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Re: My faith in capitalism is shaken
squashed:
Jeff Miller has offered a list of partial responses on why national accumulation of wealth could be beneficial. Here are my reactions to a few of them. (I should emphasize that I proposed the elimination of poverty as a higher goal than the maximization of wealth. This is not an equivalent goal to the complete imposition of resource equality.)
Population is growing, and you’d like...
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Conclusions on the Dodd Bill
squashed:
I can support Chris Dodd’s proposed bailout bill. It does a few things I like.
It offers sufficient oversight to the program without allowing it to become tangled in red tape.
It gives the FDIC authority to decide when modifying an acquired mortgage would be a better option than foreclosure with the joint goals of protecting taxpayer’s investments and keeping people in their...
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Gnarls Barkley - Storm Coming
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“Is feminism reaching women who are living in poverty? Women who have come over...”
– Whose feminism is it? (via gauntlet) (via robot-heart)
This is the problem I’ve always had with feminism, that it often ignores class.(via johnbrissenden)
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Lessig anger
zoya:
“In the context of copyright law, the industry has been very clear: Its aim, as RIAA president Hilary Rosen has described it, is to assure that no venture capitalist invests in a start-up that aims to distribute content unless that start-up has the approval of the recording industry.” — The Future of Ideas. get angry, everyone.
I always find it rough to read Lessig’s books....
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Best 5D video sample yet →
jstn:
No wobble! The 30p thing still bothers me.
Wow, that’s pretty incredible, jstn really needs to stop flaunting this incredibly expensive camera in my face :(
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“my criticism of free-market libertarianism is that it expects reality to adhere...”
– Squasheds
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“…the reason perfect control is not our aim is that creation is always the...”
– Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas (via zoya)
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“Dear Barack Obama,
“GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they...”
– Aaron Sorkin from a letter to Barack Obama as Jed Bartlet - via NYTimes (via mikehudack, caro,peterwknox)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
Dire Straits
Coldplay
In Flames
Nine Inch Nails
Audioslave
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz