June 2011
May 2011
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Back to the Beginning Possibilities for Friday,...
It’s time once again to elicit your help in picking this week’s featured band for my weekly feature at PopBunker.net.
In case you’re unfamiliar, I write a weekly feature called Back to the Beginning, where I compare an established band’s latest offering with their debut album. Here are some past articles.
This week’s choices are:
Death Cab for Cutie
Flogging Molly
Kate Bush
The Melvins
...
FIFA's Valcke claims Qatar "bought" 2022 World Cup... →
A FIFA ethics panel on Sunday found there was sufficient evidence to further investigate allegations that [former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohamed] bin Hammam and [FIFA Vice President Jack] Warner, the now-suspended president of CONCACAF, offered $40,000 bribes to delegates at a Caribbean football association meeting earlier this month ahead of the presidential election on Wednesday.
Warner...
Which Thing Is The Stupider Thing?
Entering into a land war in Asia.
Going against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Telling a bar full of soccer fans, while they are watching soccer, that soccer is stupid because nothing ever happens.
Show your work.
The Mary Sue →
I have never met a geek girl who was even halfway interested in almost anything Cosmopolitan had to say. We were too busy reading Cicada and Popular Science when we were the age that Teen Magazine wanted our attention. I’ve rarely seen a “women’s” site that seemed to report on much that I was half-way interested in. The only celebrity gossip I care about is who’s on what project next, the only...
A Curmudgeonly Reply to an Anti-Curmudgeon Rant →
Worth the read.
Many thanks to Sir Cumfrence (@two_pi_r)
i make shiny things: Not cool Urban Outfitters,... →
supermaren:
This is really, really awful. If I was a lawyer, I’d help her write a Cease & Desist letter. But I’m not, so I’m just going to support @imakeshinylove.
darao75:
I find this upsetting. Please support @imakeshinylove.
imakeshinythings:
One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link.
And here is my United/World of Love line:
My heart sank a little...
Reblog if you're 25 or older. I want to find the...
gramazon3:
mysterialist:
myfinestdefenses:
eclecticzoo:
squishyapocalypse:
emeffed:
thebonesintheblog:
curvykellylane:
squiddishly:
concertinahero:
inorite? Tumblr makes me feel so ancient. /o\
29 next month! Or, as my mother puts it, “Almost thirty and still single.”
29 years old
28
This might cost me some followers, but oh the fuck well. 2? and still smokin’, lol....
“I don’t know quite what we’ll be selling yet. Maybe niches. I’ve heard the niche...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Senate Republicans Vote Overwhelmingly To End... →
The test vote failed by a vote of 57-40. But the roll call illustrates that Medicare privatization — along with deep cuts to Medicaid and other social services — remains the consensus position of the GOP despite the growing political backlash against them.
Voting with all of the Democrats against debating the plan were Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) — both 2012...
The final "Oprah Winfrey Show" will be pre-empted...
Brain Matter(s): Thoughts on Twitter →
brainmatter:
New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller’s recent column on social media in general, and Twitter in particular, prompted me to sit back and reflect on the service, how I use it and what it has meant in my personal and professional life. Had conceiving and pushing “send” on 4,000 of my own…
Back to the Beginning Possibilities for Friday,...
It’s time once again to elicit your help in picking this week’s featured band for my weekly feature at PopBunker.net.
In case you’re unfamiliar, I write a weekly feature called Back to the Beginning, where I compare an established band’s latest offering with their debut album. Here are some past articles.
This week’s choices are:
Art Brut
Ben Harper
Face To Face
Moby
New Kids On The Block...
rocketcityrebel asked: I like that you are aloof. "You shall nevah know my real name!" "You shall nevah know my real face!!!" "YOU...SHAAAALLLL....NOOOOOTTTT....PAAAAAASSSSSSSS!!!!!"
Reblog if you want your followers to tell you one...
Eh. Why not? Of course, most of my followers have a unique brand of humor, so I kind of want to see what they come up with. Should they decide to participate in this.
Today I got in a fight with an 84 year old lady...
Beatrix: *tapping spoon on cup and singing* monkeys everywhere, monkeys everywhere.
Old Lady: What rude children. No manners.
Kelly: (to Gram) I'm ignoring that.
Gram: What?
Old Lady: (louder) What rude children. NO MANNERS.
Kelly: Bea, can you stop for a minute, you're bugging someone.
Beatrix: (stops)
Kelly: (turns around) She's TWO.
Old Lady: *shaking her head*
Kelly: SHE'S TWO.
Old Lady: *shaking her head*
Kelly: *nods her head*
Old Lady: My children never did that.
Kelly: You look like you might have a bad memory.
kellyoxford:
source: Jonathan Schwarz
BBC: Loving Apple looks like a religion to an MRI... →
Implying that Apple fandom equals zealotry may be attention-grabbing (and does indeed make me want to watch the program; too bad I can’t use the BBC’s iPlayer app here in the States), but the neurological similarity isn’t surprising or particularly novel. You could almost certainly make the same observations about Red Sox fans, Twilight groupies, Van Halen lovers, Ducati...
Microsoft helps stop malware, while Apple blows... →
Many Mac users are calling AppleCare for help, as you might expect them to. But Bott’s interview indicates that Apple’s instructions are not to help. Instead they give users links to Norton, McAfee, or Sophos for Mac anti-malware. I don’t actually have a problem with this advice as a general matter. The real problem is the false impression Apple has given its users for ages now...
“somebody posts a photograph, and instead of just looking at the photograph,...”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
Kindle books officially take over print sales at... →
You've Been a Bad, Bad Sysadmin →
I don’t know a single person who would want this. Not a one.
Should I Start a New Music Feature at...
Those who care already know about my weekly Back to the Beginning feature at PopBunker.net. However, it’s only a once a week thing, and I feel like I should be doing more. Plus, by necessity, the feature focuses mostly on more-established artists with more-or-less storied careers. It’s fun to take a trip down memory lane, but I’m starting to think that I’m giving...
Make sure to check into the Rapture on Saturday! →
slackmistress:
And let us know where the good looting is!
Back to the Beginning Possibilities for Friday,...
It’s time once again to elicit your help in picking this week’s featured band for my weekly feature at PopBunker.net.
In case you’re unfamiliar, I write a weekly feature called Back to the Beginning, where I compare an established band’s latest offering with their debut album. Here are some past articles.
This week’s choices are:
Ben Harper (folk rock)
The Cars (classic rock, and included...
