May 2012
11 posts
“Congratulations Tom Winsor. You have, for the first time ever, given frontline...”
– Winsor – Police penalised for making arrests! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Lego guns! →
Harawira calls for 'Talley-ban' amid dispute -... →
This weekend, don’t forget to keep boycotting Talleys.
“When most comedians want to be respected as actors, they’ll usually do a...”
– 10 Movies That Famous People Don’t Want You to See | Cracked.com
“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed...”
– Maurice Maeterlinck - Wikiquote
“Absurdly, many publishers ended up producing six different versions of their...”
– Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps - Technology Review Interesting article about how publishers bought into the iPad hype and are now backing out again.
“But what did concern us was Nikolic’s next action, informing us that `if we...”
– Tasmanian Times - Looks like Andrew Nikolic doesn’t understand the Streisand Effect.
“IF YOU SEE anyone in your neighborhood engaging in any of these suspicious...”
– SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
“She sent me a gift certificate. […] “I don’t like gift...”
– Print - I Think You’re Fat - Esquire
“He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home…But...”
– DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student | NBC San Diego
Trust the police, kids.
“Soon he’ll grow a giant moustache and get a good job with the railroad,...”
– Stupid Comics - Archie timetravels back to the “Good Old Days”. The comic is shit, but the commentary on it made me laugh.
April 2012
17 posts
“Secretive Millionaire MP […] Uppal and his friends want to turn the city...”
– The Plashing Vole: y traethodydd: Citizens, not shoppers
“It took ten plagues’ worth of divine intervention, but eventually the Israelites...”
– DR. BOLI’S COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
“These have been forensically examined by an independent technical expert and no...”
– BBC News - Father Martin McVeigh in ‘indecent images’ row issues statement
God moves evidence in mysterious ways.
“The controversy about a husband having sex with his dead wife came about after a...”
– Egypt’s women urge MPs not to pass early marriage, sex-after-death laws: report
Just when I thought I understood religious extremists, they start arguing FOR necrophilia.
“Clash, the god of scheduling”
– Why bring Russell Brand to testify to a select committee instead of an expert witness? | Life and style | The Guardian
“I’ve never understood why firms are prepared to shell out a fortune simply...”
– Not excited by the Olympics? Then thank God for the sponsors | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
Another example of hotels acting coy with fakey-fake bluntness is when they re-label the “Do Not Disturb” signs with something like “Leave me alone”...Here’s the tiny act we can all do to strike back: make your own “Do Not Disturb” Signs. Some of my favorite signs are:
. “My Asshole is burning.”
. “I hate cupcakes.”
. “My cat is taking some fun poops.”
“Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to...”
– Poe’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“One of the smartest marketing people I ever worked with is Christopher Escher....”
– Mobile Opportunity: Rebuilding RIM
“Show your children that girls can build bombs and rockets and boys can bake...”
– Lesson 35: The 10 Best Things You Should Probably Never Do For Your Kid | The Stir
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Quote by Marcus Aurelius: “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are j…”
“24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the...”
– Deuteronomy, Chapter 24 - so that would appear to invalidate the entire New Testament story.
“The idea that you can reinvent yourself, that your fate is in your own hands,...”
– The Brutal Life Of One L. Goh & The Making Of A “Going Postal” Rampage Murderer - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
“How could this be? The financial incentive made people slower? It gets worse...”
– CEOs and the Candle Problem - A Mad Hemorrhage Blog | Nature Publishing Group
The Two Things →
For computer networking, I’d say:
1. Encapsulation
2. Bottlenecks are never eliminated, they just move.
LensRentals.com - Hammerforum.com →
…shows what would happen if hammer enthusiasts had their own on-line forums like camera enthusiasts or computer geeks.
“But now that I have heard the Conservatives’ private explanation, which is being...”
– Even I’m starting to wonder: what do this lot know about anything? - Telegraph
Don’t think the Tories or Liberals are ever expecting to be re-elected again - it’s like they are just running a four year ram raiding operation on the British Economy to nick as much as they can before...
March 2012
11 posts
Red Scharlach Points At Interesting Things →
Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch
“The Health and Social Care Bill has almost passed. There will be quite a few...”
– NHS Vault: NHS Activism
“A legend is posterity’s only way of conveying the magnitude of a personality...”
– OUR VALUED CORRESPONDENTS. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
“When I was in HR, if someone came to me about a really fucked-up problem, I’d...”
– UPDATED: Excerpt of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir — TheBloggess.com
“A stupid creature will harass you for no reason, for no advantage, without any...”
– The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
“When I came into his office and opened my mouth to start asking whatever...”
– hwrnmnbsol: Ask the Duck
“Pantouflage - the French word for “Revolving Door”
– Pantouflage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://cream.sourceforge.net/ColorCard.pdf →
A handy printer test page for later use.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - IMDb →
Weird, but good.
The Big Red One (1980) - IMDb →
Like Saving Private Ryan, special effects not as good, but a better plot.
February 2012
1 post
“Not all the respondents were stupid. Some were merely deluded. Someone calling...”
– Charlie Brooker: When the Daily Mail calls rightwingers stupid, the result is dumbogeddon | Comment is free | The Guardian
January 2012
19 posts
“incentivize the bum strategy”
– An interesting idea - I’ve inadvertantly done this before, but it never occurred to me to do it as a deliberate strategy. Counterintuitivity: Proper Incentives
“William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More:...”
– A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Memorable quotes
“* FORKS - “During my long-past student days I made many trips to my friend...”
– B3TA : NEWSLETTER : “THE ONLY NEWSLETTER IN THE WORLD THAT ACTUALLY NEEDS CENSORSHIP”
“Betteridge’s Law of Headlines is an adage that states, “Any headline...”
– Betteridge’s Law of Headlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“He woke up Windows XP from sleep mode and deftly defeated twelve notifications...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
“Weaker men would have lost their minds in the madness: telephone cords plugged...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
“This lecture was unique, dramatic, paradigm-shifting, and unexpected. It is...”
– If you can read this without laughing, you are not human: How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture - Klotz - 2005 - BJU International - Wiley Online Library
“These kind of euphemisms are also common in Japanese, where the reply maemuki ni...”
– Euphemisms: Making murder respectable | The Economist
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. […]. At least 21,000 new millionaires...”
– War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
“North Korean golfing legend (and oppressive dictator) Kim Jong Il passed away...”
– Kim Jong Il – World’s Greatest Golfer Has Died | TheBlaze.com