The key to not being as daft as you look is to look as daft as you can.
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03:39:35 PM,
Tuesday 6 April 2010
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Slate's collection of professional political cartoons from newspapers around the country has to be the most depressing thing on the internet. Few of them can draw, most are wilfully ill-informed, and none of them are funny. This one is particularly irredeemable. I wouldn't click on it. Newspapers deserve to die.
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03:32:04 PM,
Tuesday 6 April 2010
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This is about the iPad, and thus, not worth reading, but it does contain a gem:
I remember the early days of the web -- and the last days of CD ROM -- when there was this mainstream consensus that the web and PCs were too durned geeky and difficult and unpredictable for "my mom" (it's amazing how many tech people have an incredibly low opinion of their mothers).
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02:23:39 PM,
Tuesday 6 April 2010
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You can opt out of those ValPak coupon mailings!
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01:59:58 PM,
Monday 5 April 2010
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The word shoddy used to be a noun, referring to a material made from recycled wool, which was used in uniforms during the mobilization for the civil war. Also, the upland / plantation cultural divide in the south was more profound than I realized. And while I still don't have a satisfactory answer to my question, 'but really, what was wrong with these people?' I at least have many more details about their wrongness. (not the hair, the hair is awesome. I'm almost tempted to take that picture to a barber and tell them I want to look like that. But keeping it out of my eyes might involve hair products.) My working theory is that it's a sort of trap that people fall into when they're denounced on moral grounds: you can either make a practical argument, which is tiring and tricky and involves making cost-benefit arguments which will change over time, or you can build your own moral high ground to thunder from. And then, once you've built it, you can't climb off it without sullying your honor. And boy, did they waffle on about honor.
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12:48:40 PM,
Monday 5 April 2010
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Clearly the back arrow and blog posting doesn't work the way I'd want it to.
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12:48:03 PM,
Monday 5 April 2010
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It appears that if West Virginia wins tonight I'm going to win the office pool.
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08:57:41 AM,
Saturday 3 April 2010
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Kittens need excitement. If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense.
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08:23:04 AM,
Saturday 3 April 2010
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Best XKCD in a long time.
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03:41:03 PM,
Friday 2 April 2010
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We missed a terrific opportunity to list Erika's profession as Kitten Farming on the 2010 census.
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03:27:49 PM,
Friday 2 April 2010
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I was just eaten by a grue at XKCD.
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02:01:28 PM,
Thursday 1 April 2010
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I want to like this, but I can't. Designed by the guy who designed Chicago's magic bean, which is my favorite bit of public art ever. I tell myself that whether something looks good in bird's eye architectural drawings is generally a negative indicator of whether it's a good idea, but I'm not convincing myself. But maybe. the last picture, from ground level, is pretty cool.
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11:26:11 AM,
Thursday 1 April 2010
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site & script courtesy of Moss
