December 2010
Open letter to Hyundai: Christmas is over; 'tis... →
carolinek:
Annie Barrett feels my pain. I HATE YOU CHRISTMAS HIPSTERS!
This just means your time’s up kids.
andreaallen:
If any of you are looking for any...
ON HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES.
Sam Harris; religion bad, we get it. And does he really say anything that B.F. Skinner hasn’t already?
You’re a psych major. We get it. Tell whatever professor that made this comparison for you that Harris isn’t a radical behaviorist, and where his argument has an twinge of determinism, it’s backed up with his own neuroimaging data.
Skinner was a genius, but...
Audience demands money back after Steve Martin...
The audience came to listen to Steve Martin talk about himself and his career, despite his promotion of his new book, which has a lot to do with art. They got their money back because he talked about, well, art. What’s funny is that I could see this audience just lost and I suppose it didn’t “engage” them, but I think that’s kind of the funny part. Let the guy talk...
Writer for How-to child abuse book is arrested →
It is not free speech. It depicts children in harmful, unlawful relationships. Interesting how even Amazon fell into that so easily,
Amazon.com defended selling the book on its website despite angry comments and threats of boycotts from thousands of users.
There is freedom of speech in knowing how to make a bomb, which I am sure when I say a book on grooming a child into a sexual relationship,...
“I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and...”
– That’s what’s up. A man with skillz.
Daily Meh: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke →
dailymeh:
My first contact with Ryūnosuke Akutagawa came from this essay on Fantastic Metropolis, a great site that now seems to be defunct, on the short story Hell Screen. Hell Screen is an intense tale of creative obsession, and it’s built up in the same way I build my stories when I try my hand at…
“The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves...”
– Roger Ebert’s review of Powder (via nickdouglas)
“Many foods are naturally radioactive, and bananas are particularly so, due to...”
– I urgently appeal to you to read about the Banana equivalent dose (via biorhythmist)
House II: The Second Story Arriving on or around: Friday, Dec 17, 2010
Hell to the Yes.
Valsalva maneuver →
bestofwikipedia:
The Valsalva maneuver is performed by moderately forceful attempted exhalation against a closed airway, usually done by closing one’s mouth and pinching one’s nose shut. Variations of the maneuver can be used either in medical examination as a test of cardiac function and autonomic nervous control of the heart, or to “clear” the ears and sinuses (that is, to equalize...
“He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. He is my biggest pride.
John Lennon
rev60s:
#8 Julian Lennon - Too Late For...
