i would have guessed that the chances of roger ebert saying “The only rating system that makes any sense is the Little Man of the San Franciscio Chronicle…” was only slightly greater than the chances of being eaten alive by ice-wombats on the way home from work. perhaps i’d better get me some ice-wombat repellant (IWR by its militarty acronym… but then you knew that, of course).
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080329td.html
from the studs at improbable research, natch. (fun fact: improbable seems to be one of those words that, once you take a second to look at it, will never look like it’s spelled correctly again.)
i’m not gonna go into any detail; if you don’t know about it (and you shouldn’t), or care about it (lord, get help) then you don’t need yet another propogator of links to the same story you’ve seen all over the damn place anyway.
all i want to say is: violet blue vs xeni or the rest of her pseudo-nerd posse at that site. you know the one, is the highest if high-sterical situations. in a best case scenario all of those people will soon see their self-importance reach critical mass and spontaneously detonate into a lovely cloud of atomized constituent parts: hack “journalism,” crypto-yuppie-nee-hipster brand name obsessiveness, and a debilitating infatuation with one’s own place in the heirarchy of cool.
although when i was on the well way back in the day, cory seemed a nice enough guy. just to be fair.
anyway. hi. lar. i. ous.
i read this a couple of times. i’m still not really in total agreement here, but it’s close enough to what feels to me while i’m making it like an extremely weird argument that i have to give some propage. especially since i still can’t stand most things microsoft, and feel like that outfit is specifically responsible for the artificial retardation injected into the system by greedy know-nothings following yesterday’s news like it was handed down by the oracle at delphi.
that being said… you find me another billionaire who has decided it is his personal responsibilty to use his nigh-mythical wealth and prestige to cure diseases. all of them. starting with the ones that shouldn’t even exist anymore, in the poorest, most hardest-hit places in the world. not getting a check for it. not creating lots of photo-ops or whatever so he can pull a ross-perot on us in a few years. if anything, gates is smart enough to realize how much more efective he can be by NOT being president, which is good, because he’s dead right.
my personal fantasy is gates one day challenges rupert murdoch and roger ailes to a cage death match, although i’m about 95% sure that even decrepit old murdoch would use his satan-given gifts to literally eat gates’ head right off his body, but hey. maybe bill could wear the bear suit or something. i’m pretty sure he could afford a pretty nice one.
skimmed from mefi. pretty darn funny, in a sad, sad kind of way.
maybe the finest bit of film-makery in the history of the makification of filmage. it might be the best thing to watch in the history of eyes. it is so perfect i think it broke something inside of me, something deep and crucial.
this is pretty irritating right here. it never ceases to amaze me that people who really should know better insist on turning the city’s unwillingness to really commit to affordable housing (while letting developers throw up new skyscraper lofts left right and center, of course) into some absurd us vs them dynamic, with the “them” being those rotten greedy bastards who want to actually own a home, or at least a piece of one, in one of the best places in the world to live, and maybe have the kind of security for their family that the tenant advocates demand for the renters they claim to represent. i know! we’ll outlaw condos and tics altogether! that will fix it! then no one will ever be evicted again! plus you have to love the “i know the *real* numbers” argument there. proof? evidence? who needs that (especially when what there is completely contradicts my argument) when i have an opinion! don quixote, call for you on line two…
it’s a real problem, and the real solution is for the city to make real affordable housing. sure some developers won’t get quite as rich as they would otherwise, but that seems preferable to punishing the few people who are able to scrape enough together to try to put down roots in a city they love, and not have to live with the uncertainty of some lunatic landlord or management company ready to yank the rug out first chance they get.
no wonder people just pirate shit, if this is the “good” alternative. what a joke. what a sloppy, awkward, unintuitive, backwards-ass stupid, DRM-ed up the bunghole joke. as i say this i’m setting up another p2p client. fuck you, apple.