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Ah Soundwave! You remember Soundwave, right? The stalwart, stoic guy with the cool voice and all the mini-cassettes inside? Sure you do, he's Michiyamenotehi Funana's favorite obscure Transformer! The crowd goes nuts when he takes the stage and our cries and screams are music to his ears. Often imitated, never equaled, no one could forget his ( Read more... )

This is why I don't write stream-of-consciousness anymore. Because this is what comes out.

( My subconscious is a weird place )

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Bear with me for a minute:

We all know about Star Wars, no not that one SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiative... the satellite warfare program during the Cold War nicknamed "Star Wars" by Reagan staffers? The ruinously expensive plan to put giant death star lasers into orbit that... okay, maybe the name "Star Wars" was sort of appropriate ( Read more... )

They found a giant floating island in the Pacific.

This fulfills me on a deep, primal level. All those stories in myth and fantasy about floating islands...

(This is bigger than Rhode Island so technically I guess it's a floating landmass.)

When did Chrome go from being the most stable browser I use to the least stable one?

(What's that? Pepperflash? Oh, I see.)

So I was reading this article about offshore tax-havens on Time.com. It'S a perfectly nice article, a little short but nice.

And then I see the read other stories about this with the Forbes.com article If You Want To Crack Down on $32 Trillion in Offshore Tax Havens, Lower Taxes For the Ultra-Rich, and I am filled with emotions.

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Monsters are fascinating, but also misleading. We think of Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies as staples of medieval life and belief, but that's a neologism spawned by their status as staple-monsters in MGM movies and Role Playing Games.
What we would identify as Vampires is a 17th century invention, and Zombies date from the early 20th! And they ( Read more... )

From CNN.com:

• Report: Dolphins died of drug overdose after rave

I can't bring myself to click on this link. I know the news story is probably about football players in Miami, but I prefer to believe it's actually about our seagoing friends.

UPDATE

HOLY SHIT IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT DOLPHINS!