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amateurs
I'm known amongst my real-life friends for having a somewhat perverse attachment to the Economist. The journalists on staff there get my full devotion and I treat them as deities of thought - economic and otherwise. The fact that articles are printed anonymously only ricochets my love higher. Why? Because then they can print op-ed pieces with ( Read more... ) -
desktop
I've always admired the Macs their friendly user interfaces. So sleek! So round! So unattainable to those of us addicted to PCs! So, imagine my great delight in finding ObjectDockt, which is free software that mimics the Apple dock on a machine running Windows. My desktop now looks like this:
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suicide
Anthropomorphism at it's most effective
*Edited to emphasize that this is in no way related to my mental state - I just thought that it was a really well done commercial which gets a powerful message across. -
spoof
I've managed to go my entire life without coming across "The Curse of the Fatal Death" - a Comic Relief spoof of Doctor Who from 1999. It's in four parts, so all of the video embeds are going to be behind the cut.
If you only have time to watch one of the four, I highly suggest the very last. It's amazing.
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diplomacy
Reason to move to Britain #234,345,567,345:
The following sketch comedy clip aired September 26th on the BBC -
According to the UK Independent (the original source), the clip has so outraged the Filipino government that ( Read more... ) -
Delicious
I just picspammed an entire thread on ohnotheydidnt full of David Tennant goodness. So, not to waste my photobucket bandwith, I'm posting these photos on here as well. They basically constitute my all-time favorites and have been ganked from all over the place.
A preview, my lovelies (with the rest under the cut)*:
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Game
"If you’re going to pretend in this city then you only have to remember one thing; they're all pretending - high born, low born, the people in between, everyone's wishing they were someone else. All you have to do is lie with conviction ( Read more... ) -
missing
No update for now, just a request for my (limited though it might be) friends list to read the following link and pass it on, if possible. It's about a missing teacher from NYC:
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Sulfur
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Wordle
Not really an update, so no quotes today, I'm afraid.
Here's my www.wordle.com result for this Livejournal (since March). It's basically a piece of art based on the words I've used most. Hope it's visible!
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