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I post this after turning off the new Skeletonwitch album in favour of La Boheme. Somewhere, my life took a seriously wrong turn.

UPDATE: After a few minutes of panic, I'm now listening to Talking Heads with the volume turned all the way up to 6(!). This seemed like a good compromise.

There are no words:

Italy posts salary details on web
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.
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The release of the information was one of the last acts of the outgoing centre-left government and has shocked many tax-shy Italians, says the BBC’s ( Read more... )

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1. I will work harder
   
   Looking back, I really cannot believe the huge work-related funk I got into over the last year or so. I just stopped working and began to stagnate. This is a horrible situation because, when you stop applying yourself, all this self-doubt creeps in and it creates a feedback loop - you stop working because you get a little lazy ( Read more... )

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah \
Some call me the gangster of love

If someone was calling you a sex-pest, would you brag about it in a song?
(x-posted from lowbrowculture.com)

Christ, it’s hard to talk about Portal.

Let’s start with the easy stuff: it appears on Half-Life 2’s “Orange Box” package, which includes Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2. Compared to these huge, important games, Portal appears to almost be an afterthought. A goofy experiment to pad out the whole package and make it seem more ( Read more... )

Evolution is a funny thing.

Take sharks for example. A few million years of evolution and you end up with a perfect, efficient killing machines. As Richard Dreyfuss explains in Jaws, all a shark does is eat, swim and make little baby sharks. They’re top of the food chain. Don’t believe me? Wait until Al Gore gets done melting the polar ice ( Read more... )

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