over at tumblr.

Friends page is now showing flash movie ads before actually letting me view it.

I suppose it's time to move on. I kind of like the way LJ has friends-only posts, though...

Via ze frank (Autotune connects everything)

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Via The Awl (although this doesn't get to why marriage, just why):

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Why all the hate, Hollywood? (Via sullivan)



Good lord he's young. But he holds himself well!

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Via Jen. My brother probably has flashbacks to similar scenes.

Surprised Kitty - watch more funny videos

The BBC's Outlook interviews the mixed-race 'Oriental Angel' Lou Jing (mp3). For additional background, this weekend's WP Outlook has a good article.

Apparently the US will send 100,000 students to China. Yay ( Read more... )

Yeah, you should watch it. The Doctor is back before we say goodbye to the Ten(nant).

It's nice to think that in 2059, gay marriage will be a non-issue in Russia.

( Spoilers! )

I finally put together one of the most nagging things about DC: its relative lack of "walkability."

The first time I saw this term, it was in reference to a new site, WalkScore.com, that attempted to give various (US-centric) addresses a "walkability" score. This was loosely defined based on some general design principles that you see in, well, ( Read more... )

From Men's Flair:

Whereas women obsess with what looks good, men - the strutting, proud peacocks - often try not to acknowledge ‘good’ in others but compete childishly on what is ‘correct.’ Excruciatingly sanctimonious, men quote from style scriptures and style clerics in the fashion of some odiously pious fundamentalist. I remarked to a friend ( Read more... )

Spending lots of money recently. Mostly on clothes ( Read more... )

Gurneys are stretchers with wheels ( Read more... )

Right now it's the trenches of statistical analysis and SPSS for the nurses.

Meanwhile, work is just crazy crazy (out of a scale of three, for arbitrariness, with crazy being the baseline standard).

6k Statisticians in DC (WP)

For today's grads, just one word (NYT -- for once, the WP was ahead of the NYT, albeit the NYT story is more about ( Read more... )