"Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired white pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber. Yet do we have national holidays to ( Read more... )

I use my command key a lot. Mainly because I use it to open links in new tabs, but also because I LIKE TO BE IN COMMAND! Basically, it's my favorite key. Plus it has an apple on it. Anyway, it broke from overuse, and became stuck. So I got a pen and popped it open. Apparently there are two little plastic pieces under it. So i was trying to fix ( Read more... )

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs,
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
Let's choose executors and talk of wills.
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For God's sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings!

"Well, I was thinking a lot about places I’ve been inside dreams, where I’m familiar with a building or a room, or like when I’m in a house in a dream and there are combinations of things in the house that don’t exist in reality. So I wanted to do this project, where I have a giant bookstore full of books, and instead of them all being organized ( Read more... )

Wes Anderson's Next Movie

Odd, but I have so much faith in Anderson, and even more in Dahl, who rules.

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Unstable Comoros has endured 19 coups or attempted coups since gaining independence from France in 1975. In 1997, the islands of Anjouan and Moheli declared their independence from Comoros. In 1999, military chief Col. AZALI seized power. He pledged to resolve the secessionist crisis through a confederal arrangement named the 2000 Fomboni Accord. ( Read more... )

"Sure, " say my Democrat friend "but, however pandering and vacuous Al Gore (or Howard Dean, or John Kerry) is, he's better than Bush." Maybe. Or maybe he's just a better liar.
-AdBusters


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