January 2010
42 posts
I have come to realise slowly over the course of my experience that there is rarely a yes or a no; a right or a wrong; a one or a zero. We inhabit a vast and terrible grey area that resists even the most diligent or noble attempt to polarize it; it simply is. Truths and untruths it seems, are constructions of the human imagination and intellect. Reality does not care if you or I consider something...
Who would win in a fight between Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman?
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Top 20 Movies of All Time Based on Number of...
“Gone With the Wind” (1939) 202,044,600
“Star Wars” (1977) 178,119,600
“The Sound of Music” (1965) 142,415,400
“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) 141,854,300
“The Ten Commandments” (1956) 131,000,000
“Titanic” (1997) 128,345,900
“Jaws” (1975) 128,078,800
“Doctor Zhivago” (1965) 124,135,500
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The Vice Guide to Liberia →
Murder, mayhem, prostitutes, child junkies, cannibalism, open sewers, rebel generals, corrupt cops and some of the worst slums on the face of the earth.
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Albums With Hidden Tracks in the Pregap
I am absolutely astounded by this.
You know that few seconds of silence at the start of a CD, and in between the tracks? Well these are called pregaps, and CD players are programmed to recognise and skip over them. This determine where one track ends and another begins.
The thing is, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t encode music data into a pregap. There are a ton of...
jesuisperdu:
Tomorrow I will find my love for reading again. I haven’t been able to finish a book in ages. Don’t understand why, but I’m changing that tomorrow. I might tackle Grapes of Wrath. I read the first chapter and the language got to me. Or Vonnegut if I could find my copy of Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut always makes me want to read so that might be a good start.
Grapes of...
"When I was little my mom used to put a buttplug...
conversatron:
Okay, I don’t know if this is actually incest since it wasn’t something actually sexual in the technical sense but here goes. When I was little my mom used to put a buttplug in me (which she called a poop plug) and I’d wear it all the time. It had this star of david with a cross inside it painted on the base. I was told only to take it out to poop, wipe my ass, then put it back...
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OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty →
Being Unemployed Sucks.
I only know what day it is because of Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Wednesday.
“Palin couldn’t explain why North Korea and South Korea were separate nations....”
– Times Online - Sarah Palin campaign was a ‘train wreck’, insiders say
(via david-noel)
For Dave (pedantics)…
(via dubliner)
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Top Ten Vinyl Records of 2009
#01 The Beatles - Abbey Road - 34,800 (#2 in ‘08) #02 Michael Jackson - Thriller - 29,800 #03 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion - 14,000 #04 Wilco - Wilco - 13,200 #05 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - 12,700 (#8 in ‘08) #06 Pearl Jam - Backspacer - 12,500 #07 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest - 11,600 #08 Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction - 11,500 #09 Dave Matthews Band - Big...
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So I bought a pair of these:
and one of these:
and holy crap does it sound good.
Piracy is Destroying Music... →
…oh no wait…all-time-high profits, yet again!
