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New Mac Clone Maker to Open Retail Store in Los Angeles
I’m sure this will work out just fine for them.
” —gruber being gruberesqueJune 2009
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I began to appreciate what Twitter, Google Wave, Blogging, Facebook, and other social media are: real life alternative communities.
Because in real life, we’re all pricks.
” —says shelley, and who am i to argue
“Adobe Creative Suite: Like Tapdancing While Soviet-Era Farm Machinery Rumbles In and Out of Your Ass”
—king of twitter, dean cameron allen, not least because it’s true
“He would rather, he said, see the administration’s lawyers disbarred before going after “lonely, paranoid, frightened Dick Cheney.”
—hello? lonely, paranoid and frightened describes most criminals, i daresay.
“We pray for Mr. Tiller’s family that they will find comfort and healing that can only be found in Jesus Christ.”
—only?
May 2009
“The new neuro-social-sciences are the latest of many attempts to naturalise the human—-to make every aspect of our lives and selves comprehensible merely as subjects of scientific explanation. The social consequences of the naturalistic program make it especially important to understand its philosophical limits. Not only do we become experimental subjects, but we very easily become subjected — to the particular types of control that scientific understanding invites, especially the “medical model” of the expert which offers the ‘patient’ diagnosis, prophylaxis, prognosis and cure. This may produce wonderful results in the right context, but should be tightly confined within the world of atoms; in the world of meanings, its essentially metaphorical status needs to be always understood. A naturalised, rather than thoughtful and deliberative politics, is not only creepy, it is incoherent. Ironically, it substitutes a medical metaphor for meaningful argument.”
—more reduction
“People have a deep desire to communicate with animals … NYTimes”
—which does not mean we want to hear back from them. please note.
“Why don’t you Bing it?”
—dead. in the water. not a chance. ain’t gonna happen.
“These guys and the post modern gang really fecked up the minds and analytical and writing skills of a whole generation of students (replacing them with a reductive kind of sneer-ology instead) …”
—wonderful comment-writing
“The ultimate goal, according to a recent request for research proposals, is to “elucidate core computational algorithms of the mind and brain.” Good luck with that, guys.”
—the air force. such dreamers.
“When a spider flings itself from a fixed point down into its consequences, it continually sees before it an empty space in which it can find no foothold, however much it stretches. So it is with me; before me is continually an empty space, and I am propelled by a consequence that lies behind me.”
—ia | kierkegaard
“Porn doesn’t count either, because it’s so fully and perfectly Capitalist in the first place.”
—didn’t i say?
“Are social networks destroying knowledge?”
—well, duh. (via kvasir)
“Cheney Urges Obama to Name Bitter Psycho to Bench”
—and of course this classic
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U.S. to Respond to North Korea with ‘Strongest Possible Adjectives’
Obama: We are Prepared to Consult Thesaurus
” —borowitz: genius for headlines
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President George H.W. Bush, announcing the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on July 1, 1991: “He is a delightful and warm, intelligent person who has great empathy and a wonderful sense of humor.”
Republican Senator John Danforth on Clarence Thomas on July 16, 1991: “His empathy is with the disadvantaged people of this country. He would bring a perspective to the Supreme Court which nobody else brings.”
Are we done with this?
” —we’re done
“Obama spoke today at the National Archives to say, more or less, “Stop acting like the other guy is still President, you poor, traumatized bastards.”
—rude pundit
“Transparency requires skill. Feeling needs to be unhindered by the awkwardness of unfamiliarity.”
—baldur | man, this applies to everything. there it is.
“Those who grow up in the childrens’ wading pools of America, entranced by their toys and watched over by nanny capitalism in suburbia or Gotham, never glimpse the deep waters, and therefore live out their lives as children, capable only of childish perception. And in dispensing their perceptions as reality from their positions of power, they further infantilize our entire nation. ”
—joe bageant keeps hitting ‘em out of the park, he can’t seem to help it
