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Nov 23 2011 ∞

“ I find it unfortunate that at no point during my workday does anyone ever have cause to shout my name and then toss me a sword.

Nov 19 2011 ∞

“ Some man in China say th’ truth comes out this,” he said, unwrapping an ancient, oilslick Remington automatic shotgun, its barrel chopped off a few millimeters in front of the battered forestock. The shoulderstock had been removed entirely, replaced with a wooden pistolgrip wound with dull black tape. He smelled of sweat and ganja.
“That the only one you got?”
“Sure, mon,” he said, wiping oil from the black barrel with a red cloth, the black poly wrapping bunched around the pistolgrip in his other hand, “I an’ I th’ Rastafarian navy, believe it.

— Until I’m re-reading one of his books, I always forget how much I adore William Gibson’s writing.

Aug 18 2010 ∞

Tumbleroo - Tumblr for the iPad

OK, this is cool… but $5 is getting into the “Would I use it THAT much?” field…

Jul 27 2010 ∞

Strange and True Facts about Death: More people are killed by donkeys...

Strange and True Facts about Death:

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

More people are killed each year by coconuts than sharks. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a…

Jun 25 2010 ∞

“ I love the fact I live in a time where video teleconferencing exists. It makes me feel like I’m having a virtual meeting –
on the moon!
Oh, wait, that’s just server lag.
Sigh.
Never mind.

— John Scalzi
Whatever

Jun 17 2010 ∞

“ While, years ago, you might have had to buy a CD to satiate a craving for Katy Perry’s latest track, you can now watch it to your heart’s content on YouTube, stream it on legal sites like Grooveshark or Blip.fm, or just throw down a buck and buy it on iTunes. To argue that everything would return to normal if only illegal downloading would stop is to miss that piracy has only been one part of the equation of how media businesses are changing. After all, people aren’t pirating newspapers—and their business model has been equally affected by the web.

— Torontist

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Jun 11 2010 ∞

“ While many argue that corporations have too many rights as it is, this might be a good time to extend them at least one more right we humans have kept for ourselves until now; the right to be put to death for serious crimes. Right now federal statutes alone offer individuals more than 40 different ways to earn the death penalty, including kidnapping, treason, aircraft hijacking, espionage and many varieties of murder, conspiracy, threatening murder and some drug crimes. Individual states offer the death penalty for a host of similar offenses. Putting bad corporate actors down the way we do rabid dogs and serial killers is not a new or even a radical idea. Corporations are created by the charters of individual states, so states DO have the power to revoke them. Early in this country’s history, corporate charters used to limit a company’s existence to a set number of years, to confine their operations to manufacturing a certain item, building a specific road or canal and prohibit them from changing ownership, dumping or concealing their assets or engaging in other kinds of business. These are legal powers that our governments have not used in a long, long time, but which it’s high time to reclaim.

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Bruce A. Dixon (via azspot)

Interesting to think what the course of action would have been on the BP disaster if there had been just one individual responsible for the spill a la a forest fire.

(via tanya77)

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