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Mon, 06 May 2013 21:23:25 -0400

jhermann: We’re up all night to get lucky, he hummed to himself, walking home shortly after...

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:53:31 -0400

jhermann:

We’re up all night to get lucky, he hummed to himself, walking home shortly after midnight

my corner of the internet is on point today.

synecdoche: burn your hometown down Luke 4:24

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:43:34 -0400

synecdoche:

burn your hometown down

Luke 4:24

thenoobyorker: By way of ohnoproblems and immolator, atheists...

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:33:47 -0400

thenoobyorker:

By way of ohnoproblems and immolator, atheists argue with the Twitter account zizek_ebooks.

To respond to the first inquiry, this is how you call Richard Dawkins and a lot of evolutionary biologists naive.

Evolutionary biology is treated unlike any science by both academics and the general public. For the average person, evolution is equivalent to natural selection, and because the concept of selection is easy to grasp, a reasonable understanding of comparative biology is often taken to be a license for evolutionary speculation. It has long been known that natural selection is just one of several mechanisms of evolutionary change, but the myth that all of evolution can be explained by adaptation continues to be perpetuated by our continued homage to Darwin’s treatise (6) in the popular literature. For example, Dawkins’ (7–9) agenda to spread the word on the awesome power of natural selection has been quite successful, but it has come at the expense of reference to any other mechanisms, a view that is in some ways profoundly misleading. There is, of course, a substantial difference between the popular literature and the knowledge base that has grown from a century of evolutionary research, but this distinction is often missed by nonevolutionary biologists.

Drop the mic, evolve away.

there is nothing more satisfying than watching so-called “free thinkers” clutch their pearls when someone blasphemes their idols.

so netflix comes up with a business model that works because people are willing to shell out $10 or...

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:03:58 -0400

so netflix comes up with a business model that works because people are willing to shell out $10 or so a month for unlimited access to a shit ton of movies instantly streaming right into their faces.

then all the major distributors realize they could also cash in on such a successful business model so they pull their movies from netflix in order to start their own pay sites.

but no one wants to shell out $10 or so a month to each different pay site, including netflix since their inventory has now been completely decimated.

so now we all go back to illegally pirating everything for free.

dear bearded heavy metal t-shirt guy on the d train, what is the point of carrying around a flask if...

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:52:00 -0400

dear bearded heavy metal t-shirt guy on the d train,

what is the point of carrying around a flask if you’re just gonna dump it into an orange juice bottle?

i am pretty sure you’re not even fooling anyone. as far as i know, orange juice is rarely the color and consistency of cheap whiskey.

sincerely,
confused fellow alkie somewhere beneath park slope

p.s. i can tell it is cheap whiskey because no connoisseur of brown liquor would wear a “demilitia” t-shirt, probably. but what do i know? i usually drink whiskey out of a glass with ice and self respect.

harikondabolu: Happy May Day! In honor of workers everywhere,...

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:17:13 -0400

harikondabolu:

Happy May Day! In honor of workers everywhere, here’s a “List of People Who Will Die in the Revolution” from my Comedy Central Presents special.

pluralisms: jesus christ marie

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:53:36 -0400

pluralisms:

jesus christ marie

synecdoche: there is literally nothing in the world that makes you cooler than proclaiming you are...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:57:01 -0400

synecdoche:

there is literally nothing in the world that makes you cooler than proclaiming you are too cool to care about a band people are excited about

unfortunately this ad was flagged and removed before i could...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:26:53 -0400

unfortunately this ad was flagged and removed before i could upload my resume

lulz-time: confusababel: LITTLE PEOPLE STREET ART This post...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:27:37 -0400

lulz-time:

confusababel:

LITTLE PEOPLE STREET ART

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

"I admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:32:51 -0400

““I admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate.””

- That’s what Obama said about CNN at last night’s White House Correspondents Association dinner.

Let me explain why that is such a great line. CNN sees itself as “in the middle” between left and right, MSNBC and Fox. Just recently, in fact, CNN president Jeff Zucker praised the middle as the place to be. But CNN also sees itself as a great newsgathering organization that is all about truthtelling rather than ideology. “Keeping them honest,” as Anderson Cooper, face of the brand, likes to say.

Put them together and what do you have? Keep ‘em honest, but stay in the middle. Which doesn’t work. For what happens when one side is BS-ing us more than the other? What happens when independent and honest reporting shows that these people on this side are mostly right in what they’re saying, and those people on that side are distorting the case?

CNN wants to believe, tries to believe and I think does believe that this problem does not exist. Therefore we have to remind them about it, because it does exist. And that’s what Obama did: “cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate” is saying to CNN: Accuracy and truthtelling will be sacrificed to your ideology— the middle, no matter what it takes.

(via jayrosen)

In response to all those "After Newtown, we blamed guns. In Boston, why don't we blame the bomb?" assholishness:

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:31:59 -0400

inothernews:

The bombers also had guns, you stupid pricks.

also, i’m pretty sure those bombs are FUCKING ILLEGAL

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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:32:56 -0400

"But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the..."

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:28:07 -0400

“But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, “I should sit here and I should be entertained.” And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know, who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That’s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It’s an old moral, but it’s completely true.”

- Zadie Smith (via lyras)

imwithkanye: I can’t with the hair on David O. Russell’s new...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:31:05 -0400

imwithkanye:

I can’t with the hair on David O. Russell’s new film.

thats my friend kc standing right behind him!

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:09:04 -0400

apoplecticskeptic: 4-a-d: Deerhunter - ‘Monomania’ (Live on...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:15:11 -0400

apoplecticskeptic:

4-a-d:

Deerhunter - ‘Monomania’ (Live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)

Whoa.

is anyone else freaking out about bradford’s bloody finger stump?

how long until they invent comfort food that actually makes everything all better

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:33:11 -0400

how long until they invent comfort food that actually makes everything all better

jhermann: wait what

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:55:36 -0400

jhermann:

wait what