There are a lot of great images from 2009, but what caught my eye today was this image: Why it’s such a surprising tragedy when a bull “fighter” gets what’s coming to him is beyond me. After sticking the bull with several sharp spears, the bull finally gets a shot at spearing his opponent. Too […]
Tags: culture, stupid
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This post is going to be all about handicapped parking spaces and their abuse by myself and others. Yay! So yeah, ok, I sometimes park in handicapped spaces… much to Jenny’s chagrin. However, I only do that when I know I’m going to be 30 seconds (dumping mail off at the post office drop box) […]
Tags: culture, driving, law, stupid
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Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctrow points out a BBC article detailing how a professional photographer was stopped by police from taking a photo of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, a building that’s probably being photographed by several cameras at any given time, 24 hours a day. What I really like about his post is the […]
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Something that has really gotten on my nerves lately has been the absolute insanity when it comes to cleanliness. It’s like everyone became OCD just because they could. By that, I mean the following: 1) As the tools of society constantly evolve, they reduce the need for a person to think for themselves and increase […]
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I don’t know if it’s Rick (the author) or the graphic designer who’s the one that can’t tell their right from their left, but it is an interesting article all the same. Some record exec refused to calm an unruly crowd of tweens via twitter and was arrested. Kind of Seinfeld–esc if you ask me. […]
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The guys over at BoingBoing are pointing out Mark Dery’s article on H+ magazine which talks about how full of bunk all the 2012 doomsday people are. I used to get riled up about this kind of thing too, about how stupid people are and how easy it is to get crazed, unthinking followers to […]
Tags: culture, religion, stupid
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“Evidence that the smell of fear is real was uncovered by US scientists last year who studied the underarm secretions of 20 terrified novice skydivers and found that people appear to respond unconsciously to the sweat smell of a frightened person. Now the Telegraph reports that researchers hope a ‘fear detector’ will make it possible […]
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An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy reduced the prison sentence of a murderer who was able to show he has genetic mutations linked to violence. WTF? To me, it makes sense to do the opposite and just put the bastard to death right then and there. If you as a murderer are coming to […]
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Mark Russinovich is like a legend… half of the dynamite due that used to be SysInternals. They put out tons of utils for Windows admins. With machine cloning technologies that came of age during the last administrative epoch, and virtualization cloning become commonplace, the NewSID util is probably the most used utility they ever put […]
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Ok, warning. This post is blatantly callous and perhaps veers into sexist territory toward the end, but I think a point has to be made here. I read stories like these and just can’t figure it out. Three girls drown when they drive their Jeep into a pond. They have enough clarity and time to […]
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