lrdp part whatever

So I had never actually taken the time to figure out exactly what the LRDP consisted of, development-wise. After perusing the Final Draft LRDP, I’ve certainly got a better idea of the scope and impact that it will have, if completed in it’s current form. The graphic below consists of two maps [...]

who’s scared of a vegetarian muslim?

 
“It’s staggering that this most elementary principle of journalism is not merely violated by so many of our establishment journalists, but is explicitly rejected by them.”
An neat little indictment of the journalism establishment, using the Washington Post’s “coverage” of Obama’s religion and a NY Times article on Giuliani’s exuberant (and questionable) use of statistics to [...]

humorous problem complaint

received from a Astronomy professor:
Subject: keyboaaaaaaaard problems
Report: my keyboaaaaaaard is driving me craaaaaaazy.  Its keys aaaaaaaare sticking.  Caaaaan I get aaaaanother keyboaaaaaaaard pleaaaaaasse.
Technician Note: replaced keyboard. 

the golden age of advertising

i am amused. 

Outsourcing:

No longer just for companies.
I remember my professor in “Technology Targeting Social Issues” class mentioning that he did something like this, which is a really interesting (I think) phenomenon that will increase in popularity as long as there is such a great disparity between wages in the US and other countries, and information continues to [...]

he’s no updike

“So Klara turned head to foot and put her most unmentionable part down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth and took his old battering ram into her lips.”
That’s the passage from Norman Mailer’s “The Castle in the Forest” which recently won him (posthumously) the 2007 Bad Sex In Fiction award. And really, it’s [...]

I think “All the King’s Men” is kind of like my Catcher in the Rye—

—Holden Caufield’s aggressive, angry scorn for “phonies” never really spoke to me on any profound level, but Jack Burden, in all his apathetic, morally ambiguous, and reserved  glory, is my kind of literary anti-hero.
“One feels incredulity at the first breaking of a habit, but horror at the violation of a principle. Therefore what virtue and [...]

all about us

you know, I used to have little but scorn for mainstream/top 40/pop-whatever music, but sometimes you find a song (or in this case, music video) that is so bad it actually loops back and becomes awesome. without further adu, I present All About Us, by russian duo t.A.T.u.:

interesting side-note: the [...]

sounds like a good time, to me…

“When you’re alone at home, getting high with your cat and posting on the internet about it, it’s time to take a good hard look at your life thus far.”
-the internets

damn slavic languages

hey, honest mistake, right? actually, the difference between “You know my dear how we love your mountain,” to what was actually sung is only one syllable, which makes me wonder—what words/phrases in the English language could result in equally cheek-reddening situations?