February 2011
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January 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
The Strokes (28)
They Might Be Giants (27)
HEALTH (14)
Disco Inferno (12)
The Smiths (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
in 3 to 5 words
boatzone3:
abloodymess:
madpunishmentwheel:
Put down your ideal movie premise.
Robotic driving instructor goes back in time for some reason.
Bank heist perps/hostages hijack a boat, evade Coast Guard, run out of food/fuel/ammo, stall out in shark-infested waters.
Ensemble cast, no romantic angles, GG Allin/Tortoise soundtrack.
ABBA-scored vampire romance musical romp
POPLIFE: A Britney Spears Dramatis Personae, in... →
surprisingly informative. love it bro
looks like the midwest is about to get its first...
lefan-o-rama:
totals of ~1.5 feet in madison and ~2-2.5 feet in milwaukee.
smiths: ARE YOU READY? BUY MILK AND BREAD!
ahhhhhhh i can just see the snowballs being lobbed across my street. it happened last year. they got me bad.
REMINDER: one of the most important things you can...
feastingonroadkill:
Back in the day Mr Feastingonroadkill once had the job of dealing with coroners records from the 1890’s to the 1960’s. This entailed going through inquest and sudden death files.
One thing he came away convinced of,was the misery caused by draconian abortion laws. If you’ve ever read a report on the death of a scared 14 year old pregnant schoolgirl who died whilst trying to...
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Another game of 4 pwrson Mario Kart drunk driver
One beer per race. You cannot accelerate while drinking. What’s wrong with us? This killed us on nye.
forwhenifeellikesharing asked: That image from Fox with Iraq labeled as Egypt is really old.
Disco Inferno - The Last Dance
My favorite new...
jsomers:
Crosswordese is a term generally used to describe words frequently found in crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. They are usually short words, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles. This is frequently because short words that start with a vowel are needed in every puzzle to...
“Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican...”
– And, yes, this is going on.
Let’s outline, one more time, the reasons why requiring “force” as a part of legally defined rape is a bad idea, hey? Because there are many. And let’s skip right past the part where many rapes would no longer be defined as such (I’m… really not sure how you redefine...
Sleigh Bells - Kids
Hearing loss affects about...
Honey, I'm Not Going To Stand Here And Debate The... →
“The brain is an instrument of action and not of representation.”
– Henri Bergson (via ewilcox)
Representation is action!
“Super-premium reissues of individual albums don’t simply tempt fans, they...”
– Be grateful to the Grateful Dead by Tom Ewing
“There is good reason to think that we have two senses of smell: an external...”
– THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2011— Page 15
grantimatter asked: If you're really curious, I'm pretty sure that's a line from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gita_Govinda"><i>Gita Govinda</i>, translated as <i>Love Song of the Dark Lord</i>.</a> Sacred Hindu sex poetry - Krishna was a PLAYER.
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DEAR TRISTN:
iamnotnumbersix:
all is well once again
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Sabrepulse (34)
Manuel Göttsching (21)
Brian Wilson (17)
Broadcast (13)
Lady Gaga (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“But the band that brought the funk to punk isn’t in much of a dancing mood...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Gang of Four: Content
i like this description of the band circa Entertainment!; in fact i like it much more than the frequent descriptions of the band’s “militant” rhythm section. however, i am mostly intrigued and baffled by this “vocoderized...
Iatrogenesis →
zombiecuddle:
bestofwikipedia:
The terms iatrogenesis and iatrogenic artifact refer to inadvertent adverse effects or complications caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice. In addition to harmful consequences of actions by physicians, iatrogenesis can also refer to actions by other healthcare professionals, such as psychologists, therapists, pharmacists, nurses, ...
Imagining a Nation without Abortion →
andrewtsks:
oldtobegin:
hateandheartache:
highsee:
Imagine a nation that loved all its children so passionately that it built an entire social and economic structure around protecting them, nurturing them, fostering their growth, and supporting their every stage of life. The logic of this care for children would, of course, extend to the conditions by which those children entered the...
l3fan-o-rama asked: hey, i just saw your george lakoff reblog and thought you might find this interesting: one of my former undergrad physics colleagues is a protege of mr. lakoff. his name is joe brewer and he now runs cognitive policy works (http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com). he did graduate work in climate sciences, building mathematical models for cloud formation and such, and then applied those theories to...
“The basic idea is to impose a sentence structure that names the person first and...”
– People-first language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
language!!