Misc.

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26
Mar 13

#theWolverine teaser?

We’re all familiar with the concept of a movie trailer.  The trailer is typically a 30-second to 2-minute preview of a movie designed to ‘rope you in’.  The downside of the modern trailer is that it gives away too much, often several key action sequences or big laughs.

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The next X-Man movie, the Wolverine [IMDB], is a quasi-reboot telling the tale of the unbreakable feral Canadian’s adventures in Japan from the 1982 Claremont and Miller 4-book series.  I think this is good use of Twitter’s Vine, in that 6-seconds is just long enough.

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25
Mar 13

Politicians wearing their gang colors.

I wrote previously that politicians should have to publicly, literally wear their funders names on their sleeves.

There’s now a petition at the White House site to make it so. Via BoingBoing.

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25
Mar 13

“Goodbye, Cruel World (no one gives a shit)”.

I quit Facebook yesterday over stupid drama.  I’m embarrassed if only because publicly declaring you “quit Facebook” is like proclaiming that “you don’t even own a TV”.

Facebook is more a burden than anything else.  Deciding what photos to like, restraining from commenting on the stupidity of others, and most importantly the pressure to copy and paste “Happy Birthday” on someone’s profile on the appropriate day (and not making it belatedly).

I’ve come to the conclusion that Facebook is like a greeting card company.

“Happy Birthday!  Happy Anniversary! Congratulations!  I’m sorry for your loss.”

I ain’t got time for that.  Not on Facebook.

 

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06
Mar 13

White people afraid to talk about black people?

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Neighbor, please.

My experience has been (like so many others) that white Philly people LOVE to talk about black people*.

So long as there are only other white people around.

I want my family, friends, and coworkers to talk like this, loud and proud.  I prefer my bigots to be public and obvious.  It makes it easier to judge them.

*Also the gays, poors, young, Jews, Asians, and other out-groups.

 

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31
Jan 13

Like a 35MM Time Machine!

This site – the Internet K-Hole is comprised of old pictures. 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. Bands both amateur and pre-professional. Dorms. Families. Camping trips. Shenanigans. And the occasional NSFW shot.

This site is great because these pictures most likely would never be allowed to never make it off our cameras or phones today. Via BoingBoing.

PS. This is post 6,667.

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