January 2012
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MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who... →
wilwheaton:
Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what’s happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they’d better pass Hollywood’s favorite legislation… or else:
“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to...
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Midata: access and control your personal data →
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills demonstrate that they cannot spell ‘my’, don’t know to start proper nouns with a capital letter, or that parenthetic dashes come in pairs:
The midata project – part of the Consumer Empowerment Strategy will allow people to view, access and use their personal and transaction data in a way that is portable and safe.
The gist of this is that...
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“The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood (Via Daring Fireball)
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WatchSpandex - Interview with Martin Eden
By Angie Thomas
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herp time
alexds1:
I’m in the mood for another pink burrowing animal, this one has MAD GUNS
Say hello to
BIPES BIPORUS
With arms like these, I aint need no legs
Amphisfuckin’baenids
When you comin over gurl?
[suddenly realizes he is very small]
[awkward silence]
(sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, more cool pics here)
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Issac Asimov cracks me up
Sloan’s Teddy
As is well known, in this thirtieth century of ours, space travel is fearfully dull and time-consuming. In search of diversion, many crew members defy the quarantine restrictions and pick up pets from the various habitable worlds they explore.
Jim Sloane had a rockette, which he called Teddy. It just sat there, looking like a rock, but sometimes it lifted a lower edge and ...
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“If you’re not making mistakes, man, you’re not pushing yourself hard enough.”
– Chris Johns, editor, National Geographic Magazine
I’ve bookmarked this interview to read all the way through later, but this line jumped out and beat me on the head with a clue club and I needed that very much
(via bigbigtruck)
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Guardian Comment: Clay Shirky explains why Sopa... →
Sopa and Pipa are, quite simply, an attempt to create a privatised form of international censorship, and because the censorship would have to be nearly total to be effective, they would have a profound and chilling effect on any form of public conversation among ordinary citizens. It would…
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