May 2012
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April 2012
41 posts
And by the way....
From CBC news:
Nice to see the CBC flexing a little in advance of the cuts. Alas….
Tower of Sleep: Some nicknames I have had, in order of my personal preference →
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Sirloin (or Sir Loin)
Used exclusively by Annie Roper. I like it for obvious reasons.Twizzler
Used mainly by Jonny Payne.Salty
Coined (I believe) by Jill Orsten or Bitsy Knox as a result of me imploring them to stop calling me “Sally”. I like it much better than Sally.
Sizzler
Mainly a…
Just think: if your name was Steve, I would have called you Saelan. Them’s the breaks.
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Now he's trying to win Quebec?
“Quebec headed for independence, Ignatieff tells U.K. broadcaster.”
That’s a very impressive strategy. Hang in there, dude.
The Biggest Student Uprising You’ve Never Heard Of
This one.
becoming wave: The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science) →
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1. Fine Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English…
Depends on which part of capitalism you’re looking at. Are you incurring debt? Do you shuffle culture around in any way in any real or virtual place? Do you purchase commodities? Etc., etc. So cheer up: while your degree might never get you a good job (and probably not one that you’ve paid exorbitantly to be trained for), that still may not mean you’re useless to capitalism.
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“If one term embodies the paradoxical and contradictory character of Anonymous—which is now serious in action and frivolous by design; made up of committed activists and agents of mischief—it is lulz. These four letters denote the pleasures attained from generating and sharing jokes and memes such as LOLcats and the cartoon pedophile mascot Pedobear. But they also suggest how easily and casually trolls can violently undermine the sense of security enjoyed by carefree denizens of the “real world” by, for instance, ordering scores of unpaid pizzas to be delivered to a single address, or publishing one’s phone number and private communications and credit-card numbers and hard-drive contents and any other information one might think to be “personal” or secure. Perhaps most important, lulz-oriented actions puncture the consensus around our politics and ethics, our social lives, our aesthetic sensibilities, the inviolability of the world as it is; trolls invalidate that world by gesturing toward the possibility for Internet geeks to destroy it—to pull the carpet from under us—whenever they feel the urge and without warning.”
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Our Weirdness Is Free - Triple Canopy (via lukesimcoe)
This is where Anonymous gets more interesting and relevant to me (and not just for the Lulz):
“The question is: How and why has the anarchic “hate machine” been transformed into one of the most adroit and effective political operations of recent times?”
For me, it’s interesting to watch their engagement with a working-sense of “good and bad”, speaking generally, that is actually not simply self-defined but also socially and politically conscious (that is, that recognizes more “up-ground” ethical and political discourse). I also take this as a tacit recognition that anonymity, which is used equally for snark, surveillance, marketing, and activism, is, in and of itself, no guaranty or testament of goodness or badness. And the same could be said for “community” and “laughter”, I think, too.
Speakers Going Hammer
Soulja Boy
Soulja Boy - Speakers Going Hammer
Photos: World's 40 richest people →
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Here. And they’re all friends on Facebook, too.
