SWEET JESUS

ah jeeze

guys..

it's like stalin fucked pocahantas

Russian Indians:

you

history? on my blog?

the bit where he juxtaposes palin & wallace is nice:

The history of the modern Republican Party in one sentence: Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller got into an argument and George Wallace won.

ahh, legitimacy

the right's version of goth:

PRAY AND I DRIVE through a bleak landscape of fallow winter fields and strip malls in his blue Dodge Stratus as Drowning Pool's "Bodies"—a heavy metal song once used to torment Abu Ghraib detainees—plays on the stereo. Clad in an oversize black hoodie that hides his military physique, Pray sports an Army-issue buzz cut and is seriously inked (skulls, smoke, an eagle). His father kicked him out of the house at age 14. Two years later, after working jobs from construction to plumbing—"If it's blue collar, I've done it"—he tried to enlist. It wasn't long after 9/11, and he was hell-bent on revenge. The Army turned him down. Blaming the "THOR" tattooed across his fist, Pray tried to burn it off. On September 11, 2006, he approached the Army again and was accepted.

So..

Does anyone know if Tracy Morgan is actually insane?

CAUSE YOU KNOW ME, JON STEWART. I'M OLD SCHOOL.

...

I DON'T BE PULLIN' OUT.

wham!

So THAT'S how it is in their family..

fuckyeahbritishparliament:

"I don't want to be rude," Mr Farage began, before launching into a personal attack lasting several minutes.

I love you, Matt Taibbi

Why David Brooks needs to be tortured to death:

That’s basically Brooks’s entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of “excesses” — but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.

He goes on to give a verbal interpretation of this graphic:

Google is cool

“Our job is to basically change the engines on a plane that is flying at 1,000 kilometers an hour, 30,000 feet above Earth."

Google’s synonym system understood that a dog was similar to a puppy and that boiling water was hot. But it also concluded that a hot dog was the same as a boiling puppy. The problem was fixed in late 2002 by a breakthrough based on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theories about how words are defined by context. As Google crawled and archived billions of documents and Web pages, it analyzed what words were close to each other. “Hot dog” would be found in searches that also contained “bread” and “mustard” and “baseball games” — not poached pooches. That helped the algorithm understand what “hot dog” — and millions of other terms — meant. “Today, if you type ‘Gandhi bio,’ we know that bio means biography,” Singhal says. “And if you type ‘bio warfare,’ it means biological.”

holy shit:

Along with real-time search, Google has introduced other new features, including a service called Goggles, which treats images captured by users’ phones as search queries. It’s all part of the company’s relentless march toward search becoming an always-on, ubiquitous presence. With a camera and voice recognition, a smartphone becomes eyes and ears. If the right signals are found, anything can be query fodder.

i can't wait until my brain runs Google OS!

i give it a 10

too lazy to check out the methodology but this is pretty FINALLY stuff:

The evidence that such messages can lead to clear, almost immediate changes in how people think and behave is accumulating fast. Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched. Research by Tiffany Field of the Touch Research Institute in Miami has found that a massage from a loved one can not only ease pain but also soothe depression and strengthen a relationship.

posting a rainbow after those two posts

IT'S-A ME!

lovely

the dude in the epic beard man fight

inflatable sleeping coat.

for the queerboggin

getting paid to roll around naked on a beach is not a bad gig

i lol @ her running away, every time

watching dis

yeah i just watched this

i am an old man

i remember this screen:

“Apparently, the boy in this picture wasn’t posing, he was actually lost. He came up to The Flash and Wonder woman, and they helped him find his dad"

uh this may seem familiar

ugh times 5

AHAHAHAHA

ugh

Next up for Tarantino? "I'd like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let's shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it 'A Southern.'"

so here is a thing

"In June 1969, the Niagara River was completely diverted away from the American Falls for several months through construction of a temporary rock and earth dam (clearly visible in the photo at left).^[20] While the Horseshoe Falls absorbed the extra flow, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studied the riverbed and mechanically bolted and strengthened any faults they found; faults which would, if left untreated, have hastened the retreat of the American Falls. A plan to remove the huge mound of talus deposited in 1954 was abandoned owing to cost, and in November 1969, the temporary dam was dynamited, restoring flow to the American Falls. Even after these undertakings, Luna Island, the small piece of land between the main waterfall and the Bridal Veil, remained off limits to the public for years owing to fears that it was unstable and could collapse into the gorge at any time."

iawtc

surprise, it's the national review

Doritos are srs bsns:

In real life, a child who hits an adult needs to be disciplined. If a child did that to me, I would grab his offending arm and apply enough force to make it clear that he will never do that again.

After I mentioned this on my radio show, some psychotherapists sent me e-mails disagreeing with these views. They noted, for example, that “violence breeds violence.”

Some clichés are true; I find this one meaningless.The truth is very different: Immoral violence breeds violence; moral violence (such as just wars, police work, and appropriate parental discipline) reduces violence.

lol

you know what movie i like that is faggy

shakespeare in love

whoa

howard benthine will fuck you up:

“The river was only a foot deep and about 100 or 125 feet wide. You could across the river on dead Japs when it was all over and not even get your feet wet.”

damn.

i can sympathize <3

idwtp

big ups to the unintentional LULZ in the last line though

nathan fillion calls joss whedon

can't... not... giggle...

wired:

At one point Thursday, parliament’s website was felled after getting 7.5 million hits a second. Usually, it receives a few hundred a second.

wiki:

A spokeswoman for Conroy said such attacks were not a legitimate political protest. They were "totally irresponsible and potentially deny services to the Australian public"

"WE'RE THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED TO DO THAT"

this

WE ARE NOT AMUSED

srsly

fuck asians

all your friends included

dickmove

hey

i said knock it off

oh my god

people who aren't horrible or stupid or boring actually saying interesting things about interesting movies, i can breathe again:

Tarsem’s The Fall is one of those movies that inspire modified praise, even from its most fervent champions—phrases like “flawed masterpiece,” “magnificent folly,” and from A.V. Club superfan Tasha Robinson, “the most glorious, wonderful mess put onscreen since Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.” One’s mileage for glorious messes tends to vary—the “mess” part is all Tasha and I can agree on with Gilliam’s recent The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus—but there’s great appeal in a filmmaker who commits to an ambitious, splashy, personal vision, however awkward and foolhardy it might be. I don’t doubt that everyone who watches The Fall recognizes both its folly and its magnificence, but it’s fascinating and telling (and personal) how individual viewers wind up balancing that equation in the end. It’s one of those strange cases where two people can agree point by point on everything that does and doesn’t work in a movie, yet come to opposite conclusions about it.

hey

stop making posts you suck

slam

god sometimes i really love the av club:

Surely somewhere out there, there are fans of the first two Harry Potter movies who were bereft when Chris Columbus didn’t go on to direct subsequent entries in the franchise. Those few jilted fans can now line up for their methadone in the form of Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a kids’-book adaptation that follows the J.K. Rowling formula closely enough to ease the pangs of forlorn Harry Potter fans in general.

Like The Spiderwick Chronicles, Bridge To Terabithia, City Of Ember, and other recent CGI-heavy kid-lit film adaptations, Percy Jackson is mostly a reasonable distraction for bored kids, but also a reminder that the source material is almost always more flavorful and fulfilling than derivative work.

could not have put it better myself

this is why i hate you, elijah wood

it is because you are the creepiest hominid that has ever existed

lol

A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts, Part 1

In Israel, it was known as "The Syndicate":

While other commodities, such as gold, silver, copper, rubber, and grains, fluctuated wildly in response to economic conditions, diamonds have continued, with few exceptions, to advance upward in price every year since the Depression.

made by a few of the engineers IN THEIR SPARE TIME

uh no thanks fb

what

"Robert Pattinson covers the tenth anniversary issue of Details with his head nestled next to a vagina, even though inside he tells the magazine he hates them. He also poses with some naked ladies and says that his only relationship of relevance is with his dog. An excerpt:

"I really hate vaginas. I'm allergic to vagina. But I can't say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five or six hours. But I wasn't exactly prepared. I had no idea what to say to these girls. Thank God I was hungover."

picnic is a terrible name but neat trick

currently listening to

i approve of this

" Palestinians dressed as Na’vi protest Israel’s separation barrier near the West Bank village of Bil’in."

the bomb

http://onlinesupermario.com/

i came

when are they going to be uploaded glbksthvkjthsth

everyone loves chatlogs, right?

12:47:24 AM shoggoth: yeah... like it almost wants to be a male nipple
12:47:25 AM shoggoth: but it is not.
12:47:35 AM shoggoth: we are holding this conversation for a moment too long i believe
12:47:41 AM metastatic: like a stillborn baby
12:47:44 AM metastatic: that looks really good
12:47:47 AM metastatic: but your wife is crying
12:47:53 AM metastatic: and there's sandwiches in the vending machine, anyway

this pleases us

sex

no further comment

DON'T SKIP OVER THIS AND POST IT THREE DAYS LATER

silly proto-feminists

this is the most awesome thing i have ever seen

HOW CAN I DO THIS

irl mario

this is an unexpected article

“Marty just has this unique gift with regard to music in film. It’s one of those mysteries. You could tell right from the opening scene of ‘Mean Streets,’ with the Ronettes doing ‘Be My Baby.’ It isn’t about the song, or the lyrics, it only has to do with the Wall of Sound, and that’s why it’s so beautiful.”

On “Shutter Island,” Mr. Robertson said, “This was the first time in all these years that he’s ever said to me, ‘God, I don’t know what to do with this material music-wise.’ ”

-NYT

fuck you hollywood, part fuck you in the dick

LET'S PLAY A FUN GAME, GUESS WHERE I STOPPED READING:

Set in a quaint fishing community on the outskirts of New York City, City Island is a hilarious and touching tale about a family whose comfortable co-existence is upended by surprising revelations of past secrets and present day lies. Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Ashamed to admit his aspirations to his family, Vince would rather let his fiery wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies) believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an extramarital affair than admit he’s secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off a chaotic chain of events that turns his mundane suburban life upside down. Inspired by the exercise, he decides to bring his long-lost ex-con son Tony (Steven Strait) home to meet the family, and it soon becomes clear that everyone—including his college student daughter (Dominik García-Lorido), teenaged son Vinnie, Jr. (Ezra Miller), charismatic acting partner (Emily Mortimer) and drama coach (Alan Arkin)— has something to hide. A perfect storm of deception, half truths and confusion makes Vince and his family members realize that the truth may not set them free, but it is easier to keep track of than all their well-intentioned white lies.

Did you guess "quaint"? You did? GOOD JOB.

and here's the whole interview, not the edited one they put on tv

its much better

preparing myself for the hatemail

paula seen's reaction to her critics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zdCAjpjYOM

i'd put this in my house

hurl

james cameron: douche-canoe

from an interview with his ex-wife

"One of James Cameron's four ex-wives, actress Linda Hamilton, is opening up about their troubled marriage--which failed, she said, because Cameron's only committed relationship is to his work"

"Cameron shouts 'Take a number, take a number,' when people want to talk to him"

"His mantra: "He used to say to me: 'Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I'm going for that.'""

"On the set of True Lies, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, he warned that taking lavatory breaks was a sackable offence."

"Kate Winslet was so traumatised by working for Cameron on Titanic that she vowed never to make another film with him."

are you fucking serious

Former Congressman and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo told an audience on Thursday at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville that "people who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House."

"His name," Tancredo said, "is Barack Hussein Obama."

guy on the left is like the creepiest person i've ever seen

OMG

basically my blog today is going to be a bunch of buffy comic related stuff

oh PETA

you so crazy

so good sometimes

songs i will always love / lol at / get stuck in my head once every few months

NO NO WE ARE FUCKING DONE PROFESSIONALLY

NO STOP DONT DO THIS

why old ppl shouldn't be allowed on the internet

yippy skippy

hrm?

"NEW YORK — Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them – findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.

The new research suggests that standard tests may overlook patients who have some consciousness, and that someday some kind of communication may be possible.

In the strongest example, a 29-year-old patient was able to answer yes-or-no questions by visualizing specific scenes the doctors asked him to imagine. The two visualizations sparked different brain activity viewed through a scanning machine.

"We were stunned when this happened," said one study author, Martin Monti of Medical Research Council Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England. "I find it literally amazing. This was a patient who was believed to be vegetative for five years."

Ever since a research paper four years ago showed apparent signs of awareness in a vegetative patient – one who was included in the new study – families of patients have been clamoring for brain scans, said Dr. James Bernat of Dartmouth Medical School, a spokesman for the American Academy of Neurology."

headdesk

the futureeeee

whatever floats your boat

mm thought experiments, sure hope the lay press doesn't totally blow this out of proportion

Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy:

Hotta outlines his idea and its implications. The process of teleportation involves making a measurement on each one an entangled pair of particles. He points out that the measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system. He then shows that by carefully choosing the measurement to do on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy.

I feel like this is somehow cheating, though awesome nonetheless.

just watching a japanese commercial from 1977

o god

hooray

"President Obama will be doing another televised question-and-answer session tomorrow morning -- this one with the Senate Democratic Caucus."

this is mildly upsetting ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT

nuckin futs

awkward

holy lol

alright this is cool

"Having your mom remove smudge from your face using a napkin she just licked in front of the entire school 2.0."

patrick stewart ilusm

aha i want to go here :x

hay-sus

In north-east China, an unnamed Chinese girl gave birth by Caesarean section to a health baby boy. She was 9 years old. She was bought to a hospital in Changchun when she was eight and a half months pregnant, and gave birth there, a Chinese newspaper reported.

According to reports, local police haven't determined who the father is, but are investigating -- in this province sex with a minor under the age of 14 comes with an automatic rape conviction and jail sentence.

This new mother is among the world's youngest mothers, but not the youngest. The youngest reported mother in the world is Lina Medina of Peru, who was pregnant at five years, eight months old, and gave birth to a normal boy at age six, five months.

a poll of 2000 republicans

"39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure"

WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT THE FUCK

KATRINA, 2 WARS WITH NO JUSTIFICATION, POLITICIZING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, OUTING A U.S SPY, DOING NOTHING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING, RUINING OUR REPUTATION ABROAD, AND DOING IT ALL WITH A FUCKING SMIRK ON HIS FACE BUT THIS GUY, THE NIGGER DESERVES TO BE IMPEACHED

I GIVE UP

this is some depressing shit, +2 Fucked Up Points

http://www.fallenprincesses.com/

deadpool variant cover

whoever gets to do the art for deadpool basically has the best job/gets to have the most fun

i'm not sure i like the sound of this

“Heroes will be heroes again,” says Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada. “They’ve gone through hell and they’re back to being good guys — a throwback to the early days of the Marvel Universe, with more of a swashbuckling feel.”

The change begins with a relaunch of Avengers #1, which will reunite Iron Man, a reborn Captain America and Thor as comrades rather than foes.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-01-27-marvel27_ST_N.htm?csp=usat.me

dis pleases me

neat

not sure why i identify with this picture

seks

buh

people of walmart continues to terrify me

watch this

what am i watching

compelling

a little light reading

drew barrymore should play dazzler y/n

gentlemen! start your interpreting!

In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats.

"The whole aim of practical politics," wrote journalist gadfly H.L. Mencken,
"is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins."

i wonder if this has anything to do with all the militaristic posturing typically associated with those views. I'M NOT SCARED, GRRR

that’s right, stephanie brown. you suck. it is official. everyone knows

hm