April 2011
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
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Are All Snakes Venomous?
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Iggy Pop Writes A Letter To A Depressed Fan →
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mr-pharmacist:
WHY DO PEOPLE NOT WRITE LETTERS ANY MORE? THIS IS THE BEST EVER.
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Scorched →
The 2009 Guiberson fire in Ventura County, California burned the out-of-bounds area of a nearby golf course. These are photographs of golf balls recovered after the fire. Via MetaChat.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we...
– Samuel Johnson
When you say “This SUCKS!” you’re usually not saying “I...
– Game designer Lars Doucet ruminates on suckage, specifically as it applies to computer role-playing games.
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America now jails more of its people than any country, including all...
– David Simon on the War on Drugs. Via Guernica.
Failure cascades just fascinate me. That’s why I play the game, really- to tear...
– Rock Paper Shotgun interviews The Mittani, CEO of Goon Fleet and soon-to-be Chairman of EVE Online’s Council of Stellar Management.
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The Ramones live at the Palladium, NYC, January 7, 1978. Twenty-six songs in 54 minutes, set to images of old monster movies. The band that single-handedly invented music (pssst: it’s hyperbole, dumbass) at the height of their face-melting 1-2-3-4 sha-la-la gabba-gabba-hey powers. There will never be another band that will make me jump up and down like The Ramones.
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The outside of (a DVD) is moving faster, so you can load things on the OUTSIDE...
– Todd Howard discussing the difficulties and limitations of open-world game design on the Xbox360 during the Bethesda Softworks podcast (48:40-49:20).
flappy-jack asked: Hey there! I am Flapjack from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Have you ever watched my show?
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Fiction can only substitute the chaos of text for the chaos of talk. It replaces...
– John Jeremiah Sullivan reviews David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel, The Pale King, in GQ.