August 2008
44 posts
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electrelane - to the east [no shouts no calls]
“do you know what my initials are? if you don’t know what my initials are, you aren’t looking close enough. did you see the tie i was wearing yesterday? that’s right. my initals are u-s-a. i have some latin and canadian friends, but i always put the usa first.”
- billy mitchell, donkey kong world champion
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the whigs - mission control [mission control]
on a visit to the east coast, suzuki roshi arrived at the meeting place of the cambridge buddhist society to find everyone scrubbing down the interior in anticipation of his visit. they were surprised to see him, because he had written that he would arrive on the following day. he tied back the sleeves of his robe and insisted on joining the preparations ...
“in the 1950s, jim jones started people’s temple in indianapolis [obviously] as a church affiliated with the disciples of christ, a mainline protestant denomination. looking for a safe place in case of a nuclear war, the group moved to california in 1965. due to their left-wing political and social views and focus on racial integration they attracted many new members, especially in...
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welcome - the people’s temple choir
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he’s able - the people’s temple choir...
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heart songs - weezer [red album]
yogdesh blogs. →
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let the beat build - lil wayne [tha carter 3]
diagonal view. →
“in march of 2008 me and my gandhi avatar walked throughout second life for 26 days to reenact his famous 1930’s salt march - the forward steps of my avatar in sl were controlled by me walking in real life on a customized treadmill.”
“after walking with gandhi in second life for 240 miles i decided it would be interesting to extract my avatar from this online world and...
i really like this story. →
WEAREDISABLED →
fuck hasbro →
for the record, creating a black hole would be a way better way to destroy the planet than climate change.
the hadron collider
hard to find 800 numbers
i believe the score is now
brady: 1
comcast: 3,465,371,974
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wale - intro [mixtape about nothing]
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darren hayman - lets go stealing [the secondary...
when names go on trial. take the case of weather’by dot com chanel fourcast sheppard:
the court: all right. now, do you have some objection to him being renamed samuel charles?
sheppard: yes.
the court: why? you think it’s better for his name to be weather’by dot com chanel … fourcast, spelled f-o-u-r-c-a-s-t? and in response to that question, i want you to think about...
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beck - youthless [modern guilt]
objectified is a documentary about industrial design; it’s about the manufactured objects we surround ourselves with, and the people who make them. who makes all these things, and why do they look and feel the way they do? all of these objects are “designed,” but how can good design make them, and our lives, better?
objectified