December 2011
November 2011
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Amadi Talks: Siri Failures, Illustrated →
amaditalks:
The recent illustrations of Siri, the iPhone 4S voice-recognition based assistant, failing to provide information to users about abortion, birth control, help after rape and help with domestic violence has gotten a lot of notice. Yesterday’s post with screenshots from a Twitter conversation I was…
This is really interesting and well done (and infuriating). Recommended...
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
– Rumi (via libraryland)
“Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you...”
– 10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large...
hyperphagia:
Perhaps we have to experience the worst to appreciate the best?
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www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts: THIS BLOG... →
sageoflogic:
paxamericana:
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the…
I HATE RON PAUL, NOT EVEN BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST OFFENSIVE CANDIDATE (hi, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich and Michele...
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The doctor identified himself when they replied, then said rapidly, I’m fine, thank you, no doubt the receptionist had inquired, How are you, doctor, that is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one’s courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in human species.
- José...
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gannetguts:
And where have you been, my darling...
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“I continually cry, over everything. I’m crying right now! I’m drying my tears...”
– Robert Pattinson on how often he cries. (via robquotes)
ugh, reigniting my Pattinson obsession. Weirdest human.
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words mean things
I’m trying to go more natural with skincare products, and dear Lord, hippies of the internet: EVERYTHING IS MADE OF CHEMICALS. Saying “this sunblock is chemical-free” makes no sense whatsoever. Water is a chemical. Salt is a chemical. Many things are chemicals.
“Chemical” is not a proxy for “artificial product that makes me uncomfortable, from reasons ranging...
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“‘When you sit down, keep your feet firm and even, without putting one on the other or crossing them. Put not off your clothes in the presence of others, nor go out of your chamber half-dressed.’ What a tight-assed little priss he must’ve been.”
— Jed Bartlet re: George Washington
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Implosions: this is the most amazing thing ever... →
toosiblog:
A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist ”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even…
perfection
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mini pet peeve
asocial: avoidant of society
antisocial: hostile toward society
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“Nation, it’s no surprise that I am addicted to all the Republican presidential...”
– Stephen Colbert (via iwaslivinginadeviltown)
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Watchflute-genevive:
the-mtblog:
Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night to talk about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, and gave a serious commentary about how people knew of Sandusky’s abuse and didn’t do anything, as well as the recent student rioting over the firing of coach Joe Paterno.
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“At Pennsylvania State University, a grown man found a blameless child being put through hell. Other grown men learned of it. Each of them had to make their choice, and decide, fundamentally, whether the continuation of their utopia — or at very least the illusion of their utopia — was worth the pain and suffering of that one child. Through their actions, and their inactions, we know the...
cosmo tip #35
expertcosmotips:
bring him small dead animals as tokens of your affection and displays of your hunting prowess
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“17. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (2004):
You will like this...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via thedrollhouse)
Accurate description is accurate.
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Step one, we buy into this club.
Step...
whatever, etc.: I wish people would understand... →
nick-andopolis:
Here’s a confession: I have, in the past, laughed at and made rape jokes. It wasn’t a habit, but I can distinctly recall a couple of occasions when I, for some stupid reason, thought it was perfectly acceptable to laugh at the expense of sorority girls or cavalierly claim…
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“Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people,...”
– J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via feelinganddreaming)
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fascinating quote that I bookmarked a while ago...
“On the one hand, as we know full well here, there is a lot of social power tied up in appearance, in looking “normal” for whatever your culture deems as normality. On the other hand, there is something so dismissive about that figurative link between “cosmetic” and “superficial” — the phrase “intended merely to improve appearances” drips with condescension. (I should note that I’m not...
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