May 2013
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"Music is Life, and like Life, Inextinguishable" →
Here’s a weird way to start your Monday morning… by reading an article about your great grandfather that uses his death as a thesis statement.
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As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis Arrested In... →
Metal singer taken into custody Tuesday after allegedly soliciting an undercover cop to have his estranged wife killed.
Is it terrible that I’m not at all surprised that this would be coming from someone so intent on their Jesus-yness? I was really into Frail Words Collapse at the time, despite the fact that I do not approve of bands using music as a way to preach. To be fair, if this is...
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Today in "No Shit" News: Study Finds Bearded Men... →
A newly published study out of the University of New South Wales concludes that men and women find bearded faces more attractive than shaven ones.
I’ve been prosletyzing on this point for years. Also, click here for more beard related content.
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April 2013
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things that are on my mind:
the decision not to buy kiss tickets this time around still weighs on me.
i heard a wan, whiny voice coming from the teevee in some simulacra of a rap song. i went downstairs, and saw it was a drake video. THIS is what everyone was freaking out about last year?
i always assume the worst about myself, so i’m always pleasantly surprised.
regarding this last point, see: organizing all my tax...
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Facebook Home and the Silicon Social Experience
Periodically, I like to grind my anti-Facebook axe, but the two new ads for Facebook’s smartphone for dummies practically skewer themselves.
The first, called “Launch Day”, stars Zuckerberg himself, as well as a rogue “employee” who’d rather surf his new Facebook phone than pay attention to the meeting. Hilarity ensues, I guess, as the employee’s...
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RBC declares war against Canadian workers →
For what it’s worth, I just sent my letter of complaint to Raymond Chouinard (raymond.chouinard@rbc.com), the Quebec media relations rep, as well as to Janice Fukakusa, and Zabeen Hirji. Unsurprisingly, my email to CEO Gordon Nixon failed.
Won’t you join me? Contact info is below.
rantingcanadian:
RBC contacts
RBC complaint form: http://www.rbc.com/customercare
RBC form to contact...
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March 2013
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More proof that I’m a hardass whether awake...
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You Are What You Like →
If you missed the Gawker article on this topic, I suggest you check it out, otherwise click through above for the .pdf which indicates which Facebook likes are associated with which personality types.
Some of my favorites? Fans of 2ne1 are more likely to be single (FOREVER ALONE, k-pop fans), followers of the contemporary aphorism “Bitch You Ain’t Pretty Your A Slut That’s Why All The Guys...
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Project Implicit →
Do you have an implicit bias against certain ages, races, genders, sexual orientations or ability levels? You can assist researchers and find out what lies beneath your own assumptions and beliefs by following the link above and registering for a study, or try a demo test.
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February 2013
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things that are on my mind (oscars & more...
among reality television contestants, referring to yourself in the third person is usually the biggest giveaway of mental instability.
the number of times a person attempts to casually solicit interest in their upcoming travel destination is directly inverse to the number of interesting places they’ve been in their life.
i was convinced we’d finish borderlands 2 this weekend....
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Another year, another console
Out of idle interest, and not serious intent, I decided to sit through the two hour Playstation 4 announcement last night. Having recently become a PS3 owner, and despite it having cemented my overall preference for Xbox, I was still curious to see what the upcoming generation would bring for Sony.
The PS4 announcement seems to have hit on three key talking points: social interactivity,...
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WatchThose unfortunate enough to follow me on Twitter know that I’m very fond of livetweeting the hollow trainwreck of the human experience that is ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. While the shows themselves serve as cheap parodies of “dating”, “relationships”, and “love”, here comes a parody of the parody in the form of a webseries called Burning...
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