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17th April 2009
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You know how it is — we’re frightened and appalled by the thought of unmanned killing machines, but if they must exist we really, really want to play with one.
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16th April 2009
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Change you can believe in! Or maybe not.
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16th April 2009
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16th April 2009
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I am not making this up. Fortunately, I’ve already had breakfast.
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15th April 2009
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Jerry Pournelle has been pushing this scheme for decades. It looks like it’s finally getting some mindshare.
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13th April 2009
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To make that clear, white people are paying $15-25 per session to hold their dog in the same position as other white people. This is considered a relative bargain.
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31st March 2009
Authoress Lynn Viehl has some fun with hate mail.
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29th March 2009
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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27th March 2009
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In the future, we’ll be able to power up our devices with a wave of the hand, a short walk or via our heartbeats, said engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology on Thursday.
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25th March 2009
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America, land of achievement.
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24th March 2009
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I have a little list, they never would be missed….
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22nd March 2009
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I am not making this up.
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20th March 2009
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And here I was hoping it was Hockaday.
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18th March 2009
This contains a video of Neil’s appearance on the Colbert Report. It is well worth watching, and contains irrefutable proof that Neil is the world’s nicest and wittiest human being, and that Colbert is a pretentious putz.
Neil’s daughter is pretty cute, too, and looks much cuter without the braces.
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16th March 2009
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Which does not in the least reduce my compelling need to have one. “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”
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13th March 2009
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Oh, I so want one of these….
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13th March 2009
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Markets will arise whenever there is a willing buyer and a willing seller.
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6th March 2009
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It’s like YouTube is a giant filter for dumb criminals.
Think of it as evolution in action. Criminality plus narcissism is never a good combination.
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3rd March 2009
Check out “PVP Online” on the right. A new story line starts on March 2.
For those of you who are familiar with WATCHMEN, this will be entertaining.
For those of you who aren’t, it will be terminally confusing. But that’s cool, too.
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27th February 2009
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27th February 2009
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it’s a moral imperative.
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25th February 2009
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We have the technology.
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24th February 2009
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Since all white people consider themselves to be “creative,” they are constantly in need of products and accessories that will allow them to capture their thoughts. One of the more popular products in recent years has been the Moleskine notebook.
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24th February 2009
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23rd February 2009
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This is just cute.
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22nd February 2009
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It is, however, a work of art.
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21st February 2009
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A professional gatecrasher who snuck his way into last year’s Oscars has been hired by the event’s bosses to plug the gaps in their security for this weekend’s ceremony.
That shows more sense than I’ve seen Hollywood people use in my lifetime.
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20th February 2009
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Gotta admire his willingness to experiment, though.
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17th February 2009
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I am not making this up.
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11th February 2009
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Oh, I don’t want to beam down with the Captain
‘Cause the Captain beams up alone….
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11th February 2009
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So, in sum, Amazon doesn’t ship any Kindles during the Christmas season, but they do accept orders and build demand. They (i) turn just having the ability to buy their product into ‘good customer service,’ (ii) don’t have to worry about throwing a bone to the early adopters and (iii) don’t have to deal with any excess inventory on the original Kindle because by the time people know about the Kindle 2, no one who owns a Kindle 1 would fall into the return window time frame.
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10th February 2009
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A white person getting a tattoo is a major step in their life as it presupposes that their taste at this given moment is good enough to sustain them for the rest of their lives. Needless to say, this is a near impossible task. This is why you don’t see a lot of white people with R.E.M. or Strokes tattoos.
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6th February 2009
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I don’t know where Wally finds these things; it’s a gift.
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4th February 2009
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You know you want one.
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2nd February 2009
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A truly epic struggle between good and evil.
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1st February 2009
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If that’s a recession, I’d like to see what a boom is like. (Reminds me the story about the African who is reported to have said, “I want to come to America and see a country where the poor people are fat.”)
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1st February 2009
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Invented by an American, of course.
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28th January 2009
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You know you want one.
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28th January 2009
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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.
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27th January 2009
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Perhaps by coincidence, or perhaps not, Alcatraz is in the constituency of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and a vocal liberal opponent of Guantanamo.
I like it. It has texture, and scope.
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25th January 2009
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With great power comes great bureaucracy.
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20th January 2009
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17th January 2009
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One really loathes seeing tastelessness, self-indulgence, and lack of intelligence jump up onto the table and loudly defend itself. If you need to dress like a young boy well into your 30s and 40s because you are psychologically crippled or otherwise unable to shrug off adolescent immaturity, that’s fine, but at least have the decency to acknowledge this as a weakness of character.
This guy is one of us.
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16th January 2009
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Stick a 50-cal turret on the sucker and I’m there.
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15th January 2009
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Sure, you need 20 years of education for that….
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15th January 2009
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Some people just refuse to quit.
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15th January 2009
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Saw an episode of “Buffy” about that once. Life imitates art.
But after she began missing classes last August, a truancy officer investigated Brown. Her real identity was revealed when she was found in jail being held on an unrelated fraud case.
Ah, they don’t make cheerleaders like they used to.
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8th January 2009
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Much the most interesting thing I’ve seen in the New York Times in years.
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4th January 2009
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But Sea Salt is like Trader Joes, Banksy, or The Shins-entry level to their respective field. Therefore, it is important that you learn about other more expensive salts so that you can complain about not having them. To a white person, this shows that you know and love expensive things but feel sad that you can’t yet afford them.
I have never known a White Person who was not a food snob. Preference for sea salt is an essential component thereof.
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3rd January 2009
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What’s sauce for Harry Reid….
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