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Ballads for the modern age
By Kate Miller-Heidke:
And Amanda Palmer:
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Tags: facebook, google, lol internets, music, video
Spaghetti Cat (I Weep For You)
Parry Gripp does tinny little electronic songs about random shit on Youtube and the internet. It shouldn’t work, but it totally does.
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Tags: animals, lol internets, video
Fuck you, penguin
Cute Overload is fine and all, but sometimes you just need the snark, y’know?
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Tags: blogs, lol internets
Yeah, pretty much
Oh, XKCD. I had exactly one perfunctory ‘web design’ class in college, to three drawing classes and five art history. (Don’t regret the history – I rocked that stuff – but drawing? Pah.) I also took classes in photography (though not the art dept version, that one was impossible to get into unless it [...]
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Tags: college, history
Optimus Lulz
Somehow I just wasted two hours of my life on one of the most pointless action/sci-fi movies I’ve ever seen: Micheal Bay’s Transformers. It couldn’t even manage to suspend my much-abused suspension of disbelief. (That made no sense… Long story short: I LOL’ed.)
I’m not saying the effects weren’t impressive. I’m saying that it’s a movie [...]
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Tags: damn you hbo, movies, nitpickery
Linkage: Bookmark raid
Books: My favorite Jezebel feature, Fine Lines, revisits Madeleine L’Engle’s The Moon By Night. I never actually read the Austin books, but after I tore though my favorite L’Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet) a few weeks ago I think I might give them a try.
Geek: The Mario Bar, complete with themed drinks. (I long to [...]
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Tags: alcohol, blogs, books, design, photoshop, recipes
