January 2012
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rachelfershleiser:
langer:
“We have to say what we feel: that government, no matter what its failures in the past—and in times to come, for that matter—that government can be a place where people come together.”
We have to say what we feel.
UUUNNNNNNFFFFFFFFFFF!
“I have no trouble understanding why the line tested well, but I don’t think that means we should say it.”
I...
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Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a...
iheartchaos:
There’s all sorts of magic to be had with numbers, and many mathematicians have made entire careers in finding these little tricks that are mostly useless, but fun anyway. Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results of this trick, but if you manage to get a hold of one that doesn’t, solving 1/998001 will generate all the three digit numbers from 000 to...
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So the story over the past few days is that today is the one-month point for...
– Shamus Young of Twenty Sided
I’m not touching that game with a ten foot pole
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rosalarian:
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oldstarnewshine:
how to cut down on an enormous chunk of illegal downloading, and this is so absurdly simple that it boggles the mind:
make your show / movie / whatever accessible online.
put ads on it so you can make money off of it, or sell a subscription to a competitive streaming service like netflix.
make it available
everywhere, meaning the country of...
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megan rosalarian gedris: Dressed to Kill →
rosalarian:
Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Yes. Yes they are. I am aware of this. While I think the idealism is harmful, that isn’t actually what I have a problem…
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Hey Christians, this is why no one likes you →
Jessica Ahlquist wins her lawsuit to have her high school’s (highly unconsitutional) prayer banner taken down, faces threats of violence and death from her classmates, schoolmates and assorted compassionate christians.
“Hmm jess is in my bio class, she’s gonna get some shit thrown at her”
“I want to punch the girl in the face that made west take down the school prayer… #Honestly”
“hail...
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How can it be so difficult to make a gif animation from a video without shelling out for software? Even with Gimp it takes crazy contortions to get it to work.
gif via bonesaw-mcgraw
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