April 2008
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Disturbing Links of the Day!
Credit Card Shaving-bad guys find valid credit card combinations (at best there are 10^16 combinations…), then hand-craft their own cards that unsuspecting clerks key in by hand.
Myths Concerning Hilary’s Chances-bad logic rules the day, then democrats cannibalize themselves.
Flagrant Examples of Cheating- bad sports get creative, then get busted.
19 Upcoming Horror Movies-...
March 2008
28 posts
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Three Little Birds
Three Little Birds on writify
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright Speaks →
The letter is from nearly a year ago, and it completely lambasts The New York Times
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Nader Speaks
Corporate Fascism is such an apt term.
At the moment, I’m having such a difficult time deciding between Obama and Nader, as faithful readers could probably tell.
Where’s Kucinich?
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Top Fifty "Guy" Movies →
I’ve seen 35* of them (and intend on seeing the rest of them), but what is really interesting is how the breakdown goes:
50-41: 3
40-31: 5
30-21: 7
20-11: 9 (I still can’t believe I haven’t seen Goodfellas
10-1: 11
Yeah, so I had to force 11 movies out of 10, but it works since the Grindhouse double feature is actually two distinct movies. Still, the breakdown is...
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Tidbits and Tadpoles
An excellent article about web standards (and standards in general, really) that everyone can read and understand.
A hilarious video about making the first Mac probably not worth seven minutes, but definitely worth at least 2.5.
Very punny
10 cool Star Wars videos. The George Lucas in Love one gets a little old after a while, but the real gem is the little girl explaining the movie. Kids...
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Discardia
Discardia, a holiday devoted to purging yourself of things you don’t need, has begun. I’ve started off with a bang by getting rid of a healthy portion of clothing and inbox email. The scaryfull closet is next on the list. What can you do (of note, bad feelings towards others, or negative thoughts totally count)?
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10 "1984" Quotes →
Frighteningly accurate.
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A More Perfect Union- Barack Obama →
“For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle… We can do that. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change. “
“By itself, that single...
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St. Patrick's Day Redux
When I made my first appearance in public on St. Patrick’s Day (at The Brunchery), I was a little embarrassed that I didn’t have an green on. Turns out, I was lucky (har har) enough to have both packed and not have worn my only pair of green underwear by that morning. I didn’t even realize until later.
That said, it turns out orange would have been just fine as well (not that I...
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obsessing, part III (WTF?)
Ummm… the foremost guy for the Yankees, Hank Steinbrenner, chimed in on the Devil Rays/Yankees controversy, and subsequently pissed off every small-market teams (and probably some of the bigger ones he lumped in with the Yankees in some sort of unholy baseball alliance) by saying the following:
“I don’t want these teams in general to forget who subsidizes a lot of them, and...
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The Case Against "March Madness"
J.A. Adande makes a case that the best basketball in March will be professional and not amateur. I’ve actually come to appreciate pro-basketball a lot more recently (if you like basketball, you almost have to like the NBA- the players are SO FREAKING GOOD), and I somewhat agree with him. That said, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is the greatest yearly sporting event in the...
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obsessing
Sorry, I should just let it go, but it keeps getting better and better:
(Last year, at spring training): Pay-Rod says that “[‘The Slap’] was a brilliant play… and we almost got away with it.”
(This year, at spring training): Shelly Duncan says that he doesn’t “…understand why they were as upset as they were.”
and people wonder why the...
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Fun Links for the Day
Pay-Rod and Bruce Bowen are birds of a feather in my opinion.
Thom York bad, Trent Reznor good; I only liked Kid A, anyways.
Perhaps the best map ever made. The best part is when she (yes, she) compares Ludacris to Johnny Cash.
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Yeah, I'm not optimistic, either. →
At least Nader is back in the race.
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She's Not Bad-Looking... →
… but she seems like the kind of woman that I wouldn’t even want to actually meet, let alone pay to “meet.” Spitzer, you are a fool.
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20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time →
“upward of a billion files are swapped every month on peer-to-peer networks”
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Do You See Now Pay-Rod? →
This is why I will never, ever respect you as a baseball player or a person. Granted, he wasn’t (directly) involved with this play, but you are the highest-profile player on a high-profile team, and it is spring training. And yes, I know that minor acts of retaliation are as old as baseball, but that doesn’t make it right. Besides, this is just a dirty play, plain and simple .
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Bizarre Military Experiments →
I am consistently a fan of what cracked does.
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The New Deadly Sins (Still Seven, though) →
genetic modification
carrying out experiments on humans
polluting the environment
causing social injustice
causing poverty
becoming obscenely wealthy
taking drugs
That’s a list I can actually support.
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The Bank Job
A sexy, fun, clever, English, and true version of Inside Man (minus the twist). Check it out.
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Pandora and Flixster
Never really used either Pandora nor Flixster, but so far it has been a productive morning:
(music) - Walking With a Ghost, a live The White Stripes EP
(music) - Wolfmother, Cold War Kids
(film) - Lady Snowblood, Lady Vengence, Zatoichi, and True Romance
Though, I don’t really feel like Radiohead and The Strokes are similar to The White Stripes at all.
Also, I learned that album...
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Shirts and Scrabble
I’m not certain which is worse, that I wore six different shirts today, or that I am not going to clean any of them. Maybe that isn’t even a bad thing.
Played Scrabble with the (unofficially) Chattanooga Scrabble Club (1st and 3rd Wednesdays at Rock Point Books). Got killed in my first game. Truthfully, the guy I was playing must have thought I was twelve and it was my first try at...
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changes
lots of stuff today!
I’ve changed things a little bit, as you can see, so that I am using bjournal.juxtapoz.net. I’m pretty confident that the old address will just redirect you to the new one.
It might even be the case that there will be something back at juxtapoz.net very soon… excitment.
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American Gangster
I’d heard a lot of really positive things about this movie before seeing it, but never actually made it to the theatre while it was there. So, I was relegated to seeing it at home.
The movie is very well constructed. It intertwines the stories of three characters- Frank Lucas, Richie Roberts, and the Vietnam War- masterfully. It is usually the case that what is happening to one of the...
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Faith (in Humanity)
Sunday wasn’t such a great day for me. Without going into too much detail, the most distressing thing that happened was that I had left my check card at a restaurant in Mid-town New York and a couple hours later I was on a plane headed for my layover in Chicago. I realized what had happened when I was getting ready to eat dinner. Luckily, I had rememberd the receipt* and gave the restaurant...