June 2010
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on the new space police kits from lego
the new iteration of space police? kind of crap.
the police uniforms are grey with black half-helmets and the opaque black visors from blacktron. there’s a dozen dudes and one female, but she’s only available with the mothership set. extremely bland. while i didn’t entirely like the fancy stylings of space police II, those guys were very distinctive. my favorite, of course,...
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BBC News - Second firm withdraws drugs from Greece... →
By Malcolm Brabant for BBC News, Athens
(via warren ellis)
Another Danish pharmaceutical company is withdrawing products from Greece in protest at the government’s decision to cut the prices of medicines by 25%.
The Leo Pharma company says it is suspending sales of two popular drugs because the price reductions will cause job losses across Europe.
The Greek government is struggling with...
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“David Simon treats writing an hour of televised drama as a privilege not a...”
– @Josh_Friedman via Warren Ellis
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“[In England] The party that lost is working with the party that won. They’re not...”
– Bill Maher (via goodreasonnews, affably) (via posthumanism) (via starwhale)
i nearly tumbled some bill maher comedy bits recently where he’s trying to be george carlin, and it doesn’t work, because while maher has some sound logic and good points to make, he delivers it with a smarmy...
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FreakAngels » Episode 0098 →
there are extraordinary spoilers here if you haven’t read the first four trades worth of material (if you want to wade in anyways start with episode 0097 which is a good recap) BUT i have a read a lot of warren ellis comics in my time, and this is six pages of pure unfiltered warren ellis saying ‘fuck it all i’m doing this now’ and it is AMAZING. this is probably the...
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Deportation Nightmare: Eduardo Caraballo, US... →
Caraballo was born in Puerto Rico, making him a natural-born citizen of the United States. He moved to the mainland as an infant, and now lives in Chicago.
Last week, NBC reports that he was arrested in connection with a stolen car in Berwyn. Caraballo maintains his innocence. In any case, when his mother posted bail on Friday, he was not freed.
“Instead of being released, he was told by...
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“I feel like M. Night Shyamalan keeps ‘M. Night Shymalanning’ me on...”
– friend of a friend on facebook.
i have to agree, though. i caught the full ‘the last airbender’ trailer in front of iron man 2? and it simultaneously looks really good, but also like a bunch of suburban white kids putting on a school play based on the cartoon. the action shots are...
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“School prepares you for the real world, which also sucks.”
– the normaali päivä project: The Last Day of School
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Mightygodking.com » Absolutely the last thing I... →
wherein mgk guesstimates answers for that ‘100 questions lost didn’t answer’ video you’ve probably seen around. i’m more or less in agreement with most of his take, with the caveat that i’m not disappointed because i didn’t get ‘official’ answers to all this as much as i think exploring some more of this would have made for more compelling tv...
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“There is no movement,” Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor told...”
– Ed Rendell via Marbury
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The 100 Year Wait Is Almost Over
nezua:
therealestsocksinthegame:
housingworksbookstore:
Mark Twain left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now. Volume I will hit shelves in November.
(via The Millions)
wowwww. now that is a must-have if i ever heard of one.
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The Vile Anti-Mexican Nature of Arizona Law
nezua:
Hoo boy do I find it really gross that Arizona is pushing accented teachers out of teaching English. They think they can dress it up with specific intellectual type requirements that only sound disgusting to me for their attempt to codify their ethnocentric behavior:
“Nearly half the teachers at Creighton, a K-8 school in a Hispanic neighborhood of Phoenix, are native Spanish speakers....
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All this happened, more or less.: Unplanning:... →
kungfucarrie:
pyrrhosrepublic:
Charles Siegel, author of Unplanning: Livable Cities and Political Choices, points out the flaws of modern city planning and proposes new models on how we can return (if there ever was) to the golden age of American urban living. One of my favorite plans attempts to regulate automobile traffic…
So I was at this women in cycling forum a couple months ago. We...
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How to Think Like A Feminist Economist →
kungfucarrie:
projnex:
“But if taxes paid are put in relation to income earned (the denominator) we will realize that because women still earn 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, women pay a greater share of their income in taxes.
For me, thinking about taxes in terms of tax burdens — who pays how much of their income in each type of tax — is necessary to cut through the political...
the wheat from the chaff →
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
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“AMANDA: Yeah, and why the fuck are we acting like all our insecurities can be...”
– Sexist Beatdown: Avian Teen Sexidemic Edition
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Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for... →
nezua:
herzundseele:
mikehudack:
ericmortensen:
(via Danielle Ivory)
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Peter Daou: The Great Shame: America's Pathetic... →
A month before the spill, I wrote about green-bashing:
Of all the wrongheaded ideas proudly trumpeted by America’s right, anti-environmentalism occupies a unique position: it is at once the most devoid of a rational or moral foundation and the most dangerous. It is selfish, crass, illogical, willfully blind, a denial of the undeniable reality that humans are pillaging irreplaceable natural...
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Waiting For A Hero To Arrive →
unburyingthelead (via guerrillamamamedicine:
Is this really the best we can do?
What if it is? I think that may be what everyone’s afraid of. Somewhere in the backs of our minds I think most of know that Bruce Willis is just a pampered movie star who probably doesn’t know how to fill up his gas tank. And we haven’t seen much competence among the experts in any fields lately. It’s a...
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“I like to believe I have written interesting protagonists, antagonists, and...”
– Pearson Moore
It would be cruel, I believe, to editorialize.
(via thecurvature)
ignoring that, he’s in there analogizing kate’s ‘we have to kill him’ moment to the allies fighting the nazis in world war 2. DUDE IT’S JUST LOST. maybe get some perspective. also,...
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an allegory
george lucas can say as many times as he likes that star wars, taken as a six-part whole, is, has always been, and was always intended to be, about darth vader. the trick is that it isn’t. darth vader was a plot device in luke’s story, and han’s story, and leia’s story, and the story of the rebellion standing up against a corrupt autocracy.
vader has an arc but...
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Post lost pitch 4 - ben and locke as air traffic...
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Post lost pitch 3 - lost (in space)
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Post lost pitch(es) 2 - lafleur p.i., everybody...
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Post lost pitch 1 - michael emerson, terry...
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