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"Muse's Knights Of Cydonia rips off all the bad 80s scifi-western-robot-unicorn movies they seemed to be making in the 80s." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
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"I was raised a Christian. By some incredibly wonderful, caring, sympathetic, kind-hearted people who are still around and still Christian.
Southern Baptist, even. Helping the poor and downtrodden was what they pursued. My grandfather in his 80s..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Heywood Mogroot, beth
Last year
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"Could you just do your own based on something you are interested in?
i.e. find some practical translator and then translate that to your own journey of interesting.
Oh, you could also google "walking to Rivendell" and do "find..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
Last year
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"I felt both simultaneously sympathetic for the author and at the same time repelled by his own blind spot. Sympathetic because in 1983 when I graduate from high school I was an equally slack and dismissive student at a small community college in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
Last year
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"Just because you're fighting for freedom doesn't imply that you'll be getting any of that freedom." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by sara is disenchanted, lumensimus, marble, Blazecock Pileon, zippy, flapjax at midnite, Pope Guilty, phatkitten, JHarris, Wonderwoman, bhouston, bugbread, Brandon Blatcher, dejah420, elpapacito
Last year
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"What gave it away for me that he was a republican? The story was an fpp at metafilter.
*ahem* There are some conservatives here. Should any Democrats be jailed for such behaviors, well, you know, they should feel free to post about it.
But yes,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by flamk, Huw, tehloki, Asim
Last year
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"Beyond that the reason IT doesn't let you use the local drive is because there is no easy way to do backups of local data.
Yep. Every solution I've ever seen never has enough time to finish over the network when you're moving hundreds of users'..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chuckdarwin, beth
Last year
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"I do lurv me some Ubuntu. Not 100% there for each and every little tidbit, but honestly, what is?
Been using it at home on a couple of old machines for about a year now.
Don't miss Kubuntu if you want the KDE interface instead. The regular..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drezdn
Last year
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"Did you get to look around at least?
The way the Omni was laid out was that big skating rink in the center and then open all the way up with the building having several open balconies facing out into the main atrium where the skating rink was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
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"I can never hear H.R. Pufnstuf and Sid and Marty Croft without thinking of this. which I was oh so very close of getting to. I never go to see it. I was a few months too late. I was able to crawl up the world's tallest escalator quite a bit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last year
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"First off, most of the colors are secondary or tertiary, more like a palette Shag would use. Also, the quirky lines remind me more of Jim Flora than of this.
Well, I wasn't saying the HR Pufnstuf looked like Loonatics, mind you. I was saying that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last year
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"1) Where did the author of the story get his economics PhD?
2) How many years was he enrolled in the economics graduate program at Harvard?
This is a meaningless argument from institutional authority. He is asserting that credibility in his..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by marble, Rubbstone, tippiedog, nofundy
Last year
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"As nice as this is, I'm not as impressed as some people. Ebert is not an actor or a model who gets by on his looks.
Sure he is. He gets by on his public image. We've had decades of having an idea in our head of who Roger Ebert "is"..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by deborah, marble, Optamystic, Servo5678, scody
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"My first thought was "You know who gets things done efficiently, with a streamlined organization and no shiny-happy rugs to keep them optimistic? Desperate, crazy people in caves that have been able to outwit US military and intelligence for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dizzy, chuckdarwin
Last year
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"Call animal control for your city and ask them if they can make an effort to remove the cats.
And be prepared for you cat-crazy neighbors to hate you. House cats are not native wild animals to the US and present a legitimate threat to the native..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mckenney
Last year
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"Reading through this thread here's what came to mind:
Let the students teach technology. They do it anyway, just not officially. Make it official.
Find some way to open up a series of student led, student taught, student developed technology..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
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"My wife also prefers to shower infrequently, and largely it is because showering dries out her already very dry skin and makes things painful for her. Your wife might very well have a similar dermatological issue and showering might result in her..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by smashingstars, Silly Ashles
Last year
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"Now, how to talk to her about it is a different can of worms. You're certainly going to need a "Ok, so, we have to talk about this showering thing because it's bugging me and talking about it bugs you, so I'd like to talk about it again, one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ookseer
Last year
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"Oh, and how can I forget?! The speed reader ultimately knew we were going to have a peace warrant sworn to keep him out of the building, so he read faster. And a lot. We started finding books with blood on the edges of the pages because he was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, agregoli
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"After reading John Kricfalusi's blog for the last year, I admit that even though I see the racial stereotyping in a cartoon like Little Black Sambo, I also see some great animation, great gags, great artwork in both the design and backgrounds...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by allaboutgeorge
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"Hey Jeff, Jamie here. Yeah, you don't me from Adam, but here's what I've got.
I grew up in Hanceville, AL. That's about an hour north of you in Cullman county (ever see that exit on 65 north that says "Arkadelphia / Hanceville" -..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vytae, Listener
Last year
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"I already loved I can has a cheezburger, and let's not dismiss the wondeful LiveJournal cat_macros.
Still, the last picture linked to made this post worth existing. NAW!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by champthom
Last year
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"Definitely an interesting thread. And I would say excellent suggestions all around.
I know a lot of women like you. I married one. But the one thing that singled her out the most to me was her sense of humor. Our ability to get through day to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Trismegist
Last year
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"I've always thought that no matter how utterly vicious the left can be in their humor that makes fun of the right, the left leaning comics are also not afraid to be self-deprecating and make fun of themselves as well. The Daily Show and The Colbert..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by wolftrouble, tehloki, brundlefly
Last year
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"I am very curious about the coincidental timing of Jobs' letter and this Wired article pointing out that, in fact, Apple actually has the freedom to make the iPod become the new CD.
Not mentioned in the article, but the very first thing that came..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, rmm
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"Hm. I don't know how to explain it, but it's on my list of "life changing technologies" for me because it is so amazingly flexible in how you can set up notifications for events. I'm sure you can do this at the terminal with BSD commands,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kolophon
Last year
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"Oh, those wacky conservatives! Thinking they know Teh Funny!
Well, they don't. That's the whole fucking problem. Their sense of humor is based entirely on making fun of other people and never themselves.
They never laugh with, only at.
If..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drexen
Last year
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"Too bad there's not a third party Linux guy in the background screaming "OH YEAH! WELL... WE'LL TAKE OVER ONE DAY!"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
Last year
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"But if they deliberately avoid completing the act in the normal way, yeah, that's wrong.
Wow, you know, I would have thought god would have better things to think about. I mean, shit, you know, the god damned UNIVERSE and all. Nope, seems he's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aclevername
Last year
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"I suffered from anorexia for about three years. Mine was mostly a reaction to a terrible work situtation. What underlies everything that Darlene says is what I experienced: it is a control issue. You feel like all of these other parts of your life..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by deborah, ceri richard, greedo, ambrosia, maryh, LinnTate
Last year
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"Eh. He's a surgeon. So what. The majority of them I have worked with are not the most pleasant human beings to be around.
I've had more than one conversation at the end of the phone start with comments from surgeons along these lines: "I..." [
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