People have accused me of being cynical simply because I wasn’t taken in by forced cuteness in a commercial for a giant corporation featuring the intellectual property of an artistically bankrupt blockbuster mainstream film series aired during the single most corporatized sporting event in the history of corporatization.
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Redundant data in the Weather app
If you’re a serious weather junkie, you might use a special weather app to get your daily klimate kick. And if you’re Edward Tufte, you might think the iPhone weather app is “a bit thin”. Me, I don’t mind it - it’s a nice, big dashboard view of the weather features I care most about.
But here’s…
flintstones cigarette commercial (via psychotronic42) via daringfireball
it is an insane show about horrible women for whom no price is too high to get their faces on TV, for whom the rest of humanity exists only to service their desire to demonstrate the extent of their vulgarity to the world
Sometimes, as soon as you release the ball, you feel, ‘Awww, that’s perfect.’ You see the batsman getting into a position you wanted him to get into and you get him. You then jump around like an idiot.
Disco and Wizard
And here are the other two. Incredible
Ten years of suicide data after John Howard’s decision to ban and then buy back 600,000 semi-automatic rifles and shotguns has had a stunning effect.
The buyback cut firearm suicides by 74 per cent, saving 200 lives a year, according to research to be published in The American Law and Economics Review.
Christine Neill, now with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said she found the research result so surprising she tried to redo her calculations on the off chance the total could have been smaller.
Two of the independent rural MPs now holding the balance of power in Parliament opposed the plan.
At the time the Queensland MP Bob Katter said Australia had “got to the ludicrous point of completely disarming the nation” and said ”everywhere they ban guns the death rates from guns go up”.
This is who is holding the balance of power in Australia.
Fuck it. Let’s have a republic. This isn’t working.
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Didn’t “walk the dog” once. Lame.
the expendables
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