June 2007

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21 June 2007

plastic water bottles are evil

Posted by asocialstudies under bisphenol, bisphenol A, cancer, eastern garbage patch, garbage patch, glass, gyre, infertility, metal, mutation, north pacific garbage patch, north pacific gyre, pacific gyre, plastic, plastic water bottle, plastic water bottles, portable containers, water bottle, water bottles, wikipedia
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The hideousness of what we’re doing to ourselves is really on a spectacular scale.

Some quick reading about the gyre:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre

Glass or metal containers, please.

 

21 June 2007

acapella interpretation of Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Posted by asocialstudies under acapella, carleton, carleton singing knights, daft punk, harder better faster stronger, singing knights, youtube
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acapella rules:

it’s done by the Carleton Singing Knights.

 

20 June 2007

microsoft goes back to the future

Posted by asocialstudies under back to the future, bttf, doc, farce, mcfly, microsoft, satire, spoof, youtube
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wicked farce/satire:

 

15 June 2007

i wish i were more like my online persona

Posted by asocialstudies under i wish, my online persona, online persona, satire, the onion, theonion, wishful thinking
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the onion strikes again:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33178

 

15 June 2007

NBA is NOT the world’s top talent

Posted by asocialstudies under arcade, basketball, burma, burmese, celebrity athletes, chinlone, google video, googlevideo, meritocracy, mystic ball, mystic ball the movie, nba, overpaid, overpaid athletes, soccer, taiwan, taiwanese, top talent, wikipedia, youtube
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the players in the NBA have little over your average taiwanese arcade junkie:

…just like the top stars of soccer have nothing on burma’s chinlone players:

 

13 June 2007

the ad hominem fallacy fallacy

Posted by asocialstudies under ad hominem, ad hominem fallacy, ad hominem fallacy fallacy
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it’s a bit pedantic, but makes a good point: not everything you think is an ad hominem attack (is an ad hominem attack):

http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

 

13 June 2007

family guy “borrowing” from simpsons

Posted by asocialstudies under appropriating, borrowing, family guy, flattery, homage, hommage, imitating, imitation, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, lifting, lifting wholesale, repeated jokes, simpsons, sincere form of flattery, stealing, thieving
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