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"I’m like, it’s the President, he doesn’t have time to watch The Jersey Shore! Then again, he did..."

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:10:06 -0500

“I’m like, it’s the President, he doesn’t have time to watch The Jersey Shore! Then again, he did have time to go on The View.”

- Craig Ferguson, 07/29/10

Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul Still digging this album and...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:41:00 -0500

Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul

Still digging this album and - more specifically - this track.

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die/ Where you invest your love, you invest your life/ Awake, my soul. You were made to meet your maker.

Lyrically, it’s just a powerful song that deals with the role and desires of faith. I find it fantastically ironic when the “secular” has more genuine interpretations of the “sacred.” All of the church and horrendous “christian” music in the world would make well to even attempt to reach the profound level of thought and effort in songs like this.

100 million Facebook users' details published online

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:01:04 -0500

100 million Facebook users' details published online:

The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file and tossed up on the Internet in a handy 2.5GB torrent file. The file was posted by Ron Bowes, an online security consultant.

Bowes used code to scan the 500 million Facebook profiles for information not hidden by privacy settings. The resulting file, which allows people to perform searches of various different types, has been downloaded by several thousand people.

This kind of stuff is unsettling in the sense that privacy policies on Facebook have fluctuated frequently in the past, but I really can’t be furious over this leak of information. Simply put, the users of Facebook are posting their information to a website owned by a corporation. I feel as if it is their responsibility to keep up with their privacy settings when using a medium that they do not own. People may have a right to privacy but it is their responsibility to exercise that right.

And the apocalypse dot com has come for me… To all the...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:27:56 -0500

And the apocalypse dot com has come for me…

To all the folks I met and those who knew me, I’m sorry.

This is why the Internet was invented

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:43 -0500

This is why the Internet was invented:

What is this? I don’t even…

I’m sure that Basil Marceaux Dot Com is going to win by a...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:52:02 -0500

I’m sure that Basil Marceaux Dot Com is going to win by a landslide this November.

Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants I’ve recently been...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:11:00 -0500

Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants

I’ve recently been running a lot more and this is one song that is always on my playlist. When the song actually hits, you’ve got a great beat that really helps you set your pace.

You probably already know that I think Josh Homme is underrated in the world of music. His collaboration with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones brings out my favorite qualities in both Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zeppelin.

If you pull the orange Vitamin Water on the middle shelf, a...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:39:00 -0500

If you pull the orange Vitamin Water on the middle shelf, a secret passage opens up revealing Lebron’s Panic Room complete with an emergency Vitamin Water supply.

Even a true balla like Lebron needs to quench his thirst with nutrients after some intense reading about trout.

Philip Heron and James Adair shot a bunch of stuff hitting other...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:12:06 -0500

Philip Heron and James Adair shot a bunch of stuff hitting other stuff and slowed the whole thing way, way down.

Glorious.

30,000 leaked documents later, we're left with nothing new.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:36:09 -0500

With the WikiLeaks release of over 30,000 documents there isn’t much that matches the bombshell of such a large amount of documents coming into the public eye. Between the several sources’ coverage of these documents, it’s pretty underwhelming as the majority of things reported have been things we have known or assumed from common sense.

For instance:

The Taliban have used portable heat-seeking missiles against allied aircraft, a fact that has not been publicly disclosed by the military. This type of weapon helped the Afghan mujahedeen defeat the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.

With the frequent reports of deaths in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, this could have been easily assumed. Also, the many, many analyses of the Afghani conflict that compare and contrast it with the Vietnam War you see mention of this and the relative ineffectiveness of aircraft like choppers. And honestly, anyone who thought that the NATO helicopters were going down so often due to AK47 fire, they were fooling themselves or are completely ignorant as to Afghani history.

Secret commando units like Task Force 373 — a classified group of Army and Navy special operatives — work from a “capture/kill list” of about 70 top insurgent commanders. These missions, which have been stepped up under the Obama administration, claim notable successes, but have sometimes gone wrong, killing civilians and stoking Afghan resentment.

In both the Afghani and Iraqi wars, much press was given to the now famous deck of cards circulating within the military with names and photos of alleged Al Qaeda operatives. Capture/Kill lists really aren’t that shocking. Neither is collateral damage in this situation as it was also assumed. The level of detail may be shocking when given specific detail in the documents but as a whole, most assumed that this kind of stuff was going on.

The military employs more and more drone aircraft to survey the battlefield and strike targets in Afghanistan, although their performance is less impressive than officially portrayed. Some crash or collide, forcing American troops to undertake risky retrieval missions before the Taliban can claim the drone’s weaponry.

Again, something we often knew/assumed. With an increase in stories on drone activity - especially after the new administration came into office - you can simply guess that this was the case.

If anything this massive leak gives us some trees to identify in the forest of things. Kudos to WikiLeaks on pulling off the massive info-leak. There may be more things come down the pipe as these documents are dug further into, but so far it’s pretty underwhelming.

Fantastic timeline explaining the events of Inception. If you...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:31:33 -0500

Fantastic timeline explaining the events of Inception. If you haven’t seen it do yourself a huge favor and go see this film.

(via http://dehahs.deviantart.com)

Thrice - All The World Is Mad I don’t know why but...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:24:00 -0500

Thrice - All The World Is Mad

I don’t know why but I’ve been listening to these guys for the first time since high school. I guess I’m fascinated now that I’ve found out how much of their lyrics are inspired by the works C.S. Lewis.

"We can’t medicate man to perfection again; we can’t legislate peace in our hearts. We..."

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:02:23 -0500

“We can’t medicate man to perfection again; we can’t legislate peace in our hearts. We can’t educate sin from our souls, it’s been there from the start.”

- Thrice - All The World Is Mad

Ice Cube - Check Yo Self (Message Remix) There’s something...

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:21:08 -0500

Ice Cube - Check Yo Self (Message Remix)

There’s something more genuine and entertaining about hip-hop from twenty years ago. Then again, I think the same thing about Ice Cube himself.

Bill Murray Continues to Be Bill Murray as Bill Murray Week Continues

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:47:52 -0500

Bill Murray Continues to Be Bill Murray as Bill Murray Week Continues:

Bill Murray will live forever.

Mute Math - Backfire These guys will always be up there in my...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:28:00 -0500

Mute Math - Backfire

These guys will always be up there in my top ten. There’s just a level of musicianship found in these guys that is beyond what the vast majority of artists will ever hope to achieve.

I know that’s quite the hyperbolic statement, but I truly believe it. Just go to a live show of theirs and try to not be amazed. You won’t do too well.

Today, it was announced that Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has been...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:17:00 -0500

Today, it was announced that Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has been charged with multiple ethics violations. (click photo for story)

I guess Nancy Pelosi’s 2006 promise of “the most honest, most open, and most ethical congress in history” has kinda fallen through, right? Or did Andrew Breitbart set this guy up too?

Oh no! It’s a right-wing propaganda conspiracy! Get Jesse Jackson on the bat-phone quick!

Above: My artistic rendition of a Keith Olbermann viewer’s...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:15:00 -0500

Above: My artistic rendition of a Keith Olbermann viewer’s reaction to the events related to Shirley Sherrod.

Campaign Slogan of the Year

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:03:13 -0500

Campaign Slogan of the Year:

It’s a crying shame that the elections commission voted this down.

I had my suspicions about a psychic octopus as soon as he...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:45:05 -0500

I had my suspicions about a psychic octopus as soon as he announced the Paul the Psychic Octopus Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Hotel and Gambling Casino.