February 2012
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Me: Tumblr should fix ghost notes
Me: Tumblr why are you not working
Me: Tumblr why are my messages disappearing
Me: Tumblr Just let me use Missing E
Me: Tumblr why can't I unfollow someone who's deleted
Tumblr: Hey everyone have some new icons
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step one: take out homework
step two: reward self with two hours of internet for getting that far
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Unpopular opinion time
The old Tumblr item logos were literally bits of toilet paper.
I am glad they were replaced.
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Sitting in the quad
Watching people walk, in all directions, through the rain
I think it’s kind of beautiful.
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Teller of Penn and Teller reveals his secrets. →
In the last half decade, magic—normally deemed entertainment fit only for children and tourists in Las Vegas—has become shockingly respectable in the scientific world. Even I—not exactly renowned as a public speaker—have been invited to address conferences on neuroscience and perception.
I’m all for helping science. But after I share what I know, my neuroscientist friends thank me by showing me...
Delving into the mind of the technocrat →
Greece and Italy have recently had their governments replaced by Ph.D-wielding economists. Britain and America, while free of direct technocrat control, nevertheless rely heavily on economist advice.
The author is against technocrats and technocracy. ‘Economic equations and graphs have their place’, he says, ‘but they are not substitutes for democratic debates about how to run...
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Measures of well-being: Chilled out →
A new poll shows that the world has become happier since the Global Financial Crisis.
77% of 19,000 adults in 24 countries said they were happy, up three points from 2007.
22% called themselves ‘very happy,’ up from 20%.
The funny part is, the happiest countries aren’t necessarily the richest. 51% of Indonesians and 42% of Indians reported the highest level of happiness,...
I got curious after the 'befreckled' connection,... →
smashedbear:
therealbbyron:
Blah.
http://www.myspace.com/malcolmturnbull
Check whose in Turnbull’s top 8.
Check out Turnbull’s hair.
I almost feel sorry for him.
EDIT: Oh right, that’s you. Like, Vivzilla you.
…Indeed.
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lushious replied to your link: I got curious after the ‘befreckled’ connection, and read Greg Combet’s Wikipedia article.
Good Luck with the election Greg 4 years ago my god
Look at comment two.
Mark Furner Senator for Queensland:
Hey Greg you are going to be one fine member for Charlton. Don’t forget we need to restore the balance in the Senate to rid our workplaces...
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I got curious after the 'befreckled' connection,... →
Not obsessed, I promise: tab was already open. Most interesting was what I found at the bottom: a link to his official Myspace account. That’s a 2007 election for you. It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet. It’s the Molly Lewis MyHope thing happening already.
(It’s startling to find out that that song only has half a million views. I thought it was huge.)
EDIT:...
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Masterpieces: Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights →
In The Artist, a vaguely pretentious silent film about a movie star refusing to change with the times upon the invention of talkies. Just yesterday, it won Best Picture at the Oscars.
But it is not the first film to gamble commercial odds on a medium as outdated as the silent black and white film.
The last attempt was City Lights: Chaplin’s last stubborn gamble for the soul of the silent...
befreckled replied to your post: Informal office temp work at Labor head office was oddly fun too, by the way
you have an awesome job. My sister works for Greg Combet btw.
Cool cool! I’ve never actually met anyone, though. You can probably tell by my fanboyish yelps over filing their paperwork.
And it wasn’t really a ‘job’ so much as ‘Brendan fill in for me. What?...
