Pertinacious Metanoia

Audience: “Aww, look how cute he is when he’s doomed.” Weasley Fiance: “I hate you people.”

HuffPo: “We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsmen both and both admitted to having had the article passed on to them, and both stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us.”

You never know. My sis does this, and it helps her, if I recall correctly. Keeping it around with my ‘reference’ tag in case I ever need it …

“A free society survives partly because the powerful are mocked, and their pretensions undermined. Religions, which guard their own illusions carefully, are particularly ripe for satire. And they should be.”

Steve Jobs, 2002: “If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.” Steve Jobs 2005 disagrees with Steve Jobs 2002, evidently …

It’s really quite chilling to read how they go about it — because it seems … like a blueprint. Give it 50 years … might it happen here?

Thus greatly increasing Google’s already large “geek cred.”

“Brazilian mega-star Marisa Monte’s new CDs from EMI (’Infinito Particular’ and ‘Universo ao Meu Redor’) come with DRM that can’t be uninstalled, and requires you to “agree” to a contract that isn’t published in Portuguese. Even if you disagree, the malwa

“Doodge Durangoo. They’re doodgin’ durangoos. What’s a durangoo, anyway? They ooght to joost call it the Doodge Turdo.”

“[H]ere, they are specifically telling Congress that even if Congress amends FISA and the President agrees to abide by those amendments, they still have the power to break the law whenever they want.”

” … veep told a senator on the senate floor to go fuck himself and shot a dude in the face, and whose aforementioned top strategist has designed campaigns such as the one which cast a competitor’s adopted Bangladeshi daughter as an illegitimate black ch

“As harmless as this rental was, I began to feel a strange paranoia about it. What would my friends think if they saw this on my queue and didn’t know about the pug research?” I have this feeling ALL THE TIME.

The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man.

Caught this on HBO the other night. *VERY* good flick. Really enjoyed it. Fishburne’s first movie where he was the main character.

Counterpoint: “Eeeeeeuuuuuwww! The Economist says! The Economist says! I read The Economist! Aren’t I cool? Aren’t you impressed with me?”

” … you could actually portray (gasp!) women with personalities, with their own interests, with an eye for good equipment (pun intended) and and with a geekishly frank, individualistic sexuality - but with a hint of nervous, inexperienced shyness. Hot.”