Musings of a Chicagoan

• “If I Could Do It Again,” by Sam Clough
  (tags: powerful cool scifi food4thought)
• “”Racist jokes rely on an unspoken, shared knowledge of racist stereotypes. Without the stereotypes, there is no humor. When you play dumb and ask someone to explain the joke, you are able to draw the racist stereotype … “
  ” … out into the open, address it directly, and demonstrate how absurd and offensive it is. But because you are feigning ignorance, you can accomplish all of this without alienating your co-worker and putting your working relationship in jeopardy.”
  (tags: useful reference interesting food4thought cool)
• Intel created a rather unpleasant advertisement to advertise its Core 2 Duo. You look at it, wince, and go “how could someone approve THAT metaphor?”.
  (tags: horrifying images racist)
• Guardian: “Russia symbolically staked its claim to billions of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves in the Arctic Ocean today when two mini submarines reached the seabed more than two and a half miles beneath the North Pole.”
  “In a record-breaking dive, the two craft planted a one metre-high titanium Russian flag on the underwater Lomonosov ridge, which Moscow claims is directly connected to its continental shelf.”
  (tags: funny whaddafuck ol)
• Boing Boing: Do autistic kids especially like Thomas Tank Engine?
  Anecdotal evidence is evidently extremely, extremely strong that autistic kids in particular love Thomas the Tank Engine. Huh.
  (tags: interesting weird cool)
• Wayne Redhart’s Amazon Reviews
  Freakin’ hilarious.
  (tags: funny hysterical)
• 10 Ways To Entertain Young Children For $1 Or Less (Without The Tv)
  (tags: reference useful)
• Oh, my God. Jon Arbuckle — Garfield’s owner and the saddest character in comicdom — got some.
  (tags: funny comics whaddafuck holy_shit)

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