Holy Jeebus!

Heh, Me’ow Dib. SciFi geek...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:32:11 -0400

Heh, Me’ow Dib. SciFi geek humor.

thefemmenoir:

cutlerish:

webdancer:

I R Dunecat!

If you walk without rhythm, then you won’t attract the kitty.

Meow Dib

Long live the Duke! Long live Duke Paul Me’ow Dib!

Powerful, must-see vid… “I’m a New York City...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:44:42 -0400

Powerful, must-see vid… “I’m a New York City firefighter, and I responded on 9/11. Oh, and one more thing…”.

I’ll shoot you in the fucking face.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:17:29 -0400

I’ll shoot you in the fucking face.

Trailer for “This Twit Network”. Finding all kinds...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:36:01 -0400

Trailer for “This Twit Network”. Finding all kinds of nifty stuff on @redheadjessica’s tumblr tonight.

redheadjessica:

“The Twit Network” Trailer for Twitter the movie is my LOL of the week! More

“Little Bobby Tables, we call him.” Something for my...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:30:33 -0400

“Little Bobby Tables, we call him.” Something for my web dev homies… classic XKCD.

Net Neutrality in a Nutshell

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:23:09 -0400

redheadjessica:

Your power grid is neutral. You can plug in any standardized appliance to any standardized outlet in your home. No one else on the grid can pay more money than you to ensure that they get some “higher quality” power, or still get power when you have a blackout. The power company doesn’t charge you a tiered pricing structure where you can power your refrigerator and toaster for $10 per month, and add your dryer for $20 more, and then add in a range, foreman grill and curling iron for an additional $30 on top of that.

If your appliance fits in the standardized plug, you get the same power that everyone else does.

Your cable TV is not neutral. You pay one price for maybe 20 channels, and then tack on an extra $50, and you get $100 channels and a cable box. For another $40, you get “premium” channels. If your cable company doesn’t carry the channels you want, it’s just too bad. You can’t get them.

The large telecoms and cableco’s aims to gut the internet as we know it. As it stands, you plug in your standardized computer to your standarized outlet, and, assuming that you have service, you can get to any website on the net. The telecoms and cableco’s want to make it so that if you pay $10 a month, you get “basic internet”, maybe only getting to use the cableco’s search engine, and their email portal. For $20 more, they’ll let you get to Google, Twitter and MySpace. For $40 on top of that, you can get to Facebook, YouTube and Reddit. For $150 a month, you might be able to get to all the internet sites.

On top of that, the cableco’s and telecoms want to charge the provider, which could be Google, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc, to allow their websites to reach the cableco/telecom’s customers.

So, not only are you paying your ISP to use Google, but Google has to pay your ISP to use their pipes to get their information to you.

This is the simplest explanation that I can think of. Go read up on the subject and get involved. Please.

Source: From Reddit

A message from cats, paid for by cats.

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:17:13 -0400

A message from cats, paid for by cats.

“I just found out…” globetrottgirl: The...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:42:11 -0400

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

“I just found out…”

globetrottgirl:

The Lesbian Cowboy

I don’t know, this is just the funniest damned picture...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:36:00 -0400

I don’t know, this is just the funniest damned picture I’ve seen all week.

globetrottgirl:

My guess is they all dropped cid (including the loggerhead)

Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R) helps release a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle near the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys, just west of Marathon, Florida. Others participating are Richie Moretti (L), head of the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital, Keys Mayor Mario Di Gennaro (2L) and Rodney Barreto (2R), chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The 50-pound reptile, named “Peter,” was rescued by Turtle Hospital volunteers in late May and convalesced at the hospital for 2 months.

30 years of asteroid discoveries, 1980 - 2010.

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:59:54 -0400

30 years of asteroid discoveries, 1980 - 2010.

Animated GIF pythagorean theorem proof. Sorry, the geek in me...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:35:16 -0400

Animated GIF pythagorean theorem proof. Sorry, the geek in me just thought it was cool.

Inebriation. Funny spoof on Inception. qrush: I N E B R I A T I...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:55:41 -0400

Inebriation. Funny spoof on Inception.

qrush:

I N E B R I A T I O N

"It is unavoidable and it doesn’t matter. There will always be people who believe in..."

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:47:33 -0400

“It is unavoidable and it doesn’t matter. There will always be people who believe in conspiracies but things happen in a much more incoherent fashion… When people say this is a secret government of the world I say that if we were a secret government of the world we should be bloody ashamed of ourselves.”

- On conspiracy theorists’ accusations that the Bilderberg Group is somehow controlling the world as a one-world-government, then-chairman Étienne Davignon, in 2005.

He does exist.

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:13:12 -0400

He does exist.

New AR law requires women to name fetus and paint nursery before...

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:26:00 -0400

New AR law requires women to name fetus and paint nursery before getting an abortion.

thefemmenoir: What is Typography (by Sean H,)

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:14:37 -0400

thefemmenoir:

What is Typography (by Sean H,)

What does "electing someone to represent you" mean?

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:59:17 -0400

So, here’s a topic for discussion. Is it an elected representative’s responsibility to vote his conscience, or to vote according to the wishes of his constituency, when those two viewpoints conflict? Now, I know you can’t always trust polling to guide your every move, but there are cases in which you can get a fairly irrefutable picture of what the people in your district want. What should a representative do if his/her personal views run counter to those of his constituency?

I’m of the mind that the person is elected to represent me and those around me, so he/she should gain an understanding of what we want and vote that way. The counter-argument is you elect someone based on who they are, and they vote how they vote, and your only recourse is to vote them out when they don’t follow your wishes. Our system is so protective of incumbents, though, that I think I have to reject this argument.

What comes to mind when thinking about this is the Ted Kennedy/Scott Brown thing. It’s hard to consider that these two guys were elected by and represent the same constituency. Whether your view of this election is that Kennedy was a guy who’s district had moved away from him on the political spectrum and he only managed to stay on due to incumbency/legacy, or you think Brown only won because he ran a good campaign and the alternative was just so bad, you have to admit that one of them has or had political views quite different from his constituency.

So, for example: if Brown was opposed to the healthcare bill and the people he represents clearly wanted it, how should he have voted? Vice versa, if Kennedy worked for years to pass such a bill, but it became clear that his district didn’t favor it, how should he have voted (had he been alive)?

None of this even touches on what happens when the representative’s party has a view contrary to his/her constituency, because I really don’t think that should enter into it: voting your conscience or voting for your constituency should be the only two options, though I recognize that is unfortunately just not how it works.

Your thoughts?

Cool

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:35:35 -0400

Cool

Love the smile on his face (via jeniscagnetti)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:09:44 -0400

Love the smile on his face

(via jeniscagnetti)

Hot out?

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:09:13 -0400

Hot out?