William Tam: He’s like that Cute Ignorant Uncle That Everybody Cringes At
Lawyer: You told people that next will be legalizing sex with children. That’s the homosexual agenda. Do you believe this?
William Tam: Yes.
*head desk*
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
—Steve Jobs
today on xbox live….
this kid just wouldnt shut up. so finally someone tells him to. then i turn on my mic, and ask if his mom knows hes playing this game. he says “yes” and retorts with “does YOUR mom know you’re playing this game?” and i replied with “im 24 and dont live with my mom, but yes she knows, i just called to tell her” “oh yeah right, then why is your voice so high?” wow. smartass litte fucker isnt he? and then i reply with “cause im a girl you retard” end of convo. then he continues to talk about how theres a girl on his team! oh no!!!
ugh, this happens to me more often than I’d like it to
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass
New video by OK Go. This is pure awesome. Watch it.
Why I read news with Google Reader
I like reading you know? I enjoy keeping myself informed. I only like reading online, preferably on Google Reader. Why? Well…
Because I don’t like newspapers. Not in physical form. I tried getting a subscription to the Toronto Star and after the first delivery I started throwing them in the recycle bin without even opening it. To begin with, half the paper was about cars, car ads, driving, and how great it is to have cars, drive big gas guzzlers, and in general just show to the rest of the world that you have a small penis you’re trying to make up for. Also, its yesterday’s news. Everything I read in the paper, I’d already read online.
Now that I think about it, maybe I don’t like newspaper websites either. Maybe with the exception of the New York times. The NYT is.. pretty, it doesn’t hurt my eyes when I’m browsing the site. By comparison, the HuffPost is such an awful website I don’t even have words to describe it. Also, lot of the NYT’s writing doesn’t make my head explode with their never-heard—of-synonyms that a lot of so called journalists like to use, and its not The Toronto Sun with their bigger than life sensationalist headlines.
But I’m just bitchin, the truth is I don’t like reading news anywhere than the safety of Google Reader because in GR, everything looks the same, the formatting of articles is great, there are no colourful backgrounds, no rotating banner images, no “Digg It”, “Twitter It”, “Share Your Reaction” buttons, but most of all, there are no comments.
Comments of news articles are a low point for hummanity. Its amazing what the anonymity of the Internet will allow you to do: be mean, be rude, be insulting.
Take this one example: Shots fired as Toronto home invasion goes awry. An article about 2 people who tried breaking into a house, something goes wrong, they shoot somebody, they escape, but are later captured. Pretty straight forward, I mean is sad, but simple.
This is one of the comments on it:
“Of course the left will say that they are not responsible for their actions because of an unhappy childhood. That should be good for about a 12-month sentance here. ” (copy & pasted exactly as is from website)
I can’t even begin to understand the fear, or anger -or both, that this man has for the “soft, hippie liberals”.
But there, that is the reason I hate comments, because of people’s inability to relate and be human.
Maybe this has nothing to do with Google Reader, and I’m just angry at people in general.
/end rant.
[tech] Semi-technical description of the inner workings at Facebook.
Its an interview with a Facebook employee. Could be a fake, but it sounds pretty real. Worth a quick read.
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: A group of fun-loving Gaga fans broke in their new Flip video cameras by recoding a sweded version of Gaga’s “Bad Romance” video, entitled “Badder Romance.”
Gaga herself gave the gang her flamboyant seal of approval, tweeting simply: “holy shit.”
[mefi.]
Hillarious. Must be rewatched.
Univ of Toronto brilliance: this is what a $10000 education buys you.
- Girl 1 (describing a shirt she bought): Is like that pink color.... you know... what's it called?
- Girl 2: Baby pink?
- Girl 1: No, more white blended in....
- Girl 2: Barbie pink?
- Girl 1: No!... OMG.... Its ballerina pink!
Women who revealed about 40 percent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up. Any more than 40 percent and the signal changes from allure to one indicating general availability and future infidelity.
—50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year
