Monthly Archives: November 2006

MemeSpeed

30 November 2006 – 3:20 pm +0800

A bloke named Scott Kaufman is doing a blogxperiment:
Most memes, I’d wager, are only superficially organic: beginning small, they acquire minor prominence among low-traffic blogs before being picked up by a high-traffic one, from which many more low-traffic blogs snatch them. Contra blog-triumphal models of memetic bootstrapping, I believe most memes are—to borrow a [...]

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Effin’ Frisco, man

30 November 2006 – 10:29 am +0800

From the SanFran Chronicle, a hilariously ignorant letter to the editor
One has to wonder why The Chronicle editorial page published a Thanksgiving op-ed by an official of the Ayn Rand Institute, surely the closest entity to classic fascism that exists in the United States (Open Forum, “Thanksgiving: A most selfish holiday,” Nov. 23)?
Mz. Roxanne Dunbar [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Culture | Comments (0)

Quote of the day

30 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

Zach was sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly calm and happy and content with his place in the world. The git.
— Mil Millington, Love and Other Near Death Experiences

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Quote of the day

29 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

If you dislike the unfiltered remarks people make when hearing that you are in law school, wait until you hear what they say when you are a lawyer.

— Judith Martin, 15 November 2006

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“Good night, Oedipus”

28 November 2006 – 10:55 am +0800

“Appreciating Our Parents”, also from the fourth season episode The Unearthly

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Quote of the day

28 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

The left has built up Diebold as the capo di tutti capi of Republican voting fraud (fortunately for the republic, the Democrats never commit fraud).
— Andrew Olmsted, 17 November 2006

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Quote of the day

27 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

It’s true, A2 may have many fine qualities, but a keen awareness of irony can’t really be said to be one of them.
— ann arbor is overrated, 5 November 2006

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Magic

26 November 2006 – 10:34 am +0800

In case you didn’t listen to me last year, and you still haven’t seen Whisper of the Heart, allow me one more chance to convince you.
The following three minutes and thirty-six seconds are typical of the kind of magic found throughout the movie (though, admittedly, this is one of my very favorite moments).
Enjoy (despite the [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Movies | Comments (0)

So I’m trying

25 November 2006 – 10:49 am +0800

Trying real hard to feel bad that Robert Altman kicked the bucket.
I mean, hey, I liked The Player.
Short Cuts was interesting, at the very least.
M*A*S*H* had some great moments.
But then I’m forced to recall that I sat through every last pointless, execrable moment of McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
So no, I just can’t feel [...]

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Quote of the day

24 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

He talked of German philosophy and of French fiction. They could not think a man profound whose interests were so diverse.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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Happy Birthday

23 November 2006 – 12:05 am +0800

To Herself.

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Quote of the day

23 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

Miss Manners would invite you to ask her a harder question, but not if it involves how Cousin Hortense’s son by her third marriage is related to Cousin Gregory’s daughter’s uncle on her father’s side.
— Judith Martin, 8 November 2006

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Quote of the day

22 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. He has Fame and Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths.— I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it [...]

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“A playground where apes evolved from men!?”

21 November 2006 – 10:56 am +0800

“Posture Pals” short from the fourth season episode The Unearthly. Utterly classic.

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Quote of the day

21 November 2006 – 12:01 am +0800

When a lawyer attacks a reporter as a “whore”, one has to wonder for whom to root in the conflict, or whether to just grab a bowl of popcorn and enjoy the show.
— Captain Ed, 4 November 2006

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