December 2008
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RT @Newsweek: Begley: The scientific case to allow cousins to wed: http://tinyurl.com/9k35de It’s not just for royals anymore.
RT @geoffkeighley: Reportedly this is the full “Rock Band” integration you never saw at the end of Eagle Eye: http://is.gd/eg44.
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Skynet Watch: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All... →
Either Skynet is culling the weak first, or this is a distraction as Skynet prepares to go after the entire Apple line of products while we’re all distracted by New Year’s Eve. (Via Still Not Going To Do This Every Day.)
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NSFW 'Crank 2' Promotional Reel →
Definitely not safe for work, people. Oh, and it’s pretty loud too.
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With that, Master Legend unloads about his troubles. It’s tough being a...
– an excerpt from a recent Rolling Stone story about real-life superheroes titled, “The Legend of Master Legend.”
Question of the Day: Is Detox the new Chinese Democracy?
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For the first time in four decades, a researcher has repeated the Milgram...
– excerpt from a recent New York Times column titled “Four Decades After Milgram, We’re Still Willing to Inflict Pain.”
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A Symposium On Game Reviews. Topic 1: Review... →
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We get stereotyped so much….Look, people are going to think what they’re...
– Portland Trailblazers forward Channing Frye, whose “primary World of Warcraft character is ‘Dookiedrawls,’ a level 76 gnome frost mage—though he maintains he’s not as serious about the game as Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko, who has a ‘really nice’ level 80...
Level Up's Top Five Gaming Tidbits for December... →
(via highscore)
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I wanted to bring happiness to people, to remind them not to hate, but to love...
– Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat, in a statement explaining why he falsely claimed to have first met his wife while both were children on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence in his now-canceled memoir “Angel At the Fence.” (Via the New York Times.)
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I didn’t agree with it. I didn’t want anything to do with it. I tried to just...
– Ken Rosenblat, speaking with The New Republic about his father Herman and his mother Roma’s deceptions in Herman Rosenblat’s now-canceled memoir, “Angel At the Fence.”
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Whereas the Penguin Publishing book Angel at the Fence was a non fiction account...
– —excerpt from a statement by film producer Harris Salomon, whose Atlantic Overseas Pictures had purchased the rights to Herman Rosenblat’s now-canceled memoir, “Angel At the Fence.” (He also told the New Republic in a separate interview that he wants Rosenblat to make another...
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I pulled Bryan aside the night before press began and I said, ‘We need to...
– —screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie on the Bryan Singer-directed film “The Usual Suspects.” (Via The Associated Press.)
It doesn’t matter either way, because the important thing is that a) Keyzer Sose’s story bought him enough time to escape and b) entertained us in...
RT @Newsweek: Interesting: Have you guys played with http://tweetree.com/ ? What do you think?
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Musicians have to eat and want to be heard, and if that means accompanying...
– excerpt from Jon Pareles’ New York Times article titled “The New Pop Music Revolution—Pitching Products.”
California Love: http://is.gd/dJsz
The Curious Case of Smith & Wesson: http://is.gd/dDj4
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LET’S GO, LAKERS! CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP!
Pause: http://is.gd/drI3
Does your Rock Band band need a ringer? http://is.gd/dkYq
Trailer for Gomorrah: http://is.gd/don3
First, let’s give all the aspiring lawyers free tuition: http://is.gd/dopZ
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
LittleBigFallout: Sackboy’s Edge. Part I (http://is.gd/dnw0), Part II (http://is.gd/dnwv)
Old school Xmas raps from Run-D.M.C. (http://is.gd/9XvK) and MC K.L.G. (http://is.gd/1kZn)
Bungie’s Early Xmas Gift: See Beyonce and an unmasked Master Chief in her new video http://is.gd/dmZm
Ground Zero →
youwillbeassimilated:
Google Maps meets nuclear weapons: “This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press ‘Nuke It!’”
Note to self: Using an asteroid to take out Williamsburg is not a good idea, as it turns Crown Heights into collateral damage. Not to mention the rest of North America.
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
frangry:
Here’s Donatella Versace in a bikini. Don’t say I never gave you nuthin’!
SNAAAAAAAAKE!
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Head-To-Head: A Belgian MTV safer sex public service announcement. (Via Ads of the World.)
Incisive Thoughts On Our Dying Media, Part 1 (http://is.gd/d9TP) and Part 2 (http://is.gd/cYN5)
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[T]he Chinese wall, right, the idea of advertisements as separate from the...
– author and NYU instructor Clay Shirky in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review.
Really? http://is.gd/d8ze
No, stradamus: http://is.gd/aLTh
RT @ShawnElliott: http://tinyurl.com/9zat2s — the zombie apocalypse comes to Java.
RT @ShawnElliott: http://www.mojang.com/notch/j4k/l4kd/ — Um, this would be the correct “zombie apocalypse comes to Java” link. My bad.
Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008 →