[video]
LISTEN TO ME. PLEASE. YOU HAVE GOT TO STOP POSTING QUOTES ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT VERIFICATION. YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY MAKE SURE THE QUOTE IS AN ACTUAL QUOTE AND NOT AMENDED, WARPED, OR PATENTLY FALSE. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE SOURCE IS CORRECT. YOU CAN’T JUST SEE A STRING OF PRETTY WORDS AND THEN SPREAD THEM LIKE SOME SORT OF VIRUS THROUGH MILLIONS OF LAZY, IMPRESSIONABLE BLOGGERS SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO -AT THE VERY LEAST- GOOGLE IT. CHECKING IN AN ACTUAL BOOK WOULD BE FAR TOO DIFFICULT FOR YOU. I KNOW YOU’RE JUST ‘TUMBLING’ OR ‘TWEETING’ OR WHATEVER, BUT DO YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING? A REPORTER IS ONLY AS GOOD AS HIS SOURCE? IT’S LIKE THAT. YOUR CREDIBILITY IS AT STAKE, AND YOU ARE MAKING THE WORLD STUPIDER.
WHO SAID THAT THING ABOUT REPORTERS?
OSCAR WILDE.
IT’S PRETTY SMART.
OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO MURDER YOU.
Story Notes From Hell: A likeable axe murderer -
I was doing an outline of a horror story where the main character was a deranged and mentally ill man who became an axe murderer. The story executive had this to add:
Exec: We have to make him likable.
Me: He’s an axe murderer.
Exec: He still needs to be likable.
Me: Maybe he shouldn’t be an axe murderer?
Exec: No, that’s fine, but he’s gotta have likable features.
Me: Well—
Exec: How about he has a cat that follows him around as he kills people? People love cats, and the cat can be his best friend or something?
Me: Maybe he saves someone’s life, or helps someone—
Exec: No, let’s give him a cat.
(Source: storynotesfromhell)
Jean-Paul the stingray has a lazy eye.
Astra the stoat has no idea how to assemble the Ikea furniture she just bought. (She’s drunk on Swedish meatballs.)
Edwin the goat is a secret anti-Semite.
Pauline the sugar glider is awkward at parties.
Cyclops the X-Man feels dejected whenever Jean Grey makes out with Wolverine.
Cyclops is clearly a X-woman. She’s menstruating out of her head vagina.
“just look at one of the greatest teams ever assembled: the 2006 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. That team had David Eckstein, Yadier Molina, So Taguchi, and Aaron Miles. That’s a Jew [sic], a Mexican [sic], a Chinaman [sic], and a regular American. It was a variable [sic] “League of Nations” of doing the little things. They hustled like all get out, they bunted all the time, and they weren’t afraid to move the runner over.” —
Josh “Randy” Sullivan (in an interview with sbnation. In case the name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the patriot in this picture)
(Source: crasstalk.com)
“Henson knew that the feeling of realism does not require verisimilitude or loveliness, but rather the movement of life—constant movement of body and voice. You can close your eyes and watch episode after episode of “Fraggle Rock” without ever becoming confused about what’s going on, because the voices of the characters pull you through. Likewise, you can watch a Muppets dance routine without sound and be just as delighted by the countless little touches that animate it—a syncopated head bob here, a hammy grin there. What matters in the Muppet universe isn’t perfection, but expression. Dancing across the screen, they embody the philosophy that it is not what you look like that matters, but what you do.” — Elizabeth Stevens (on The Muppets in one of the most astounding pieces of cultural criticism I have read this year.)
(Source: The Awl)
“The kid was in mid-air, flying. He just looked like a Spartan from that movie ‘300,’ except he was a banana.” — Brandon Parham (Manager of the Strongsville, OH Wireless Center on the banana at large after attacking a gorilla)
(Source: fox8.com)
The Insidious Evils of 'Like' Culture -
By NEIL STRAUSS
If you happen to be reading this article online, you’ll notice that right above it, there is a button labeled “like.” Please stop reading and click on “like” right now.
…
The insidious evils of Luddite jeremiads. And quoting Erich Fromm (a psychoanalyst!) on the human mind is like quoting Madame Sosostris on the motion of stars.
(via downlo)
The mathematical constant pi is under threat from a group of detractors who will be marking “Tau Day” on Tuesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13906169
There are “opponents” of pi. The more you know…
Being an opponent of π is like being an opponent of diatomic oxygen. *facepalm*
Gotta disagree on this one. There are a lot of good reasons to swap out $$2\pi$$ with $$\tau.$$ By getting rid of that 2, you can simplify a LOT of mathematical equations. The horse’s mouth is here: http://tauday.com.
My favorite is how the fourier transform is simplified. If you’ve ever done line after line after line of those things, even getting rid of a single character is a godsend.
Of course, Euler’s identity is no longer:
$$e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0$$
Instead it becomes:
$$e^{\tau i} = 1$$
and so we lose the additive identity, but we can’t have everything.
(via nefariousnewt-deactivated201207)
PJ Harvey’s eyebrows. That’s how I always recognize her. With her eyebrows.
(via allisbjork)
