Palin Resigns (via mnickolas) with a call for more Downs Syndrome babies, an end to the usual politics of serving out a full term, basketball analogies, and Patton quote: “We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.”
While I’ve missed these loonball speeches, this makes me so infinitely more relived by the bullet we all dodged during the last election.
What is the status of the Transformers at the beginning of the film?
The Autobots have joined the military to hunt down the Decepticons. We’re told the Decepticons are “doing things,” but they appear to be hiding peacefully when the Autobots show up and brutally murder them.
—Topless Robot, “Bonus! Rob’s Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s!”. Strangely, this almost makes me want to see the movie. (via toomuchnick)
Better be careful y’all: that chimp has a taste for human flesh [vulture] of the Rashida Jones variety. There’s no telling who he’ll want to eat once he’s out of monkey jail after years of neglect.
Belle & Sebastian - “Another Sunny Day” (from the Life Pursuit)
I’m not sure if this counts as a song for summer, but hey, it’s the season of happy hours on decks and taking sun for granted in seattle; so let’s be lenient and live on crazy avenues of trees for a while.
albums of the first half of 2009 current favorites:
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion; Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix; the Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t; Andrew Bird - Noble Beast; Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
also very nice:
Loney Dear - Dear John; Handsome Furs - Face Control; the Thermals - Now We Can See; M. Ward -Hold Time
too soon to tell, but promising:
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca; Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer; God Help the Girl - s/t
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I feel inspired by seeing so many ppl ‘uniting around music’, willing to ‘chill in a tent for days’/’set up some sort of monetized shanty town.’ Feel like possibly building some sort of music festival that incorporates ‘actual slums.’
—Carles connects the dots between the Big Picture’s astonishing collection of Glastonbury photos. [hipsterrunoff]
We hate most in others that which we fail to see in ourselves.
—Anil Dash, explaining the publicity feud between Malcolm Gladwell and Chris Anderson. [dashes]
Is that enough proof for you [expletives]? I was right. You were WRONG.
—unknown Floridian Wikipedian, upon finally being allowed to update to Wikipedia regarding David Rhode’s kidnapping following his escape from the Taliban and the subsequent lifting of the NYT—Wikipedia undercover effort to keep the kidnapping secret. [nyt]
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(Nothing in this freezer is remotely related to swine flu, but I guess that it’s kind of cute that a box containing samples from one of my dissertation projects is a little bit “famous” on the internet. Oh, creative commons license.)
“Flights 001”, A map depicting those flights numbered 001 by some of the world’s large airlines. Most are long-haul, though KLM’s is just the short hop from Amsterdam to London. (by bryanboyer via snarkmarket)
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