September 2011
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August 2011
2 posts
Great Review
I bought an external hard drive enclosure yesterday. I hadn’t done any research on the brand so I googled it before opening to make sure I shouldn’t return it. I came across this review and it was too good not to post:
“My house burned down. This drive was on the floor under where the fire started. The firemen sprayed water all over it, then pulled my ceiling down on top of...
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
WatchRAD was rented by my mother many, many times when I was home sick from school. Love this movie.
jimray:
No lie, I’ve seen RAD probably 20 times. For several months during the mid-80’s, it was the only movie that my brother and I would rent (why my folks never just bought a copy, I’ll never know — wishful thinking that we’d pick a different movie some day, perhaps). It’s everything a cheesy...
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nedhepburn)
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
November 2010
5 posts
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
October 2010
3 posts
“I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my...”
– Jon Stewart’s closing remarks at the Rally
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September 2010
5 posts
“There is really no debate about climate change in China,” said Peggy Liu,...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Aren’t We Clever? - NYTimes.com (via apsies)
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August 2010
9 posts
Eating Animals
I just finished reading Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer’s non-fiction account of his quest to determine why we eat meat and how it is produced. This is information everyone should have and I highly recommend reading it or at the very least watching Food, Inc. But let me quickly summarize the reasons to stop consuming meat:
Environmental/Ecological
Meat production is the single...
July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
9 posts
May 2010
8 posts
