January 21 2012
(via The 14 Most Interesting Facts About Kim Dotcom, The Founder Of Megaupload)
I think I kind of recognize that guy, from a bunch my nightmares.
January 20 2012
![[Karl Lagerfeld Interpreted By YouTube’s Closed Captioning]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly3r3uLCOC1qz5efpo1_500.jpg)
January 18 2012
January 13 2012
World Pizza Expo, see you in March.
January 9 2012
“Drillmaster,” he said, “this is not alagai’sharak as we were taught it.” -The Desert Spear
I think I win this one.
“They are born with greater brain capacity; they have more ability to hold many ideas at once, and to compare more ideas with one another — hence to make a richer synthesis.”
(Source: meme-meme)
January 7 2012
This is a single page article that could have been done with two sets of bulletpoints, one listing the ten cities with the highest unemployment in the US, the other listing those with the lowest. But the Huffington Post craptastially turns it into this unnecessary slideshow because that generates plenty of page views.
Enough With The Slideshow Pollution & This Means You, Huffington Post (via felixsalmon)
Does anyone like slideshows? Pageviews are increasingly useless from an advertiser perspective, readers (as this shows) find them to be a drag, and they’re no good for mobile. I can’t believe that editors love them; what gives?
(via felixsalmon)
January 3 2012
We wanted to do something special for our 100th review, so we went back and looked at the scores of all 99 cats that have been reviewed so far and mathed out the average scores in our 4 categories to see how our cats are doing overall. Here are the results:
Appearance: B+
One thing is for certain: You all think your cat is the most beautiful creature that has ever and will ever walk the planet. Much like a love-blind parent of an actual human baby, no flaw seems to be significant enough to mention for most cat parents. Whether some of the cats reviewed so far are worthy of such high praise is debatable.
Sociability: C+
This category could go either way. Half of the cats seem to be friendly and affectionate, and the other half seem to be sullen grumps that can’t be approached even on their best days.
Usefulness: C
No surprise here. Other than warming our laps and catching the occasional pest, cats don’t put up big numbers when it comes to usefulness.
Huggability: C+
This one, however, is a bit of a surprise. Arguably, a cat’s primary purpose (and their entire reason for domestication) is to snuggle with us. One might expect huggablilty to be much higher, but cats are as unpredictable as they are temperamental, so scores remained average.
Overall Average: C+
As cat enthusiasts, it’s difficult for us to accept that the average cat is scraping by with such a mediocre GPA, but this is science, and science says that cats are C students, for the most part. But then again, living up to their parents’ expectations for them has never exactly been a priority for our feline companions. It is enough, perhaps, that they have furry little faces and that they will occasionally deign to get in a lap when the mood strikes.
Here’s looking forward to another great year for cats in 2012! Even if greatness, for a cat, is only usually a C+.
I hate cats.
December 30 2011
December 28 2011
December 6 2011
November 28 2011
I’m still trying to get my ban lifted from r/funny. I’m not having much luck. This is usually the point in the conversation when they stop talking to me. I realize I played on sympathy here, but I thought maybe showing a little humanity might inspire leniency. They are so eager to ban people who don’t fit this 10% criteria and yet they do not care that many bloggers like myself are being screwed by these imgur addicts thieving our material for their karma. And then reddit die-hards come to our sites and accuse us of stealing our own content from reddit. Is this worth all the hassle? Sometimes I think not, but then I see my bank balance at the end of the month and it’s hard not to get frustrated all over again.
It’s a bizarre and unfortunate policy that Reddit has. Or seems to have — their community guidelines are far from clear. Odd that your occasional post, albeit self-promotional, is somehow considered worse for the overall Reddit community than Kylde’s stream: http://www.reddit.com/user/Kylde
I don’t quite get how posting 8 links in an hour to report the spammers is considered more valuable than putting up links to content you created and want to share.
November 22 2011
November 15 2011
