Society & Culture
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Let my Coco go
Conan must emigrate to Comedy Central. He has enough money already, now it’s all about the power. That is all.
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Input – Output
Two fascinating reads: Using Menu Psychology to Entice Diners Sitters Vs. Standers – The Great Wipe Hope
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Alouette
A classic Kids in the Hall sketch. Alouette is actually a pretty morbid song by modern standards: Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai Je te plumerai… Translation: Little skylark, lovely little skylark Little lark, I will pluck your feathers off I’ll pluck the feathers off your… /////////////////////// At least there’s no equivalent song about the ortolan.
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Jobless PhDs
This article was making the rounds a while ago, but I forgot to link to it: The Case for Working With Your Hands There are a huge number of people who can’t use their education in a useful or sustainable manner, and unfortunately, many of them can’t do anything with their hands, either. I don’t really know of a country where this isn’t true.
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MJ
Okay, if you’re a normal person, you had enough of Michael Jackson news approximately 2.4 hours after his death. It took me considerable time to ignore every single headline with his name in it the past week, but I ended up reading one article and it turned out to be fascinating: LINK That is all.
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There were better days..
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Vietnam destiny
Found this crazy story over at Monkeyfilter about a Vietnam vet who met up, through a series of highly impossible yet seemingly predetermined events, with the daughter of a man he killed during the war: One veteran heals through a battlefield keepsake The accompanying video contains an unnecessary soundtrack but is heart-wrenching:
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PETARDED
PETA doesn’t like fishmongers tossing fish at the Pike Place Fish Market PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted a fly on live TV PETA needs to hurry up and merge with the Church of Scientology so we all have a single entity to hate and ridicule. Animals are delicious, biotches.
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DMFTW
The new Danger Mouse album is going to turn the record industry on its head – mark my words, this is the tipping point.
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Banning “Dzongkha” – Microsoft hates the Dalai Lama and Bhutan, but Loves Chinese Money!
Oh, Microsoft! In October 2005, an internal Microsoft proposal blocked the term “Dzongkha” from all company software and promotional material, substituting the term “Tibetan – Bhutan” instead. The International Campaign for Tibet cites the memorandum as saying Dzongkha “implies affiliation with the Dalai Lama, which is not acceptable to the government of China”. The Bhutanese, who have never been under the rule of the Dalai Lamas, even if they revere the 14th Dalai Lama, were dismayed by the decision. Linguists have pointed out that the word “Dzongkha” has no particular association with the Dalai Lama. Ironically, the government of the People’s Republic of China continues to use the term “Dzongkha”…
