February 2012
thewalrusisagod:
Tumblr, stop autocorrecting my ellipsis.
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This, this, a thousand times this. Although testing shows . . . that using “nbsp” html entities lets you create proper ellipses. Still kind of a pain.
George Carlin on the future
We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of fucking Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals...
The Navy officer noticed a new seaman and barked at him, “Get over here! What’s your name, sailor?”
“John,” the new seaman replied.
“Look, I don’t know what kind of bleeding-heart pansy crap they’re teaching sailors these days, but I don’t call anyone by his first name,” the chief scowled. “It breeds familiarity, and that...
the understatement: “It’s A Brick” – Tesla Motors’... →
understatementblog:
Tesla Motors’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster, almost certainly its impending Model S, and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can largely destroy the value of the vehicle. If the battery is ever totally discharged, the…
Gee, I wonder if the Tesla engineers should look into this at some point.
January 2012
“Meet Atsuo, Airi, and Akiyoshi. They were all the best and most dedicated people...”
– Jimstonefreelance.com - Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?
Yelping with Cormac: Chevy's Fresh Mex →
yelpingwithcormac:
Palo Alto, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The Sheriff stood over a table cleaved cleanly in two. Around him wellheeled young people lay newly dead. What do you have there deputy, he said.
Deputy Stevens leaned over the ruined bar and looked behind it. I got two…
In which social media spirals out of control.