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Real Nerds are Not Cool
Today, Weezer unveiled the new cover art for their album “Hurley.” Pitchfork has a short but sweet interview with band front man, Rivers Cuomo. Say what you will about their choice of album covers, I think it fits well with … Continue reading
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My Aardvark Answers
I’ve started using Aardvark at work during the day. I never ask any questions, but I frequently answer them. Here are a collection of my answers. I think I’m quite wise, or maybe people are just asking stupid questions. ~~~ … Continue reading
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Clapping Makes Everything Better
The “RIP Alex Chilton” tweets/messages have started since he passed away yesterday. I do not know who he is, but I know he influenced a lot of the artists that I enjoy today. “Alex Chilton” by the Replacements is an … Continue reading
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Women, Men, Power, Priviledge
Cynthia Nixon, who’s character “Miranda” is an archetype of female empowerment So I was thinking recently about what it means to be a strong woman, or a woman with power. In my own experience, I’ve seen that the styles of … Continue reading
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This Guy is Smart (and also a good talker)
This guy talks about what I guess I knew intuitively when I was younger. You can’t have a great job and a great career (and marry the person of your dreams) just anywhere. You have to go to the right … Continue reading
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TV Shows That Are Good
Mad Men - Because if you can’t portray minorities with deceny because of the time period, then you might as well make the women complex. Bravo. I see a bit of myself in every female character on the show. Given … Continue reading
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It's Coming Back
Vancouver post shop Rainmaker is redeveloping the ’90s animated series ReBoot as a trilogy of feature-length films, with the help of the social networking site Zeros 2 Heroes. Â link Yay!! Reboot is one of my all-time favourite shows! This is … Continue reading
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Rights Contradiction?
I read here (post 7) that without a terms of service saying otherwise, User Generated Content such as comments is the property of the user. The logic is simple, in order to copyright an idea you simply have to write … Continue reading
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Productivity Killer
The TED conference in California every year brings together tons of innovators, thinkers, scientists, artists. (Think IdeaCity, but older and better.) Anyway, it has recently come to my attention that they’re posting videos of speakers who have been there over … Continue reading
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Revised Curriculum
People are STUPID. Especially people who get themselves into hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt on their credit cards and through loans for renovations and weddings and completely superfluous crap. They are just DUMB. (see NY Times article.) But … Continue reading
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