Easily Distracted

Jan 30 2010 ∞
“ After all, it’s the writing of the show that will determine whether or not Amy Pond is a fully realized character or a pin-up that gets lines, and on that score, I have oodles of faith in Moffat.
— Teresa Jusino, Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Moffat’s Women #1: Nancy

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“ This bizarre glorification of virginity and the latent distaste of our daughters’ sexuality removes the very power with which we strive to arm them. If we can’t trust them to make rational decisions about their own bodies, how can we ever expect them to excel at school, to raise children of their own, to travel abroad, to prosecute criminals, to perform brain surgery?
— Catherine Marshall, Tony Abbott and the price of virginity - Eureka Street

Jan 08 2010 ∞

Makers Tile Game, now embeddable!

Jan 05 2010 ∞
“ if Jake Sully’s alien body doesn’t register as absolutely realistic and plausible, it’s OK — for as the editing constantly reminds us, we are watching a performance within a performance, Sully playing his avatar as Worthington plays Sully, Cameron and his cronies at WETA and ILM playing us in a game of high-tech Russian nesting dolls. The biggest “special effect” in Cameron’s films is the way in which diegesis and production reality collapse into each other.
— Graphic Engine  » Blog Archive  » Watching Avatar

Jan 04 2010 ∞

Heartache Over Innsmouth (via angagaur). I heard this on escape pod.

Dec 21 2009 ∞
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

I always get a smile when we listen to this song and I think about replacing a key word with another similar sounding word of the four letter variety

Dec 07 2009 ∞
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Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The

cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes.
— Coding Horror: Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way

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“ They claim it will actually unleash a lot of investment in coal-fired electricity generation and other polluting industry. I think they may be right: carbon-intensive industries have been worried about carbon policy and the CPRS gives them certainty that the policy environment will be very friendly for them for at least a decade.
— Oikos: Some quick thoughts on the Oz emissions trading scheme

Dec 02 2009 ∞
freedomtodither: funny billboard: news organisations need to be careful when they post breaking news tweets on a billboard

freedomtodither:

funny billboard: news organisations need to be careful when they post breaking news tweets on a billboard

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“ The schools where 63 per cent of Australians are educated deserve better, and the time has come for all citizens to make it clear that they demand an end to the under-funding of public education, where the future of our nation will chiefly be written,
— Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby in Australians urged to stand up for state schools - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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