Typographical Posters
by Paul Worm
First world problems. Besides, the answer is always BOTH.
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Me fail English? That’s unpossible.
(Source: amerciaiswithmitt, via gdolboys)
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Strange Bedfellows of the Day: Disneyland played host last weekend to the 12th annual “Bats Day in the Fun Park” — or Goth Day at Disneyland, to the rest of us. The day’s main event was a group phototaken in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle; the crowd here was jostling for places.
Don’t miss the rest of the pics — it’s a Disneyland the likes of which you’ve never seen.
[thanks, jasmin! / vice]
We demand to be taken seriously.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ugcophSl1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Strange Bedfellows of the Day: Disneyland played host last weekend to the 12th annual “Bats Day in the Fun Park” — or Goth Day at Disneyland, to the rest of us. The day’s main event was a group phototaken in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle; the crowd here was jostling for places.
Don’t miss the rest of the pics — it’s a Disneyland the likes of which you’ve never seen.
[thanks, jasmin! / vice]
We demand to be taken seriously.
Game Of Thrones Recap: Blackwater For Blackelephants | BWE.tv
I don’t watch this show. (I KNOW. I need to. Help me get cable, and then I’ll get back to you.) But I’m loving all these jokes about this chick who gets drunk and tells it like it is.
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The Case for Facebook
Facebook just had modern history’s worst IPO and it’s down again today by some percentage that will be quoted endlessly.
Yet Facebook is still the world’s largest social media site with over 900 million users. And most importantly: Many of those people still visit the site each and every day, regardless of grumbling from cynics or short-term price fluctuations.
We’ve been hard on Facebook at times through the last year, particularly around issues ofprivacy. We will continue to report on them with the same rigor that we’ve maintained over the years. But as the company’s stock has fallen since its IPO, so many people are piling on with glee that I’ve become skeptical of my own skepticism about the company. It’s not so much that nearly a billion people can’t be wrong, but more that I know that I can be. (Especially when media sentiment is running so strongly in one direction.)
So, consider this the skeptic’s guide to the bull case for Facebook. Because, although you might not know it from the recent commentary, there is still a case for Facebook’s success and it is strong.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Alexis Madrigal: contrarian techie FTW](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4sxe9J0DM1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Facebook just had modern history’s worst IPO and it’s down again today by some percentage that will be quoted endlessly.
Yet Facebook is still the world’s largest social media site with over 900 million users. And most importantly: Many of those people still visit the site each and every day, regardless of grumbling from cynics or short-term price fluctuations.
We’ve been hard on Facebook at times through the last year, particularly around issues ofprivacy. We will continue to report on them with the same rigor that we’ve maintained over the years. But as the company’s stock has fallen since its IPO, so many people are piling on with glee that I’ve become skeptical of my own skepticism about the company. It’s not so much that nearly a billion people can’t be wrong, but more that I know that I can be. (Especially when media sentiment is running so strongly in one direction.)
So, consider this the skeptic’s guide to the bull case for Facebook. Because, although you might not know it from the recent commentary, there is still a case for Facebook’s success and it is strong.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Alexis Madrigal: contrarian techie FTW
Apparently Doctor Who fangirls are the worst. Can’t we all just appreciate the show?
WORD. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Does no one appreciate the irony when people complain about other people plagiarizing their GIFs? Yes, it takes time and skill to make one, but a GIF is already a plagiarism of an even greater work, one that is rarely credited (did the original poster credit not only the show, but the episode, the director, the writer, the cinematographer, the actors, etc.?). Yes, we should all try to credit everyone as much as possible whenever possible. But it’s absurd for someone who didn’t credit the BIG PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE CREDITED to complain about not getting credit themselves.
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“In an internet culture, it matters more that I know where the facts can be found, and how to piece them together, curate, and redistribute, than how long I can keep my head submerged in 300 pages of non-fiction. When reading news on the internet, I’m defined by my filters, but when reading a newspaper, I’m defined by my patience for skimming through stories about crises in the Middle East. I’ve found myself buying books on sprees that have more similarity to opening multiple tabs in a browser than the actions of a rational shopper. I page through my magazines like an RSS reader, where “marking read” means reading the headline, not necessarily reading the article. I’ve long since run out of shelf space for new titles, I’m a few pages into a few dozen books, ranging from Plato’s Meno to John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead […]” —
Offline: Ignorance by Paul Miller
This is so me.
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And I can’t read more than a blog-post-length section of a novel at a time.
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“If Victoria Grayson is actually dead, this’ll be one of the most daring decisions a network series has ever made. And if she isn’t dead, the backlash over a fakeout could be damning.” —
I really used to love EW recaps, but I signed off the moment they became so absurdly hyperbolic (I’m looking at you, recap of Jim and Pam’s wedding ep). Okay, A) If you’ve ever seen a soap, you know that Victoria isn’t dead. She’ll end up in intensive care next season. It’s the most half-assed cliffhanger in the book. But B) Even if she were dead, it would NOT be “one of the most daring decisions a network series has ever made.” God, get some freaking context.