Danny brought this microdocumentary on the rise of russian neonazi’s to my attention. A bit intense but definitely worth watching.

Notable snark machine ValleyWag scraped a photo of me in the ballpit from my flickr account for an article about how horrible the offices are at google. Here’s the pictures from the article http://valleywag.com/photogallery/googleplexworst/

fucking horrible huh? I can’t believe I work in such an oppressive environment. I would complain to my manager but I can’t remember which smoothie bar he’s in…

Me: I hate when I go to these internet 2.0 conferences and everyone just is trying to put their stupid card in my hand.
L: Replace ‘card’ with ‘dick’ and you’ll know what it’s like to be a girl.

Godspeed by Modeselektor is the best song in the world.

“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.” - Edgar Wallace

I kind of think angelina jolie looks like a space alien in about 65% of her photos. To me…that is not attractive.

I’ve been wondering if conservative people who like The Beatles even bother to listen to the lyrics. Found this Tom Lehrer quote in a brilliant diveIntoMark article that really sums it up.

Tom Lehrer’s description of folk singers as “the people who get up on stage and come out in favor of all the things that everyone else in the audience is against, like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on”

Since The New York Times reported on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon on April 20, ABC, CBS, and NBC have still not mentioned the report. By contrast, during their April 28 evening news broadcasts, all three networks reported on the Vanity Fair photo of Miley Cyrus.

:: via Media Matters ::

That’s a pretty stunning article by the NYT.

camarilla: a group of secret and often scheming advisers.

:: via J’s rss feed ::

Albert Hofmann, who died on Tuesday aged 102, synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip.

:: Via Telegraph.co.uk via Email (Thanks S!) and also Reddit earlier today ::

From Wikipedia:

Hofmann called LSD “medicine for the soul” and was frustrated by the worldwide prohibition that has pushed it underground. “It was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis,” he said, adding that the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960s and then unfairly demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed. He conceded that LSD can be dangerous in the wrong hands.

Quote from Hofmann:

“Because they are afraid that there is more to reality than they have confronted, that there are doors that they are afraid to go in and don’t want us to go in there either because if we go in we may learn something that they don’t know. And that makes us a little out of their control.”
-Albert Hofman Discoverer of LSD on why the government made it illegal.

Also, this video of British Soldiers on LSD is a keeper. and by keeper I mean one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

For being extremely awesome and winning a Fulbright Scholarship!!

* Food accounts for 13% of all Greenhouse Gas emissions.
* Red meat and dairy are responsible for nearly half of all greenhouse gas emissions from food for an average U.S. household.
* Replacing red meat and dairy with chicken, fish, or eggs in your diet for one day per week reduces emissions equal to 760 miles per year of driving.
* Switching to vegetables one day per week cuts the equivalent of driving 1160 miles per year.

:: via email (thanks Elizabeth!) via Organic Consumers Association ::

Ohhh snap to all the prius driving meat eaters out there….

Look, Cute bear says “eating meat isn’t cool for humans, MWARRRRRR!!!”

“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
-Benito Mussolini

This quote is up for debate, in fact, it’s not even true but it sounds great.

When I’m intimidated what I’m really doing is projecting my own fears of inadequacy onto someone or something else. Not useful!!!

www.designergasmasks.com

We are in a state of perpetual war – with ourselves and with the eco-system that sustains us. Perpetual war breeds perpetual fear. In the present context, this fear stems from our extreme desire for authenticity and manifests itself in our collectively insatiable culture of consumption.

Deep down, we are afraid we may never be satisfied. An expanding archive of branded myths and icons feeds this fear. Designer Gas Masks is an attempt to visualize this state of mind. Because it is only by first acknowledging and then challenging fear that we will all be able to breathe a little easier.

The NYPD recorded an unprecedented 81.5 percent surge in graffiti-related complaints from 2006 to 2007. During the same period, graffiti arrests spiked nearly 28 percent.

It’s cute and more than a bit naive that police think their behavior has some effect on crime, especially because they actually catch a such a small percentage of people who commit crimes. Add to that the fact that the prison system ends up perpetuating more crime than it prevents. Graffiti is on the rise because of the proliferation of online and brick and mortar retailers. Oh and because more and more people are realizing that it’s fucking awesome.

Daim

If this was a house party instead of a blog I’d be playing this and you’d all be quaffing cocktails instead of dancing in your office chairs.