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Daemin comments on Which one movie blew your mind? Ephemera 2009 (7) -- Better Off Ted handily fills my entertainment requirements for 22 minutes.

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Good geek comedy. -- (Sawyer thinks) >> (Jack reacts). Somebody's being very meta over at Lost. Much to my approval. -- In just two days, the file-syncing software Dropbox has revolutionized my workflow. -- For what it's worth, I cannot believe I just used the word "workflow. " -- Despite my unhealthy love of my Kindle, I recently spent lunch in a used bookstore Chris Downey found near work, and bought a couple vintage 1948 hardcover mysteries. -- It turns out there IS a maximum number of pages you can type per day. -- I rarely do follow-ups on the mini-posts, but I've mentioned the Lovecraftian police procedural The Translated Man (also available on Kindle) before, and it deserves more than that glancing blow. -- Setting aside my innate fondness for Wil Wheaton, his series of posts about DM-ing a game of Dungeons & Dragons for his son and his friends pleases me to no end. News and Comment on TN Politics: BREAKING NEWS: Transwoman assaulted at Kohl's Department Store in Jackson, TN.

Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving Day) is known for being one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

News and Comment on TN Politics: BREAKING NEWS: Transwoman assaulted at Kohl's Department Store in Jackson, TN

Intrepid shoppers appear hours before the doors open at retail establishments across the country in search of deeply discounted merchandise for holiday gifts. We hear stories each year of customers storming the doors when they open to ensure purchase of an often limited supply of items on sale. Sadly, holiday cheer and good will is sometimes in shorter supply than the merchandise being sought. Such was the case at Kohl's Department Store in Jackson, TN on Friday, Nov. 26. A transgender woman and her mother were assaulted by other shoppers as the store opened for business. Jejeje666 comments on What are your favorite culturally untranslateable phrases? Spacelog: space exploration stories from the original transcripts.

“Privilege Denying Dude” and the Fight for the Right to Snark. Update @ 3:00p ET: We’ve updated the images in this article to comply with a terms-of-use claim by the original photographer (mentioned in this article), who’s expressed concern about the impact on his model.

“Privilege Denying Dude” and the Fight for the Right to Snark

As Diana Lopez says on her personal blog, “The photographer was kind enough to contact Memegenerator and have them replace Jan’s [the model] image with this new one while keeping all the captions.” And yes, this new model appears to be feminist dreamboat Ryan Gosling. You’ve probably heard the story; in the early days of the Internet, many of its architects and champions fully expected it to become the world’s first truly equal society. The old publishing order that kept most people silenced would be left behind, anonymity would be a great leveler, and everyone’s point of view would get heard on all topics and judged without prejudice, on merits.

Right? Today, we see that this didn’t pan out. In short, PDD is hilarious. “I was only trying to create something enjoyable,” says Lopez. How to split up the US. OpenHeatMap.

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