Burberry: It's bad for you, it's bad for families- it's bad for America. |
[Aug. 22nd, 2004|06:04 pm] |
Yes, i admit that i'm preppy as hell, but i *hate* Burberry.
It was bad when it was created in 1920, it was bad in the 1980's and it's just as horrid as ever today.
Somethings just don't deserve a comeback. the Burberry check is one of them. |
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British bum beats Mike Tyson Punch-Out, wants to fight Soda Popinski next for heavyweight title |
[Jul. 31st, 2004|02:31 am] |
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| | hbo legendary nights - 'defeated boxer fades into obscurity' | ] | wp.com: Tyson Is Punched Out Former Champion Is KO'd in His Comeback by Unheralded Williams
LOUISVILLE, July 30 -- In an upset surpassed perhaps only by his loss to James "Buster" Douglas during the pinnacle of his career, Mike Tyson was knocked out by British heavyweight Danny Williams on Friday night at 2 minutes 51 seconds of the fourth round in front of a stunned crowd of 17,273 at Freedom Hall.
Williams, who stood up to a barrage of big punches by Tyson early, threw an almost inconceivable amount of power punches -- 16 in a row -- to stagger Tyson in the fourth. Tyson followed with a desperate, lunging right hand that missed, and Williams went back to work. He landed a five-punch combination, ending with a right hand that sent Tyson falling backward into the ropes. Tyson crumpled to the canvas as the crowd erupted.
"No doubt this is the greatest feeling in the world," said Williams, a 9-1 underdog who improved to 32-3 with his 27th knockout. "And by far my biggest moment in boxing. I said I would get him after the fourth round, but we didn't quite make it that far. I proved people wrong. They have to take me seriously now."
Now i wish i had stayed home tonight to witness the "nice" mike tyson getting thorougly owned by a bum. |
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How things work. |
[Jul. 26th, 2004|12:45 am] |
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| | cynical | ] | 1) shit happens 2) congress holds hearings and yells at people involved in the aforementioned shit 3) some congressmen threaten legislation to "do something to KEEP AMERICA SAFE™ / KEEP OUR FAMILES STRONG™ / PROTECT OUR CHILDREN™" 4) 6 months later, the media and public forget and any relevant legislation is killed in committee 5) 5 years later, spampy is the only motherfucker who still gives a shit. the end. |
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Reading is Fundamental |
[Jul. 25th, 2004|01:48 pm] |
Washington Post Book World Editor, Michael Dirda bemoans how literary culture has supposedly suffered at the rise of the online culture in today's article, "As I Live And Read ":
[The NEA's report,] "Reading at Risk" is right to lament the decline of what I will forthrightly call bookishness. As the report implies, the Internet seems to have delivered a possibly knock-out punch. Our children now can scarcely use a library and instead look to the Web when they need to learn just about anything. We all just click away with mouse and remote control, speeding through a blur of links, messages, images, data of all sorts. Is this reading? As Gioia reminds us, "Print culture affords irreplaceable forms of focused attention and contemplation that make complex communications and insights possible. To lose such intellectual capability -- and the many sorts of human continuity it allows -- would constitute a vast cultural impoverishment." So, more and more we know less and less about less and less. And we don't care. Who among the young aspires to be cultivated and learned, which takes discipline, rather than breezily provocative, wise-crackingly "edgy"?
I wish I could feel more hopeful about book culture, believe more strongly that something might be done. But we've become a shallow people, happy enough with the easy gratifications of mere spectacle in all the aspects of life. Real books are simply too serious for us. Too slow. Too hard. Too long. Now and again, we may feel that just maybe we've shortchanged our better selves, that we might have listened to great music, contemplated profoundly moving works of art, read books that mattered, but instead we turned away from them because it was time to tune into "Law and Order" reruns, or jack in to Warhammer on our home computer, or get back to the latest clone of "The Da Vinci Code." Sooner or later, though, probably late at night or when faced with one of life's crises, we will surprise in ourselves what poet Philip Larkin called the hunger to be more serious.
But come the dawn and our good intentions usually evaporate. Why persist with Plutarch or George Eliot or Beckett or William Gaddis when you can drop into a chat room or gaze at digitized lovelies or go to still another movie? Instead of reading Toqueville or Henry Adams, we just check out the latest blogs. In short, we turn toward the bright and shiny, the meretricious tinsel, the strings of eye-catching beads for which we exchange our intellectual birthright as for a mess of pottage. For modern Americans, only the unexamined life is worth living.
The new media scholars over at Grand Text Auto have a great rebuttal to the NEA report. |
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United States foreign policy, in the form of a photograph. |
[Jul. 18th, 2004|11:51 pm] |
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Well, it looks like my new printer/film scanner works! I will never have to visit a photo store to print pictures ever again! :D |
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Yet another reason to hate Larry Ellison. |
[Jul. 13th, 2004|10:34 am] |
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| | crappy | ] | I can't believe that Oracle got a patent for content management systems ( "Self service system for web site publishing", patent number 6,745,238). That patent is so generic, that it threatens pretty much *every* web publishing system out there, including livejournal.
Patent abstract:
A web site creation and maintenance system permits distributed control and centralized management of a web site. The physical implementation of the web site resides on a database maintained by a database administrator. The web site system permits a site administrator to construct the overall structure, design and style of the web site. This allows for a comprehensive design as well as a common look and feel for the web site. The web site system permits content for the web site to originate from multiple content contributors. The publication of content is controlled by content owners. This permits assignment of content control to those persons familiar with the content. The web site system is also a self service web site system for content contributors, content owners, and site administrators. The self service system displays to users one or more panels that contain input fields to permit the users to submit content and web site components for publication on the web site. The user, through use of only a web browser running on the user computer, transmits the parameter to the web site database. In response, the web site is updated at the database in accordance with the parameter.
argh. |
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If this had been a campaign spot, it would have been the best ad since lbj's "daisy" in '64... |
[Jul. 11th, 2004|03:05 pm] |
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kylec on voting. |
[Jul. 11th, 2004|01:10 pm] |
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| | amused | ] | <KrON> i think encouraging people not to vote is evil <KrON> they've been doing it to black people for years and now it's infiltrating the sacred whitey kingdom <spampy> hahahahhhahahahhaah |
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when superheroes hit middle age, it's pretty fucking depressing. |
[Jun. 23rd, 2004|12:45 pm] |
behold, the Superdudes of Illinois! |
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