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Showing posts with label Links. Show all posts

2/11/13

It has been a good run, but I'm switching to Tumblr: http://virindi.tumblr.com/.

2/7/13

Re-watched Hot Coffee. Amazing documentary about how seemingly intelligent people are so easily fooled by Corporate PR - to their own severe detriment.

Corporate PR: woman spills coffee on herself while driving and sues McDonalds for millions! Court system broken!
What really happened: McDonalds had been warned 700 times that their coffee was too hot and their cups too shit - keeping coffee hot increases its shelf life and cheap cups also increase profits. An old lady (who wasn't driving) had the cheap cup disintegrate in her lap from the heat of the coffee and spill on her lap. Here's the picture of her burns: http://imgur.com/IQh5Cyu. She only won medical bills + $400,000.

The documentary carries on with example after example, and then shows that because so many people (read: asshole idiots) were so easily fooled by Corporate PR that now Civil Lawsuits are no longer a way to force Corporations to refrain from their general asshattery or can be used as a victim to seek justice.

1/20/13

The guy who wrote and directed Primer (greatest low budget film of all time - $7,000) has a new movie coming out: Upstream Color.

1/17/13

Lance Armstrong represents everything that's wrong with society today. He lied his way to the top, he collected hundreds of millions of dollars by cheating, he bullied and threatened anyone who got in his way, and now he stages a public relations "confession" on Oprah that smacks of yet more manipulation of the public eye. It's all so pathetic it makes me want to vomit.

Rest of the article.

1/13/13

Thirteen years and counting, getting new gear never gets old.

1/10/13

At first glance I dismissed Dredd (2012) as a horrible, cheap sequel to an already horrible movie. Kept hearing chatter about it and decided to watch it, turns out it is one of the best movies of 2012 and easily the most underrated.

It's a low-budget action film that is humble and doesn't try to go over the top. Simple plot, none of that save the world bullshit. Also, it utilizes stylized CGI rather than going for sub-par realism and looking like shit, which makes this film incredibly beautiful at times.

1/8/13

1/7/13

My future wife will probably do something like this to me.

12/31/12

New Year's Resolution: do more push-ups, refrain from drinking a liter of spiced tea per day, get a tattoo, stop listening to Katy Perry, and have sex with the love of my life, Elizabeth Lambert.

12/29/12

Decent version of Tame Impala.

12/20/12

I dunno about you guys, but I love Christmas!

12/13/12

I just fucking cry inside whenever I see Obama supporters and apologists.

"Nothing Can Justify Torture": An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record.

12/12/12

Man, I fucking love this guy. Punk rock.

12/5/12

XXYYXX - Overdone ft. Anneka.

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Been in a funk all week and now, god fucking dammit, I completely blanked out and forgot to go sit in an important class last night. Fucking hell.

12/4/12

I don't want to be a trendy asshole, but I really admire this guy. This too.

11/28/12

I always knew there was something I seriously disliked about Richard Dawkins. I always thought it was his fucking arrogant, stardom, in it only for money and fame attitude, turns out he's also generally a dick.

11/14/12

"I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about."
"I love you too."

11/10/12

This reminds me of that time I was a goblin with a shitty desk job and the girl of my dreams was infatuated with and abused by my nemesis.