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when headline writing goes horribly wrong.
Twitter's shock block unlock deemed cockup, gets a lockup
Blocking block BLOCKED after 'blogger blindfold blip
But why are nastiness and snideness taken to be features of our age? One general point of agreement, in denunciations of snark, is that snark is reactive. It is a kind of response. Yet to what is it responding? Of what is it contemptuous?
Stand against snark, and you are standing with everything decent. And who doesn't want to be decent? The snarkers don't, it seems. Or at least they (let's be honest: we) don't want to be decent on those terms.
A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela's memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a "fake," the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said on Tuesday.
RIP Bill Porter, door to door salesman.
Port Authority backs off of owl shooting after public outcry.
My mailbox has been overflowing with this.
super-8½
Weather Underground
mt pleasant has become less so (for me) without comments but its good to see there is still a twinkle in its eye, or maybe thats just a reaction to the glare off the windshield.
Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind
People stopping staring
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes
vet mentioned we could get neuticles for the cats after their procedure yesterday. for reals.
500 million migrating birds can't be wrong
Delivery drones
Incredible ant colony excavated
three (bootleg) stories jd salinger
taking "hummer" to another level.
Beer can camping stove. Or home cooker when the power's out.
helen and edgar at the public
was gifted an old ipod touch. heres my first epic time waster.