March 2012
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So, I've just finished Hunger Games, the book.
I’d like to start off by saying that no, it is NOT Battle Royale for a Western audience. It is Lord of the Flies mixed into The Running Man, with splashes of The Truman Show and Survivor (the TV reality show). Despite all the controversy on various blogospheres and the internet at large, fanned by various news outlets, they are very much not the same thing.
It’s not hard to recommend...
Send Cognitive Dissonance to Netroots Nation! →
cognitivedissonance:
Folks, I was nominated for a Netroots Nation scholarship to attend this year’s conference in Providence, Rhode Island. The competition is stiff and I need your vote.
So what’s Netroots Nation?
The big picture: We amplify progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to...
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This is my life...
Wife: We talked to your teacher at parent’s evening, we know you behave and listen at school - so, this behaviour at home must be deliberate.
Me: And that’s why we’re going to be all over your arse on this.
Daughter: (raised eyebrow)
Me: Literally, we have landed a craft there, and are all over it.
Both kids: (laughing)
Me: No, serious, we’re like Bepanthen on a sore...
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ME3 mini-review: my current issues.
So, I’m about 1/3 of the way into the plot of Mass Effect 3 right now, and I’m a little frustrated. You see, I was a big, big fan of ME2, so much so I bit the bullet and replayed ME1 just to not have it decide my decisions. Here I am, well into the third instalment, and I have a bit of a laundry list of where it’s just not working for me…[[MORE]]
My biggest issue is that...
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Angry. Just... angry.
Well, with the NHS bill now likely to pass tomorrow without incident, we can expect our beloved healtch care to be parcelled up and sold off, leaving us open to the disaster that is the US system. And then they announced today they’re thinking that next they’ll privatise the motorways, and all I can think is…
Well, damn, what do we have left?
I mean, seriously; after they...
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Petition: Arrest Trayvon's Murderer →
stfuconservatives:
solitarelee submitted: “For those of you who haven’t heard, Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old boy, was shot dead by the Captain of the local Neighborhood Watch. Try to imagine the races were reversed and a grown black man had shot and killed an unarmed 17 year old white boy walking on the sidewalk to his own house. Do you think Zimmerman would still be free?
“Please sign the...
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So, today I picked over a corpse...
…Not a real one, naturally. But a corpse, nevertheless. Let me explain:
Yesterday, details emerged that GAME Group, the UK’s premier gaming specialist store, was having a massive sale on all pre-owned stock. This didn’t really surprise anyone; the signs they were sinking fast were everywhere to see, when they announced they were not stocking select EA and Nintendo games due to...
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The Frogman: Kony 2012 - Nothing is ever simple.
thefrogman:
Yesterday my inbox was flooded with people asking me to post Invisible Children’s latest video calling for the capture of Joseph Kony. I don’t automatically post things like this just because everyone else is…
In summary: this whole Kony 2012 stuff is bunk. Do not support it.
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