June 20, 2009

jstn:

I wish people would be less judgmental about what other people eat.

Yes and no. I don’t think we need to escalate the combatative atmosphere that exists between humans any more, because that’s getting us nowhere. However, there are global repercussions for most of the foods you eat, including increased strain on the healthcare system if you wreck your systems. Food is political. No one needs to get high and mighty about it, but everyone does need to try harder to do it right.

A Portland Bike Ensemble at Pat’s House 10/31/08 (via alienatedhominid)
June 19, 2009
I highly recommend you do a Google search for dragon guitar.
I highly recommend you do a Google search for dragon guitar.
“ That was a little obscure, wasn’t it?
The KGW local news guy, after making a really weird joke that was somehow about “Green Acres,” and a cruise ship. He left the sports guy speechless.
Juneteenth World Wide Celebration
Juneteenth today, y’all. Give it up for our freed brothers and sisters and their struggle that continues today.

optimisto:

President Obama with Stephen Colbert (HD)
sharingtime: wheniwascruel: I know I already posted this photo, but it deserves repeating, because it’s fucking Elvis Costello Friday!!! Whoa, I look a lot like him in this photo. Just add a beard.

sharingtime:

wheniwascruel:

I know I already posted this photo, but it deserves repeating, because it’s fucking Elvis Costello Friday!!!

Whoa, I look a lot like him in this photo. Just add a beard.

“ Back to the nation, the new Gilded Age rolls on. The Supreme Court further limits the ability of older workers to sue over age discrimination. The hits just keep on coming. With their nest eggs and in many cases professional careers gone, older people have no recourse but to work, ever more in 19th century-style chattel. Millions of jobs will never return to a deindustrialized America as China flouts fair trade and American companies happily go along. Vast segments of the nation will be economic and social wastelands. Millions more will be added to the rolls of the uninsured (the hidden GOP message to them: “die”). Most of the next generation will not have it better. Most of my generation is probably only being kept afloat by inheritances from their parents. When are the Wal-Mart jobs and electronic playthings not enough to keep the population in a collective coma? Perhaps when the credit cards are declined while trying to purchase a new version of Grand Theft Auto for the XBox? Even then? We are “consumers,” not citizens. A “market,” not a civilization.
Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
“ And yes, we’re also introducing another vocabulary word with Pizza Hut, which is ‘The Hut.’ That ties in nicely with (today’s) texting generation.

Pizza Hut’s possible rebranding to “The Hut” (via Lee)

Did anyone at Pizza Hut consider the possibility that fewer people are eating there because the food isn’t very good and is incredibly unhealthy, which people are finally starting to care about a little more, rather than the restaurant’s name being one word too long for the “texting generation” to handle?

(via marco)

According to the article that you linked to here, yes, they did consider it:

“The largest player in the pizza industry is trying to win back pizza fans with a new image and menu items like all-natural multigrain pizza, lasagna, and wings.”

Wikipedia - Colors of noise

allisonweiss:

Did you even know there are different colors of noise? Well, there are. White, Pink, Brown, Red, Blue, Purple, Grey (the best).

The things you learn at 3:03am.

I only know this because I am a huge synthesizer nerd, and you use different noise colors to make different sounds. White noise is good for snares, etc.