procrastinating: Archive

Jan 31st

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Jan 30th

Stanislav Petrov →

bestofwikipedia: Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who deviated from standard Soviet protocol by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm on September 26, 1983. This decision may have prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies. (via Ry-Guy)

Jan 30th

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F/M/K: William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman,... →

“Phillip Seymour Hoffman is what I’d consider a trophy fuck. I am not above the human desire to collect scalps, carve notches, to brag and swagger. I believe in the glory of sexual conquest. I think it would be an admirable accomplishment to ball a dude of titanic talent who has been recognized by the voting populace of The Academy of Motion Pictures. In fact, I’d like to fuck him in the...

Jan 29th

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Jan 29th

Inglip, Dogfort and How the Internet Shapes Humor... →

Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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Nabokov Theory on Polyommatus Blue Butterflies is... →

Jan 27th

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SOTU drinking games (Salon) →

It’s your civic duty, y’all.

Jan 26th

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uh, excerpt from my art house cinema syllabus

Nature of the Course One ultimate purpose of higher education and the offering of this course is to broaden your knowledge and understanding about the world around you—to learn about things that you may not know much about and to think about things that you haven’t given much thought to. At the same time, I recognize that many individuals hold strong beliefs and feelings about the...

Jan 26th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 24th

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Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans →

science: It’s relatively common in science for a specific effect to be assigned a conventional cause, only for further measurements and calculations to find that the conventional cause can’t account fully for the effect. Far from being cause for panic, this is really a fantastic opportunity to discover exciting new facts about the world. For example, the conventional explanation for why the...

Jan 24th

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Jan 23rd

Jan 22nd

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Jan 21st

Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

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“But, here is the problem. I really want to fuck Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I know the urge springs from the grotesque inner workings of the female id; the part of the lady brain that wants to Get Dark; that wants to have a lumbering, pale jabberwocky come violently and cartoonishly inside of her so she can, later, decay internally from his planted bad seed. There’s something about fucking...

Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

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Ugh, MySpace crush, your GPOYWs are so cute and like, cool.

Jan 19th

Ugh, MySpace crush, your GPOYWs are so cute and like, cool.

Jan 19th

You know those girls who give off a little bit of...

gooddecisionashley: Yeah, those chicks are totally boneable. I am that girl.

Jan 19th

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Jan 15th

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Xenoglossy →

bestofwikipedia: Xenoglossy also written xenoglossia, is the putative paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means. For example, a person who speaks German fluently, but who is not a native German speaker, has never studied German, never been to a German-speaking country, and never associated with German...

Jan 14th

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Xenoglossy →

bestofwikipedia: Xenoglossy also written xenoglossia, is the putative paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means. For example, a person who speaks German fluently, but who is not a native German speaker, has never studied German, never been to a German-speaking country, and never associated with German...

Jan 14th

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