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Smells Like Teen Spirit Cello Cover
via devour.comCello playing in high school was never this cool.
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What’s your SSID?
via redditI love clever SSIDs. I’m the only one in my neighborhood with a clever one, but it’s not nearly as good as these ones. I wonder how this person found so many cleaver ones in one place?
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What if scientists had the same standards as pundits?
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16-Bit-Style Interactive Video Version Of “Saved By The Bell”
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Flashback Friday: The Lemonheads – “It’s a Shame About Ray”
Last Friday I mentioned first discovering Juliana Hatfield on The Lemonheads Album It’s a Shame About Ray. To this day that album is probably in my top 10 list. I first got the album on cassette on a whim from one of those Columbia House Club thingies. I was still in high school and I remember playing the hell out of that cassette. Later on in college I picked up the CD and introduced my roommate to The Lemonheads, and he instantly fell in love with them and Juliana Hatfield also.
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MTV is 30
So the other day I watched MTV for the first time in probably over five years. Why? Well, 120 Minutes is back! The downside is that it’s only on once a month. The last Saturday of each month. That kind of sucks. It should be on every Saturday night, but I guess once a month is better than never.
Monday happened to be the 30 year anniversary of the launch of MTV. You can watch the first hour of MTV over on the mental_floss blog. MTV launched in 1981, but I don’t remember our cable company getting it until 1985. I loved MTV in the early days. I use to watch it all day long waiting for my favorite videos. I don’t know if it was because I was getting older, but it seemed to get worse as the years went by. By the time the 90s rolled around, the only time I watched MTV was when 120 Minutes was on. I couldn’t even tell you what MTV is like nowadays, because I haven’t watched it, but watching old MTV clips sure brings back the memories.
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Anything but an Atheist
via Friendly AtheistThis video is depressing and the amount of ignorance, discrimination, and hatred toward Atheists is amazing. It boggles my mind how we can be the most hated and mistrusted minority group despite being the “least violent, most tolerant, most intelligent, most progressive” minority group out there.
To me science and religion don’t mix. If science showed even a sliver of evidence of a God I would feel different, but the more we learn, the more obvious it is that there isn’t a God. I don’t understand how I’m part of a minority because I believe in science, but maybe someday the majority of the populace will wake up to science.
Thankfully I don’t live in the bible belt, so I haven’t been discriminated against too bad. I still believe the reason we were denied the ability to adopt a child was because we left the religious questions blank since they didn’t apply to us, but I don’t really have proof of this. That is just my speculation. My family is pretty battshit crazy about religion though. When I’m hanging around with my family, and reading their ignorance on Facebook, is about the only time I have to deal with religion. I just keep my mouth shut when I’m around my family, and chuckle when I read their Facebook comments.
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Flashback Friday: The Juliana Hatfield Three – “My Sister”
I never got into the Blake Babies. My first introduction to Juliana Hatfield was on the amazing Lemonheads album, It’s a Shame About Ray. So of course I picked up her second solo album, which strangely is the only one where she used the band name The Juliana Hatfield Three. I fell in love with the album instantly, and have bought every Juliana Hatfield album since.
She recently released her latest album, which was financed buy her fans with the help of PledgeMusic.com. I gladly gave her $40 for a signed copy of her book, and the album download. Like I said 100 times before, I love it when I can support artists directly. Plus I got a signed copy of Juliana fucking Hatfield’s book!!! Ok, I guess you would have to be a fan to understand how awesome this is.
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Dissecting the brain of a football player
via boingboing.netI remember Dave Duerson during his football playing days. It’s kinda creepy seeing his brain. If you remember, Dave Duerson killed himself this past February. He was struggling with mental health problems from football related injuries. He purposely shot himself in the chest to avoid damage to his brain. Before he died, he wanted his brain to be donated to science to help study what happens to people’s brains after being struck over and over again.
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My take on Google Plus usernames
So there is a big houpla going on over Google Plus user names. Google seems to be suspending accounts of people that don’t use their real name. Well, I don’t use my real name. I’m a nobody, so I doubt I will be suspended. I feel more comfortable online using a pseudonym, and have been using it for years. I want to be able to say whatever I want online, and not have to worry about employees, friends, or family finding it online. I want to be able to say I am going on vacation without worrying about somebody finding where I live and robbing me. I just feel better using a pseudonym online.What is Google going to do if celebrities start joining Google Plus? Are they going to expect Lady Gaga fans to look for Stefani Germanotta? Charlie Sheen fans will have to look for Carlos Estévez? And the countless others that go by different names. How does anybody at Google even know a person didn’t use their real name if their aren’t popular? And what about Kevin Rose? He is forwarding his blog to his Google Plus account, but his real name is Robert Rose.
All this nonsense of making people use their real names is just stupid, and unenforceable. It’s still the early days of Google Plus though. Google is full of smart people, so I’m sure there will get this figured out soon.
