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April 2007

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College Sued Over "Drunken Pirate" Sanctions → thesmokinggun.com

A teacher at Millersville University has her teaching degree denied because of her Myspace picture: her with a pirate hat, drinking out of a Mr. Goodbar cup. The money quote though is not in the article, but in a Digg comment made by JavertHolmes:

Other things she promotes in the photo:

  • Teaching kids that it’s OK to use oil in excess by drinking from a plastic cup.
  • Promoting tooth decay and diabetes by advertising Mr. Goodbar.
  • Making kids think it’s hip and cool to be a pirate when being a pirate is a one-way ticket to prison.
  • Teaching kids that red-eyes in a photograph is acceptable, lowering the future photography standards in the country.
  • The poster in the back says “beaste—” likely meaning it was created by an illiterate promoting bestiality. Likely a man and an elephant copulating on the adjacent skyscraper just out of frame.
  • The middle finger holding the cup is the most prominent in the photo, likely a subliminal attempt to flip the bird at anyone who views the photo.
  • There are crossed sabers in the background, likely a call for children of the world to duel each other with sabers.

Frankly, I am outraged.


Brilliance.

Apr 29, 2007
(Hawt) Girls Who Play → gamerhelp.com

yeah, this is what does it for me. gamer girls ftw.

Apr 27, 2007
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Apr 26, 2007
Fine, Upstanding Lady of the Day: Paulina James

This Spanish/Portuguese beauty born and raised in the O.C. is into designing clothes, modeling and more than modeling. With a distinct sense of style, humor and this bangsy/lip-biting thing going on that’sa nice, she’s got my vote.

Oh and um, don’t read too much into the watermark, heh..

Rawr.

Apr 21, 20074 notes
Threadless

I don’t usually get t-shirts online (except for the “- i pwn n00bs -” shirt I just bought off Pure Pwnage), but this is realllllly tempting. Also, Threadless designs are pretty sweet and I need a new hoodie.

/shop on.

Apr 19, 2007
(Lots of) VT Shooting Links

The VT shooting is ringing out all across the web / social networking sites, and probably will be for quite some time. Here are some select links that I thought were particularly interesting and/or telling. Oh, and I’m frequently updating these links for some reason.

  • Daily Show: Who’s to blame for the VA Tech Massacre? (via Crooks and Liars)
  • NBC news has made Cho Seung-Hui a martyr by airing his tapes. I agree — hence why I refuse to watch them. (via deusexmalcontent)
  • Yale prohibits stage weapons. Money quote:

    Brandon Berger ’10, who plays a swordsman in the show, said the switch to an obviously fake wooden sword has changed the nature of his part from an “evil, errant knight to a petulant child.”

    (via Yale Daily News)
  • A little healthy realization that blaming video games for the shooting is flat out idiotic (read: Jack Thompson = moron). (via MSNBC)
  • Tribute to / profiles of the VT victims. (via NYTimes)
  • Sigh.. more JT.. now he’s blaming Bill Gates for Counter-Strike which has no relation to the VT shooter. (via TheHappyGamer)
  • Jack Thompson gets pwned on Hardball [video]. (via Kotaku)
  • Are you sure the devil didn’t make him do it? (via FOXnews)
  • Atheism taking heat for not showing sympathy. Yeah, why can’t you be more like the Westboro Baptists and the Scientologists, silly atheists? (sarcasm) (via newsblogger@aol)
  • This student who said at a discussion about the shooting that he “could understand” how someone might go postal gets arrested. He might or might not be dangerous, but c’mon.. free speech? (via ABCnews)
  • Koreans at VT getting scared. I feel sorry for people who can’t distinguish individual from ethnicity. (via Salon)
  • Ok, so the shooter didn’t have games in his possession. I would argue that if he had them, he might not have done it. (via GayGamer)
  • Justin Timberlake-alike American Idol singer does the VT sympathy dance. And Simon rolls his eyes. (via DrudgeReport)
  • The shooter contacted NBC news and sent them his manifesto. (via MSNBC)
  • Photos of the VT shooting aftermath. (via neoncobra@blogspot)
  • Cho Seung-Hui wrote some plays, and apparently they’re online. You can tell the author tries to be funny in a dark way and fails because he’s an awful writer. (via newsbloggers@aol)
  • Jack Thompson using the VT shooting to espouse more anti-video game propaganda. (via Kotaku)
  • Dr. Phil pulls a Jack Thompson: blames video games for VT shooting. (via GamePolitics)
  • Gunman identified as South Korean student Cho Seung-Hui. (via Reuters)
  • VT questions, copycat odds, and ‘net nabs wrong man. (via BoingBoing)
Apr 17, 2007
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Apr 11, 2007
World Famous Violinist's Venue: a D.C. Subway Station

Joshua Bell, a world-renowned violinist, pulls out his $3.5 million instrument for an unexpected audience: the 8am rush hour travelers at the L’Enfant Plaza subway station in Washington D.C.

His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities — as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?


And the results, while not unexpected, are nevertheless shocking. I’d like to think I would have stopped if I had passed by and heard him play, but I’m not sure I would have. I definitely would have given him $5 if I had passed while he was playing Schubert’s “Ave Maria” though; I just love the song so much that I make it a point to show that to any street performer that plays it.

Oh yeah, and there are videos. Check it out.

Link (washingtonpost.com)

Apr 8, 2007
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