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Stephen Colbert Announces Presidential Run

saturday matinee

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared from This Is It on Vimeo.

um... dont show this to your kids

please.

via

cartoon for the campaign

More.

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Came across this somewhere on Tumblr. This was what I found:

"This definition requires an understanding of additional jargon, namely what a measure and beat are."

From The Everything Drums Book, by Erik Starr

The second nearest book resulted in this:

"Topiltzin tried to end these bloody rituals, urging that the gods be rendered only offerings of bread, flowers, snakes, incense, or butterflies."

From Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico, by T. R. Fehrenbach.

So, ... yeah.

sunday funny

gpoy

saturday matinee

Fuck Yeah, Elizabeth Warren!

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Dave's 2011 Reading List

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

George R. R. Martin

Once again, it's time for my annual list of all the books I read the previous year. I dont have much to say about them, really, 'cause I suck at book reviews. The linked ones are the best of the bunch, and you should read them, especially the non-fiction ones.

Austin, Jane - Sense And Sensibility
Bauer, Cat - Harley's Ninth
Bayse, Dale E. - Heck, Where The Bad Kids Go
Bear, Greg - Blood Music
Bernstein, William J. - A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped The World  - NF
Cherryh, C. J. - Regenesis
Cook, Claire - Must Love Dogs
DeAngelis, Camille - Petty Magic
Egan, Greg - The Clockwork Rocket
Elliot, Kate - (the 4 Jaran novels)
Flaming, Matthew - The Kingdom of Ohio
Friedman, Machael Jan - Stargazer: Oblivion
Gayle, Mike - Turning Thirty
Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm
Gibson, William - Zero History
Gifford, Thomas - The Assassini
Gonzales, Tony - EVE: The Empyrean Age
Gore, Ariel - The Traveling Death And Resurrection Show
Grange, Amanda - Colonel Brandon's Diary
Grange, Amanda - Mr. Darcy's Diary
Gravel, Geary - The Pathfinders
Green, Simon R. - A Hard Day's Night
Green, Simon R. - The Good, The Bad, And The Uncanny
Harris, Charlene - Dead Reckoning
Harris, Charlene - A Touch of Dead
Hodgell, P. C. - (all of the Kencyr books)
Holden, Wendy - The Wives Of Bath
Holt, Tom - Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Sausages
Home, A. M. - Jack
Howard, Jonathan L. - Johannes Caball: Necromancer
Isenberg, Lynn - My Life Uncovered
Jenkins, Emily - Mr. Posterior And The Genius Child
Jenkins, Emyl - Stealing With Style
Keats, Jonathan - The Book Of The Unknown: Tales of the 36
Kibuishi, Kazu - Amulet
Kindrey, Richard - Kill The Dead
Kou Yaginuma - Twin Spica
Kurlansky, Mark - Salt: A World History - NF
Lipman, Elenor - Then She Found Me
Lockhart, E. - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Mack, David - Daredevil: Parts of a Hole, vol. 2
Martin, Ann M. - Here Today
Martin, George R. R. - A Dance With Dragons
Marx, Patricia - Starting From Happy
McCaffery, Anne - Dragonriders of Pern (omnibus)
McCaffery, Anne - Dragonsong and Dragonsinger
McDevitt, Jack - Ancient Shores
McDevitt, Jack - Cauldron
McDevitt, Jack - Odyssey
McClarty, Ron - Art In America
Modesitt, L. E. - Timegod's World
Moon, Elizabeth - Trading In Danger
Moore, Christopher - A Dirty Job
Moore, Christopher - The Stupidest Angel
Newark, Elizabeth - The Darcys Give A Ball
O'Malley, Bryan - Lost At Sea
Pedersen, Laura - Last Call
Pierson, C. Allyn - Mr. Darcy's Little Sister
Pratchett, Terry - Snuff
Rardin, Jennifer - Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Reeve, Philip - Fever Crumb
Russo, Richard - Nobody's Fool
Russo, Richard - Straight Man
Shevdon, Mike - The Road To Bedlam
Simonsen, Mary Lydon - The Perfect Bride For Mr. Darcy
Standage, Tom - An Edible History Of Humanity - NF
Stasheff, Christopher - Saint Vidicon To The Rescue
Stross, Charles - Singularity Sky
Townshend, Kathleen Kennedy - Failing America's Faithful - NF
Valente, Catherynne M. - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Boat Of Her Own Making
Vinge, Vernor - Marooned In Realtime
Wallace, William - Michelangelo: The Artist, The Man, and His Time - NF
Walsh, Marissa - A Field Guide To High School
Watt-Evans, Lawrence - Dragon Weather
Westerfield, Scott - Evolution's Darling
Young-Stone, Michele - The Handbook For Lightning Strike Survivors
Zielen, Lara - Donut Days

Incidentally, apparently 42% of people who graduate from college never read another book. How sad is that?

Previous Lists: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.

quote for the New Year

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

Thomas Mann

new year linkage

- A gay day in the life.

- You may not know it, but you've got a bit of Brutalist Architecture around somewhere.

- Collectors Weekly.

- Know Your Meme.

- via Gerry Canavan, "Turns out the optimal marginal tax rate is… 76%".

- Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge. (A Tale of Security) (via)

- David Brin goes Galt on Ayn Rand. (Yeah, I know the phrase doesnt really work, but I couldnt resist).

- Leonardo daVinci's To Do list. (via)

- a Barbie makeover tip.