Internet (Evidence)

Natalie Portman [Boston Globe] (via peterwknox)

igather:

thought i lost my cigarettes, searched all over, was just about 5% from being sure that someone here had pocketed them, started to serve up the side eye, found them under a pile of papers. feel relief and good will towards all mankind now.

quit for me!

langer:

I’m really looking forward to a Lou Dobbs candidacy.

When the left and right have nothing meaningful to say, it’s amazing who fills the empty space.  I can’t wait for his war-on-immigrants.

Immigrants overqualified, earn less - The Globe and Mail

Noam Chomsky Interviewed on Worker Occupations and the Future of Radical Labor | Mostly Water (via clingtomymouth) (via jhnbrssndn)

I will always read Noam Chomsky.

thebronzemedal:

Malcolm Gladwell: It is always a pleasure to be reviewed by someone as accomplished as Steven Pinker, even if he is unhappy with my spelling (rightly!) and with the fact that I have not joined him on the lonely ice floe of I.Q. fundamentalism.
Steven Pinker: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe” is what psychologists call “the mainstream.”

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There’s nothing that brightens my lunch break quite like nerds fighting it out in the letters section of the NYT Book Review.

Wait they both have equally crazy hair.  Who will win?!?!

lilyna:

frenchelon:

laroche:

These sacres are commonly given in a phonetic spelling to indicate the differences in pronunciation from the original word, several of which, notably the deletion of final consonants and change of [ɛ] to [a] before /r/ are typical of highly informal Quebec French.

• baptême - “baptism”
• câlice (calice) - “chalice”
• calvaire - “Calvary”
• ciarge (cierge) - “votive or Paschal candle”
• ciboire - “ciborium” or “pyx”, the receptacle in which the host is stored
• crisse (Christ) - “Christ”
• maudit - “damn”
• mozusse (Moïse)- “Moses”
• ostie (hostie) - “host”
• sacrament (sacrement) - “Sacrament”
• tabarnak (tabernacle) - “tabernacle”
• viarge (vierge) - “the Virgin Mary”

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câlice is my go-to curse word about 100 per cent of the time.

me too! Well and I like “Ostie de Criss” too…and if I stub my toe, you better believe a big “Ta-Bar-Nak” is coming…

I remember trying to look-up câlice and spelling it cawleece.  Working class Quebec, hein? Another gem:  pantut instead of pas-du-tout.

bmichael:

Google just gets me. Please help me with my goals.

Intelligence in Beta?  That’s deep.

Make Your Own Academic Sentence

I’m sure I’ve written something similar before.

givemesomethingtoread:

Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time

Whoa GQ.  Are we disgusted with the blackmail or with the fact that it was gay sex?  My fav part:

Everyone wondered, How could these boys let this happen?

At the courthouse, a middle-aged secretary in the clerk’s office said, “When I was in high school, boys like Tony Stancl got the crap beaten out of them. Why didn’t they beat the crap out of him?”

By “boys like Tony Stancl”, does she mean gays or extortionists?  I inferred gays, which made me cringe.  Guess what middle-aged secretary, its not so incomprehensible to imagine a teenage boy had and liked gay sex.