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Posts from February 2008

My favorite passive aggressive activity

I’ve been using Google Reader these days. One of my favorite activities is unsubscribing from people’s feeds. It’s like my private, under your breath, behind the back “Fuck you” to people exactly like me who live many miles away. It’s curiously satisfying. I will be subscribing to sarcastic blogs aplenty now that I’ve discovered this […]


words

I stumbled upon Visual Thesaurus today while thinking about words. It appeals to me. It’s a subscription service. I’m considering it. Take a look at their visualization applet. It’s really convenient to see a whole bunch of relations simultaneously, though the visualization at this point doesn’t really take advantage of positioning. All the nodes are […]


Much life here

This is a remarkable conglomeration of life!


That’s HILarious!

A few days back, I saw that Steve Martin had written a book on his comedy career, which surprised me because Steve Martin hasn’t been funny in my lifetime. In fact, the most recent thing I’ve seen where he was prominently involved was Shopgirl, possibly the worst movie I’ve seen in the last three years […]