January 2012
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Something that doesn't happen in the peaceful...
This has happened to me twice. A person emails me asking if I’ll add a link to their website on my blog, but I have one there already. This always breaks my heart because I realise they haven’t even looked at my website and it feels like they’re just using me. Ugh. A guaranteed way to get removed from my links page.
Netiquette
Leigh Alexander at Thought Catalogue rages against people who are still hung up on ’90s-style netiquette.
Somehow, though, there are still people who if you TYPE IN ALL CAPS will reply [via Twitter or similar]: “WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING,” as if caps lock text were actually, quantifiably and materially somehow still analogous to ‘shouting,’ as if it were possible to ‘shout’ via unvoiced prose....
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This is brilliant. Some academic research has been done to determine if the order of performance affects the way a performer is judged on an Idol talent show. The answer: yes, it does, and in every country with an Idol series. The NZ Herald reports:
A study has found that the later would-be stars perform in a show, the better they are likely to rate.
But performing after a bad act can also rub...
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Human Wikipedia
Wikipedia is currently blacked out in protest against SOPA. I decided to put my giant nerd brain to use on Twitter, offering to act as a human Wikipedia for anyone who was in need of some knowledge.
@robyngallagher If you need to know something on Wikipedia, ask me instead. I will make something up.
@petrajane I would like to know how waffles were invented. @robyngallagher A punk guy was...
Rushfield Babylon: Undead Hipsters and Trend... →
richardrushfield:
For the first time perhaps since the 90’s I went out the other night to a place where I would be among large numbers of the youngs, to a screening of Battle Royale at the very great Cinefamily in West Hollywood. I know, going to a screening of that film I was asking for whatever I got, so please…
Unlike every other trend culture that’s come along in the past 60...
Justice for Princess
In New Zealand law, it’s illegal for a person to have a name that is a royal or significant title. I believe this restriction came about after an unsavoury fellow changed his first name to “Sir”, but it now means that there are to be no kids with names like Sir, Bishop, Majesty or Constable.
The two most rejected names are Princess and Justice. The blocking of Princess is...
Excuse me, I had beans for lunch #ttrttpt
A few months ago I started to see a few people putting #ttrttpt at the end of some tweets, usually ones that related to some sort of miserable event. For example:
But I’ve asked him before and he keeps saying he’ll get back to me. #ttrttpt
I didn’t know what it meant, but thought maybe it was an expression like “pffft”.
It turns out it’s an acronym used by...
“I never think of sexuality as an identifier. What seems to have defined me more...”
– Carrie Brownstein, in the New Yorker.
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December 2011
52 posts
Happy! New! Yeah!
Every year around December 31, there used to be an avalanche of tweets from people declaring that year to have been so shit, good riddance to it, and bring on the new year.
This year, however, there has been a distinct lack of those tweets.
I suspect this is because 2011 has been a dramatic, eventful and sometimes tragic year. No one wants to be the drama queen/king who declares 2011 to be the...
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ZERO: Where The Wild Pineapples Grow →
lowriannparry:
They call me the Pineapplehead, but my name was Chris Kirkpatrick. Why they call me this I do not know, for my name was Chris Kirkpatrick.
Justin: From the first day I saw him I knew he was the one. As he stared into my fly sunglasses and smiled. For his lips were the colour of pineapples. They…
The demon lovechild of Justin Timberlake, Chris Kirkpatrick, Kylie Minogue...
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Famousness
I was mesmerised by the BBC documentary “I Had The X Factor… 25 Years Ago”. It looked at six people who were finalists in the 1986 grand final of the “New Faces” talent show - three singers, two comedians, and a violinist. They all enjoyed instant fame from the show, but with varying amounts of success. And that’s where it got interesting.
It seemed that most...
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The Top Ten Phrases That Made Me Long for Death in...
richardrushfield:
1.Toldja
2.Um, no
3. Not so much
4. Gosling
5. Adorkable
6. Adore
7. Hot Trailer
8. Just saying
9. Meme
10. Fail
The horrible thing is, I follow a person on Twitter who uses about 80% of these terms all the time. I would like a filter to block tweets using this stuff too much.
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Vanilla Ice's pants
Vanilla Ice is appearing in a pantomime in the UK this Christmas. He plays Captain Hook in Peter Pan. It sounds quite cool, yeah? So I was tweeting about this and I typed “Vanilla Ice’s panto looks like fun.” However autocorrect decided this was wrong and helpfully changed it to “Vanilla Ice’s pants looks like fun.” I came *this* close to tooting it.
But do...
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Things I believe to be worth reading: My open... →
gregbruce:
Dear Hays Recruiting - Experts in Construction,
I’m going to start at the bottom of your ad and work my way up. Just because, really.
I absolutely have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit and I’m excited about working with a recognised and respected contractor offering an excellent…
Looking for a job is a pretty awful process. I always feel like writing application letters...
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Watchrichardrushfield:
The end of tonight’s episode of X Factor was the most dramatic ten minutes of television I’ve ever seen. Nothing can compare to this. It was human conflict at its most desperate and hubristic, raw and retarded. Absolutely gripping unbelievable drama. If you are not watching this, get that smug look off your face and take in the noblest battle between gladiators of song our...
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Everyone who doesn’t have a job - it’s no big deal. Just say you’re freelance.
- E. Grimes.
Ok, then. I’m freelance.
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