And lo, in the year 2010 the over 25 set on Facebook discovered the Urban Dictionary and they were amused. Then the Serpent spake unto them and said: “If you think those were lulz, check out Encyclopedia Dramatica.”
And the hipsters listened to the Serpent, and were intrigued. They came uponst the Land of Lulz and were mezmerized. Yeah even though they should have been working, but they were not, for there was much unemployment in the land.
Then the Serpent whispered again, two seemingly innocent syllables: “4Chan.” The elders of the tribe shrugged, sighed: “Whatever, it’s not like I’ve got anything better to do”, and located the universal resource.
The final seal broke. The Serpent lol’d manically. His work— at last— completed.
And the moral of the story is: Trust me folks, not every FB “meme” is worth the brain damage. Leave it to the professionals.
You can donate 10 bucks RIGHT NOW buy texting “HAITI” to “90999”. That goes to the Red Cross. [State Dept. Page]
Our technology often serves to strenghten the illusion of connection while reinfocing distance… here’s one of those times when it JUST WORKS.
And if you’re a Californian, you know it’s your karmic duty to send some $$. We’re ALWAYS next in line for a Big One.
Fellow Californians wake up!
It’s turn the ship around or say bye-bye to what’s left of our standard of living time. [Hey, rest of America: pay attention. YOU’RE NEXT]
This article from the LA TIMES a couple of months back sums up a lot of what’s wrong with the state right now:
California is rich. Even in the midst of a drought, we have lots of water, and in the midst of a recession, we have lots of money. The problem is one of distribution, not of actual scarcity.
You know it’s bad when Texas and Alaska have more progressive tax structures than we do:
But look at corporate taxes! According to the nonpartisan California Budget Project, if we taxed corporations the way we did in 1981, we’d have $8.4 billion more coming in. That would wipe out more than a third of the budget shortfall that led to the draconian cuts (and cover about what we spend annually on the world’s second-biggest prison system). We’re home to the fifth-largest corporation in the world, Chevron, whose profits were $24 billion last year. Chevron has lobbied to keep corporate taxes low and to avoid paying an oil severance tax — a tax on oil taken out of the ground (and we’re abundant in oil too, for better or worse). Texas charges one, but we don’t. A few years ago, Chevron worked hard to defeat Proposition 87, which would’ve levied a severance tax capped at 6% of the oil’s value — but Sarah Palin’s Alaska raised its severance tax to 25%, a figure that would bring in an estimated $4 billion or more.
Cavemen in New YorkThese urban cavemen also choose exercise routines focused on sprinting and jumping, to replicate how a prehistoric person might have fled from a mastodon.
Gotta watch out for those Mammoths on Park Ave.
Quite possibly the money quote:
“I didn’t want to do some faddish diet that my sister would do,” Mr. Durant said.
Read the whole thing, it’s fun.
[NYT by way of teh Boing]
