January 2011
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We don’t ask for much, just broadcast what is...
soupsoup:
To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even the phone landlines will be cut tomorrow, to prevent any...
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vagabondsaidshe:
My window and backyard face the Islamic Community Center here. They can have no mosque- the city ordinances will not allow it. The Southern “Bible belt” culture would not hear of such blasphemy. So they meet in a two story house, with a kitchen and a prayer room. And their lights come on every few hours throughout the night as the men and women gather to pray. Mostly it is a...
“My identity is found in no flag yet is lost on those who don’t understand...”
– Jarrod Mckenna (via changingperspective)
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“I’d like to thank security for letting me into the building.”
– Colin Firth
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“I won the Amory Blaine handsomeness scholarship to Princeton and then attended...”
– Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
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“Visual effects. They enable us to see aliens experience other universes, move in...”
– Robert Downey Jr., presenting the “Best Visual Effects” category with Naomi Watts at the 2007 Academy Awards.
(via iwantcupcakes)
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How to experience what I just experienced
Step 1: Spill water all over laptop.
Step 2: Die inside.
Step 3: Hold computer upside down.
Step 4: Die inside.
Step 5: Turn computer off.
Step 6: Die inside.
Step 7: Grab towel and dry upside down computer off.
Step 8: Die inside.
Step 9: Stand there cursing.
Step 10: Die inside.
Step 11: Attempt to find object small enough to unscrew those tiny little screws on the bottom so...
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“The breath in the cave scene is recycled Leonardo DiCaprio breath from Titanic...”
– Fight Club trivia (via chelleluvnika)
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if you know anyone in egypt.
carpe-cerevisi:
If you know anyone in Egypt, please pass this on to them. To bypass government blocking of websites, use numerical IP addresses: Twitter ”128.242.240.52” Fb ”69.63.189.34” Google ”172.14.204.99”. A French ISP offers free dial up internet access ~ +33 1 72 89 01 50 Login password: toto. Please pass this on and share.
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rufustfirefly:
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“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cerebralthoughts)
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“When I give food to the poor, I am called a saint; when I ask why the poor have...”
– Dom Hélder Câmara (via vagabondsaidshe)
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Mexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American... →
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera reported head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, ranked 701st on Forbes’ yearly report of the wealthiest men alive, and worth an estimated $1 billion, today officially thanked United States politicians for making sure that drugs remain illegal. According to one of his closest confidants, he said, “I couldn’t have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush,...
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“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by...”
– Howard Zinn, from the article “The Old Way of Thinking” in The Progressive Magazine. (via thisispolitical)
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“The moral outrage of the liberal class, a specialty of MSNBC, groups such as...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a...”
– George Carlin (via theunknownwords)
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Alcohol Viewed Under A Microscope - Art's sake!
sore-thumbelina:
1. Bloody Mary2. Cosmopolitan
3. Dry Martini
4. Pina Colada
5. Sake
6. Tequila
7. Vodka Tonic
8. Whiskey
9. White Russian
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“Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration...”
– Gerda Weissmann Klein (via caraobrien)
The Shawna Forde trial: Will the mainstream media... →
thenoobyorker:
There’s another infamous shooting of a nine-year-old girl that is making headlines this week in Tucson. This time, we wonder if the rest of the media will bother to cover it.
The little girl’s name was Brisenia Flores. She lived near the border with her parents and sister outside the town of Arivaca, Arizona. On May 30 of 2009, a woman named Shawna Forde, who led an...
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Colin Firth ‘wants to play Doctor Who villain’ →
stop-its-ginger-time:
inspiringlywrittenbyaaronsorkin:
spooningwithjesusbale:
mentlegen:
Colin Firth ‘wants to play Doctor Who villain’
Respected actor Colin Firth has his sights set on a part in Doctor Who. Communicating with his fans over social networking site…
“I’d also love to play a villain like Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes,” he added.
PLEASE PLEASE DEAR...
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