July 2011
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The Ten Worst Augusts of the Last Ten Years →
Remember when August used to be so nice? Thirty-one days of Slip ‘N Slides and barbecues and baseball games? The last glorious month of summer before the annual pilgrimage to Staples? The time we all finally made out with our summer camp crushes?
Yeah, me either.
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The 7 Stages of Internet Grief
people tweet about dead celebrity
people tweet about what dead celebrity meant to them
people tweet insensitive jokes about dead celebrity
people tweet about how it’s too soon to be tweeting insensitive jokes about dead celebrity
people tweet about how other people tweeting about dead celebrity aren’t tweeting the right way about dead celebrity
people tweet about how people...
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Some days you just don't have it
1:07PM Me: is the first person plural objectionable? i feel like it kind of is. Choire: HEH Choire: kinda sometimes
Fifty one minutes later Me: and how do we feel abt second person Choire: VERY POORLY Choire: sorry i mean Choire: you don’t feel good about it. Me: LOL
One hour and thirty seven minutes later Choire: please tell me you settled on third person finally?
One hour and eighteen...
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Things That Were Stupid
Remember that time right around the seventh grade or so when all the cool kids started wearing their JanSports with just one strap on their shoulders? But then by the time we’d hit high school it was cooler to be using both straps? And how you never got the memo that the rules had changed? Again? And how it all just seemed so arbitrary and ridiculous? And how even though you cared very...
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peterfeld:
Zynga gets revenue from its users paying real money for virtual goods, like tractors and animals for their online farms.
Sorry, but I gotta call bullshit on this. Not because I care about online gaming (I don’t, really) but because it’s just such a silly thing! Because another way of saying “paying real money for virtual goods” is saying “paying real...