August 2009
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The pleasure of reading stories that don't bore -... →
Grossman, the book critic at Time and author of The Magicians and Warp, believes that a strong emphasis on storytelling will once again becoming important in novels
I couldn’t agree with this article more. As far as I’m concerned, one of the biggest scourges of our time is the book snob. These are the people who deride the work of hugely successful storytellers like Stephen King...
Push - The Cure
Pope blames atheists for environmental... →
If I had to write an article every time the pontiff opens his mouth and says something stupid, I would honestly never get any rest. Actually, I would venture to guess that the percentage of atheists that care about the environment is probably much higher than our religious counterparts. We also don’t pray for some magical sky-man to solve our problems for us, so I would say we actually have the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Ron Sexsmith (41)
Josh Rouse (31)
Nick Drake (12)
Nick Lowe (11)
The Cardigans (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
WatchPeople Are Strange - Doors - Harikaa
Absolutely brilliant. One for full screen.
Don’t think about her when you’re...
Tumblelogs, blog a stream of consciousness -... →
Posted my first article to Irish pop culture blog, Cluch.ie. I’ll be doing a weekly review of tumblelogs until I get settled there, then I’ll branch out into other areas.
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“If you want to believe in your precious God, then you’re free to do so; just...”
– The Good Atheist on Intelligent Design
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Working, blinking, drinking & the perils of a week...
When your job isn’t your dream job (let’s face it, how many people do you know who love their job?), from the second you start your day on Monday, you tend to count down the minutes to Friday. It’s something I’ve spent the last 12 years doing. And I’ve noticed, the older I get, the faster the week goes (What the hell, it’s Friday already? Woo hoo!). By my...
Lab Produces Monkeys With 2 Mothers -... →
Scientists have produced monkeys with genetic material from two mothers, an advance that could help women with some inherited diseases have healthy children but that would raise a host of safety, legal, ethical and social questions if attempted in people.
Google Books Offers Free ePub Downloads - Books -... →
Owners of Sony eReaders, users of the Stanza iPhone book reader, and anyone else with a device that reads the ePub format can now grab more than 1 million works from Google Books’ archives.
Woop!
“PETA actually stands for “people who could be putting all that collective...”
– Avery Edison
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Been It - The Cardigans.
Calling contributors
We need more contributors for The Dublin Tumblelog. Interested? The Dublin Tumblelog focuses on all things of a Dublin (Ireland), flavour. If you’re interested in joining our youthful, vibrant, dynamic team (honest), please drop me a line at travors (@) gmail.com
“I think it would be good if you are looking for directions and hear my voice...”
– Bob Dylan in Talks to Narrate Car GPS Systems
“The dog is not bored, it’s a fucking dog. It’s not like he’s...”
– shitmydadsays
This is the funniest thing on twitter: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Josh Rouse (20)
The Crystal Method (18)
BT (7)
Ron Sexsmith (5)
Pogo (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Eternal sunshine of a liver-spotless hand
I woke up on a typically dreary Monday morning feeling the appropriate levels of pain, misery, dread and contempt for my fellow man. I did somehow manage to drag my barely animated, zombified carcass into the office though. It was sometime after lunch that I first spotted it’s gloom inducing little shape. Sitting there on the back of my hand like a harbinger of coffin dodging, near perpetual...
Ugly Stories - Josh Rouse.
Listening to Under...
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“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
– Oscar Wilde (via youmightfindyourself & realrealsoft)
“The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all...”
– Tom Robbins (Still Life With Woodpecker)
Getting Crap Past The Radar - TV Tropes →
The practice — usually found on but not limited to comedies — of attempting to sneak some manner of profanity or other forbidden material past the network censors.
I (kinda) gave this a shot last week on g-g.
The great big list of tumblr book recommendations
Thanks to everyone for the recommendations, here’s the list, my comments are in italics (Oh and I’m going to try read them all, if I haven’t already): deplorableword : House of Leaves John Braine : The Wasp Factory (Read it, great book) Dan T. : Snow Crash or Shadow and Claw miladinoski : Blood Eagle - A good crime novel :) Avery Dale : The Hyperion Series by...