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July 18, 2008

Ouch My Face! -- On Ice

Horrible Faceplant on Ice



Face hates Street

Ouch My Face



Never fuck an electrical socket

Idiot sticks foil-wrapped dong in socket



July 14, 2008

Walls Hate Man

Kicking Through A Wall



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July 09, 2008

Echidna's have insane penises

Exhibitionist spiny anteater reveals bizarre 'body part'




They look like a baby's arm.

March 24, 2008

Do Not Fuck With Gasoline

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June 03, 2007

I fucking hate Joe Queenan and his smug, lazy, yuppie face

Summer Bummer - New York Times


All he does is make massive generalizations based on his own ignorant experience and whine about it and bitch. I've read a few of his books, and I would punch him in the eye if I met him at a party.

He's just a dumb asshole, plain and simple. Read here about his opinions on how kids shouldn't have to read.

For as long as anyone can remember, well-meaning pedagogues have been sabotaging summer vacations by forcing high schoolers to read “Lord of the Flies,” “All the King’s Men” and “A Separate Peace.” These books may be the cornerstones of our civilization, but they’re certainly no fun. One reason the average American male reads only one book a year may be the emotional trauma suffered in trying to hack his way through “Wuthering Heights” at the age of 14. I myself have never recovered from going toe-to-toe with “The Return of the Native” as a teenager, not only because Thomas Hardy’s bleak vision and lugubrious prose made me feel bleak and lugubrious, but also because it was my first exposure to the boundless cruelty of which adults are capable.

If my teachers had had an ounce of human decency in them they might have assigned us “Macbeth” or Caesar’s “Gallic Wars,” figuring that the merry carnage would at least hold the boys’ interest for a while. Or they could have saddled us with “The Stranger,” which had the mitigating charm of being glib and pretentious and would thus have kept the kids who were obviously going to end up at Bard happy. But by insisting that we write a full report on an uncompromisingly depressing 19th-century novel by a writer who never allowed a single ray of sunshine to brighten his work, the powers-that-be at Cardinal Dougherty High School were merely taunting the student body.

February 19, 2007

Hate the ad, love the product

headonad.gifScripting News | Hate the ad, love the product

Ever see those ads on TV for a desipicable product called XXXX-XX? The ads suck, and you know they did it deliberately because later they run an ad with a very unpleasant person saying how much the ad sucks, but they love the product. An ad for headache medicine that gives you a headache. Followed by a meta-ad (an ad about the ad) that gives you two headaches for the price of one. Oy.

February 16, 2007

Gamestop wants your Twilight Princess, we hate them that much more

zelda_screenshot.jpgWiifanboy | Gamestop wants your Twilight Princess, we hate them that much more

Seriously, how messed up is it for a store that just sold you the game to call you and tell you to bring it on back in. See, the individual this happened to made one mistake: he pre-ordered the game. So after getting it a long ways back and enjoying it (as one does), he was shocked to later receive a call from GameStop's automated calling service.

The message said "We hope you're enjoying your copy of Twiliight Princess, but if you're finished with it, why don't you bring it to the store and trade it in? We're willing to give you $35 in trade for your copy of Twilight Princess...." It was at that point he hung up, in utter disgust we imagine. What kind of company does this sort of thing? Oh right, GameStop, now we know why we never shop there.

February 11, 2007

I Hate Valentine's Day

hearts.jpgdesicritics.org | I Hate Valentine's Day

If you read the Wikipedia page for V-day, you'll see that the Greeting Card Association estimates that number at 1 billion valentines for the whole world, making it the 2nd largest card-sending occasion behind Christmas. What a terrible waste of paper you have to think.

Traditionally, Valentine's Day has been a notable occasion only in the West, but in recent years, with the unprecedented media exposure we have through satellite TV and the Internet and as the subcontinent has come to blindly acquire every and anything the West does, the V-day theme has become the number one marketing idea on every advertisement agency's mind.

...in Pakistan at least, the majority of those celebrating V-day will be the young, and most of these young that will be celebrating by going out on dates wearing all red will probably be doing so by misleading the first people in their lives that made them realize what love really is - their parents. They fact that the many young people can trick their parents into thinking they're just going out with some friends for an honest lunch, and actually be with a perfect stranger they've made friends with on the Internet, or something, and call their hypocrisy love is depressing more the anything.

I Hate Being Clumsy

clumsy.jpgAndrew Ferrier's Blog | I Hate Being Clumsy

OK, so I’m an idiot. I broke my camera (again). And I can’t (practically) get it repaired before I get back to the UK. Somehow, breaking valuable stuff seems to be happening a lot recently. Is it possible to train oneself to be less careless? Or is it just an unchangeable characteristic? I’m not in a good mood, anyway.

February 02, 2007

You know, I really don’t want to hate anyone.

nohate.jpg The Radloff's Random Midnight Thoughts | The Politics of Hate

“You know, I really don’t want to hate anyone. It’s not my style. I’m not much good at it. But I want to be patriotic; I love America, so they tell me I have to hate people.

If I don’t hate Muslims I’m unpatriotic.

If I don’t hate the Mexicans I’m anti-American.

If I don’t hate homosexuals I must not care about family values.

I would like to stand up at this point and say, loudly, “BULLPUCKY!” I don’t have to hate Muslims to support the fight against terrorism. I don’t have to hate Mexicans to understand immigration problems. Homosexuals do not threaten me, my family, or my way of life. I don’t have to hate them, either. I am NOT going to start hating my neighbors for being different. I’m just not going to do it.”

February 01, 2007

How Do I Hate Thee?

200px-Data2.jpg We're Only Human... | How Do I Hate Thee?

Long before pop culture turned "bitchin" into a synonym for cool, "bitch" was one of the more derogatory epithets you could hurl at a woman. Indeed, man’s best friend doesn’t fare well in the human vocabulary of hate: mongrel, cur, dog itself—they’re all common insults. And it’s not just canines: Pig, rat, cow, mule, ape—if you want to malign your enemy, borrow freely from the animal kingdom.
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Scientists are very interested in the ways we deny humanity to others, because this common tendency is the source of so much hate and violence in the world....sychologists Stephen Loughnan and Nick Haslam of the University of Melbourne decided to look behind overt insults to see if we do in fact malign others in a variety of ways, some more subtle than others. They hypothesized that, while animals and machines are both less than human, they are less than human in very different ways. That is, dogs and cows lack traits that are unique to humans, like high intelligence and moral sensibility, while androids and robots lack traits that form the foundation of “human nature”: warmth, flexibility, animation. They further predicted that some humans—like children and artists—tend to be associated with animals, lacking traits like civility and self-control. Others—say, businessmen—more typically lack openness and emotion; in our minds, they are more like robots.

January 29, 2007

[/hate]

endhate_design.jpgThe Volokh Conspiracy | [I can't post the name of the article because it's HTML, but see the image.]

I spotted a T-shirt at school bearing this inscription, but I don't think it quite means what some people assume it means.

I take it that it's supposed to mean "end hate." But when you use a tag like [/i], you don't mean "end italics" in the sense "abandon italics forever." You mean "I've been using italics for a bit, I'm stopping for a while now, but I'll get back to using it later."

Substitute "hate" for "i," and you'll get my drift. I bet the guy has a [hate] T-shirt in his closet that he was wearing three days before; he's hated all the stuff between then and the [/hate] shirt; and he'll be wearing the shirt next time he's got some hating to do. Plus he certainly wouldn't just wear the [/hate] shirt without having worn before, and on the same page -- that would be syntactically non-compliant.

January 22, 2007

I hate Russian drivers

This is all real captured footage from a tunnel camera in Russia.

January 19, 2007

Things I Hate About TV: It's all about news, talk, and reality

dool.jpgTV Squad | Things I Hate About TV: It's all about news, talk, and reality

This is a horrifying trend. Do we need that much news, talk, and information, all day long? Take my local stations for example. We have two hours of local news, sports, and weather starting at 5 am. Then the Today Show (and GMA and CBS' The Early Show) start at 7am, and that goes til 9. Then my local NBC station shows Regis and Kelly, and then at 10 they show that third hour of Today. Then at noon, it's an hour of local news. Then at 4, it's three more hours of news! And this is on top of all of the 24 news channels and talk shows that are on during the day. Gah gah gah.

I hate that moves like this are pushing out soap operas (do you realize Days of Our Lives is now the last soap on NBC??) and syndicated shows.

January 15, 2007

I Hate Transperency

theappleblog | I Hate Transperency

I hate transparency. Only recently, though. I used to love it.

And Mac OS X is littered with it. It’s everywhere - in the Dock, in Terminal, in Dashboard, etc.

At one point, you could see about 5 layers of transparency at once on my screen, like this:
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An example of multiple layers of transparency on my desktop.

Yup, pretty ridiculous.

But recently, I’ve decided that I hate transparency.

Sure it’s pretty, but I realized that transperency is the difference between easy-to-read and hard-to-read; the difference between strain on my eyes and beautiful text. So I turned off transparency in every place I could, and I encourage you to do it to.

January 12, 2007

Book Hate

The Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian! | Book Hate
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I hate the idea of the book as an icon, good or bad.

You know what I mean. The book is a symbol of education and class, more so than money since money can only give the appearance of acculturation. This should be a good thing since books represents knowledge, self-betterment or intellectual/cultural/aesthetic achievement. And we as librarians tout the image of the book as way of motivating our patrons to take advantage of what books offer them.

But there is a dark side to all of this: the book as a litmus test of intellectual or social acceptability. Does a dislike of reading books make someone deficient? Do your friends (or heaven forbid, YOU) make judgments about others based on their taste in reading? Or lack of interest in reading? You don't do it? Browse through Myspace or any other social networking site, take a look at what folks list as their favorite books and try not to react with some sort of visceral opinion as to their intellectual/aesthetic sensibilities. It's darn near impossible.

For many folks these are the exact reasons why they don't read: books represent an intellectual (and at times a moral) failing on their part. And those of us on the other side do little to dissuade them from their self-image.

January 10, 2007

Do you hate ringtones? Try a silent one. No, a really silent one.

dontlikeringtone-bigmug.pngCrave | Do you hate ringtones? Try a silent one. No, a really silent one.

How do you listen to the sound of silence? It sounds like some kind of corny philosophical question, but conceptual artist Jonathan Keats has decided to address the quandary through an unusual medium: a cell phone ringtone. Download it to your phone (it's free), and then your handset will ring with four minutes and thirty-three seconds of pure silence instead of that irritating Kelly Clarkson ringtone that you've been using for the past two years.

Keats named the ringtone "My Cage (Silence for Cellphone)" after the artist John Cage, who once similarly composed four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence.

January 08, 2007

I hate socks

zedheds_EvilSockPuppet_small.jpgsillyish.org | I hate socks

…But it turns out that taking pictures of them is more exciting than taking pictures of naked women! I took two. And then I took two more. And then I was taking a whole bunch and oh my god it’s fun.

January 06, 2007

Don't Hate Me

p1363.jpgAdbusters the Magazine #69 | Don't Hate Me | Gregory Benchwick

I’m loath to admit that it’s all my fault – these problems of war and famine, genocide, dead babies, incendiary bombs and bunker busters. I’m the smoking gun, the catalyst for Bush’s “misunderestimations” in Iraq, terror threats, orange alerts, race hate and police violence.

I’d turn myself in if they’d take me, but, according to my lawyers, I have yet to break a law. Yet it was my action that caused all this mess. I should be put to trial – crimes against humanity – and forced to walk the crossroads till I find repentance.

It began several years ago when a bicycle-riding 12 year old almost ran over a middle-aged woman on 6th and Market. “Watch out, kid!” I yelled at him.

“Fuck you, bitch,” he yelled back. Then more, then more.

I kept walking, but he swerved back my way, taunting me then hocking a lugubrious wad of saliva in my direction. The bulbous loogie hung in the air for a brief second before landing on my back, hating its way through my brand new shirt I had bought at the Gap.

I chased the boy, ready to hate him with more words – club words that would make him bruise. I even called a cop. The peace officer hated the boy with a precise swat to the Achilles tendon with the old nightstick on their way to the squad car.

January 02, 2007

Why Does The Catholic League Think I Hate Christmas?

22_12_2004_christmas.jpgBuddhist Jihad | Why does the Catholic League think I hate Christmas?

Why does the Catholic League think I hate Christmas?

After all, I celebrate it. Tibetan-Buddhist style.

I celebrate the "Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men" part. The Beatitude part. The Golden Rule part. The actual words of actual Jesus part.

I don't celebrate other parts of Christmas. Not the Torquemada part. Not the conversion by the sword part. Not the Albigensian Massacre part. Not the witch-burning part.

And I'm not so thrilled when people wish me, "Merry Christmas," frankly. I always wish them "Merry Christmas," back, but I wish they'd ask before assuming I'm the same religion as they are. I don't go around wishing Catholics "Happy Hannukah," or wishing Presbyterians "Happy Ramadan," or wishing Muslims "Happy Buddha's Birthday." I think it's good manners to check, is it not?

December 28, 2006

The Not Really, But Sorta "Hate List"

Littlegirl.jpgMe, Myself An Eye | The Not Really, But Sorta "Hate List"

I'm gonna sneak in a Hate List entry today. Hopefully, a lot of y'all will miss this one, 'cause some of it may....whatever. Actually, this isn't a "hate" issue. It's a "what the Heck is wrong with you?" type of deal.

The Hate I Don't Get You List: Dreadlocks Edition

1) Uneccessary Comments | 2) White Folks With Dreads | 3) Dreadlocked Brothas

I hate having a sore throat

vcbbbh.jpgEvidence of My Existence | it's a love/hate relationship

I hate having a sore throat, runny nose and head congestion. I hate waking up in the middle of the night in a coughing fit. I hate having so much pressure in my head that my ears hurt. I hate getting out of breath just walking to the bathroom. I hate only being able to breathe through my mouth. I hate having chapped lips because I can only breathe through my mouth. I hate having watery eyes, or better yet, only one watery eye.

Simply put - I hate being sick.

December 21, 2006

Comics for People Who Hate Comics

Jack Kirby.jpgSubtraction | Comics for People Who Hate Comics

This past weekend I went to The Jewish Museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to see two companion art exhibits: “Masters of American Comics,” and “Superheroes: Good and Evil in American Comics.”...

I think I have a fair sense of what both halves amount to: the perfectly tasteful canonization of a select group of mostly incontrovertible American comics artists: Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, and other names familiar to anyone with a cursory history of the art form. Their work — original, full-sized comic pages in their rough, unabashed glory — is all exquisitely and gorgeously hung, perfectly fitting to such a hallowed group of names. These folks are all giants in their field, influential and inspiring.

Conservatives are often accused of being "haters."

t_a_23.jpgRight Wing News | Hate

Conservatives are often accused of hating black people. Not true. The GOP is the Party of Lincoln, the party that ended slavery, and the party that voted for the Civil Rights Act, percentage wise, in greater numbers than Democrats...

Conservatives are often accused of hating immigrants. Not true. Conservatives believe immigration is good for America and whether you're talking about someone who's white, black, Hispanic, Asian, you name it, it makes no difference. What conservatives do get concerned about is people coming to this country illegally....

Conservatives are often accused of hating Muslims. Not true. Although you may find a few people at the fringes who can't tell the difference between moderates and terrorists, that's not true of most conservatives....

Conservatives are often accused of hating Jews. Not true. As a general rule, conservatives are much more supportive of Israel than liberals and some of the most prominent conservatives are Jewish.

Conservatives are often accused of hating poor people. Not true. In fact, many conservatives, myself included, are poor people or have been poor. What conservatives believe is that except in a few limited cases, it's not the job of the government to do things for people, it's the job of the government to make it easier for people to do things for themselves....

Conservatives are often accused of hating liberals. Not true....despite their flaws, liberals are just misguided, not bad people.

December 08, 2006

I hate nature

roadkill.jpgMy Story | I hate nature

Okay, so it’s also Johann’s fault, because he was telling me something and even though I kept trying to walk away, he ignored that and went on talking. So I waited just a few extra seconds, not wanting to be rude, and in that time we lost yet another bird. I probably shouldn’t be writing this right now because all I want to do is curse. It’s all so sordid and pointless sometimes.

There were two canaries inside the cage and two on top. I was keeping a close eye on them, and because it had just got dark enough, I was busy bringing them inside. When I went back outside after Tseep, there was only one canary on top. I shone my torch around the aviary, knowing already… and there was the little body, with its head torn off, just like Jack’s. The %$#&*\ rodent murderer. What is this idiotic charade people so reverently refer to as “Mother Nature”?

December 07, 2006

Love/Hate Christmas

A Family Runs Through It | Love/Hate Christmas
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I love setting up the Christmas tree, lights, and assorted decorations.
I hate taking them down just because they never seem to fit back in the boxes I took them out of!

I love looking out at the snow.
I hate driving in the snow.

I love giving fun toys and games to my kids.
I hate that nobody ever gives ME fun toys and games anymore.

I love listening to Christmas music.
I hate listening to Christmas music, 'round about midnight of December 25th.

I love the looks on my kids' faces when they open their presents.
I hate having to figure out where to put all this new stuff they're getting.

I love the cookies and treats.
I hate that my clothes won’t fit right for weeks after.

I love watching A Christmas Story, Home Alone, and Polar Express with my kids. And, after they go to bed, watching Christmas Vacation with my wife.
I hate that there are so many horrible Christmas movies out there, like Deck The Halls and Jingle All The Way.

I love egg nog ice cream.
I hate peppermint ice cream.

I love forgetting about the world's troubles for just a few days.
I hate that the troubles seem to always return in a worse way.

December 05, 2006

Xmas Shopping - How Do I Hate Thee...

LJ | puritypersimmons | Xmas Shopping - How Do I Hate Thee...

Let me count the ways...

B000EARRI4.01-A3KJJM2O7RGABN._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpgI hate the sheer unremitting tackiness of the street decorations and window displays. Tatty tinsel, gurning Santas, irregularly twinkling lights and nasally irradiated reindeer do not spell taste and refinement. They do not even spell cheerily ramshackle seasonal goodwill. They spell cynical and unimaginative consumerism packaged to appeal to the spoilt brat lurking in all of us. And don't get me started on the "Best Xmas Album Ever" which tinnily assails ones eardrums regardless of which emporium you are reluctantly venturing into....

I hate shop assistants who will insist on engaging one with promotional platitudes when it is blindingly obvious to all concerned that you are, in fact, a wild-eyed misanthropist with zero tolerance for such flummery. I hate their grating persistence almost as much as the Scroogish tendencies of the retail industry, which drives them to these irritating lengths in the first place.

I hate choosing appropriate presents for people. My imagination always fails me and I fall back on the tried and tested confectionary/toiletries/book/cd combo which I invariably receive myself and regard with absurdly unfair disdain.

Every year I promise myself that I will shop early, maintain a positive frame of mind and actually enjoy the whole festive experience. Who am I kidding? Not even myself any more...

More words and phrases we hate

davezilla.com | More words and phrases we hate

1. “Don’t be a hater.” I prefer, “Don’t be a ne’erdowell. Beyotch.”

3. “I think we’ve screwed the pooch.”

grammar-nazi.jpg5. “Irregardless” Not a real word, dipshit.

7. "Beware of Internet predators” As if we have rabid jackals lurking in our computers.

I always end up looking like some foreign criminal (I'm not, really I'm not).

cousinitto3.jpgachievable ends | I Hate Passport Renewals

I feel like I've spent the last three hours filling out the passport forms...because I have actually spent three hours filling them out....

Now I need to go get my hair cut. I hate getting my hair cut. Last time was in the summer and Imbi did it at the cottage. At least I got to stare at the lake and listen to good music. Now I need to walk down the street and try out a barber I've never used before. I hate this. And then I have to get pictures taken. I hate that to - I always end up looking like some foreign criminal (I'm not, really I'm not).

My hatred for Virginia continues to grow strong.

gay christ.JPGwhy.i.hate.dc | Losing My Religion

Two Fairfax County [Episcopalian] congregations have certainly had enough. It looks like the Falls Church and Truro parishes are going to vote for secession from the American Episcopal community. Instead, these knuckleheads plan on becoming members of...wait for it....the Nigerian Episcopal community. It came down to whether Virginians would continue their long-standing intolerance of gays or their long-standing intolerance of blacks. Congratulations blacks, you're off the hatred hook.

It's probably very comforting to these Virginian Episcopalians that Nigerian Archbishop Peter J. Akinola is pretty tough on homosexuals in Africa:

...there are questions about a suburban Washington congregation technically under the leadership of Akinola, who has supported a new Nigerian law that penalizes gay activity, whether private or "a public show of same sex amorous relationship," with jail time.

Um. What? That's some Taliban-esque shit right there. Actually, to be fair, the Parable where all the gays are incarcerated has always been my favorite. Fuck the Prodigal Son. Many Biblical historians believe that Jesus himself went door-to-door in Galilee to speak of the homosexual threat.

"They're in our schools and in our churches and they will convert your children," spoke Jesus of Galilee on the Sabbath.

December 01, 2006

Things I Hate About TV: The woo-hoo

295469e2e.jpgTV Squad | Things I Hate About TV: The woo-hoo

I've never been much a joiner. I wasn't on any sports teams in high school and I don't belong to many clubs or organizations. But I would join The Nancy Grace Fan Club and proudly wear their pin on my lapel before I ever "woo-hooed." (I think I've done it a couple of times in print, but only in a comical way.)

The woo-hoo. It's everywhere. It's not enough that Al Roker is standing in front of a crowd outside of The Today Show, the crowd actually has to do that long "wooooooooo-hoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" every time the camera is even remotely pointed in their direction.

I can't even understand how people do it physically.


November 30, 2006

I Hate Christmas

M-SantaChristM_L.jpgLazy Daisy Log | 13 Things I Hate about Christmas

1. I hate long, Chritmas wish lists.....whose birthday is it anyway?

4. I hate pop boy bands singing Christmas classics just to sell a few more albums, or silly Christmas songs like "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer "or the "barking dogs."

7. I hate the debate about the politically correctness of wishing some one Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or Seasons Greetings.

11. I hate that there are political factions working at removing "Nativity Scenes from public buildings, and parks.

13. I hate that our military families will be without love ones this Christmas.

November 29, 2006

My love/hate relationship with the holidays

PC240203.JPGProgress Action Now | My love/hate relationship with the holidays | Julieann Murphy Cross

After 30 years of working with the poor and marginalized in our community, I've developed a "love-hate" relationship with the holidays.

I love the holiday season because of the time I have with my children and grandchildren. I love being able to cook and bake and make memories. I love the spirit of compassion that runs through our community - the turkey, toy and coat drives, and the stories of "random acts of kindness" that fill the airways.

I hate the holidays though because the paradox of poverty becomes even more glaring during the commercialism of the holiday season. It is also generally the time people are most in need and the money to run programs are exhausted for the year. If you work in serving the most vulnerable, usually you spend the majority of your holiday season scrambling to raise money, find volunteers, and prepare Christmas for hundreds. The stress of it all makes it tough to keep the "holiday spirit"....

Generally, sometime during the holiday season usually around the 20th of December, I have a day where I think - "Forget this, I'm going to work for McDonald's. In fact I'd make more money doing that than this!"

Click through, keep reading, and for fuck's sake, turn off the computer and go help someone who needs it.

November 28, 2006

I hate court, yet still I go

badjudge.JPGThe AnarchAngel | I hate court, yet still I go

I hate court. Really, really, hate court. If I had my choice I would do everything ethically possible to avoid court. Court is not for nice people, and I really HATE having my name dragged through the mud.

But I can't avoid it without things getting worse, and therefore we go.

Once again I won't post any details, other than I wish this entire thing was already over.

That being said, please wish us luck and if you are so inclined, pray for us.

Digg - Love 'Em or Hate 'Em?

Search Marketing Gurus | Digg - Love 'Em or Hate 'Em?

These days I can't go through any news aggregating sites without seeing at least 1 or 2 stories about Digg. ...

...some other influential bloggers have been questioning where digg's going an the quality of stories being put out there. The entire "mob rule" is being placed into question, especially in light of how John Chow's blog has been banned from digg submissions.

I really see digg's audience changing from the technology and geek readers and branching out and attracting mainstream readership. I read and hear a lot about professionals in our industry having their stories "dugg" but then the discussions that happen on the threads show the total lack of knowledge of the area the article speaks to. It is not saying that the "diggerz" are dumb or stupid, they really are just lacking the in-depth day in and day out knowledge the technology and search industry professionals have.

As new "diggerz" come into the fold the more it annoys and drives away the early adopters. Not necessarily those who "digg" lots of stories, but more the folks who read the stories. Both Rob Hof and Scoble point out they are opting out of the feeds from digg, as the stories being submitted are no longer of much value to them. This is just how services who have been in the "geek realm" change when they reach the mainstream, an evolution, it changes and morphs once the mainstream populace gets a hold of it.

November 27, 2006

Sales clerks hate us. They really, really hate us.

clerks.JPGPalm Beach Post |

And here’s why. Lurid tales of horrific holidays past as recounted by workers on retail-sucks.com; Retail-Worker.com; Planet Feedback.com:
  • “It is now about 11:40 p.m. We have less than 50 Xbox units and over 200 people in the store to buy them already, and the ‘I can walk in and buy it’ crowd just starting to show. The store manager gave permission to use physical violence to keep people from leaving without showing a sales slip. (I’m not kidding. Her first question the next day was how many people I tackled.)”
  • “All of a sudden, this guy flips out and without saying a word starts throwing computer discs at me! Not just at me, but at two co-workers that were about 10 feet away! Have you ever had a CD thrown at you? Thrown hard enough and at close enough range, you can do some damage with one.”
  • “Welcome to the Giant Thanksgiving Balloon Store! Would you like a credit card?”

November 21, 2006

I hate it when I suck at being a moderator

My deepest apologies to Newswire/2MinHate readers

What do you think of the Onion's editorial cartoons?

Yeah, one of the things I'm supposed to do is moderate the comments. And these have been sitting for days. Mea maxima culpa.

Look below the fold ----> for the comments as they arrive!

Continue reading "I hate it when I suck at being a moderator" »

November 19, 2006

I Hate the Holidays

Russian Violets | I hate the holidays
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And it's not even Thanksgiving yet. Ironically, of course, I used to really love the time from November 1 until my birthday when my mother was alive, but lately, I just loathe it. I feel my blood pressure rise just thinking about it. To be sure, much of this is family- and money-related: the family thing is always such a nightmare because no one really wants to get together anyway (Father-thing makes it quite clear that he'd rather be doing something else -- anything else), and Christmas has gotten so bleedin' expensive....

Add this to the fact that it's getting colder outside, and my lovely house, as you may recall, is hell to heat. The thermostat is set at a toasty 60 degrees, and even with that, I paid ridiculous bills last year. This year, I've promised myself that I will not, not, not pay an $800 heating bill -- even if this means that I run around in long underwear and multiple layers drinking tea and wearing mittens. ...

I had hoped to polish off a dissertation chapter over the break, but I'm not sure that this will be possible. It's looking increasingly like I'll end up working extra shifts at Jobs # 2, 3, and 4 -- just go keep my head above water.

November 17, 2006

I HATE the Wildnerness

Vibrance ! | I HATE the Wildnerness

Maybe you know that wilderness low too. It’s no fun. You feel alone out there. It’s barren. Isolated. There’s no one to turn to, no place to go. We look for words of encouragement, words of comfort and direction. But it feels like no one has the time, or if they do, they’re not all that interested.

Wilderness is an uninhabited place. There is nothing there, nobody there. Everything is one color. Feeling isolated, maybe forgotten about, we wander, wonder, ask questions, even doubt. We watch a tumbleweed roll by and wish WE had someplace to go. Pretty sad.

But the wilderness comes right before the fulfillment of the promises God makes to his children. There’s only one way to get TO the other side, I guess. And that’s through it. We have to go through the wilderness to get to the other side. I hate that about the wilderness. Couldn’t God just sent a little helicopter out here and airlift us out of this waiting and wondering?

November 16, 2006

Hate. Flu.

gwendomama | Hate. Flu.

Oooowch. Moan.
I think I have the flu, if the aching legs and back and puffy eyes and chills are any indicaton.
I hate the flu. I hate it for more than your average reasons, too. Not just because it SUCKS. Two days before Elijah died, I had the flu. The kind of flu that you dare not go near an already sick baby. The kind of flu where you dare not leave the bathroom and the cold bathroom floor appears inviting. The kind of flu where your hair follicles hurt because they are growing too fast.
In my very real memory, and in my reality, that was one entire day and night that I missed holding him. 48 hours before he died.
So I hate the flu; it makes me depressed and teary. And today, driving past Elijah's beach, I just had a meltdown. Even though Bubbles was in the car.
I hate the flu.

7pm update: the flu appears to be a feverish case of mastitis. which disguises itself as the flu. until the breasts turn into - owww - let's not talk about it, shall we?

November 15, 2006

They hate me, they really hate me

Here in Malibu | They hate me, they really hate me

Well, they hate what I said. I've been hearing from cyclists who, to put it mildly, are irked by my "Share the Road" post....

The truth is, the law is, cyclists have the same rights as cars on the road. If they drift into your lane, it's up to you to avoid them. If they run a stop sign or red li