Monthly Archives: March 2008

Artifacts

Somewhere on a shelf in San Francisco sits CDs bought in Halifax on Barrington Street. They are old now, there plastic cases fogged with the scratches of use over the years. They were ripped to iTunes a long time ago, and have now become artifacts of the 20th Century, mirrored plastic reflecting no 1990s scenes; [...]

Slavery

[From Goodreads 08w12:3]
Society has always benefitted from unpaid or underpaid labour; in the past it was blatant slavery, but when that became unfashionable (and unprofitable contrasted to the production offered by machines rather than muscles) the emphasis shifted to calling unpaid labour ‘volunteers’ and nowadays, the most obvious example of all, ‘interns’. But since it [...]

LOL in the stats

This LOL in the webstats; someone searched for:
“fastwurms exhibit another piece of contemporary crap”

Embrassment of the 2020s

Camilla Belle modeling this decade’s stupid haircut (from). I hate bangs; personally I don’t feel this type of ‘do is flattering on anybody.
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This is the haircut all the girls seem to be wearing right now.

1968

All that snow has to go . . . where? | The Star
There’s the “equivalent of a 50 millimetre thunderstorm sitting on the ground right now in the form of snow,” says Toronto and Region Conservation Authority chief flood duty officer Ryan Ness.”But it has to be released and melted to get into rivers [...]

A Real American Hero

Remember kids, if this asshole were killed in the line of duty he’d be called a hero.

Flickr

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