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Month: January 2014
BabyMetal Just Made Metal Adorable
BabyMetal’s “いいね！- Iine!” (which I believe translates to “Sounds good!”) is probably the only underage jpop-idol metal song with a hip-hop break ever in existence. I could be wrong.
A Stupid Quote From A Semi-Important Person
From an old old article, but I came across this line from the newest (?) director of the MET, Thomas Campbell: In an age of instant media and visual overload, there is something profoundly nourishing to the human soul when you come face-to-face with an object, whether it is the product of a lifetime of … A Stupid Quote From A Semi-Important Person
Stop Using “Amazing” To Describe Your New Haircut
Wise words from C.S. Lewis, for those of us who use “amazing” or “absolutely” x to describe something as impactful as a new casserole recipe. From The Collected Letters of…: Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to … Stop Using “Amazing” To Describe Your New Haircut
On How Dystopias Are Formed
Interesting post over at the Freeman blog, touching on how fictional dystopias are formed: Second, let’s say that we are indeed right now living in a capitalist dystopia, yet, for the vast majority of us, it really doesn’t look or feel much like the dismal world of Blade Runner or Elysium. If the hyper-capitalist world … On How Dystopias Are Formed
How American Currency Is Created
This is part four of a five-part series, but to me this is the most important/”useful” part. Someone in the comments section mentioned that this is how all currencies are created. I don’t how much truth there is to that but since all fiat currencies need a government behind them to declare “by fiat” that … How American Currency Is Created
An Atheist Abortion Doctor Read Matt Walsh’s Blog. What He Does The Next Day At The Office Will Completely Blow You Away.
No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Larabars This recipe is totally cribbed from My Whole Food Life but I thought I would repeat it here. Since Larabars don’t put anything goofy in their stuff, replicating them at home is easy to do. Like the Primal Energy Bites recipe I posted a while back, these are … An Atheist Abortion Doctor Read Matt Walsh’s Blog. What He Does The Next Day At The Office Will Completely Blow You Away.
Michael Murray’s Response to the “Hiddenness of God” Argument Is Eh
Wintery Knight posted a while back (a while back on the scale of Internet time) about a response to the argument about God’s “hiddenness”—i.e., the phenomenon that God’s existence isn’t more plainly known to everyone in the same way that other, less important things, are apparent. [Michael Murray] argues that if God reveals himself too … Michael Murray’s Response to the “Hiddenness of God” Argument Is Eh
Math Can Determine Good Books
At first I thought that this declaration was due to journalistic bravado, since no academic would ever propose that one narrow study would be so broadly definitive. But then there’s this: After analysing 800 novels available to download at Project Gutenberg Yejin Choi, an assistant professor at Stony Brook University, claims she can predict literary … Math Can Determine Good Books