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Month: August 2006

  • Silent Hill (film)

    Silent Hill is fantastic for the atmosphere and visuals. But when based on a video game where a character runs around looking for someone the movie is reduced to pretty much a character running around looking for someone. I mostly wanted to see it because I’d heard that all the creatures were dancers and acrobats […]

  • 22 Lessons from Wayne Dyer

    Dad is digging the Dyer and found this article from Chris Knight: Dr. Wayne Dyer is a popular motivational speaker and author. His recent books include The Power of Intention, Ten Secrets For Success & Inner Peace, Getting in the Gap and Everyday Wisdom. I’ve been studying Dyer’s principles for the past 22 years and […]

  • HOWTO: Build a Cult Through Brainwashing

    The Battle for Your Mind: Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today by Dick Sutphen: Conversion is a “nice” word for brainwashing…and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 […]

  • Dorfus

    Maryam just used the term dorfus in IM. I think it is a great combo of dorkus and doofus – though she says dorfus is the female for dorkus.

  • Video Testimonial: Computer Programmer Hired to Write Election Fixing Software

    Oh it is going to be a great election this year – and forever. Computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis testifies in 2004 to the U.S. House Judiciary Members in Ohio: Are there computer programs that can be used to secretly fix elections? Yes. How do you know that to be the case? Because in October […]

  • Military Recruiters Coerce Sex Out of Women Recruits

    100 women this year were coerced into sex with their military recruiters. Across all services, one out of 200 frontline recruiters was disciplined for sexual misconduct last year. 722 recruiters accused of rape and sexual misconduct since 1996 in the Army. Most cases dealt with via demotion or letters of reprimand – rather than criminally. […]

  • Henry Rollins Quote on Slow Walkers

    Paraphrasing I picked up on MeFi: To paraphrase Henry Rollins, if you are wasting my time, you are murdering me by tiny increments and I take you out. Anybody know the full quote?

  • The Descent (2006)

    There need to be more horror movies with an all-female cast. It divorces a film of all the cultural gender baggage and sex roles and tropes that we’ve become accustomed to in horror films. There’s no ‘pretty girl’ trying to be impressed or ‘virgin girl’ to survive. There’s no reason to explain why these girls […]

  • Qualm

    I can have moral qualms. But can I have just one? One qualm? If I can be overwhemled and underwhelmed, can I just be – ya know – whelmed? How often does someone have just one caveat – how often do they have caveats?

  • Leg Shaving Among Straight Men

    Ron has a theory that more and more straight men are shaving their legs. I think he’s seen just two examples and it might not be a larger trend. Maybe everybody is suddenly a cyclist. I think journalists get entirely too much glee out of pronouncing JeanBenet with a French nasalized continuant ‘n’ sound. Like […]