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Tuesday, June 29. 2010

Travelling this Summer? Don't leave without this.

Presenting the Dissentispatriotic.net European City Travel Guide. Click to enlarge.

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Monday, June 28. 2010

Dissent Poetry Corner: the authorized version

PSALM 137

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down,
yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song;
and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;
happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

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Friday, June 25. 2010

Nerdraaaaaaaaage

Cross posted to the hipster twitter:

"Login is (not) a verb"

Idiocy angers me. The only thing that angers me more is idiocy dressed up as self-righteous pseudo-intellectualism written by people with poor language skills.

To wit: ‘login’ is a verb. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that following the Germanic tradition (English being a Germanic languge) of that (super annoying, but quite useful) thing known as a ‘seperable prefix’ verb, ‘login’ is used much the same way. The author of this little piece tries to prove their point by attempting to conjugate the whole word, rather than the root. ‘Log’ is a verb, and conjugates perfectly. Adding the suffix ‘-in’ (derived from the preposition, no longer needing an object and now a part of the compound word) we get forms like ‘I login’ (or ‘I log in’). Also, ‘I logged in’, ‘I was logged in,’ etc. Much the same way modern German describes phone calls with the verb anrufen: ‘Ich rufe an,’ ‘ihr ruft an,’ etc., with the infinitive form always being ‘anrufen.’ Same with ‘to login.’

The same goes for all the other ‘non-verbs’ that get called out (http://notaverb.com/). ‘I checked out,’ ‘I was cut off,’ ‘we picked up,’ ‘the whole place was locked down,’ etc., etc. If the nerdrage here is against common verb-proposition pairings being combined into compound words (or seperable-affix verbs), then that’s moronic prescriptivism, and ignores one of the nicer features of Germanic languages as a whole (also, cf. ‘nevertheless,’ ‘inasmuch’).

I would have e-mail the fellow directly, but neither the website nor the whois lookup gave me an email address.

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Wednesday, June 23. 2010

Fast forward this video

Once you get the idea of what it's about, skip to about 5m 55s and just... well... seeing is believing.

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Tuesday, June 22. 2010

omtg

Has anyone been playing the most recent Magic set at all? I mention it because I've gotten super into the limited formats (drafting and sealed) and the set out now is very, very fun. Also, when we all gather in December, I'm thinking about bringing home a box of some random old set so that we can play limited formats with it (if anyone would be up for the idea).

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Kill your iPhone

Or at least turn off the GPS bit.

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Wednesday, June 16. 2010

Ruh roh

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
--Pravin Lal

In other news, Joe Lieberman is a dirtbag.

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Movie Adaptations to Crush the Soul

The Road was hella depressing (book and film), and I'll only fault the film for being maybe overly faithful to the book. I don't know about the comparison to Children of Men (entertaining, book and film, though I wasn't entirely sold on either), but a film version of Never Let Me Go is in the works, and if its at least as decent as The Road adaptation, it'll be something to look forward to.

Trailer linky.

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Friday, June 4. 2010

Fixed old entry; also:

The new trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, while not showing any gameplay, does seem to be an indication that there's a slight possibility it might not suck as much as you'd think.

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