January 21, 2009
“ Anonymous geoshagging is not what I had in mind when I imagined what the GPS revolution could mean to me.
Mat Honan, I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle •
January 17, 2009
At least three platforms of internet lurv (via sweetchrysanthemum)

At least three platforms of internet lurv (via sweetchrysanthemum)

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January 16, 2009
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Live) / The Hype Machine
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January 9, 2009
OkCupid.com: What an UNbelievable JERK!

nickdouglas:

As seen on Reddit and Digg: Girl goes on bad OkCupid date, posts about date on OkCupid forum. Hilarity ensues.

For added lolz while reading, keep in mind what he looks like.

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January 6, 2009

On Foucault and confession

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In The History of Sexuality, Part I, Foucault talks about a need to confess.  He talks about it in a very Catholic sense.  A personal, anonymous unburdening of our shame and the permission to be forgiven about it.  I’m not going to go quote hunting now, so you’ll have to do the research on your own to see if I’m remembering it right.

This has always struck me as sort of myopic— something phrased in Catholic terms because those were the ones that resonated most with the French.  Either that, or I think things have just changed.  People want to testify. They want to tell it to the congregation.  They want to be that Jimmy Swaggart appearing before the cameras, our faces tear streaked, as we broadcast our sins to millions.

Naturally, God is only a metaphor for our monkeysphere, so in a sense telling God is telling everyone, but in this day and age, I think we want our everyone to be a bit more literal.

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This American Life 88: Numbers.

When she began working as a temp secretary in San Francisco, learning the computers, wasting time, Andrea put together a graph with Microsoft Excel. Its title: My Love Life: A Ten Year Span. (.mp3)

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December 30, 2008
itsbedtime: To be fair, I tried to remove these people’s last names to give a sense of decency to this whole thing or whatever, ‘cause God bless these people and whatever their problems are… but I don’t know either one of them and I’m not sure who this Mike character is and if I know him IRLsies or if he reads Defamer or this blog or whatever. Maybe he’s from Tumblr, I don’t know. But either way, since everyone’s quite freely expressing their feelings about your situation tonight, I feel like I need to tell you Mike (hoping you’re reading this) that 1) I don’t like how your friend Celene handled this publicly and 2) EASY on the Facebook relationship updates. “It’s Complicated” looks creepy as it is, but when you go from “It’s Complicated” to “Single”, everyone knows it’s cause you couldn’t pull the fucking trigger. Or you got dumped, which is also embarrassing. I know this isn’t high school, but let’s face it: Once you hit your mid-20s and people from your childhood are having freaking weddings on The Cape, it almost gets worse then getting dumped via a note written in jelly pen after second period Italian Level 2, ya know? Suddenly you have to start handling shit more gracefully because you don’t wanna lose your rep with your homies, basically. So keep that shit tight. Keep it close. You only need to touch that “save” button once in a blue moon when you meet a person that you like, KNOW IN ADVANCE that you want to make it work with… because putting it out there for everyone from your former co-workers to your second cousins to see makes you vulnerable and it sets off bells in the minds of crazies. I don’t need to explain the second part of the last sentence because really awesome people already know what I mean. Anyway, I think what I just said is all pretty fair. via mollsshewrote

itsbedtime:

To be fair, I tried to remove these people’s last names to give a sense of decency to this whole thing or whatever, ‘cause God bless these people and whatever their problems are… but I don’t know either one of them and I’m not sure who this Mike character is and if I know him IRLsies or if he reads Defamer or this blog or whatever. Maybe he’s from Tumblr, I don’t know. But either way, since everyone’s quite freely expressing their feelings about your situation tonight, I feel like I need to tell you Mike (hoping you’re reading this) that 1) I don’t like how your friend Celene handled this publicly and 2) EASY on the Facebook relationship updates. “It’s Complicated” looks creepy as it is, but when you go from “It’s Complicated” to “Single”, everyone knows it’s cause you couldn’t pull the fucking trigger. Or you got dumped, which is also embarrassing. I know this isn’t high school, but let’s face it: Once you hit your mid-20s and people from your childhood are having freaking weddings on The Cape, it almost gets worse then getting dumped via a note written in jelly pen after second period Italian Level 2, ya know? Suddenly you have to start handling shit more gracefully because you don’t wanna lose your rep with your homies, basically. So keep that shit tight. Keep it close. You only need to touch that “save” button once in a blue moon when you meet a person that you like, KNOW IN ADVANCE that you want to make it work with… because putting it out there for everyone from your former co-workers to your second cousins to see makes you vulnerable and it sets off bells in the minds of crazies. I don’t need to explain the second part of the last sentence because really awesome people already know what I mean.

Anyway, I think what I just said is all pretty fair.

via mollsshewrote

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December 26, 2008
justsayjolie: The colors are called Log On To Love, Met On The Internet and Text Me - Text You. I kinda wanted them all.

justsayjolie:

The colors are called Log On To Love, Met On The Internet and Text Me - Text You.

I kinda wanted them all.

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December 20, 2008
(via caro)

(via caro)

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December 17, 2008
“ Starting any personality-based business is difficult, particularly when Nick Douglas is your business advisor.
from Reblogging Julia (via nickdouglas), which attempts to make sense of the business of internet celebuladies. Did we ever say who our team is? Hi, our team is: Melissa Gira Grant on bass, Nick Douglas on vocals & uke, Sarah Dopp on drums, and Mark Resch on whatever he likes, and not Tumblr. •