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Heather was just making fun of me for eating sugar once when I was a kid, so I helpfully reminded her that Julie Andrews said it was ok — encouraged it, even! — in Mary Poppins.

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27th February 2010

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merlin:

Wow. It sure does. One whose rss feed I won’t be seeing four times a day any more.

In this instance, reducing the tireless work of Jim Fallows to a headline and a row of “Share This” badges is a travesty.

Thin gruel, Atlantic. This is the wrong audience to treat like a batallion of traffic stooges.

On the other hand: the website is much nicer now, readability bookmarklets and Instapaper still work, adblock is still both functional and unnecessary, it’s still only a click away, and it’s still all completely free of charge.

I don’t know, I’m inclined to think one extra click in an RSS feed isn’t a terrible price to pay for the Atlantic’s entire archives being totally free of charge on line. Headline feeds, advertising, and social sharing icons are a sad inevitability, and I’d be pretty bored if I refused to read any web pub that employs some annoying practice or other in the pursuit of making money or keeping their content free. This audience has already proven it will put up with just about any indignity advertisers can think to throw at us, it’s too late for righteous unsubscribing.

Summary: There’s a thin line between irritating and necessary evil, and I don’t think the Atlantic has crossed it yet.

26th February 2010

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Donnis - “Underdog”

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26th February 2010

Photo with 25 notes

Thursday night. We found this really shitty, ancient version of Words With Friends.

Retro!

26th February 2010

Link

The Last Four Minutes of Air France Flight 447 →

This makes for chilling reading. (Granted, it’s nothing but conjecture, but it seems pretty convincing.)

25th February 2010

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langer asked: I hear a rumor that when you were wed you changed your name to Dick Wisdom. Is this true [y/n]?

For the edification of anyone that isn’t aware, the word “langer” in Cork, Ireland is slang for penis. It’s also a fairly mild way to call someone an idiot. In the plural (langers), it also serves as an adjective to mean “extremely drunk,” which you will no doubt be aware, he frequently demonstrates is apt.

25th February 2010

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Wah.

monkeyfrog:

I’m a little sick of American bashing.

At least hold it in until you aren’t talking to an American.

Thank you, oh person from other country with manners so much better than Americans that you think it is actually acceptable to bash us to our faces all the time.

I agree with this 100%. Although with Britain rather than the US, of course. It just seems kind of disrespectful. I will give plenty of passes (and I don’t usually care that much) — if they manage to say something constructive or thought provoking or genuinely nothing more than gentle ribbing — but, for instance, when Alex Balk refers to Britain as “Knifecrime Island” on The Awl, it really stings.

(And yes, I have had plenty negative to say about America, but I say it as somebody that lives here, and usually with the corollary that I do however love America, which I think is perfectly fair. Feel free to disagree.)

25th February 2010

Chat