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R.I.P. G.P.A. This tragedy brought to you by attention inertia.
Now that I have your attention, some (more) links:
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
jokeinterests: Highlighting some of the weirdest interests out there.
Half of all livejournal interests are unique, did you know that?
rec50: One of those "goal" communities, in this case fifty fic recs in a year.
I know reccing is serious business but isn't this taking things too far?! Speaking of recs:
Steady Inhale
Gumshoe/Edgeworth from an author I (used to) stalk obsessively. LIFE IS GOOD.
Twilight Princess sketch-comics by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trimgular
SO CUTE SO TRUE. (Spoilers to before the Water Temple.)
US Military Unveils Heat-Ray Gun
No real news content, I just think it's just nice to be reminded every once in a while of how we are living in the future.
Gaming's Dirty Little Secret
The company that secretly makes all your (crap) games. Got this one from toastyfrog.
Subdee: The Subdimensional World
I'm a subdimensional world!! (Interest to people who aren't performing vanity searches on their internet handles: ZERO. Pretty pictures, though.)
More Dirt on the Demon Box
Television and the reptile-brain. Link from comments to this blog post about inferior Japanese television.
One claim in that article is that television is addictive. In fact, I know several people who WILL NOT buy a television set because they fear it will take over their lives. On the other hand I know from personal experience that it is completely possible to kick a TV habit if only you replace it with something equally brain-numbing and attention-consuming...like, for instance, an internet addiction. XD;
One thing that gets on my nerves about this recent trend of labeling everything an addiction (in the negative sense) is that there is a fundamental difference between watching TV for six hours a day and smoking marijuana for six hours a day which is that watching that much television is socially acceptable. In fact outside of a very small area of New York and several other major cities I'd venture to say that watching television, in this country at least, is more likely to get you socially-accepted than reading books, going to the theater, producing art or any other more "constructive" use of your time.
Speaking of TV-to-veg-out-to and commercials-as-high-art...
Volkswagen Phaeton ad.
JUST WATCH OKAY?
Tried to waste time on Ouran High School Host Club. Episode 13 is the most beautifully animated drugged-out Alice-in-Wonderland parody ever but I have to say this series...still doesn't do it for me. XD; Too slow-paced to be hysterical and the set-up precludes serious attachment to the characters, what's the point? EDIT: I take it back, episodes 14-and-up are awesome. XDXDXD it seems all Ouran was really missing was the backstory episodes to tell me why I should care about the characters beyond lol-they-are-BL-archetypes.
I would also like to note that the lengths to which this show will go to paint a heterosexual veneer over homosexual activities are truly mind-boggling.
R.I.P. G.P.A. This tragedy brought to you by attention inertia.
Now that I have your attention, some (more) links:
jokeinterests: Highlighting some of the weirdest interests out there. Half of all livejournal interests are unique, did you know that?
rec50: One of those "goal" communities, in this case fifty fic recs in a year. I know reccing is serious business but isn't this taking things too far?! Speaking of recs:
Steady Inhale
Gumshoe/Edgeworth from an author I (used to) stalk obsessively. LIFE IS GOOD.
Twilight Princess sketch-comics by
trimgularSO CUTE SO TRUE. (Spoilers to before the Water Temple.)
US Military Unveils Heat-Ray Gun
No real news content, I just think it's just nice to be reminded every once in a while of how we are living in the future.
Gaming's Dirty Little Secret
The company that secretly makes all your (crap) games. Got this one from toastyfrog.
Subdee: The Subdimensional World
I'm a subdimensional world!! (Interest to people who aren't performing vanity searches on their internet handles: ZERO. Pretty pictures, though.)
More Dirt on the Demon Box
Television and the reptile-brain. Link from comments to this blog post about inferior Japanese television.
One claim in that article is that television is addictive. In fact, I know several people who WILL NOT buy a television set because they fear it will take over their lives. On the other hand I know from personal experience that it is completely possible to kick a TV habit if only you replace it with something equally brain-numbing and attention-consuming...like, for instance, an internet addiction. XD;
One thing that gets on my nerves about this recent trend of labeling everything an addiction (in the negative sense) is that there is a fundamental difference between watching TV for six hours a day and smoking marijuana for six hours a day which is that watching that much television is socially acceptable. In fact outside of a very small area of New York and several other major cities I'd venture to say that watching television, in this country at least, is more likely to get you socially-accepted than reading books, going to the theater, producing art or any other more "constructive" use of your time.
Speaking of TV-to-veg-out-to and commercials-as-high-art...
Volkswagen Phaeton ad.
JUST WATCH OKAY?
Tried to waste time on Ouran High School Host Club. Episode 13 is the most beautifully animated drugged-out Alice-in-Wonderland parody ever but I have to say this series...still doesn't do it for me. XD; Too slow-paced to be hysterical and the set-up precludes serious attachment to the characters, what's the point? EDIT: I take it back, episodes 14-and-up are awesome. XDXDXD it seems all Ouran was really missing was the backstory episodes to tell me why I should care about the characters beyond lol-they-are-BL-archetypes.
I would also like to note that the lengths to which this show will go to paint a heterosexual veneer over homosexual activities are truly mind-boggling.