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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
thedailyshow
[ ashes_to_roses ]
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3:41p |
A little help
Hi, all. I joined this community to ask Jon Stewart fans why one should like him. For some time, I've been a fan of Colbert and Conan, so it always confuses me why I don't like Jon Stewart. After all, all three seem to be chummy with each other. I've tried to watch a few sporadic episodes, only once making it through to the end. I've only seen one interview with a guest. Though it was enjoyable, it left me confused. Something about him grates on my nerves. Colbert sometimes does, too, but not enough for me to not watch his show. Please help! I hope big fans of his would be excellent at explaining Stewart's apparent greatness. If I don't become a fan of Stewart's, at least I'll know how he differs from my current comedic heroes. As far as I know, it seems like he shouts most of the time and he uses too many poorly doctored pictures. Your critiques are much appreciated! Current Mood:  contemplative |
tennant_love
[ chewynutter ]
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8:41p |
Hamlet Audio
Howdy. So not only do we get Hamlet on DVD, we get it on CD too. Following the success of "The Essential Shakespeare", the British Library and the Royal Shakespeare Company are proud to present a second audio set of live Shakespeare recordings, "Essential Shakespeare Encore". The extracts, chosen by RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, are taken from productions that were not included previously, so as to complement the first volume. The roll-call of prestigious portrayals runs from Paul Robeson's legendary Othello in 1959 to David Tennant's highly-acclaimed Hamlet in 2008.
You can pre order the CD, which will be released on 1st October 2009, from D-T.com's shop for just £12.56.http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2009/07/essential-shakespeare-cd.htmlI am absolutely praying it's 'to be or not to be'! Current Mood:  cheerful |
telophase
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2:29p |
Today's lunch reading (and probably tonight's reading as well, if my net access is still out) is Paco Underhill's* Why We Buy, Just opening the book and reading random pages gave me ideas about artist alley tables - there's a section where he talks about how people don't like to bend over to get items from shelves, which illustrates why I think so many AA people are now getting elaborate setups at their tables which raise their products to eye level, and there's also info about how people don't like what he calls the butt-brush: if the display is in an area where people are jostled or bumped, they'll shorten their browsing and buying time. Which made me think ... what about if I created a questionnaire/survey sheet/whatever to be filled out at AAs by various people? If you're an AA artist would you be willing, for a free look at the data generated, to fill out forms that ask you to do things like make tick marks for the number of people who browse at your table, and then for the number of people who buy things? And whatever other quantitative data I can come up with? I can't do a thing about qualitative data, like how good your art is or whether you've hit the sweet spot for series to draw fanart of, and so on, but I think there's good info to be found in the quantitative range, like how much sells in the $1-3 price range versus how much sells in the $8-10 range, etc. All identifying info would be removed, obviously, and I wouldn't ask things like how much profit you made. (I see perhaps, eventually, crunching the numbers and putting it into a PDF that I could sell for download at $1-2/pop to cover bandwidth etc., but all participants would get free versions and would have access to the anonymized data.) Not sure if I'd get off my duff and do the forms, but it's a possible project. The more buy-in I get, the more I'd be likely to do it. :D Thoughts? I am VERY MUCH not a statistician or professional marketing analyst, just have a bit of background in anthropological and sociological fieldwork, but I think some broad conclusions might be able to be made. * He's not a hobbit, but a marketing anthropologist. :D Crossposted to my Dreamwidth account at http://telophase.dreamwidth.org/1556821.html. You can comment here or there. |
torchwoodslash
[ wereleopard58 ]
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8:26p |
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jmagazinescans
[ dixi_chan ]
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2:11p |
request [KERA august 2009]
i want to request please Kera magazine newest issue please if anyone can scan this awsome magazine i would love it kera august 2009 here is the cover:  please! thanks! |
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dailylatenight
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11:18a |
Guest Listings for today - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
http://www.interbridge.com/lineupsdate.html#7/14/09 David Letterman: Edie Falco, Michael Showalter, Wilco with Feist
Conan O'Brien: Michael Phelps, Paget Brewster, Sugar Ray
Late Late Show: John Larroquette, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Jimmy Fallon: Seann William Scott, Keyshawn Johnson, Daniel Merriweather
Last Call: Adhir Kalyan, Nico Vega (R 3/19/09)
Daily Show: Peter Mancall
Colbert Report: Leymah Gbowee
Jimmy Kimmel: Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Sean Patrick McGraw
The View: Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Connolly
Regis and Kelly: Dylan McDermott
Ellen DeGeneres: Miley Cyrus, Chris Matthews (R 11/20/08)
Tavis Smiley: Darryl Strawberry (R)
Chelsea Lately: Brooke Hogan, Josh Wolf, Natasha Leggero, Michael Yo (R 6/29/09)
George Stroumboulopoulos: Judah Friedlander, Finesse Mitchell, Cheech & Chong (R)
Bonnie Hunt: Marcia Cross, Amy Smart (R 5/8/09)
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mariko_azrael
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2:35p |
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antitheism
[ rpeate ]
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11:13a |
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one_piece
[ meissdes ]
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8:50p |
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telophase
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12:50p |
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atheism
[ elovlance ]
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10:10a |
I Don't Believe in Spooks
Last night my best friend was telling me about an episode of the show "Ghost Hunters" she'd seen that convinced her that ghosts exist. She found a link on Youtube to an excerpt of the episode in question that takes place at the Stanley Hotel (inspiration for The Shining), and we watched it together. In the episode, the "Ghost Hunters" used a K-II meter (an EMF scanner) to ask a supposed entity a series of yes or no questions. The device supposedly responds to changes in the electro-magnetic field. It doesn't respond to sound, and the Ghost hunters' hands were visible throughout the exchange. After the meter blinks on and off in response to a series of questions, my friend, an avowed atheist, proclaims that for her, this is proof positive of the existence of ghosts. I remain skeptical. Just because some device that I don't understand blinks on and off doesn't, to me, point to a supernatural explanation. For all I know it was controlled by remote, or on a timer, or any number of other rational explanations. So my question to you guys is this: Are being an atheist, and beliving in ghosts mutually exclusive? For me, if a ghost is a spirit of a deceased person, and I don't believe in souls or spirits, I can't believe in ghosts. But for my friend it is possible to not believe in god, but to believe in the supernatural. This confounds me. Here's a link to the excerpt if you feel like wasting some time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR1UWmpr_jA |
kinectra
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1:27p |
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telophase
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12:17p |
Hmmm...
The comments for the Get Rich Slowly post on the spending habits of the average American are, naturally, full of people appalled at the $118 figure for books that the stats have, plus people who explain that they're avid readers and yet spend very little on books because of libraries, ILL, used bookstores, trading books, etc. So far, there's only one person being snarky about those who read a lot, but I've seen other blogs and other comments where other commenters get extremely snarky about people who don't use the library for most or all of their reading, and who spend large amounts of money on books. That sparked a thought - while I'm not entirely sure where the hatred in the posts I remember comes from (surely book-buyers haven't killed their dogs?) - I do have to wonder: do they think one book is much like another? In other words: do they think that they will always be able to find what they want at the library? Do they not have particular tastes in books? How do they think publishers decide what will be published? Are they OK with best-sellers being the primary form of books available, and small-press books shouldn't be available if they can't somehow find enough market share to publish? I'm not being especially coherent about this, because I haven't worked out the thoughts fully and I'm starving, as it's lunchtime. :D I thought I'd open it for comment, in order to work out better what I think. |
denial_fic
[ darklyenigmatic ]
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6:15p |
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at_the_ritz
[ laurab1 ]
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6:11p |
Oh no! Men kissing! WWII!
I know I'm preaching to the converted, here, but I need to make the points outside my own journal. In the CoE aftermath, the Jack/Jack "Oh no! Men kissing! WWII!" thing comes up AGAIN. Just go and read this, please: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/36/a2688636.shtmlIt's on the BBC's history pages. It's by Peter Tatchell, so he does know what he's talking about. It was illegal, yes. But TPTB turned a blind eye, during the war, because an able-bodied man was an able-bodied man. Outside the forces, the act that Oscar Wilde was sentenced to hard labour under NEVER applied to women. It was after the war, that things got bad again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/turing_alan.shtmlOestrogen? I'm sure you can guess what happened to his body. |
torchwoodslash
[ darklyenigmatic ]
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6:07p |
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torchwoodslash
[ shambolicasfuck ]
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6:53p |
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micaturtle
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11:34a |
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tennant_love
[ jackparakeet ]
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11:25a |
*New* DT as the Baddie Pic!
 Not sure if this is allowed, but I found this pic on my Twitter account...DT as the baddie in a robe! Phwoar! Current Mood: chipperCurrent Music: 80's Pop |
telophase
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11:24a |
Breaking News: Cats Manipulate Humans
In other news, water is wet and the Pope is Catholic. Cats have special purr they use to manipulate humans. Growing up, at dinner my cat Dakota would, if she smelled something she wanted, jump onto the empty chair next to me, look at the table, and start to purr. If she felt we hadn't noticed her, she'd purr louder. |
telophase
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10:23a |
Tokyo in Tulsa roundup
Net connection at home still down. Tech scheduled to come by Wednesday, provided it doesn't spontaneously fix itself by then. Naturally, it happened right after I'd written out a giant To-Do list which mostly contained stuff I needed a net connection to do. Overall report on Tokyo in Tulsa: sloooooooooooooooow. ( cut for longer report ) |
torchwoodslash
[ madder_rose ]
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5:10p |
Not Impossible, just improbable 1/1
Title: Not Impossible, just improbable 1/1
Author: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) madder_rose
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones
Pairings: Jack/Ianto
Rating/warning: PG.
Spoilers: TW season 2.01. DW season 3 ep 10-13.
Setting: AU and then some.
Summary: set just after the Year that never was, Jack comes back and soon discovers that Ianto remembers but the twist is that Ianto was pregnant before Jack went away and as he was living in the hub time didn't reset for him personally.......Disclaimer: I dabble. Avante gardish. AN: request!fic for </a></b></a>suellen128 . Requests are Here!
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nofactzoneblog
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2:26p |
Colbert Report wooing Mark Sanford by E-mail
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NoFactZone/~3/A_9MDv57gzE/ http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=15510 Well, they aren’t as steamy as some of the emails South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has received, but the ‘Post and Courier’ has reported on the latest batch of emails and cell phone records from the Governor’s Office between the press and Sanford’s staff. It happens to include a missive from a certain Stephen Colbert.
Staff fielded requests from media giants
As media circuses go, Gov. Mark Sanford’s staff can say they’ve been to the big top. As the mystery deepened over Sanford’s whereabouts last month, Sanford staffers were inundated by interview requests from Larry King to Stephen Colbert.
Newly released e-mails and cell phone records show that as Sanford staffers tried repeatedly to reach their missing-in- action governor, the national media’s cry for information grew to a crescendo.
The chorus began June 22, when local reporters began asking about Sanford’s whereabouts.
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The documents show that by June 24, with Sanford poised to hold a press conference about his secret trip, the governor’s travails had become a media phenomenon.
Stephen Colbert of the satirical Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report” dashed off an e-mail:
“Hi Joel, as you may know, I declared myself Governor of South Carolina last night. I went power mad for about 40 seconds before learning that Gov. Sanford was returning today. If the governor is looking for a friendly place to make light of what I think is a small story that got blown out of scale, I would be happy to have him on.”
About a half-hour after Colbert’s e-mail, Sanford revealed that he had misled his staff about taking a hike on the Appalachian Trail and instead had flown to Argentina to meet his mistress.
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Read the full article here.
They Post and Courier has provided over 500 emails on a pdf file here – more fun to read than I expected, actually!
And if you want to remember Stephen’s 40 seconds as Governor of South Carolina, here’s the video, courtesy of Comedy Central:
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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
torchwoodslash
[ everlongsplace ]
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3:53p |
Title: Finding You (parts, 9-12 now added).
Author: Everlong
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto, other character include Gwen, Tosh and Owen and others.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters.
Summary: Set post cyberwoman, Series 1, Jack has an accident with the SUV running someone over, this person is about to change his life forever, JANTO, starts of as an AU but all will be explained.
Spoilers: None so far but will be spoilers for series 1 and 2 in later parts to the series.
Rating: Adult for the whole series, varies depending on chapter, adult chapters are marked with a warning.
Parts, 9 10, 11 and12 now up of my Jack/Ianto fanfiction, please read and let me know what you think. Thanks.
Heres the link to the series:
http://everlongsplace.livejournal.com/tag/finding+you |
| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
one_piece
[ shelliana ]
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8:45p |
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