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MSNBC Photoblog - Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes

1) UR DOING IT RONG

2) This dude is damned lucky to be alive.

3) EXCELLENT shooting by the photographer. Check out the set of four shots.

4) To borrow from the first commenter, while it’s good that the pilot is alive, what a sad end to a beautiful machine.

(Hat tip: Dave Rea)

Seriously, if you want to retain any semblance of “self-esteem,” never look at 800 unretouched photos of yourself at 4 am while listening to Peter Cetera.

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—	Julia Allison

But in meetings with Apple engineers and marketers over the subsequent year, [senior vice president Kris] Rinne and other AT&T executives discovered that Apple wasn’t playing by traditional wireless rules. It wasn’t interested in cooperating, especially if it meant hobbling what had quickly become its marquee product. For Apple, the idea of restricting the iPhone was akin to asking Steve Jobs to ditch the black turtleneck. “They tried to have that conversation with us a number of times,” says someone from Apple who was in the meetings. “We consistently said ‘No, we are not going to mess up the consumer experience on the iPhone to make your network tenable.’ They’d always end up saying, ‘We’re going to have to escalate this to senior AT&T executives,’ and we always said, ‘Fine, we’ll escalate it to Steve and see who wins.’ I think history has demonstrated how that turned out.

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—	Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown \| Wired Magazine

globochem:

pepiberto:

(via thenegaverse, enjoetoh)

So that’s where they come from.

AppleInsider | US Sen. Schumer writes letter to Apple CEO over iPhone 4 antenna »

1) This letter came out after the announcement of today’s press conference… couldn’t he have waited to hear what Apple had to say before grandstanding about thi—- oh, wait, he’s a politician. Never mind.

2. Doesn’t he have more important things to do than gripe about a cell phone’s antenn—- oh, wait, he’s a politician. Never mind.

Her obituary, printed in Tuesday’s Review-Journal, reads in part, “We believe that Mom would say she was mortified to have taken a large role in the election of Harry Reid to U.S. Congress. Let the record show Charlotte was displeased with his work. Please, in lieu of flowers, vote for another more worthy candidate.”

And here we all thought that a Democrat could never lose the necro-American vote.

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—	Harry Reid loses key Dem demographic. \| RedState

The first thing I purchased on iTunes was “The Bad Touch” by Bloodhound Gang in July of 2005

shoesonwrong:

Stupid Steve with his stupid meme. I hate Steve now.

“Amazed,” by Lonestar. I’m not normally into country, but I love that song.

globochem:

(via daisypies)

via the art of brandon bird

DUN-DUN….

Games that should be movies?

plzfollow:

gamefreaksnz:

Red Dead Redemption (Josh Brolin as lead)

Shadow of the Colossus (Guillermo Del Toro)

Fallout 3

Mass Effect

Metal Gear Solid (Keanu Reeves as Snake)

Wipeout

Legend of Zelda

Alan Wake (David Lynch)

GTA Vice City (Directed by Quentin Tarantino)

MadWorld (Sin City styles, directed by Robert Rodriguez)

Left 4 Dead (George A. Romero)

Dead Space (Director Danny Boyle)

Red Faction

Mirrors Edge (Jessica Alba)

Listen up Hollywood..

I’d love to see GTA:VC as a movie… but you know it’d get derided, in part, as a Scarface rip-off, considering how much they liberally borrowed from it :-P

Hot Air » 1300 words that shook the world »

It was the ultimate act of defiance of its time, a statement to a presumably divinely-appointed monarch from his supposed subjects that they had decided to reject his authority. The world had seen rebellions against monarchy before, but usually on the basis of rival claims to the throne, or on religious principles more than political.

On July 4th, 1776, Great Britain’s colonies united not to depose a king but to declare him irrelevant to their land, and to make the clearest declaration in history of the right of a people to self-governance.

Old Spice | Questions by oldspice

Should your man smell like an Old Spice man?

(Hat tip: my brother)

The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time by hh1edits

WARNING: coarse language, not safe for work.

(Hat tip: Mashable)

Arizona is just a rogue state that doesn’t play by the rules — the way America is supposed to be. I heard federal officials went down there to yell at them, but they forgot their ID so Arizona deported them to Mexico. I wish we had more states like that.

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—	IMAO » Blog Archive » Rogue State

So basically “More Golf = Less Problems”. I say we encourage Obama to keep playing golf, and if he gets bored of that, get him like a Where’s Waldo book or something to keep him distracted.

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—	IMAO » Blog Archive » Better for Everyone

The vuvuzela really took off in 2001 when Masincedane Sport started mass marketing a plastic version of it, an act that was called “unconscionable” by people who sell tainted crack to schoolchildren.

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—	IMAO » Blog Archive » Know Thy Enemy: Vuvuzela