Too Much Nick

"Dunham has Hannah’s back. Hannah doesn’t need our motherly concern, our chivalrous evocation of the..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:25 -0400

“Dunham has Hannah’s back. Hannah doesn’t need our motherly concern, our chivalrous evocation of the women’s lib barricades. As we have already learned from the pilot episode, Hannah is smart and perceptive and funny and not (usually) a total doormat—she just hasn’t figured out where she herself would like a sex scene such as this to go.”

- The Loves of Lena Dunham by Elaine Blair | The New York Review of Books

The best review of Girls is from a magazine about books.

Cole Stryker

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:18:57 -0400

Cole Stryker

Small Girl Runs Big Company: Meet the Charmingly Bold Bianca Caampued

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:04:44 -0400

Small Girl Runs Big Company: Meet the Charmingly Bold Bianca Caampued:

Where have the Gawker commenters set up their hatethread for this?

"Anyone who’s remained stubbornly single through their 20s (or refuses to marry, or legally can’t)..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:35:06 -0400

“Anyone who’s remained stubbornly single through their 20s (or refuses to marry, or legally can’t) knows the financial woes of helping your friends “build a new life together!”: the numerous pre-parties (and required gifts), followed by the wedding (travel, hotel, clothes, and an even nicer gift). Marriage, in Western culture, operates on the model that a new couple needs “one of everything” in order to make a home, and should keep buying until they get it—and all those fancy cupcakes require lots of cooking gear too.”

- What Pinterest Taught Me About Marriage as a Capitalist Prison by Academic Coach Taylor

Slacktory: “This article covers how Pinterest fetishizes owning stuff, and how that relates to the Western institution of marriage, and holy crap, this is a genuinely insightful article that starts with an analysis of dumb ol’ Pinterest. Read it.”

The editor of Academic Coach Taylor is writing cultural analysis for Slacktory!

Mateusz Kolek: Roof Cool attitudes.

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:30:30 -0400

Mateusz Kolek: Roof

Cool attitudes.

Theory: Gawker’s new comment system only exists to help Nick Denton pretend Brian Williams...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:49:00 -0400

Theory: Gawker’s new comment system only exists to help Nick Denton pretend Brian Williams will one day defend his daughter somewhere that Quantcast can see.

canvas: The day has come. GPOYT

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:51:43 -0400

canvas:

The day has come.

GPOYT

socialistictendencies: tumblr in one picture The...

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:29:34 -0400

socialistictendencies:

tumblr in one picture

The Aristotumblrs!

Apple, Stop Fucking Up Preview

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:56:00 -0400

1. When I close Preview, I want to close all the pictures I had open. I don’t need them next time I open Preview. But now I have to close each one manually like an ape. (Same goes for TextEdit.)

2. Make “Don’t Save” hotkeyable. Don’t open the fucking Finder window every time and autofocus on the file name section, so I can’t just hit “D” like I can in any sane program.

3. Stop fucking autosaving when I close after making destructive edits! You fucked my work! You didn’t save a backup! That is the ONE TIME I need you to ask me before you do something! You had ONE JOB and you fucked it! Fuck you!

4. Update day! Oh fuck you very much — you killed the quality scale for saving JPEGs! Now I can only save massive-ass non-web-ready files! Now I have to boot and run fucking Photoshop — not Pixelmator which for some goddamn reason adopted the rest of your idiotic changes as if I paid them money just to have Preview Deluxe — I have to run this goddamn $670 photo-manipulation powerhouse to turn a fucking PNG into a web-optimized JPEG.

5. And of course booting Photoshop takes like 60 fucking seconds, as does every other action on every other app while it runs, because I haven’t upgraded my Mac because you haven’t updated the iMac in over a year, because you don’t give a shit about anything that sits on a desk because desks aren’t cool, and I’d switch to a PC and get five times the power for the price if you didn’t have your clammy fingers wrapped around the shrunken little nutsack holding my little consumer testes — my phone and my music library, though fuck knows why I haven’t gone to Android and Spotify — you company made of cocks.

UPDATE: 6. AND STOP CRASHING EVERY TIME YOU BOOT, PREVIEW, OR I’LL FUCK A NEW HOLE INTO YOUR ACTIVITY MONITOR ENTRY.

This Vimeo video got covered by the depressingly famous Ray...

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:15 -0400

This Vimeo video got covered by the depressingly famous Ray William Johnson clip show. Result: YouTube-quality comments in Vimeo. It’s like some jackass tagged the walls of the Taj Mahal.

The Archer Alignment Chart | Slacktory I made up the axes...

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:37 -0400

The Archer Alignment Chart | Slacktory

I made up the axes because everyone on this show is chaotic neutral.

ratsoff: #YOLO (via pitchfork.) YOLO is, of course, short for...

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:17:34 -0400

ratsoff:

#YOLO

(via pitchfork.)

YOLO is, of course, short for “You Only Lynch Orientals.”

"S7en: Brad Pitt is a swedish detective. Full Meta Jacket: A film about a film about a film about a..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:13:11 -0400

“

S7en: Brad Pitt is a swedish detective.

Full Meta Jacket: A film about a film about a film about a jacket.

Water or Elephants?: A story of love, loss, and a heartbreaking choice.

Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dad: The exact same movie as Mrs. Doubtfire.

”

- Reddit Thread: Pick a Movie Title, Remove a Letter, Describe the Movie

Slacktory: “There are dozens of these, and they’re all worth reading. Toward the end there’s this weird trend to invent movies about Denzel Washington climbing trees. No, really.”

"The right’s frame of marriage as being “one man, one woman” is an implicit..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:32:27 -0400

“The right’s frame of marriage as being “one man, one woman” is an implicit reminder that they insist gay marriage will lead to six dudes marrying four goats or whatever. It, too, is a smart frame — and a deeply ironic one for Mr. Romney to call on.”

- PBump

animalstalkinginallcaps: OH, I’M SORRY, LARRY. I THOUGHT THE...

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:14:06 -0400

animalstalkinginallcaps:

OH, I’M SORRY, LARRY. I THOUGHT THE POINT OF GETTING A HOTEL WITH DELICIOUS BREAKFAST SERVICE, SOME HOT TUBS AND A NICE LITTLE POOL WAS TO USE THOSE AMENITIES TO INCREASE OUR ENJOYMENT SINCE THEY’RE INCLUDED IN THE RENTAL PRICE. FUN DOESN’T COST EXTRA. I DIDN’T REALIZE CHECKING YOUR EMAIL 200 TIMES WAS YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD VACATION OR I’D HAVE JUST BOOKED US A TABLE AT THE COFFEESHOP BY OUR HOUSE.

I’M SERIOUS. STOP TEXTING AND FROLIC WITH ME BEFORE I STRANGLE YOU.

Deer are only having fun to get their money’s worth.

collegehumor: Vault Week: If Superheroes Were Hipsters More...

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:10:21 -0400

collegehumor:

Vault Week: If Superheroes Were Hipsters

More proof that “hipster” means whatever you want it to mean.

"Caution: Some of the parodies may be offensive."

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:07:00 -0400

“Caution: Some of the parodies may be offensive.”

- The Washington Post’s style blog, definitely talking about the Photoshop of me sucking on a 26-year-old MILF’s tit.

slacktory: The “Others Girls vs Me” meme happened this week....

Fri, 11 May 2012 17:10:12 -0400

slacktory:

The “Others Girls vs Me” meme happened this week. It’s poking fun at how some Tumblr ladies consider themselves to be nerdy and quiet while other girls are girly. (There are examples in the article linked below.)

But then (dramatic twist!) some people took this parody image seriously, and that led to its own parodies, and you guys, they are pretty funny.

Read the full story at The 12 Best Parodies of the “Other Girls vs Me” Meme. It’s an interesting look at a thing you may have only been vaguely aware of.

I liked some of these before I even knew what they were parodying.

"HBO co-president Eric Kessler has said he thinks the move away from traditional television to an..."

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:09:23 -0400

“HBO co-president Eric Kessler has said he thinks the move away from traditional television to an internet-based model is just a fad that will pass.”

- HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record ‘Game Of Thrones’ Piracy - Forbes

Photo

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:02:45 -0400