January 2011
28 posts
Post-coital tristesse →
readmorewikipedia:
Sexual intercourse can sometimes lead to a feeling of melancholy called PCT, or post-coital tristesse. This is more common in men than in women.
A better-known reference is the Latin phrase Post coitum omne animal triste est —”After sexual intercourse every animal is sad”.
Dear Coke Talk: On conspiracy theories. →
Pretty sure this advice columnist just got trolled.
dearcoketalk:
I don’t get how someone as smart as you fell in the Assange/wikileaks trap. He’s obviously made up. You think there is someone so powerful as to manage to put secret documents online and governments can’t find a way to shut it down?
There is too much fuss about it. He’s too charismatic. And I…
beachjustice:
Begging the question (or petitio principii, “assuming the initial point”) is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.
Many English speakers assume “beg the question” means “raise the question” and use it accordingly: for example, “this year’s deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how...
“Nerd-dom—which we’ll define, generously but maybe not widely enough, as...”
– Sady Doyle
2010 - Movies
This is every movie I watched in 2010
- Daybreakers
- Conan: The Barbarian
- Aliens
- Sunshine
- Alien vs. Predator
- Inglourious Basterds
- District 9
- Toyko!
- Gamer
- Alien 3
- Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
- Up
- Jennifer’s Body
- Zombieland
- Shutter Island
- 500 Days of Summer
- Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
- Fargo
- the Girlfriend Experience
- Astro Boy
- Alice In...
Scenes From My Life in Porn by Evan Wright | LA... →
this shit is amazing and reminds me a lot of David Foster Wallace’s bit from Consider the Lobster about the porn convention. sex is a fucked up thing, most of the time - turning it into a business fucks it up even more.
55 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies in 2011 →
io9 drops a big list of movies that look super awesome, kind of okay and completely shitty. must-read if you like genre stuff.
http://threewords.me/skinnyghost →
