A-level people want to work with A-level people. B-level people want to work with C-level people. … and C-level people do not care whom they work with so long as it’s hard to get fired.

Wind is your someday-silenced soullashing out from behind realityto stir up reverence and fear

A criminal’s mugshot. Is it fair to say that the human genome has produced less than spectacular results based upon a single specimen? Representative sample. Because we all know what humanity is best adapted to doing.

Clicked Special:Random at Wikipedia.org and got this: Social semiotics can include the study of how people design and interpret meanings, the study of texts, and the study of how semiotic systems are shaped by social interests and ideologies, and how they are adapted as society changes. Structuralist semiotics in the tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure [...]

We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we’re allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven’t experienced it before. – Adam Conner, Facebook Lobbyistinterview with Washington Post We’ll see if he changes his tune when some other spineless corporate shill starts buying “Viva La Revolucion!” ads to foment unrest and usher [...]

Disclaimer: Whether or not you are presently vegetarian, there is a good chance you’ve thrown away leftover meat at some point in your life. If you have, the following music video should not offend your sensibilities (after all, meat which you do not want to eat is garbage, right?). Sweetbread by Simian Mobile Disco Nobody [...]

We can change any environment to suit ourselves… so we better start thinking about the long term consequences of those changes. Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope Don’t be so hard on yourself, human – it’s in your nature to take – and react – disproportionately.

Iron by WOODKID [via BOOOOOOOM!]

Here I thought I’d come up with something unique – a concoction which, despite its imperfections, would be my secret. Apparently it was known, as of 2007, by a semi-literate Yahoo! Answers user. There is nothing new under the sun… but, for the record, my version of what poopiesmuffin calls a “tootsie roll” requires Kahlua [...]