December 2010
17 posts
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“When confronted with anyone who holds my lack of religious faith in such...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ
I love this man.
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Disasters in Translation, part 27: →
redking:
rthr:
I’m translating a calendar of cultural events for a certain .gov.pl institution. Hundreds of short descriptions, hundreds of festival names, and everything has to be looked up. So I’ve been seeing a lot of Polish websites translated into English over the course of the past week, and in terms of the event-prestige-to-quality-of-translation ratio, this website really takes the...
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“Now, I don’t doubt that Interpol’s response to the sexual assault allegations...”
– Feministe (via azspot)
THIS.
(via robot-heart-politics)
Absolutely correct.
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AtheistRamblings.net: Visa, Mastercard and PayPal... →
atheistramblings:
You can if you’re so inclined go the Ku Klux Klan website and if you are of “pure stock” purchase yourself a membership via Visa, Mastercard or PayPal. After all their just good Old American boys.
However, these three financial institutions refuse to deal with Wikileaks an organisation that attempts to keep governments, and companies honest, by releasing documentation that is...
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“Here’s a news flash: Journalists have opinions and I, for one, would rather know...”
– Miami Herald columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa. (via andrewgraham)
Amen.
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Shit, ladies, the jig is up. →
mohandaskgandhi:
The men of the world were going to find out sooner or later. We might as well tell them now.
Whatever your opinion on Julian Assange is right now, despite there being very little information one way or another, there is no denying the heightened number of discussions about…
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California Cornbread: You're Wrong Ladies: Your... →
californiacornbread:
Sorry ladies, but you’re not really pretty “just the way you are”. Don’t believe all those motivational lies about how “God made you that way” - because God doesn’t exist, and you’re really just that ugly.
What you need to do is focus more on your appearance. Look better. Because what comes out…
You’re Wrong, Dudes: You’re Not Awesome. In Fact,...
This is why Wikileaks is important. →
thenewfilo:
thetart:
secretlyenglish:
Oh hey, an American company is selling Afghani children into sex slavery and the U.S. government is covering it up. Wonderful.
TL;DR? Try this.
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Gah, this is despicable. Yet another reason private contractors should never be used in these situations.
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Any other freelancers out there?
As for last week, I’ve joined your ranks, and I’ve been writing about it quite a bit (and will inevitably continue to do so, cos yay, free time!) over on my personal blog. Check it out if that’s up your alley.
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“Due to the jubilee of the festival, the Organisers expect an extraordinary large...”
– This is the LAST time I take a proofreading job where I have to follow along in the Polish just to understand what the hell the “translator” had in mind. (via rthr)
Oh man, welcome to my world. Sometime, if I have the source text, I’ll just re-do the translation because it would take less...
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The 30 steps to mastery →
bobulate:
Ben Casnocha extends a two-step process for “How to Draw an Owl” with a few more to proclaim how to achieve mastery:
See also: How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps
1. Start 2. Keep going. 3. You think you’re starting to get the hang of it. 4. You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery. 5. Keep going. 6. Keep going. 7. You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got...
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"An ocean without a Shore...": What Men Can Do for... →
chickenbonewatt:
stfusexists:
This is NOW’s list, written in 1970. Have our allied men accomplished/worked for everything that was listed forty years ago?
Set up a day-care center at the shop or place of work so that more women can be free to work.
Exercise no job discrimination…
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I hate this article *so* much. →
coketalk:
Keeping romance alive in the age of female empowerment? Are you fucking kidding me? This kind of shit drives me crazy.
Yet again, the underlying assumption here is that women are the ones who have to coddle a man’s delicate sensibilities. Am I the only one who sees that the condescension is inherently worse? Am I the only one who thinks this is a men’s issue and not a women’s issue?
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