How To Choose A Quality Chat Avatar

The offender's GoogleChat avatar.

Cameron: Dogg, your GChat avatar is CHOICE
David: thanks, i made it myself
Cameron: all by yourself? are you a photog? graphic artist?
i mean, agencies would pay you big $$$ for that shit
David: true story
i’m in the wrong business
this programming shit is for nerds

Muppets ft. Akon and Miss Piggie – Dreamgirl (Muppets Mashup Mix)

Mike Posner & The Brain Trust – Cooler Than Me

Mike Posner is a junior at Duke who, along with his band the Brain Trust, recently released A Matter of Time, available on iTunes now, for free. The mixtape is a promising first project, and “Cooler Than Me” is a standout, featuring G.O.O.D. Music artist Big Sean. A talented singer, songwriter and producer, Posner could be pretty dangerous in the industry. Keep an eye out for this dude, he should be on his way up soon.

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Via Wine and Bowties.

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How to impress a lady, by Gene

Gene: I almost hooked up with this real cute 28 yr blonde girl
Cameron: did you wake up with her looking different than you’d remembered?
Gene: no not at all, she was still pretting smoking hot
but she’s 28, and apparently isn’t looking for ex-frat boys
I think i might be too wild for her
but deep down inside she loves it
Cameron: you should change her perception of you so she’s not so reticent
Gene: well, she met me on the last stop of a 7-round pub crawl when I was dressed in a ridiculous orange Members Only 80′s pimp-jacket, short-shorts, 80′s-retro Nike’s, and a pink Japanese commercial hat.
it’s going to be kind of hard to erase that image out of her head
Cameron: you sir are a great man
wow

Is Wolfram Alpha Gay? Wolfram Fails The Only Test That Matters (To Me)

In my very scientific tests vetting newcomer search engine Wolfram Alpha against stalwart Google, Wolfram Alpha has failed:

Astronomy? Seriously? I know you’re in beta, but is that all you can come up with? Are you confused? Wait, are you…..oh no.

I mean, that’s fine and all. Wolfie, me and you are still cool. Just not that cool. Like, we can still play XBOX. You just can’t stay over anymore now that I know you’re not on my team. Not that I’m against people like you–I’m not. Really.

Long-time Man-staple Google, on the other hand, when searched for “hottest girl earth” comes up with a TON of great entries, including the top entry, a photo spread of Megan Fox (who is pretty much the hottest piece around) from Maxim.

Google 1, Wolfie 0 (or should I start calling you Bruce?) .

A Gentleman Attends a Red Sox Game

When a gentleman is to attend a Red Sox game, it is only fitting that he imbibe gratuitous amounts of hearty spirits beforehand, so as to maintain a jolly demeanor with which to entertain his fellow sporting enthusiasts:

In the style of TheFoggyMonocle.

The Game – Bang Along

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La Roux – In For The Kill

Maybe this is too 80′s-electro-hipster for my taste, but I kind of like it, anyway.

Via Wine And Bowties (Thanks, Elaine).

Twitter on your business card

Look in the bottom-right corner of Ayush Agarwal’s card. Apparently, if you don’t have your Twitter handle listed on your business card, you’re a nobody.

Would you list your Twitter on your business card?

I think it’s kind of cool.

Ha

A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says “get in, get in!” The religous man replies, “no, I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle.”

Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in god and god will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again cause “God will grant him a miracle.”

With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in, mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help for the faith of God. He arrives at the gates of heaven with broken faith and says to Peter, I thought God would grand me a miracle and I have been let down.” St. Peter chuckles and responds, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about, we sent you three boats and a helicopter.”

Via ThanksInternet.

Art Bell On The Supernatural

Wired: Why are people so drawn to the paranormal?

Art Bell: The same reason we’re drawn to God. The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is “it” or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith. Like ghosts, for example—they underscore the possibility of an afterlife.

Art Bell: Radio’s Master of the Unexplained Explains Himself – Wired

Hammerpants Now At TopShop

“If hammerpants weren’t a wardrobe staple they wouldn’t sell them at TopShop. Now excuse me while I take tiny jumps sideways away from this foolishness.”

Via the anti-shazzzam.

Asher Roth – Be By Myself (ft. Cee-Lo)

Deece.

Puritanism, Hysteria, And Control

“Unlike Winston, [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.”

-1984, George Orwell

America Since Obama

Nadine (Stuttgart, Germany): how is it there right now?
since Barak?
Cameron Newland: oh, not very much change. he’s better, but he’s slow.
a lot of promises, little action
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he’s better for the world, for stability, for peace
but for america itself, obama hasn’t done anything.