labor day weekend is nearly upon us and, for those of us in the pnw, it means one thing: the rain is coming. of course, it also signals the approach of a little music & arts festival that we call bumpershoot. for 40 years, bumpershoot has showcased "the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, [...]
It’s tempting to imagine that [you] could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying to stay under that threshold means giving those people veto power over your actions. To put yourself forward [...]
we were pointed to this story by david thorne via our ever handy twitter feed. while testifying during his trial over hacking a certain former veep candidate’s email, 4chan founder Christopher “Moot” Poole was asked to define some of the terms the court had run across on 4chan’s boards. we’re still laughing at the idea [...]
click to view full image we were stunned by the image shown above, a photo taken of an 18 afghan woman mutilated by the taliban that recently graced the cover of time magazine. while we had already heard the story, we read about an interesting point made in this post by dave pell at tweetage [...]