Who needs a unifying theme anyway?

I also do Stuff My Girlfriend Says which is a lot funnier than this. Mostly because my girlfriend is funnier than me.

12 Jun 2013

Glengarry Glen Ross

Where Did You Learn Your Trade?

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12 Jun 2013
Every time I assume a talented person isn’t painfully aware of the flaws in their work, I am wrong.
Frank Chimero × Blog × Generosity of Perspective
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10 Jun 2013
Double fisting in the departure lounge.  (at Whitsunday Coast Airport (PPP))

Double fisting in the departure lounge. (at Whitsunday Coast Airport (PPP))

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10 Jun 2013
  1. Me (reaching for slice of ham): Please don't cut my finger off.
  2. Mum (slicing ham): Why not? It's fucked anyway!
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10 Jun 2013
The government says that there are stringent protections in place to protect the privacy of Americans—which implies that non-Americans, the vast majority of these firms’ customers, are fair game for spying. The NSA’s slides make this explicit.

PRISM, Apple, Google, Microsoft: How the NSA’s surveillance program could ruin Silicon Valley. - Slate Magazine

Yup. 

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9 Jun 2013
  1. Me: Better iron my shirt
  2. Dad: do you know how?
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9 Jun 2013

Commentators often attempt to refute the nothing-to-hide argument by pointing to things people want to hide. But the problem with the nothing-to-hide argument is the underlying assumption that privacy is about hiding bad things. By accepting this assumption, we concede far too much ground and invite an unproductive discussion about information that people would very likely want to hide. As the computer-security specialist Schneier aptly notes, the nothing-to-hide argument stems from a faulty “premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong.” Surveillance, for example, can inhibit such lawful activities as free speech, free association, and other First Amendment rights essential for democracy.

The deeper problem with the nothing-to-hide argument is that it myopically views privacy as a form of secrecy. In contrast, understanding privacy as a plurality of related issues demonstrates that the disclosure of bad things is just one among many difficulties caused by government security measures. To return to my discussion of literary metaphors, the problems are not just Orwellian but Kafkaesque. Government information-gathering programs are problematic even if no information that people want to hide is uncovered. In The Trial, the problem is not inhibited behavior but rather a suffocating powerlessness and vulnerability created by the court system’s use of personal data and its denial to the protagonist of any knowledge of or participation in the process. The harms are bureaucratic ones—indifference, error, abuse, frustration, and lack of transparency and accountability.

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ (via ayjay)
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9 Jun 2013

Best tattoo in Coca-Cola script today

FAMILY FIRST
Barrie
Debbie
Chavorn
Tara

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9 Jun 2013
Thanks, Andrew.

Thanks, Andrew.

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9 Jun 2013
theylookedlikestronghands:

i can’t.

theylookedlikestronghands:

i can’t.

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8 Jun 2013
Doesn’t even look like Australia to me.

Doesn’t even look like Australia to me.

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8 Jun 2013
The view from my parents’ friends’ house. It doesn’t suck.

The view from my parents’ friends’ house. It doesn’t suck.

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8 Jun 2013
Caught up with this guy the other day.

Caught up with this guy the other day.

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8 Jun 2013
It’s the Diddy Boat from Always Sunny!

It’s the Diddy Boat from Always Sunny!

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8 Jun 2013

peterfeld:

Lenin without beard > Jagger with beard

via Retronaut

Lee Marvin With A Hat.

A King of Leon Before They Sucked.

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