October 2010
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Sign The Petition: Urge Yale University Action in... →
volcanoes:
Sign it, especially if you aren’t a Yale student. Make this go viral. Go go go.
Context and the Yale Daily News’s ridiculous editorial about it.
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World's Most Considerate Computer Thief Backs Up... →
Oh, Sweden.
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Final Girl →
The final girl is a horror film (particularly slasher film) trope that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. […] One of the basic premises of Clover’s theory is that audience identification is unstable and fluid across gender lines, particularly in the case of the slasher film. During the final girl’s...
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Students Are Different Now →
Many of today’s students lack resilience and at the first sign of difficulty are unable to summon strategies to cope. The hardship can be a failing grade on a test, a cut from the team, or a romantic breakup. At the first sign of trouble many become unable to function and persevere. Often they even anticipate difficulties and their anxiety alone paralyzes them.
It is really too easy to point...
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My mom just send me an email...
I have tried to call you on the weekend but never got you answered the phone. I also received your phone bill and see a lot of phone calls ended in 1 minute. So you probably not answering other people’s phone calls either. This can push others away from you. If you cannot answer their phone calls at the time, you should try to callback. All these small things can make a very big difference...
I think this imagery is important as a contrast to the majority of mainstream...
– Porn star Lorelei Lee talks obscenity
(via themoreivegotthemoreiwant)
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I wished I looked like Cindy Crawford.
– Cindy Crawford
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New Rule: Rich People Who Complain About Being... →
mamavh:navigatethestream:kateoplis:
It’s so hard for one person to tell another person what constitutes being “rich”, or what tax rate is “too much.” But I’ve done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy asshole.
And let’s be...
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