Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Hi,

I'm pretty bored of Reddit. Some things are awesome. Others fall short.

Mainly, I'm annoyed with things I disagree with. People with almost no understanding of the context of history or even redimentary economics mod up knee-jerk material. Folks mod-up pics & videos of things that are certainly interesting, but lack any staying power. Tech non-news abounds. I have no idea why "geeks" or "engineers" care about so many things in the domain that aren't important.

In hopes to waste your time even more, I've taken the front page of Reddit, and categorized it. This was a personal exercise, and this blog was created just to post it.

================ USA/Republicans/The West/Capitalism==Bad. Left==Good.
4. Missing: The America We Used To Know [pic]
8. Cheney has lost grip with reality. Believes Americans want troops to stay in Iraq indefinitely (bloomberg.com)
9. What Terry Gilliam' "Brazil" Tells Us About Torture Today... (slate.com)
10. Unsettling new evidence that the Supreme Court is more concerned about — and more willing to protect — the powerful than the powerless (nytimes.com)
16. Bush's New Budget Offers $32.7 Billion In Tax Cuts To The Wal-Mart Family Alone (alternet.org)
20. Hey, remember all those scary terror statistics? Turns out they were made up (news.yahoo.com)
24. The political career of Donald Rumsfeld is vital for the understanding of what got us into the unprecedented ruin which is American foreign policy today. (alternet.org)
26. Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires (alternet.org)
29. The Anglo-Zanzibar War - The shortest war in recorded history. 45 minutes long. (en.wikipedia.org)
32. Remember Those US Attorneys Fired By Bush? They Were Investigating Republican Corruption. (mydd.com)
33. Another British Troop Withdrawal from Iraq (blogcritics.org)
34. What Terry Gilliam's Brazil tells us about torture today (slate.com)
35. Denmark to withdraw its troops from Iraq (news.bbc.co.uk)
39. How Republicans Support the Troops (asohiogoes.com)
40. Bush hails UK pullout as 'sign of success' (guardian.co.uk)
42. Germany's 'Rose Monday' Parade float features George W. Bush being spanked by Lady Liberty [photo] (news.yahoo.com)
43. Wes Clark and VoteVets create StopIranWar.com: "War is not the answer." (stopiranwar.com)
45. Iraq 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Iraq But Were Afraid to Ask (motherjones.com)
46. Habeas corpus is a right that was enshrined in the Magna Carta to prevent kings from indefinitely and arbitrarily detaining anyone they chose-the combined actions of the Bush Administration, the previous Congress and two of the three judges today have taken us back 900 years and granted the right of kings to the president (pressesc.com)
48. US Government sued for marijuana lies (onmarijuana.com)
50. Military amputee uninvited from Bush event because the press would see him with no legs (americablog.blogspot.com)
51. Kick-ass Bush protest (news.com.au)

================ ADHD Pic/Vid Fetish
1. Trip to North Korea [Pics] (archibase.net)
2. Unforgettable Moments Captured in Frame (warning- some are disturbing)
3. Don't shoot: Powerful HIV awareness commercial [NSFW]
4. Missing: The America We Used To Know [pic]
6. [PIC] That's a lot of snow (coasttocoastam.com)
17. I'm a Mac and I'm a PC circa 1996 - From MacAddict Magazine (blog.wired.com)
21. How awesome is this for getting a test back from a professor?? [image] (colhumor-9.vo.llnwd.net)
25. [PIC] No, THIS is a lot of snow. (biwook.net)
30. The ancient girl with the golden eye: 5,000 year old priestess found (dailymail.co.uk)
31. The Saddest Calvin and Hobbes Strip Ever (davidguy.brinkster.net) [ed. pretty ironic]
38. Ever wonder what nerds do at a party? Wonder no more (pretty cool video) (fuvoo.com)
47. I hate living in such a litigious society [image] (luckypuppy.bravehost.com)
49. BJORKDIDDY.GIF. It's not what you think. Unless you have a warped sense of imagination. (negrophonic.com)

================ Useless Tech/Brand Fanboyish / non-news / prognostication / Player-Piano-Praise of geeks
5. ESR gives up on Fedora (linux.com)
11. Why Geeks Make Good Lovers (awkwardthingsisaytogirls.com)
17. I'm a Mac and I'm a PC circa 1996 - From MacAddict Magazine (blog.wired.com)
22. Web n+1 (w3.org)
23. iTunes Exposes Fraud In The World Of Classical Music (newscientist.com)
27. Ballmer repeats threats against Linux (news.com.com)
37. What Dell customers want - Linux, no craplets, more RAM, no offshored tech support (blogs.zdnet.com)
44. Sticking it to the man - or Circuit City in this case - for the Wii bait and switch (destructoid.com)

================ Navel-gazing
14. What happened after Digg and Reddit sent me 250,000 visitors in 4 days. (voltier.com)
18. After winning notice for being one of the top contributors to reddit, Fedquip is now paid $1,000 (U.S.) a month to submit links (theglobeandmail.com)
22. Web n+1 (w3.org)

================ Tech / Probably good
13. How UNIX Load Average really works (teamquest.com)
15. The High-Def FAQK (wired.com)
36. A tool worthy of Batman's utility belt (technologyreview.com)

================ Other / Probably good
7. Onions: why cook them until they're translucent? [image]
19. Autumn - The fascinating search for a Windows XP desktop image (vanityfair.com)
28. How Hitler gained power. (slate.com)
30. The ancient girl with the golden eye: 5,000 year old priestess found (dailymail.co.uk)
31. The Saddest Calvin and Hobbes Strip Ever (davidguy.brinkster.net) [ed. pretty ironic]
41. Female Pakistani minister shot dead for 'breaking Islamic dress code' (timesonline.co.uk)
49. BJORKDIDDY.GIF. It's not what you think. Unless you have a warped sense of imagination. (negrophonic.com)

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