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Depression-Era Albums
Spurred on by this week's TAL: what's the record you put on when you're just about too depressed to move?
Mine's Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' soundtrack to She's the One.
AG in 2007/8?
Sir Turley: American Gladiators is coming back!
italisizy: Oh?
Sir Turley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gladiators#2007_revival
italisizy: Awesome, I think.
Though the last thing I need is for people to non-ironically walk around in AG gear.
Though, ironic wearing of AG gear seems just as bad.
Or worse.
Oh noes! It's a no-win!
Sir Turley: I hope they bring back Wesley "Two Scoops" Berry
italisizy: The nineties were fucked up: c.f. "The show was featured in the fourth season premiere of Family Matters, which aired September 18, 1992. The episode, titled "Surely You Joust", saw Carl and Urkel compete to settle a score."
Sir Turley: HA!
italisizy: Also: apparently Zach Galifinakas was on Boston Common.
Sir Turley: interesting
italisizy: You never know what you'll learn while reading the Wikipedia entry for American Gladiators.
Content Aware Image Resizing
via Airbag: Content aware image resizing.
This video demonstration of how images can be automagically resized and reproportioned without visual artifacts is the most mindblowing thing I've seen. Also: the deleting people function is... amazing.
Seriously. The future is now.
Quick Hits, 19 Aug
Steve Martin's wife looks super cute.
And she used to work for the New Yorker.
Damn, Steve, can't you leave anything for the rest of us?
via Buzzfeed: Anorexia "Not Just for Teens"
RIP Junkiness [Video]
YDA: No Caption Needed
Quick BB
More info on living inside of a computer from the future:
The idea is over a decade old, and there's a compelling argument to be made that it's more likely that we're living inside a simulation than in 'reality.'
How the Totally Paralyzed Communicate
MINDBLOWING.
George Orwell on Getting Shot
Orwell is the best essayist in the history of the English language.
Hands down.
TV Dating < Internet Dating
Jessi Klein: Possible Companion Shows to "Age of Love"
3) A desirable guy decides what girl he wants to date from a pool of twenty sexy girls. The twist: they are prostitutes, and he is a serial killer who tortures women in a secret room hidden behind his washer/dryer. I already have Brooke Burke attached.
Number four is even better.
Lars and the Real Girl
I want it understood: I would be linking to this even if the main characters name weren't Lars.
But it doesn't hurt, either.
Gay Marriage
There's no fucking reason gay people shouldn't be able to get married and any Democrat who says otherwise is either gutless or retarded.
Which leaves me with Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel for president.
Unfortunately, they're the two morons that would take troops out of Iraq today.
The positions of the candidates.
But still: how is it acceptable in any way, shape or form for people to oppose gay marriage?
When we come of age and start participating in politics, everyone who opposes gay marriage right now is going to look like Strom Thurmond looked for the past forty years: almost comically bigoted.
Weight Studies Not Recently in the News
Exhibit A: Last year, nutritionists presented data from a study of middle-aged Americans. Participants were asked to classify themselves as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. Then they were weighed. Only 15 percent of obese people, compared with more than 70 percent of normal and overweight people, classified themselves correctly.
Exhibit B: In a 1985 survey by the NPD group, 55 percent of U.S. adults agreed that "[a] person who is not overweight is a lot more attractive." By 2005, only 24 percent agreed. The firm concluded, "Perhaps Americans have found that the easiest way to deal with their weight is to change their attitude."
Woah. These are amazing facts.
I've not written a lot about my struggle with my weight (coming up on nine months maintaing my weight-loss) but these two studies look to quantify some things that I feel, intuitively, as someone with a little experience with the subject, to be true.
Pulled from the most recent Human Nature column by Will Saletan at Slate. The article to which it is an addendum was pretty good to begin with.
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