January 2012
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You Made It Weird #11, Doug Benson
Doug: "Ghost Protocol" is my favorite expression now.
Pete: Yes.
Doug: Because I just love that it's called "Ghost Protocol."
Pete: It's a terrible name.
Doug: Like there's certain things that a ghost must do. When you're a ghost, there's procedures--
Pete: It's "Boo," guys, it's not "Woo." It's "Boo."
Doug: Yeah, c'mon, follow ghost protocol.
Pete: Chains, never wires. Chains not wires, guys! I see your eyes glazing over. I know they're dead, but keep 'em up here.
Doug: How many times do we have to tell you to stop trying to contact the living? Ghost protocol.
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shhh…my secret subtumblr. “Behold the power of round.”
gif-set?
I have two problems with “gifset”:
1. A .gif is just an image, not necessarily animated. 2. The sets are most often from films or television. With the purpose of sharing an action sequence or dialogue.
Jargon: New visualizations?
What do we call those collections of subtitled animated .gifs that replay a scene from a movie? ”Filmsets” “Cinemasets” “SequenceSets”?
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popculturebrain:
That’s a terrible idea.
But it will be fun to observe, no?
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singularitarian:
In the 1932 essay called “Fifty Years Hence”, in which he offered his notions of how the world might look in 1982, Winston Churchill wrote: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”
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“Why do you test for humans?” he asked.
“To set you free.”
“Free?”
“Once men...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune (via mayakamina)
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ktrex: “awesome mugs that i own”
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