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This is my new screensaver. It’s also a unique way to view twitter based on these the six words love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish. It’s entertaining if not really useful.

One nice thing is that it doesn’t eat up system resources to run it as a screensaver. I’ve tried some Twitter feed ‘savers that really put my computer into overdrive while it’s relaxing.

Give the original website a shot first to see what this is all about, then grab the screensaver once you’re done.

P.S. this is a Mac thing :)

Look, I’m not saying it’s because the frigtards who run Twitter probably won’t be able to handle the load tomorrow and the whole system is going to crash. But let’s just say I wouldn’t bet against that scenario, either. I mean look at these guys. Birdman and Baldy, we call them. As Larry says, these guys couldn’t find their own assholes using two hands and a flashlight. You really want to rely on them for something important? I wouldn’t rely on them to wash my car.

-Fake Steve Jobs on his live blogging of Apple’s impending tablet release.

Google is finally sick of bending over to China’s demands to censor the Internet and search results. In this bold announcement on their blog today, Google announced that they will be ceasing their much-beloved censorship program at Google.cn.

We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results.

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These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web—have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

— David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer at Google.

This is great to hear (although not the part about the attacks on the human rights activists). Please read the above post and, if you believe this is a good move on Google’s part, support them in their move to help free China’s people from their “great wall of censorship”.

Lists are lists, and everyone loves reading or making or agreeing and disagreeing on lists. Especially big and all encompassing lists like the Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of the Decade. That’s a big title!

Everyone is going to have their opinion on who should be included or cut from this list, but that’s not the point of this post. I just wanted to see which from this list did I get to listen to, to experience, to live with during the ’00s.

The following list bolds those albums that I do NOT have or ever had, and will subsequently get as they’re probably worth at least a try. Enjoy.

1. Radiohead - Kid A - ‘00
2. The Strokes - Is This It - ‘01
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel - ‘01
4. Jay-Z - The Blueprint - ‘01
5. The White Stripes - Elephant - ‘03
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral - ‘04
7. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP - ‘00
8. Bob Dylan - Modern Times - ‘06
9. M.I.A. - Kala - ‘07
10. Kanye West - The College Dropout - ‘04
11. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft - ‘01
12. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - ‘07
13. U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind - ‘00
14. Jay-Z - The Black Album - ‘03
15. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising - ‘02
16. OutKast - Stankonia - ‘00
17. Beck - Sea Change - ‘02
18. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - ‘08
19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells - ‘01
20. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - ‘07
21. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head - ‘02
22. Green Day - American Idiot - ‘04
23. D’Angelo - Voodoo - ‘00
24. Bruce Springsteen - Magic - ‘07
25. Radiohead - Amnesiac - ‘01
26. Cat Power - The Greatest - ‘06
27. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - ‘02
28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell - ‘03
29. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun - ‘00
30. Radiohead - In Rainbows - ‘07
31. My Morning Jacket - Z - ‘05
32. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III - ‘08
33. Daft Punk - Discovery - ‘01
34. OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - ‘03
35. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories - ‘00
36. U2 - No Line on the Horizon - ‘09
37. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin’ - ‘03
38. Ryan Adams - Bloodshot - ‘00
39. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak - ‘05
40. Kanye West - Late Registration - ‘05
41. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - ‘06
42. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 - ‘00
43. The Killers - Hot Fuss - ‘04
44. System of a Down - Toxicity - ‘01
45. Kanye West - Graduation - ‘07
46. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds - ‘06
47. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - ‘08
48. TV on the Radio - Dear Science - ‘08
49. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine - ‘05
50. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning - ‘05

34/50 isn’t bad! I feel like I got a pretty good taste of what will be remembered about this past decade. It’ll be that music that gets played when my kids grow up and I’ll have to tell them “I know that band/song.  I grew up with that stuff!!”.  I hope it won’t turn out to be as embarrassing as the ‘80…

Happy new year!

McDonald’s almost hired me one time, and I only applied for the job to meet younger girls. Black girls, Hispanic, white, and Chinese girls, it says right on the job application how McDonald’s hires different races and ethnic backgrounds. It’s girls, girls, girls, buffet-style. Also on the application McDonald’s says if you have any of the following diseases:

Hepatitis A
Salmonella
Shigella
Staphylococcus
Giardia
or Campylobacter, then you may not work there. This is more of a guarantee than you get meeting girls on the street. You can’t be too careful. At least at McDonald’s she’s gone on the record saying she’s clean. Plus, there’s a very good chance she’s going to be young. Pimple young. Giggling young. Silly young and as stupid as me.

Eighteen-, nineteen-, twenty-year-old girls, I only want to talk to them. Community college girls. High school seniors. Emancipated minors.

-From Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk.