Year: 2010

Do animal abuse books and movies increase searches for vegetarian recipes?

Fast Food Nation, Food Inc, In Defense of Food, End of Overeating. After reading these books and seeing these movies, many people become vegetarians. Can we see the signals on a larger cultural scale? [New note: I need to put more of my opinion in this post. I was being way too… scientific with the …

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R2-D2 translator

R2D2 recently tweeted this, “*doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot DEET!*” What does he mean?

~([-_-])~

What do you think this emoticon is? ~([-_-])~ (props to Noel for tweeting his creation. That’s how i found it)

It’s 2010, Happy New Millennium!

You might be thinking, “the new millennium was in 2000, this is 2010.” But! The millennium is still pretty new. 10 years old. Considering that a millennium is 1000 years long, ten years is a drop in the bucket. 2010 is a good time to go back and review the newness of the millennium. What …

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Sarcastic pessimists confuse me

At the risk of sounding elitist, I’m gonna bear down and say some things that crossed my mind as I read Rex W. Huppke’s article in the Chicago Tribune, “A new year is no time to change feelings about resolutions.” Is this Chicago Tribune column a humor column? I hope so. Because otherwise I feel …

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