May 2012
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Tambo’s daughter under fire for backing JZ... →
BRETT Murray’s painting of President Jacob Zuma has found an unlikely admirer in Tselane Tambo, the daughter of the late Oliver Tambo – one of the ANC’s illustrious leaders.
Tselane cited service delivery quandaries that the ANC-led government continues to grapple with for her support of the portrait. “So the Prez JZ has had his portrait painted and he doesn’t like it. Do the poor enjoy poverty?...
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Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard... →
Wow, amazing article!!
Fave part:
“the focus on process (not goals), supports mental detours. When you face a block of time dedicated to finishing a milestone, your mind avoids detours as they might delay your progress. When you instead focus on process, your mind is free to follow the path most important to eventually producing high-quality output.”
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Art critics demand governing role as Zuma painting... →
Lol, too funny!!
Fave line:
When asked for clarification, he said, “DA blue and Cosatu red together, in one place? Ugh.”
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An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is...
– Michael Hastings, Congressmen seek to lift propaganda ban (via soupsoup)
Go get em, champs. Pizza is a vegetable, propaganda is gr8, and next, try watering your crops with Gatorade!!
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1k and none: Post Number One Thousand!
This is my thousandth post to hashcool.tumblr.com. Now, most of it is reblogs and photos of things I like, but I have tried to use this as a place to catalogue my musings on topics that fascinate me - design and faith primarily, because these are two of the major pillars in my life - two gifts from God. The first I believe is what God built me for - to create with design. The second, faith, is not...
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clientsfromhell:
Client: All our sites are down!
Me: Seems fine here.
Client: We pay you to maintain this stuff, not cause more problems!
Me: I didn’t take your sites down. How do you know it’s my fault?
Client: It can’t be our fault! Our internet doesn’t even seem to be working!
Lolz.
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Come on in, guys!!
– Jeff Probst, overheard on survivor 408 times! :-)
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ShortFormBlog: Newly discovered Mayan calendar... →
shortformblog:
17 b’ak’tuns in newly discovered, oldest known Mayan calendar source
» A bad day for the doomsday industry: You’ve almost certainly heard over the past few years that 2012 would be the year in which the world ended, right? Because the Mayan calendar says so? Well, not that we were…
Of course. Lame.
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What would C.S. Lewis say about same-sex marriage?
In no way to I want to imply...
– I’ve always thought that trying to make non-Christians live by Christian standards is foolish; we don’t even expect Christians to live by Christian standards. We rather should remember that we all live our lives as beggars who found free bread - we are all hopelessly flawed people doing...
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American Homosexual Agenda to destroy sanctity of... →
Hehe, well written spoof about the whole Obama gay marriage thing. My favorite line:
“According Midwestern media sources, the news of the Gay Ray has outraged America’s remaining 1.6 billion heterosexual citizens as well as they 19 Americans who can still do basic maths and can accurately count the population.”
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E! Online - Entertainment News, Celeb Gossip, Hot... →
Yay! Parks & Rec AND The Office picked up for another full season each!
Ron Swanson and the rest of the gang stay alive! :-)
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sh**mystudentswrite:
Mary Antwinet is famous for saying “let the meat cake.” She was a leader of the French revelation. She was very popular and fashionable until she died from guilty.
Lol!
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Just witnessed a woman ordering her chicken “well-done” at Nandos....
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Quite funny, when Facebook notifies me that someone comments on something I post...
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NBC Ending "30 Rock," "Community" and "Parks &... →
opposingviews.com
Start preparing yourself for life without Liz Lemon, Jack Donaghy, Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson and whoever’s in “Community.” The struggling Peacock network is taking a new direction with its primetime lineup, and that means cleaning…
Damn, Parks & Rec is getting canned - no more Ron Swanson gems!! Damn!