S7en: Brad Pitt is a swedish detective.
Full Meta Jacket: A film about a film about a film about a jacket.
Water or Elephants?: A story of love, loss, and a heartbreaking choice.
Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dad: The exact same movie as Mrs. Doubtfire.
Reddit Thread: Pick a Movie Title, Remove a Letter, Describe the Movie
There are dozens of these, and they’re all worth reading. Toward the end there’s this weird trend to invent movies about Denzel Washington climbing trees. No, really.
(via slacktory)
Source: slacktory
Fuck Yeah Fuckyeah Blogs
No one really knows why the “Fuck Yeah X” blog phenomenon became so popular — nor why it’s still going very strong in terms of raw numbers. As for ultimate beginnings, conventional wisdom points to the pop-culture longevity of “America, Fuck Yeah” from the soundtrack to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 flick Team America: World Police, but there’s no real evidence beyond the circumstantial to support this conclusion. Only a few mainstream media outlets dared cover the trend due to the profanity in the name (may we suggest “fudge yeah” as a workaround?).
Coincidentally, the bloggers behind Fuck Yeah Menswear were yesterday (allegedly) prematurely revealed as Kevin Burrows and Lawrence Schlossman (the latter running the non-fuckyeah Tumblr How to Talk to Girls at Parties); they have a book releasing this fall. So on Tumblr, where did the fuckyeah blogs really come from, and what are people fuckyeahing about these days?
Today, in number crunching.
Source: storyboard
We work too hard. We try too hard.
Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. It’s been looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb.
There’s been too much direction. It’s all free, we needn’t be told.
Classes? Classes are for asses.
0 = very pale icy blue, sometimes white
1 = pale blue baby
2 = pinkish reddish girl
3 = green, boy
4 = purple, boy
5 = salmon-ey, woman
6 = bluish male, jovial, able to experience enthusiasm and delight in a way that is not immature but is still somewhat child-like
7 = generally orange, though sometimes an annoying shade of violet, unpleasant, catty personality, male
8 = purple, gentle and quiet male, a bit shy, quite stable personality
9 = shifts from greens to aquas and blues, social, attractive, charismatic male
Source: quora.com
Many web workers, having tasted of the A/B apple, can no longer imagine operating in any other environment. Indeed, they begin to look with pity on the offline world, a terrifying place where each of us possesses only one life to live rather than two (or more) in parallel… At one Silicon Valley office, I overheard an employee complain that dating can’t be A/B tested; an online profile can, to be sure, but once you’re in a relationship with a specific person, 100 percent of the “traffic” is on the line with every decision.
Source: Wired
But as time has gone by, I’ve stopped bothering - after all, one of the great things about writing, as opposed to other media, is that it makes no claims on people unless they engage with it: words, no matter how torturous, don’t leap out of books and articles and assault you. You have to go looking for them.
Source: BBC
…using social media and a blizzard of other inexpensive yet effective online techniques to pull off what may be the marketer’s ultimate trick: persuading fans to persuade each other.
Source: The New York Times
Why Xanax is the Most Popular Anti-Anxiety Drug in America (Or, Listening To Xanax)
Excellent article. Spent a lot of time watching a lot of friends abuse, misuse, rely on, and responsibly take Xanax. However, the Xanax + booze combo is, in my opinion, bad bad news.
There’s this very real thing that runs rampant in educated people. It’s called imposter syndrome. The clinical definition is a
“psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments.” It means that you feel like a phony, like you’re just winging it, that you really don’t have any idea what you’re doing.
Source: 30sdc.files.wordpress.com
