November 2011
20 posts
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Website666 is done.
Sadly, real life is getting to be a pain in the ass and I’m finding myself forced to consolidate my efforts online even more than I already have. I’ll continue posting stuff like I have on Website666.com but I’ll be doing it on my lifeblog at http://thepete.com/life or on my Tumblr. So please follow me in either place or on Twitter.
This blog will stay up but I’ll...
OWS rant by someone else (and a challenge by me)
sirmitchell:
I’m having a really hard time understanding my country right now. I’m seeing an overwhelming amount of apathy, laced with immaturity, on a level that is unbearable.
Democrats, Republicans, and every other bastard in Washington (minus a few like Kucinich, Paul, Sanders) do not give a single shit for any one of us unless it makes them richer, or more powerful. For years they’ve...
A week of Wall Street layoffs
mlesblog:
theamericanbear:
As protesters find new ways to “Occupy Wall Street”, major financial firms have been busy handing out pink slips this week.
It’s the second week of what’s expected to be a brutal season for job cuts as big banks have already announced that there will roughly 75,000 fewer people working at their firms.
Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase commenced new rounds of...
“Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.”
– -Issac Asimov (via penny-royal)
It’s also the first option of the most desperate. :\
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
Sigh… this is some serious...
The right to assembly is being crushed; the... →
thereisnogod:
apoplecticskeptic:
syntheticpubes:
(and the pizza = vegetable thing passed.)
“I declare congress a vegetable.” Awesome.
Totally on point.
BRING IT! I’m sick of people pretending that we don’t live in a corporate police state simply because America doesn’t look like the novel “1984”. These American frogs clearly need the water they’re...
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“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and...”
– Orson Welles (via executions)
Wrong.
1) We’re not born alone. Our mother is there and at least one other person, like a doctor or a midwife. Sometimes even our dad is there.
2) We don’t live alone. Even if we never marry and never have roommates, most of us have neighbors and, beyond...
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Migrating Website666 to a new server
You’ll still be able to follow Website666 on Tumblr, but the main site will be at website666.com. Please pardon the site while I whip up the new layout and get the graphics to show up properly on the main site.
