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In Defense of the Lowest Common Denominator

I just happened to be watching the MTV movie awards a few months ago (Read: Amber was watching it and I was too lazy to leave). And a realization hit me as yet another talentless celebrity received award after award. The fact that there were way more talented celebrities nominated for the same award made [...]

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• 45 Manly Hobbies | The Art of Manliness 2010/01/06
  Hobbies can bring you joy, increase your eye for detail, keep your mind sharp, expand your creativity, and help you meet friends and learn valuable skills. They add interest to your life and help you become a more well-rounded man.
  
• The Black Tie Guide: A Gentleman's Guide to Evening Dress 2010/01/05
  
• Merge vs Rebase (Insoshi open-source social networking platform wiki) 2009/12/14
  On the surface, the merge and rebase operations in Git appear to serve the same purpose: Take the changes from one branch and move them onto another. And when applied successfully, they should yield the same code in the end. So why would anyone perform a rebase when they could just keep on doing merges?
  
• Amusing Ourselves Out of Our Manhood | The Art of Manliness 2009/12/02
  A man must be careful to avoid gorging on a diet of strictly fluff. Not only does it starve the mind and spirit, but it colors our off-line lives as well. We want everything immediately and easily. We want the world and the people in it to align with our interests. We are unable to focus on things that can’t be surfed away from. When we fill ours lives with the merely trivial, we can neglect the things that really matter, the values and relationships that challenge us and cannot be attained with a click of the mouse.
  
• Design View / Andy Rutledge - Risk 2009/12/02
  Risk is too much maligned in western culture these days and that has begun to seriously piss me off. It wasn’t always so. The west, the US in particular, used to be a place where risktaking was understood to be a fundamental component of life; successful life especially.
  
• Daring Fireball: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs 2009/11/28
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• Learning To Love You More: Hello 2009/11/27
  Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.