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Music Monday: Blogs Require Thick Skins

April 20th, 2009 · by xJane · 4 Comments

One of the things I love about MoF is that we’re a pretty small community and don’t attract a lot of trolls. This is not to say we never attract trolls, but when we do, it’s a surprise. There are many sites whose comments I simply don’t read because I don’t want to deal with [...]

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Tags: Art · Blogging · Classic · Creativity. · Dialog · Ethics · Humor · Meme · Music · Music Monday · Pop Culture · Satire · Social Web · Society · Video · Web 2.0

Mind on Fire Video – Episode Two: Natto Delicious.

April 18th, 2009 · by John · 14 Comments

Here’s a little Japanese cultural lesson I put together for you, dear viewer. And it’s only $1.50 for a three pack!

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Tags: Humanity · Humor · Japan · Video

Mind on Fire First of May Celebration Project.

April 18th, 2009 · by John · 14 Comments

All right, folks, come hither and hearken unto my latest hare-brained scheme: Have any of you heard the Jonathan Coulton classic, First of May? If you haven’t, here it is (warning: there’s literally some fucking language in there). If you have, I know you’re all like “MST LISSEN NAO”, so here it is. See how [...]

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Tags: Culture Jamming · Fucking Friday · Getting over Religion · Humor · Music · Pop Culture · Social Hacking

Sparks: Facebook/Social Networking

March 26th, 2009 · by xJane · 3 Comments

One of the many reasons I don’t post with my IRL name here (I won’t say “real”, since xJane is just as real in many ways) is because I am attempting to manage my image. In our internet age, I still find it to be very important to not ruffle feathers in a public way [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Culture Jamming · Current Events · Facebook · Feminism · Gender · Humor · Links · Media and Design · Obama · Personal · Photos · Politics · Pop Culture · Reason · Social Hacking · Social Web · Society · Spark · Web 2.0

Spark: Conservatives are More Likely to Consume Porn

March 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · 16 Comments

Late to the party on this one, I know, sorry. It turns out that conservative (read: religious) states have the highest porn rates in the country. Probably because they’re not allowed to have deviant (read: fun) sex at home. Meanwhile, people living in enlightened areas of the country have other outlets for their sexual urges, [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Church and State · Classic · Culture Jamming · Ethics · Feminism · Getting over Religion · Humor · News · Politics · Pop Culture · Religion · Science · Sexuality · Social Hacking · Society · Spark

Music Monday: Night of Fire

February 16th, 2009 · by xJane · 4 Comments

I’ve been wanting to share something from this genre with you guys, but it’s hard to find the vids online. This is Eurobeat, which is often Italians singing in English for a Japanese market. Quite the international trip—and it is a trip, in all sense of the word. Night of Fire is one of the [...]

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Tags: Art · Humor · Media and Design · Music · Music Monday · Technology · Video · Web 2.0

Spark: the Truth

January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment

This is absolutely priceless. A comic & blog post about Cheney (who, incidentally, “is as ancient as he is evil and he is large amounts of both.”).

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Tags: Art · Classic · Comics · Current Events · Humor · Politics · Pop Culture · Society · Spark

Spark: Rindercella and the Pransome Hince

January 21st, 2009 · by xJane · 7 Comments

When I was a kid, we had the story of Rindercella taped to our refrigerator. I loved reading it. I grew up in a family where the dominant form of humor was puns, including Spoonerisms. While I was first discovering teh Intarwebs, I looked for Rindercella, a candidate for being somewhere online if ever there [...]

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Tags: Folklore · Humor · Links · Musings · Personal · Society · Spark · Technology

Because who doesn’t like Eddie Izzard?

January 10th, 2009 · by John · 8 Comments

That’s a rhetorical question by the way, so quiet, you. Zip it! The following makes a good drinking game: one swallow from a goblet of consecrated wine whenever you hear (or think you hear) about the Pope, a shot of bad gin for each time one of the Henry VIII’s wives is mentioned (you’ll have [...]

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Tags: Church and State · Getting over Religion · Ghosts · Humor · Video

Sparks! (I’m Back)

December 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

For a few weeks when I first stopped being able to find time to blog, I kept windows open in Safari to the point that it was neigh on impossible to shut down my computer, for fear of losing all the wonderful and amazing links I was going to share! But then I got into [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Blogging · Doubt · Getting over Religion · Humor · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Religion · Ritual · Sexuality · Society · Spiritual Progressives · Technology