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UserSince1996


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Hey I've been a perpetual traveller for years. No fixed location. Writing this in Vientianne, Laos.



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by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: The Music of Kazakhstan (Қазақстанның музыкасы) | Provocative Penguin
I like! Just arrived back in North America too; Asia seems so far away.
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: My favourite page on Wikipedia... list of long-term abusers of the site.
The project works so well. You ever lurk at Administator's Noticeboard : Incidents? That's convinced my to never apply for Adminship.
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Kowloon Walled City (This is real.)
Cool. For reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

Never have I seen such a psuedo-photoshopped photo within an infobox on the 'Wik.

Nice park now. BUT NO SMOKING! wtf. (Although I admit it, I've smoked there anyway... just wait for an old dude to light up beside you. Cops won't harass you that way.)

by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Is everyone here a reffugee from reddit?
Yep I'm the same way; I'll never leave Reddit because of the small subreddits which interest me, for example r/worldmusic . If Hubski gets big enough to have an active #worldmusic tag, well then I guess I'll check both every day!

Right now this feels more like r/truereddit than r/truereddit , which has slipped enormously. I think through the pick-and-choose fashion of the hubs, we'll have the choice to keep it that way. If someone starts submitting garbage, just unfollow them.

by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Kowloon Walled City (This is real.)
Yeah can't wait till there are enough people here to make a regular #anarchism tag. This video might be a good troll.

When Facebook was kind of new I put a pic of North Korea at night on my wall. You know, the ones where South Korea and China are all lit up but the DPRK is pitch black. I wrote "North Korea at night. We can learn a thing or two about conservation from these guys." Next day I had a slew of environmentalist activist friends agreeing with me in the comments section! Took it down; people must have thought I was serious.

by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: 'I Hate World Music' (Article by David Byrne, 1999)
Better than StumbleUpon... there the tag is "Ethnic music"
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
Thanks; I've looked it up on IMDb now. Haha one of the comment threads there is titled "The secret of the universe is in this documentary!" Am I ready to face that? We'll find out...
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Alfred Hitchcock's Cameo Appearances
Everyone will disagree... but the best one to prove it's not work is North by Northwest, I think that's his funnest film.
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: The world's flags given letter grades
Haha gu-am.Good thing Sicily's not an independent country... or this would be on the list. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5A6fSMDiXaI/S8H4XOgnUII/AAAAAAAAAQ...
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: The world's flags given letter grades
Yeah now reading back on it, maybe he was drunk. Still though, if he came out with a US flag ranking I'd be giddy. I'm just a sucker for geographical rankings, hoping my locale hits the top of the list, and if not, the bottom.
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: "California Dreamin'" in Chungking Express...
EDIT: Here's another clip from the same film, showing what I consider a perfect combination of drunken cinematography and hollowed out music to make a perfect urban mood. The whole movie's like this, btw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UayW5CHnm6I&feature=relat...
by UserSince1996  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Life in the Quiet Zone
Yeah it's always sad to see radical members of a group discredit the entire premise. Environmentalism has always had this problem, along with many other isms.... but the worst has got to be health.

Nutrition, for example, is so obviously a vital part of health. This everyone agrees on it. But people have seen so much hogwash come from the "nutritional gurus" that even a scientifically sound book, such as The China Study, will initially only be lumped in with all the crap.

Holistic medicine seems to have this problem as well... a lot of people seem to equate it with homeopathy. Maybe because they both begin with an "h" and are propounded by hippy-dippy types? 'Tis a shame, for when you look at what holistic medicine really is, there's nothing wrong with it, and you'd expect the so-called skeptics to actually be strong supporters.

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