It's easy to categorize things that suck, but it's harder to fit all positive things into things that rock.  There are things that are okay, things that are nice, things that you find amusing, etc., that don't exactly fit the description of "rocking," but are still positive.  There are also things that rock, but you don't feel like you can mention without coming off as being a braggart.

On the subject of sleep paralysis, I recently had this really freaky dream where I came across this shadowy figure that terrified me for some reason.  It started coming towards me, and then I then started convulsing uncontrollably.  Realizing I was dreaming, I decide to escape the dream by waking up.  I start to feel my awareness of reality coming into focus, start opening my eyes, and then the thing starts pulling me back into the dream.  In a final push I force my eyes open, to find I actually am convulsing.

I hadn't had nightmares for quite a while prior to this, and I had thought it was because I didn't really find anything scary any more.  Apparently I was wrong.  Having some sort of seizure while being completely out of control in your own lucid dream, cold and unable to breathe properly because your diaphragm muscles are included in the convulsing, while the shadowy dream monster responsible for all this creeps increasingly towards you, is quite scary.  Serves me right for wishing I could have a good nightmare again.

I'm beginning to wonder about Ron Paul...

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Wait, Mystery Science Theater is ILLEGAL? My god!

What, you expected a pair of mad scientists who kidnapped a man and illegally imprisoned him in an orbiting space station to legally acquire the rights to broadcast those movies to him?

Thunderstorms.

They also cause other things to rock even more, such as that battle-axe-wielding bird.

$100 e-textbooks.

Often anything plus Muppets results in something better.

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They are all creepy: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/

Those pictures actually feel a little bit uncanny valley for some reason.

I guess this means that Apple is run by... androids.

A person writes a huge wall of text in a post.  The very next person to reply quotes the entire wall of text from the last post.

Slaughter always ends with laughter.

Huh, I was unaware that Apple thinks they invented tablet computers.

Also, GameStop still sucks.

All the HTML5 games mentioned had frequent lag issues on my computer, and the ones with FPS readouts still claimed 40-60fps when they slowed down and got choppy.  I'm also running all this on a geFource GTX 460 on a 3.2ghz 6-core processor.  I'm guessing that the real problem here is that these games are being run as part of the entire web browser's process, not a separate one that plugins like Flash and Unity benefit from.

The narration is dubbed in English.  Just make sure your speakers aren't muted and keep scrolling.

In the middle of a shootout, gotta update my Facebook status.

My computer can run Minecraft at 150fps, but can't run "They Need to be Fed," a simple 2D game, without frequent severe speed drops. 

My phone only gets negative cheese.

The zip code is the same.  The neighbor was further down the telephone line on one-way road in a rural area.  There is no logical reason for being able to sign up for a new plan with higher speeds for lower pricing and be unable to upgrade from a plan that no longer existed at the time (as in, nobody can buy this slower, more expensive plan period), just as much as there is no reason to trust the phone company that has no competition in the surrounding cities because they bought them all out.

We were eventually able to upgrade (gave up for a few months, called in and got a "hey, wow, you're on this out-dated expensive plan and we totally didn't notice at all!" response...), but I still don't see any reason to trust AT&T.

This is actually true if you are on ADSL. The further from the telephone exchange you are the higher the error rate on your line, and therefore a lower percentage of the data gets through, which means yes, the further from the exchange you are the slower your connection will be. Here in the UK they make this very clear, and ISPs offer maps showing the speeds for different areas.

Still doesn't explain that at the same time, I could enter my neighbor's address while "signing up" for a new account and the cheapest plan was 2gbps for $25/mo., yet my family couldn't get any more than 400kbps for $40/mo.