October 2007
68 posts
Officials: Boy with matches started fire - Yahoo!... →
Smoky the Bear always said not to play with fire.
Cash Isn't King: Apple Limits iPhone Purchases →
The company is now accepting only credit or debit card payments for the devices so they can track who purchases the phone, according to one Apple Store employee. A little big brother of them, eh?
Yellow Rose - (Warning: this post is rated R) →
Look, all I’m sayin’ is that this guy’s standards are not exactly what you’d hope for, and his personal habits are pretty suspect.
Not only funny to medievalists...
Monastery Life A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in...
Tales Of Mere Existence "WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF I... →
This is what dating is really like.
Health Sector Puts Its Money on Democrats to fix... →
Absolutely after all this time they’re going fix healthcare!
“The country focused in on the LAist’s backyard this week. Unfortunately,...”
– from www.austinist.com
Force feedback gaming vests →
So supposedly you can feel what’s going on in your game if you wear this. The other day in Zelda’s Twilight Princess I fell often from unbelievable heights, was drowned in sand and water, got in swordfights, was beaten by ice monsters, attacked by bird-dinosaurs and skeleton dogs, fell off my horse, fell down a waterfall several times, whacked myself with my claw, and otherwise...
NY Times News Alerts = Cancelled
I received this in my inbox this morning. I get very few News Alerts, and when I do I expect it to be major news. Breaking News Alert The New York Times Monday, October 29, 2007 — 12:08 AM ET But what was it? Red Sox Sweep the Rockies to Win the World Series Some other thing about some guy getting traded. This is not important news. No one died, there was no political upheaval, no one...
Austin Ranks 7th Nationally In Organic Food... →
This, and all the other surveys like it, should just be combined and published as - “if you’re a hipster, you might want to consider living one of these places where all the other hipsters live.”
First of all,
If you have music on your blog - STOP THAT!!! Don’t you know people try to secretly visit your blog at work? So now your music is either outing that person’s web activities, or it’s interfering with the music they already have playing. Do you know how annoying music on a website is? Also - if you are going to have a music player, don’t choose one that’s 400 pixels...
The other one's more talented
Anyone else notice how closely Melissa George and Olivia d’Abo resemble one another? It’s a pity Melissa George is better known. She shouldn’t be. Her stint on Alias made me want to stop watching the show. Or throw up. Or both. d’Abo’s turn in Criminal Intent as Nicole Wallace, on the other hand, has been quite good. After all, it’s not everyone that can...
WatchI love this. What you’re seeing: Davey goes to a place, picks a song and dances. This particular place is the Brooklyn Bridge. So - jury’s still out on how blase New Yorkers really are. Davey Dance Blog -26- BROOKLYN BRIDGE - Ace Frehley - “NY Groove” on Vimeo
#1 Song When I Was Born
Me: The Hustle by Van McCoy (That’s disco, baby! I’m not mentioning any names, but certain contemporaries I know of are also pretty out there: the Bee Gees Jive Talkin’ for one and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - the Elton John version for the other) My Husband: Call Me by Blondie (yeah, I’m totally cradle robbing) My Bro: Play that Funky Music by Wild Cherry My...
Weird Pet Peeve
Maybe it’s the religion degrees, but that new (really asinine) movie The Reaping is WRONG, and most of the reviews that are about it are wrong. And it’s not just them. Most people get it wrong. There is just one Revelation. It is not Revelations. It was never more than one revelation. It was always just the one guy, having the one big honkin’ acid-trippy revelation, and...
Dozens killed in two blasts near Bhutto's convoy... →
Let’s follow up here from earlier. So basically, this suicide bomber is going to hell, right? Another dumbass. I’m sorry. Having convictions is one thing, and admirable. But being so convinced you’re right and everyone else is wrong (what a black and white world!) that you’re willing to die is beyond me. Suicide. does. not. solve. anything.
Psychotic Secretary →
Really, absolutely excellent commentary. If you’ve ever been a secretary - or one of those other words that’s a euphemism for underpaid, unappreciated, overworked, constantly annoyed assistants - you’ll really appreciate it. Oh, lordy the things I could say about … never mind. This blog is really not anonymous enough to go there.
“I do not believe that any true Muslim will make an attack on me because Islam...”
– Yowza! Bhutto Returns to Pakistan After 8-Year Exile - New York Times
Food Network
Woke up dreaming that Bobby Flay approved of my Chicken Curry. I’m pretty sure I watch too much Food Network TV.
Bono to blight Dublin skyline with giant phallic... →
I always knew Bono was ridiculous.
“After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in...”
– It Only Tuesday | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
My Blog Reading is Making Me Snort
My blogs just are extra funny today Way Funnier than Bridget Jones Brilliant, And Has Enough Money for a Stylist Can I also mention that it’s wrong for me to feel bad about re-fugging her? Good lord, she’s not a sacred cow.
Just noticed the following Google Ad
Happy Clucking Holidays: the ultimate album of Xmas music clucked by a human chicken. Ever!
“Yo-Saf-Bridge”
– The final name for Mal’s “wife” from the classic, and sadly unaired episode Trash from Firefly. Played wonderfully by Christina Hendricks, who appears to be occasionaly over-corsetted and weighed down by makeup. Crazy as it sounds, Yo-Saf-Bridge even inspired song lyrics. I do...
The Seattle Times: Our Social Disease →
I never wanted to move to Seattle anyway. Now I really don’t. This article was written with a quite distinct air of bitterness (which is totally understandable), but the ring of truth.
Male vs. Female: the Cancer detecting brassiere
Just for me, pretty please, would you mind comparing the following two posts about the same bra? First this one from Gizmodo: Smart Bra to Detect Breast Cancer Rapidly And then this one from Shiny Shiny: Science Monday: Cancer detecting brassiere It’s not obvious which one is run by women and which by men, is it?
The Right Brain vs Left Brain | The Daily... →
Seriously, I can’t see how you could possibly see her turning any way other than clockwise. I’ve tried.
flowerpower: i have a new kitten! (via Twitter / flowerpower)
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods →
I’m pretty sure that I’m in love with this web page and want to spend my entire weekend staring at each tiny, perfect little visualization schema. Holy COW who did this? Oh my goodness, they have a heaven ‘n hell chart side by side with a Yee diagram and an infomural …
