January 2010
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Create Your Own Jackson Pollock →
Kind of hard to get the hang of, but a great time waster.
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How to Detect Lies →
Whether you are playing poker, or just dating, this should come in handy.
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My Brain Must Be Idoling
Several times in the past week an interesting phenomenon has been occurring.
When I think of a sentence with the structure: [noun]’s [single syllabic preposition] the [noun], no matter what the actual words are, it has a sing-songy rhythm to it in the form of “pants on the ground.”
This morning as I gathered my keys and computer to get into the car for the morning commute, I...
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Trace by Thomas Petersen →
This is fun, and I have no idea why.
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“When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying here you...”
– Mitch Hedberg
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“This shirt is dry clean only. Which means… it’s dirty.”
– Mitch Hedberg
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CatStuff: The Mapping of a Cat's Brain →
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I Will Not Eat...
…brussels sprouts. I hate them. I refuse to even give them the courtesy of capitalizing “brussels”.
These little cabbages are almost the perfect combination of bad taste, bad texture and bad smell. Since my nose is situated near my mouth, I don’t know that I could get brussels sprouts close enough to eat them even if I wanted to. And I don’t. I can’t.
It...
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This is the Book that Millions Follow?
In the course of reading a legal case, I was forced to read Deuteronomy 23:1, which in its literal translation reads:
One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;
The New Living Translation (2007) gives us this interpretation:
If a man’s testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be admitted to the assembly of the LORD.
Seriously,...
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Justice Department Approves Ticketmaster - Live... →
Well, crap!
thebutterroom:
In a ruling that certainly will impact on the future of live entertainment, the Department of Justice has approved the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. The DOJ had been examining the potential union of the two companies for a year and some observers had expected that the government would determine that the merger violates the country’s antitrust laws. As it now...
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My Yard Is Filled With Robins...
…and people in Haiti have to deal not only with 7.0 earthquakes but 6.1 aftershocks.
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Traffic Congestion in Major Cities →
The Daily Beast found the 75 metro areas with the worst traffic, and then analyzed which commutes in those metro areas were the biggest bottlenecks. Limit one road per metro area.
Los Angeles had the road with the worst bottleneck, and no doubt if this study permitted more than one road per metro area, LA would have had several others.
Miami’s worst road was #10; Atlanta #22; Tampa #23;...
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Heavy Metal Drummer - Jeff Tweedy...
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How Much Football Do you Actually Watch? →
This Wall Street Journal compares how the different networks fill the time during a football game, considering that in the 3 hour broadcast, the plays themselves only add up to 11 minutes.
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Household Objects Poll
Which of the following items do you have in your current apartment, condo or house?
(a) a glow-in-the-dark crayon;
(b) a picture of a president born before you were;
(c) a rubber duckie that squeaks;
(d) a book labeling the major parts of an insect’s body;
(e) an old love letter that you wrote but never sent.
Which?
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What are the odds...
…that at my age I will stop having a tremendous problem with authority?
I’ve been reading some non-fiction about medieval kings of England, and best I can tell, had I lived then I would not have lived long. Good king or bad king, they demanded respect and obeisance, and only bloodthirsty sycophants were rewarded for their work.
I would have probably been buried as a teenager, with...
Churchill's Speeches Fail Computerized Evaluation... →
If you think this is an anomaly, it isn’t. There is a tremendous drive to objectively analyze, through software and other electronic means, things that cannot be objectively analyzed. From great works of literature, to the work of teachers in the classroom.
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Rush Limbaugh Contrite on Haiti (Not!)
Caller on Rush Limbaugh program: [criticizes Rush Limbaugh's comments regarding the disaster in Haiti as being a political opportunity for President Obama to win over "light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country."]
Rush Limbaugh: If I said it, I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president. ... What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a blockhead. What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a close-minded bigot who is ill-informed. If you had listened to this program for a modicum of time, you would know it. But instead, you’re a blockhead. Your mind is totally closed. You have tampons in your ears. Nothing is getting through other than the biased crap that you read.
Rush Limbaugh [apparently refuting the "biased crap" we read]: We've already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.
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Uh-oh, Fear Tactics are Working →
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Big Shoals State Park, Suwannee County, Florida →
Got a few new shots up, this time from Big Shoals.
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Netflix Rentals by Neighborhood →
The NY Times analyzed Netflix queues in 12 cities, and broke down the top 10 rentals by neighborhood. They are displayed on interactive maps. Pretty cool.