December 2008
130 posts
Obscure Punctuation: The Irony Mark →
Fimoculous.com — 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 →
dailymeh:
Last year I said I only read Fimoculous for the year-end lists. This is (almost) true this year, as well.
Best Cats of 2008 →
Roomba cat is my favorite
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Interesting Data Sets: Part 1
Getting ready to do my New Year’s shopping (much preferred to Christmas shopping, in my opinion), I came across the Ohio Liquor Sales Report.
Some (possibly) interesting observations:
Liquor sales (in gallons) are up 2% year to date — Drink up, it’s a recession?
But liquor sales (in gallons) are down 3% in the first half of December
The most popular liquor (by volume) is...
Seth: MC Hammer just started following me on twitter
Me: Is the profile legit?
Seth: 2 legit 2 quit
Bleg: Travel Advice
Looking like I’ll be headed to Ireland for spring break this year - flying in + out of Dublin.
If you’ve been there, any advice? What cities are must sees? Should we rent a car? Stay in hostels or B&Bs? How bad will the weather be (in mid-March)?
Watchamandatong:
Game Over via Today’s BIG Thing Stop-Motion montage of classic video game deaths
Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Pac Man… did I miss any?
UPDATE: Zooey Deschanel Engaged To Ben Fucking... →
moresupernovae:
robot-heart:
hahanotfunny:partymachine:lindsayneedscoffee:drned:
This is what happens when emo boys get famous and lose a lot of weight. They marry unreasonably gorgeous hipster girls who, five years ago, wouldn’t have even given them a second look.
For some reason the whole thing irritates me, even though I really like both of them. *sigh*
The hipster world is in an...
I hear that you and your band have sold your...
britticisms:
I hear that everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
LCD!
This makes The Notebook look like The Shining in...
evanwalsh:
Here’s the gist of the story from CNN… young Jew boy imprisoned in a Nazi death camp falls in love with a German girl who risks her life by feeding him apples that she tosses over the camp fence on a daily basis for months. Eventually, he is moved to another concentration camp, but survives until the war’s end. Once freed, he moves to America.
Fast forward more than a decade later...
“While people still love music enough to track it down, collect it, argue over it...”
– NYTimes - Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan
THEORETICALLY UNPUBLISHED PIECE ABOUT GIRL TALK,... →
messianictime:
Taking cues from Britney Spears’ self-positioning circa 2001 — when she was famously “Not a Girl, Not Yet A Woman” — Gillis is not a DJ, but not a traditional musician either.
“Are we a pop culture generation easily placated to hear our “references” bounced back to us, no matter the context or skill? Recall the Weezer video for “Pork and Beans.” Is...
In Vegas: We pulled into Terrible's Hotel and...
Dad: [to cashier lady] Is this buffet terrible?
Cashier lady: Yes, this is Terrible's!
Dad: This is a terrible buffet?
Cashier lady: [half exasperated, half bemused] Yes, yes, everything here is terrible! It's ALL terrible!
We went to Terrible's to have brunch instead of the legendary Wynn. I'm convinced it was entirely so that Dad could continuously make jokes about our meal being "terrible" for the next hour.
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britticisms:
shittythings:
When you and a friend decide to take a picture together, MySpace Style. You hold your friend’s camera out and you both try to look your coolest/sexiest/hippest. In the first picture, your skin is glowing, your smile is beautiful, your hair shines. Your friend hates the way she (or he) looks and deletes it. You take it again. In the second photo, your friend appears...
On an 80s movie binge
Sam: I don't need a cloud.
Randy: Just a pink Trans Am and the guy!
Sam: A black one.
Randy: A black guy?
Sam: A black Trans Am. A pink guy.
–Um... okay. "Sixteen Candles"
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling...
“I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.”
– LLoyd Dobler (John Cusack) in Say Anything
Just watched it tonight
Just saw Milk with the family
Dan White: Can two men reproduce?
Harvey Milk: No, but God knows we keep trying.
The TURBO Button →
CodingHorror.com
“When our tribe was escaping Egypt with Pharoh in hot pursuit, we found our path...”
– Infomercialratings.com - ShamWOW
Old Nickelodeon shows online →
evanwalsh:
e-money: if you ever want to watch any of the old good nick shows go here NOW
Doug, Rugrats, Rocko!
Meme - Favorite Christmas Present Ever
shutupinternet:
What was your favorite Christmas present? It doesn’t matter if your young age distorted something boring intto the best thing ever.
Home Alone 2 on VHS. Great family video of me + my younger brother dancing around and screaming after we opened it.
activities i enjoy which make me seem like a 70...
ragbag:
listening to bbc radio plays
pipe smoking
not using the microwave oven
doing jigsaw puzzles (cathedrals or dogs)
letting others know that my back is acting up again
watching cbs sunday morning with charles osgood
complaining about neighbours
drinking manhattans
writing cranky letters to the editor of the local paper
reminiscing about simpler times
No crossword puzzles? ...
Atom and His Package - Punk Rock Academy
I was...
Sonnet 146
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
[Fool’d by ] these rebel powers that thee array;
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? is this thy body’s end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy...
“I would argue that all harvard dating is somewhat online, since 50% of...”
– Nan (of emoticon fame)
Internet Throwback: Bexley's LiveJournal Community →
Four and a half years ago, I tried to create a LJ community for my little Columbus suburb. It never took off, but digging up this post cracked me up.
Sloppy
One of my least favorite things in the world is finding typos when reading through old emails or blog entries.
There’s the nasty feeling that someone noticed you looking like an idiot - and it’s clearly too late now to correct yourself. And then there’s also the blow to my grammar nazi / spelling champion ego.
Nonetheless, I remain steadfast in my opposition to proofreading.
Laser Portraits (.net) →
fabulousbitches
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Ruining It for the Rest of Us
Caught a great snippet of This American Life about vaccinations on my way to lunch with Weezey.
There’s a pretty intense debate over mandatory vaccination between public health experts who want to eliminate measles/mumps/etc and concerned parents who think the vaccines may increase the risk of autism and autoimmune diseases.
In today’s episode, TAL framed things as a tragedy of the...
“I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling...”
– Dock Ellis, the only pitcher in baseball history to throw a no-hitter while taking LSD, died this morning at the age of 63. I think someone tossing a no-hitter on acid is one of the 10 most amazing things that have ever happened in baseball, or on earth. (via leitch)
Great moments in verb selection.
leitch:
katiebakes:
“Published in 1972, when sex was still supposed to take place in the dark and under the sheets, the book thrust itself into public consciousness with all the subtlety of a gigolo at a convention of bishops.”
I remember finding this book in my parents’ attic when I was about 12. So. Much. Hair.
Had a similar discovery in my parents study at around the same age - I could...