March 2009
215 posts
Beirut - Postcards from Italy
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Watch5andra:
[Via Vimeo]
A girl misses her train to Milan and is set to wait overnight in Rome until dawn. However, a chance encounter with a guy changes her plans and the night lights of the capital turn into the background to a tender love story. An extraordinary chemistry made of knowing glances and small gestures fills the few instants that separate them both from the sunrise. Short film made...
songpong:
Michael Cera and Ellen Page - Anyone...
You know you're a giant dork when... →
you get crazy excited about United’s DEQM (double elite qualifying miles) promotion. Mileage run here I come!
Obama is a bad gift giver? →
DVDs? I’m sure Gordon Brown just torrents anything he wants to watch.
Kathy and I went to the JFK Library this past weekend and learned that Kennedy gave foreign dignitaries a bad ass replica of George Washington’s sword when they visited.
(via Julie’s grandparents)
Mocha Dick →
Famous Albino Whales from History: Part I
Southerners are blissfully ignorant of the Ivy...
lionelhutzpc:
Between songs this evening, a disc jockey and a caller had the following conversation on 94.7 WQDR.
DJ: “I’m just finishing up my bracket. Hey, Mallory, who you got in Missouri-Cornell?
Caller: Missouri.
DJ: Why’s that? Any reason?
Caller: I never heard of Cornell.
DJ: Yeah, me neither. Plus they sound like a breakfast cereal. Can’t root for a team like that.
Duke claims...
“[The Massachusetts accent]’s just the most hideous dialect there is… If you’re...”
– Seth MacFarlane (via lionelhutzpc)
“I would have loved for the success to come earlier, so I wouldn’t have to...”
– Lewis Black (who “lived on nothing” for most of his life as a not so successful playwright)
I got to see Lewis Black and David Pogue talk today - both were awesome & incredibly animated in person.
Time Inc.'s Mine Magazine is a Printed RSS Feed →
steller:
Thus far, personalized news has been limited to the Internet, but Time Inc. is bringing it to the printed word withmine, a five-issue, 10-week, experimental magazine that allows readers to select five Time Warner/American Express Co. magazines that Time editors will combine into a personalized magazine with 56 possible combinations. Essentially, mine is a printed, expanded RSS feed.
I...
the new seafood diet
ragbag:
here is a trick to help you lose weight: eat sunday night’s leftover sushi on tuesday night.
i am starting to feel very ill—and not in the beastie boys sense.
mris tell you how to vote, and now, how to... →
hid:
don’t get me wrong. i love mris. i especially like experiment design with fmris as it relates to decision-making.
what i don’t like is assuming that when colors light up it must mean “that is what anger is” or “he must be guilty.” there are other nuanced things to consider. when jonah lehrer came here (a topic for another post) he mentioned that one of his biggest pet peeves as a science...
Cockeyed Investigates: Craigslist Auto Fraud →
I’m incredibly addicted to Cockeyed.com investigations of various scams (i.e. Kirby vacuums, cash4gold, and herbalife)
More functional programming humor →
How to live, post-graduation, in a Shit Economy.
wumbly:
And while I don’t know the meaning of life, I’m here. I’m living it. In the worst economic downturn since capitalism was invented (sorry Adam Smith! You meant so well). And I’m having some pretty darn good experiences along the way, especially as I self-describe as a kid who’s ‘trying to figure out what to do with her life’ (as my friend delightedly introduced me to his co-workers). I...
Some retroactive FML's
thehiso:
“I found out my wife was having an affair, so today I smothered her to death in bed. Turns out, maybe a handkerchief isn’t the best piece of evidence. FML”
~Othello
“My uncle murdered my father and married my mom, but it took me for-fucking-ever to do anything about it. Also, you shouldn’t play with poison-tipped swords. FML”
~Hamlet
“I hate war, but when I ask to be...