August 2008
Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name... →
beekeeperssociety:
gregcbrown:
It’s still absolutely shocking to me that so few people know of RSS, much less use it on a daily basis.
Agreed, Greg.
Onwards to the actual blog post: since this follow option is only available on Google-owned Blogger and only works if you already have a Blogger or Google account, I wonder if it’s really going to catch on at blog platforms Web-wide. (Though I...
Watchraisedonsandwiches:
this made me so…happy…
piercethenight:
The Fantastic World of Lisa Frank - “Rollerblade Sweaters”
this is sort of thing that makes me wonder whether leaving Savannah was really the best idea…
“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our...”
– -Bill Clinton in tonight’s DNC speech.
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A Greenwich of the Mind →
In recent years in Greenwich, as elsewhere, many developers have made a great deal of money buying up empty lots or teardowns and building enormous speculative ready-to-occupy mansions. You see them everywhere, a proliferating clan of insta-mini-giganto luxury houses, modest at ten to fifteen million dollars apiece. Their banal extravagance both mitigates and exacerbates what people either too...
I love you, SVU marathon!
"A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell."
"A gentleman doesn't rape and murder his girlfriend."
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The Politics of Luxury Boxes →
(From the comments: ) Look, one of the reasons that stadiums nationwide are architectural marvels - or at least much nicer than the giant concrete hunks of yesteryear - is because of the luxury boxes and the people who pay to sit in them.
Sounds nice, but overall it’s wrong. I’m pro-luxury boxes, but taxpayers pay for stadiums. For instance, the Colts’ new stadium cost $720M....
Basketball Rolls To Stop At Cheney's Foot. 'Let's... →
In the heavy stillness brought on by his challenge, Cheney sized up the assembly of players. The collection of local court legends reportedly ranged from hard-grinding seven-footers to tricky, loose-limbed ball handlers, all of whom instantly recognized Cheney from their last meeting: an all-out clash of the titans in late March that ended prematurely when the vice president suffered severe...
6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal... →
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“I was thinking how easily people get stuck in places. I mean, first of all you...”
– Justin Johnson (via marco)
How people get stuck.
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This is how I have a car now.
Sparks Red: 8% →
mattmattucci:
hellofriend:
peterwknox:
(via beerandpork)
YES. I am a huge fan of Sparks, always taking the Black 7% over the Orange 6%, but oh to have 8% and Red.
No no no no no no no.
Sparks will be the death of us all. In the future they will drink 10 percent Sparks, and their lifespans will be 24 years.
Death, here I come.
YES.
LeRoi Moore, 46; saxophone player in Dave Matthews... →
As cliched as it is to admit admiration of the Dave Matthews Band, I owe some happy memories in part to this man.
Tonight’s concert ought to be one of those memories for many, compelled in large part by the undoubted raucus tribute the rest of the band will put forth.
May he rest in peace.
Phone post
Crackberry.
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“What’s worse than forcing young people to endure a forty-hour workweek...”
– Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : The Ultimate Olympic Scandal
Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income... →
Google: Google StreetView Sees Man Passed Out... →
generaltau:
I don’t like to throw out the TAU references too often, for fear of seeming as lame as I am, but this is pretty awesome. And by ‘awesome,’ I mean ‘TAU.’
Soccer team causes surprise by coming home →
A boys’ soccer team from Sierra Leone won silver at a tournament in Sweden, but were hailed as champions in their poor West African homeland — because they all came home.
(via A Cohen)
Olympic Country Previews
Lithuania - Virgilujus Alekna has won both of Lithuania’s gold medals, in the discus event. He will be favorite to win again this year. Alekna is 6′7, with an abnormally long wingspan of a 7′4 man. According to Wikipedia, he can make fingerprints on both sides of a bus simultaneously. He doesn’t specify whether he’s inside the bus, or outside. He also works as a bodyguard for the President. We’ve...
The Strangest Themed Restaurants: From 'Buns and... →
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The blue box opened, and so far, the sky hasn’t... →
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This has to be one of the greatest moments in... →
Leave it to NBC not to let you embed…
Gmail is down.
How will I express myself. Who will I talk to? Will I actually have to make words at them? Will I actually have to work straight for an extended period of time longer than 2 minutes?
Brooklyn Woman Takes a Stand Against Elaborate...
onepersontrendstories:
Last Wednesday, Nick Halloran, a 26-year-old copywriter at the advertising agency JWT, sent out an email about his upcoming farewell party. He didn’t think twice about giving his invitees—a carefully cultivated list of co-workers, college buddies, ex-girlfriends, women he’d slept with two or more times, bassists, and writers with whom he’d corresponded but never actually...
Pastel-washed tigers, soldiers, guns, armored... →
M.I.A. has no consistent political program and it’s foolish to expect one of her. Instead she feels the honorable compulsion to make art out of her contradictions. The obscure particulars of those contradictions compel anyone moved by her music to give them some thought, if only for an ignorant moment—to recognize and somehow account for them. In these perilous, escapist days, that alone...
The 100 Most Common English Words →
He did better than I did …
theoriginaljoefisher:
So it’s true, I AM stupid. 31 out of 100, feel free and beat me embarrassingly.
when did men's t-shirts get so douchey? →
beekeeperssociety:
kylebunch:
(via itsbedtime)
This is funny because it’s true.
"fantastic"
me: i cannot express myself properly here
i wanted to type
"fantastic"
but the internet makes that sound sarcastic
Kevin: but it would have sounded sarcastic
haha
me: and I don't mean it sarcastically
fucking internet
Dude, you stole my story →
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