October 2009
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Sporting? Not really
jimray:
“To date, I think those questions were answered best in an interview with Ars Technica’s Jon Stokes.”
— Blogger Bob on the TSA blog, in part of his response to a recent XKCD cartoon. There are many valid reasons to complain about TSA but would you ever have expected them to link to a cartoon poking fun at them or conduct an interview with a wonky nerd blog? You gotta admit,...
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Five Ultra-Rare 20-Point Scrabble Tiles Your Rack...
QQ
Inverted W (1918 printing error)
Mox N (banned in tournament play)
Gimel
Special K
“‘Words can’t describe my disgust,’ said a disgusted...”
– Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, 9/5/09. He was disgusted by Ikea’s typography.
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mayafish:
Name: Charlie Kelly.
Favorite food: Milksteak.
Favorite hobby: Magnets.
Likes: Funny little green ghouls.
Dislikes: People’s knees.
When I tweeted “My coffee table and I just learned why smart Always Sunny viewers never take big sips of iced tea during Charlie scenes,” THIS RIGHT HERE is what I was referring to.
“My pump came with an instructional DVD and I got through about 20 seconds until...”
– One quiet afternoon in September, WordPress finished serving its purpose. The author of Vagina Drum clicked Publish, and the final permutation snapped into place. Every possible sentence had, at long last, been blogged.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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My dad and I discuss the finer points of baseball
Dad: Remember the seven ways to get to first base?
Me: Of course. You put on Dire Straits and get in the back seat...
Dad: Ha ha you know what I mean.
Me: OK fine. Base hit, walk, error, hit by a pitch, dropped third strike, ball lodges in umpire's mask—
Dad: What?
Me: Seriously, I think I read that somewhere.
Dad: How could that possibly happen?
Me: Maybe he's wearing one of those clay Mummenschanz masks.
Dad: You know, I bet that's actually covered in the official rules.
Me: Of course it is. But if a situation like that comes up in a playoff game, you better have someone on the field who's seen it before.
Dad: Yeah, otherwise the ump would have to stop the game and get out his rulebook and look up "Mummenschanz mask, play interference by."
Me: It's in the "Mime and Pageantry" section.
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You can enter comma-separated lists of airports in...
Kayak is great, and it’s by far my favorite flight search engine, but this semi-hidden feature kicks all kinds of ass.
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King Crimson, “Discipline” (from...
“It’s amazing how future Microsoft products beat current Apple products...”
– The Macalope
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Yes, I went there
Wife: Where's the shovel? I thought we had a shovel. Did we leave it at the last house?
Me: If you keep leaving your gardening tools behind when we move, you know what's going to happen?
Wife: What?
Me: You'll have hoes in different area codes.
Wife: I will divorce you.
So THAT's what happened.
Want 30 new followers and a couple dozen RTs in a few hours? Get one of your old toots posted on Make: Magazine’s blog.
Not bragging; just flattered. Thanks, Make: guys. I like what you do too.
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Yes, but people DO listen
milkglassmao:
Yes, yes, I post a lot of Mark Kozelek and no one ever listens to the audio posts anyway.
Well, we all should listen to the audio posts more, methinks, myself included. Not just because I want everyone to like what I like, mind you, I think it gives a really good perspective into the people that post them. And it’s cool to find stuff you like due to people you like.
I...
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everythinginthesky:
Robert Crumb (and an...
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Cool Safari feature
If you right-click (or Control- or Command-click) on the title bar of a Safari window, you can navigate upwards through the directory hierarchy of the URL you’re visiting.
This is a feature I’ve wanted browsers to have for, oh, a decade or so.
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The full name of Katrina Bowden's character on 30...
I have nothing to add to that.
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“i’ve a good mind to go over there and build an elaborate argument involving...”
– A comment on a blog post from July 2008 concerning Boing Boing’s disemvowelment practice (which largely agrees with my more recent post on the same topic)
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One last Tron post
The thing about Tron is that it’s a crap movie. The script is basically a disjointed series of monomyth clichés in a nutso setting that doesn’t seem entirely sure of its own rules. Even the parts of the story that don’t ask you to suspend disbelief are insane: a junior programmer secretly abuses the mainframe by writing video games while he’s supposed to be working on...
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“Tron Scherzo,” London Philharmonic...
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Advice needed
I want to try a new restaurant that just opened down the road, but on their menu they list side orders under the heading — and I wish I were making this up — “BLING.”
Unforgivable?
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