December 2008
“He’s equally blunt in Welcome to New Orleans, an hourlong documentary...”
– Katrina’s Hidden Race War via Give Me Something To Read.
Cooking With Booze →
Worth posting if only for the title of the book. The method of publication and related stuff on the site warrants a mention too.
Vista
marco:
I was going to lump Windows Vista apologists in there, but I don’t think there are any left.
I’ve seen Vista on screen in shops and watched people use it over their shoulders. I got to try it a bit on christmas day, however, and what stuck to me is how fucking ugly the thing is. I think a particular window with a big, semi-transparent apron, through which everything in the...
Brant Charles's Commencement Speech To MIT.
aedison:
I’m Brant Charles, and 14 years ago I was just like you. Now I’m a meta-physicist.
Being a meta-physicist is awesome and it isn’t even hard. Newton discovered gravity whilst lounging under a tree. Einstein came up with most of his theories by daydreaming. Stephen Hawking just sits in a chair all day.
And the stuff we do is fun, too. Galileo? Dropping the feather and the cannonball?...
Why Can't I Sell Any Of These Fucking Bibles? |... →
Absolute fucking hilarity via John Gruber.
Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous... →
Merlin Mann on amateur photography. Good stuff that should apply to more things than just photography.
Periodic Table of Awesoments →
(via frspike)
“I never understood this particular platitude… and for those of you who don’t...”
– Michael Ian Black, “College” (via bullshit)
“P.S. Did you ever notice that Peter O’Toole has a double-phallic name?”
– Groucho Marx, in a letter to Dick Cavett. (via merlin)
The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - The... →
Simply incredible and often touching – mostly in the sad way – photos.
Twitter Dreams
frspike:
A visibly intoxicated Kalli inexplicably appears in my home and begins to excoriate me for my abysmal selection of beer. I try to defend my choices, but deep down, I know he’s right.
A visibly intoxicated Kalli inexplicably appears in my home and begins to excoriate me for my abysmal selection of beer. I try to defend my choices, but deep down, I know he’s right.
I’m quite...
The 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered →
dantesoft:
(via)
“In Mandarin Chinese, “World Wide Web” is commonly translated via a...”
– Wikipedia (via dantesoft)
“The book-wallah was an itinerant peddler of books who wandered from station to...”
– Burmese Days - Chapter 19 by George Orwell
For some reason I find this quite funny.
Penny Arcade - Dickerdoodles 2008 →
Don’t visit this link if you’re easily offended by pastry penises or freshly baked bukkake action.
Swedish Dance Band Photos
Swedish Dance... →
This has probably been around the internet a couple of times and I meant to post it a couple of weeks ago myself. Mainly I just want to show what I have to live with here in Sweden.
Things Bears Love →
“Jon Stewart: religion is more of a lifestyle choice than homosexuality.”
– Derek Powazek : Twitter
“I’d classify your grooming as “tranny casual.”
– best of craigslist : TO THE SIX-FOOT FOUR TRANSVESTITE - m4w
“Had a dream last night that Yoko Ono was barbequing up a rack of ribs while...”
– Neil Lee (via merlin)
Kleberg County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free... →
bullshit:
livejamie:
In 1997, Kleberg County Commissioners unanimously voted to adopt “heaven-o” as the official greeting of the county instead of “hello”. Kleberg County residents are now encouraged to use “heaven-o” to acknowledge one another. The reason cited for the change was the fact that hello contains the word hell, even though it is not etymologically related.
Wow, this is heaven-a...
