April 2009
45 posts
You've bought your last car →
(via azspot)
I don’t know - the argument is interesting, but I don’t think that outcome is terribly likely. I think that it’s certainly true that America has been far too slow in moving to alternative fuels, but I think that, from a purely economical stand-point it was the short-term rational move. That said, the government could have and should have stepped in to change the...
Why is Nancy Grace allowed on TV?
Apparently a girl from Rochester went missing in Myrtle Beach, and I clicked on the video. Oh, great, Nancy Grace. Well, I’ve never actually watched anything of hers, maybe she isn’t as bad as late night TV makes her out to be.
Turns out she’s worse.This girl is missing, and while it’s obviously suspicious, she doesn’t have any idea what happened. That...
I just watched the "Naked Wizard Being Tased"...
but my reaction wasn’t “ha-ha, look at the crazy naked guy” it was rage at the police for tasing him. What danger was he presenting precisely? In what world does being naked or not automatically agreeing with the police make you deserving of being tased?
Imagine instead the police had beaten him with their billy clubs. Would anyone have though that justifiable? Just because...
Tumblr is warping my mind
Several times today I’ve read something on another site and immediately looked for the heart…
Artemis
I was reading my dashboard today and came across a post “my dog probably eats better food than I do”.
Once upon a time I hated cats. Had no use for them, was strictly a dog person. A friend of mine wore me down - kept pestering me that I’d like them if I only tried, etc. SHe got two kittens and they were absolutely adorable and full of personality. So I said, ok, I think...
Elbow - Station Approach
Multi-Scalar Analyses: An Ode in Nine Parts
milkglassmao:
I wrote this four years ago, when bored in my Stats for Archaeologists class. I was thinking about it this evening. It’s terrible. So, enjoy.
1. My stat pack Sees you clearly Clearer, clearer Running The Kruscal Stress Analysis, As if at the eye doctor Being fitted for glasses. 2. Two dimensionally my triangle, your square, harbor together in scalar bliss But in three there is too...
WatchThis is how I feel pretty much anytime I run my bank or credit cards (sorry for the Hulu embed, couldn’t find it elsewhere…)
A conversation with a Comcast rep this morning
Me: Hi, I'm calling to see about lowering my bill
Her: Well, we can bundle HBO, 8 MBit internet, and digital phone service for $149/mo for 12 months
Me: I'm pretty sure that's more than I'm paying now
Her: Yes, but you get HBO, 8 MBit internet and phone service
Me: Yeah, I actually want my bill to go down
My Mythical Online Rental Service for Movies -... →
Can I try my hand at Slate in Brief? Great.
Movie companies don’t let you stream any movie you may want not because they’re stupid, but because they’re greedy.
So the best thing about tonights Scrubs?
Sam Lloyd’s acoustic rendition of Hey Ya. I need to find a recording of that somewhere, it was pretty awesome.
“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We must build our house...”
– President Obama (via azspot)
“If the Tea Baggers had been alive in 1773, they’d have taken to the streets to...”
– Lance Mannion (via azspot)
360. Never under any circumstances ask a woman if...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
I once knew someone whose policy was never to ask a woman if she was pregnant unless he could see that she was crowning.
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
Chet Baker- Lets Get Lost
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Bush's Post-Presidential Life — WaPo →
chuckmore:
This is so surreal. It’s so weird. How you can go and be President for eight years, reaaaaaly screw things up, and then, oh well, more time for mountain biking. Maybe some creative writing… The most fucked part is that since he left office, the ‘he was just a puppet’ theory seems ever more plausible. Cheney and Rove are all over the place mouthing off about the same garbage every other...
Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for... →
frangry:
I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,” Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.
“With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,” he said.
(via philosoraptor)
Quite understandably
Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
onemoretimewithfeeling:
inothernews:
James
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