March 2009
76 posts
I wish it was legal to throttle the small child in the room next door who has been shouting for no reason for the past 2 days. What is this, the birth control suite?
February 2009
73 posts
T-minus 9 hours.
tracks:
Duncan Sheik - “Barely Breathing”
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Not inspired
Why do people put “inspirational” quotes in their professional email signatures? Just because you found a moderately insightful quote in someone’s Facebook profile doesn’t mean you have to shove it down my throat in each and every work-related correspondence we exchange. How about you change your email signature to something professional like, I don’t know, your job...
Official "SCRABBLE Word of the Day": Dildo →
For a brief period of time on Sunday, the official Scrabble word of the day at Hasbro.com was “dildo.” Click through for an actual screenshot.
(via Dave Barry)
“Um, honestly, the Republican response to Barack Obama’s first state of the...”
– Rachel Maddow
songsyouusedtolove:
Day 155.
“I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves; that says government has no role in laying the foundation for our common prosperity.
For history tells a different story. History reminds us that at every moment of economic upheaval and transformation, this nation has responded with bold action and big ideas. In the midst of civil war, we laid railroad tracks...
Things that were never funny
“Git ‘er done.”
Even if it was funny at some point — which it wasn’t — it was 5 years ago. Can it be over now? Please?
Top 100 Money-Making Clubs in the U.S →
Kilroy’s in Bloomington is #36.
(via mallorysimon)
NPR Listeners Pick The Year's Best Music : NPR... →
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
– Bob Dylan (via beekeeperssociety)
A Long-Distance Connection - WSJ.com →
Strike one against Neil Rice and Andrea Truncali: Their romance actually began as a long-distance relationship — that precarious structure wherein lovers make do without the warm and essential things romance is meant to provide in the first place. Strike two: The relationship started the day before Neil left to serve in Iraq.
(via bhite)
hellonewworld:
savingpaper:
“It amazes me, absolutely amazes me, the number of Apple owners who lack the clarity or self-awareness to realize that purchasing a commodity from a enormous, soulless corporation that is also owned by several million other people doesn’t make you a unique and beautiful snowflake. Apple has a better PR campaign, better advertising and a more gullible, credulous...
Legalizing pot more popular than GOP leadership. →
savingpaper:
Follow-up: Matt Yglesias considers the virtues of a quasi-legal status for marijuana.
WatchHowie vs. Bone
Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have... →
How Many Web Gurus Did It Take to Elect Obama? →
“The problem with solutions to the news business is that news never was a...”
– Can journalism go with the flow? « BuzzMachine (via adamiss)(via soupsoup)
WatchAre reality shows setting unrealistic expectations for skanks?
“Everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it’s not realistic at all.”
– Bristol Palin
Andrew Sullivan on torture
“Almost any coercive act sustained long enough against a person in captivity can become torture. Think of how we understand the drip-drip-drip of ‘Chinese water torture’ to be torture. It’s not even, as the former vice-president would say, a splash of water on the face. It’s a mere drip. But even a drip, sustained long and relentlessly enough, can break a human being....
“Me: New theory. He wasn’t eating his dog food because it was stale? Karen: Is he...”
– saving paper.: Solving the mystery of why our dog hadn’t been interested in breakfast for four consecutive days
Will Ferrell’s Dissing Your Dog, anyone? (via hellonewworld) I can’t wait to try Will Ferrell’s brilliant tactics on my little shithead dog.
Paste Magazine 100 Greatest Living Songwriters :... →
Complaint #365
whitewhine:
“I am sick and tired of having to re-save my .docx files to .doc format for the idiots who didn’t upgrade their MS office.”
-Whine by David
Scene from the Emmy-award-winning Law & Order: SVU
Deadbeat Dad: I'm sorry. I am sorry, ok? I didn't mean to hurt you.
Angsty Transgender Teen: Yeah right!
Deadbeat Dad: I love you. And I love your mother.
Angsty Transgender Teen: Love us? If you love us so much, then why do you go to the strip club and screw trashy sluts!
“I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are...”
– David Foster Wallace
Music to Fall in Love With →
Listen to this playlist in its entirety. You won’t regret it
In Paris, Culinary Education Starts In Day Care →