June 2010
1 post
October 2008
13 posts
“Brown: So are you going to run for governor?
Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.
...”
– Charles Barkley interviewed by Campbell Brown on CNN
It would be offensive were it not true.
[via: svn]
“I take dictation from that place within my mind that knows what to say. I think...”
– I think I’m musing my mind - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“A knife fight is a fight in which each combatant is armed with a knife. It is...”
– Knife fight - Wikipedia
In case anyone was curious as to the encyclopedic definition of “knife fight”.
“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to...”
– H.L. Mencken, in reference to the rhythm method. [via: bht]
May 2008
2 posts
'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' by...
The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased. In vast quantities it has been remaindered Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized And sits in piles in a police warehouse, My enemy’s much-prized effort sits in piles In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs. Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles One passes down reflecting on...
Great tits enjoying the warmer weather – so far -... →
“Since 1961, ecologists have been tracking the population of great tits that breed in Wytham Woods, near Oxford, UK.” Also, “The great tits in the UK may be an exception, Visser says.” What I am I, like, 10? Why am I laughing so hard at this? [via: this comment at pharyngula]
April 2008
11 posts
“ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT,...”
– metaquotes: Pulp Fiction, as performed by the King’s Men [via: sidelights]
And Great Lyrics Quiz Rock Roll The →
Try to guess the rock song by looking at the lyrics in alpabetical order. Tougher than it might sound. [via: sidelights]
Mitch Hedberg Quotes →
“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.” “I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.” “I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.” “My belt...
Penguin Classics - A Tumblr Theme →
Oh, wow, I really wish I was doing a tumblelog that fit with this theme. I like it…a lot. [via: aatw]
WatchVery small house seems large I think the reason I find efficient design so interesting is that is plays on another idea I find fascinating, namely the concept of creativity being driven by constraint. [via:videosift]
March 2008
36 posts
“Human cognition has a problem — anecdotal thinking comes naturally whereas...”
– From Michael Shermer’s review of the new book Charlatan, a book that is going on my wish list, mostly due to the titular charlatan’s particular quackery, which was the inserting of goat testes into the scrotums and near the ovaries of humans.
Muxtape / jprickett →
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have a muxtape, too. The songs are mainly what I have been listening to for the past day or so, inspired by reading a review at the A.V Club of the re-released special edition of the Lemonheads album, It’s a Shame About Ray. Which means you won’t find any of your fancy modern indie rock here. Just stuff that I might have been listening to in the early- to mid-90s....
BSG-tastic!
Hulu has a couple of interesting BSG related shows up right now. The first is Battlestar Galactica: Revealed, which is a great introduction to the show and the characters and the story arcs through the eyes of Executive Producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eike. I can’t really recommend it for getting people who haven’t watched the show up to speed…but, if you have friends...
WatchHeavy Metal Dog I lol’d, hard. [via: pajiba]
“ITHACA, NY—After weeks of being sleepy all the time and never finishing his...”
– Daddy Put In Bye-Bye Box | The Onion Saddest Onion story ever. [via: scalzi]
“Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that...”
– Spaghetti Western - Wikipedia
“So, I’m throwing my hands in the air and giving up on a deeper meaning, which I...”
– Pajiba - Horton Hears a Who
“In 1841, explorer James Clark Ross passed through what is now known as the Ross...”
– Antarctica and Ross Ice Shelf - Wikipedia Ross Crater on the moon is also named for James Clark Ross.
“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who...”
– Bob Newhart, attributed
Woman sits on boyfriend's toilet for 2 years -... →
“Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years, and they’re investigating whether she was mistreated. […] “She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imagine. … I still have a hard time imagining it myself.””[via: jscalzi]
Audio Players
nostrich: I’m trying to find a service that allows me to upload mp3s and link to them from elsewhere, directly. What I also need to be able to do is use that URL to embed an audio player in a webpage. Ideally, I’d like to find a service that does both in as few clicks as possible. But separate services for each part works too. Ideally, free would be nice. But I’m willing to spend a few dollars...
All Linkin Park songs sound exactly the same →
Looks like someone did a version of Nickleback Sucks with Linkin Park. You will need headphones for the full effect. [via: bnelson]
