September 2008
1 post
Comment war - it's on. →
OK. So. As a blogger, I must admit that I’m a total failure. I haven’t posted to this thing in like a year, and before that nobody was reading anyway. But here’s the thing: I am growing increasingly…
June 2008
1 post
This week in dork history... →
(This post was written on my +3 Blackberry!)
April 2008
2 posts
A trillion to one →
Every now and then you hear a phrase that is so perfect, you know you’ll be using it for the rest of your life. Now we have a way of measuring units of basketball futility: the trillion.
Ridiculous Elephant Painting video →
let’s face it, no matter how they got him to do that, it’s awesome.
March 2008
2 posts
February 2008
4 posts
Military uses David Gray against terror detainees →
Poor David Gray. I mean, it’s a boring song, but jeez.
Thank god, the dog will not kill us.
Myth: Leave the puppy love to the dogs. Fact: Typically doggie kisses are not a cause for concern, but it’s always best to wash up after being slobbered on by any animal. If the dog is unknowingly infected with parasites, they can be found inside the pooch’s mouth. Besides, you can’t be sure what Fido last licked. There have been relatively few studies, but it appears doggy kisses are...
Sales Genie Shocker →
The CEO of the company wrote the Chinese panda ads himself. Never would have guessed that one. I mean, they looked so professional!
Some Random Super Bowl Thoughts...
Before the postseason, the Giants were 1-6 against teams that made it to the playoffs, with only a Week 3 win against the Redskins to their name (that was repaid by a 22-10 pasting later in the season). That included bad losses to Packers and Cowboys, and a close one in Week 17 to the Patriots. That makes their run through the postseason just that much more inconceivable. Jared Lorenzen set...
January 2008
2 posts
Eddie Murphy can see the future. →
from back toward the beginning of the Favre era…
Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands... →
And you thought BMW was evil…
December 2007
4 posts
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging... →
This is, quite simply, by far the best treatment of the state of the industry that I’ve read. Its implications are pretty dire if you work for a major label… but for everyone else it should be pretty exciting.
The Forbes Fictional 15 →
This is, stupidly, one of my favorite lists each year.
Fourth Quarter Magic - now for your casual dining... →
Shopping for a kitchen table, this caught my eye. According to the fine print, it’s a table “from football legend John Elway”. Now I’m strongly considering just hiring an interior decorator - obviously I have no idea what I’m doing.
November 2007
3 posts
Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange:... →
Fascinating poll results about liberals, moderates, and conservatives. The practical upshot seems to be that neither the liberal nor conservative groups are large enough on their own to be single-mindedly targeted, and moderates think much differently than both groups - mainly because they’re less interested in politics…
"When things go wrong, simplify."
That is a beautiful quote. Sure, its’ from a cheesy fitness website, but it really applies just about everywhere, doesn’t it?
Gardner-Webb over Kentucky →
God, I love college basketball.
October 2007
1 post
“We are only as entertained as the most bored among us.”
– from Today’s Woot
August 2007
5 posts
“Starting September 1st and continuing on Saturdays through late November, we may...”
– XM Radio: Right or left, at least we can all agree that college football is more important than politics or weather.
Brian May, PhD →
The best Queen album you’ve never heard: “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”…
A simple rule of thumb →
Never, ever, become an avid user of any service on the internet that you wouldn’t use if it had ads or charged you money. Idiots.
Your video sucks
My gym has a special channel on the treadmills that I refer to as “gym MTV” - it’s like MTV, except that they show music videos. Every now and then I check it out to see what I’m missing while listening to music of my own choosing on the ol’ iPod. Today, there were three videos in a row that employed this device: Whenever a harmony came up in the song, a second lead...
June 2007
7 posts
The Atlanta Krunk! →
That is the actual name of the team. SO awesome.
www.myspace.com/viennacc →
I honestly don’t know if this is a joke or not, but this guy added us as a friend today on myspace. It is a MUST-listen.
Saudis vs. Skins →
I always knew Jerry Jones hated democracy…
Pirate Economics →
Could anything be more worthy of serious scholarly examination?
May 2007
2 posts
I'll take "celebrities within 10 miles of here"...
Just got a standard fundraising email from UVA… here is the sort of disturbing quote (emphasis added):
“Students from the Class of 2007 and their families gathered in Charlottesville this past weekend for the University’s most joyful occasion, when we award degrees and celebrate the achievements of our graduating students. Boyd Tinsley, violinist for the Dave Matthews Band,...
Yaar. Christian Okoye be a mighty seaman. →
Yet another fantastic reality TV show idea… but this time, with the Nigerian Nightmare. (And for the record, if you follow the comment thread - Okoye really was unstoppable in Tecmo Bowl. If he got into the secondary, it was over.
April 2007
9 posts
STOP! Hammer Time!: Great Firefox extension, or... →
No browser should be without this.
Astronomers Find First Habitable Earth-like Planet →
(from ScienceDaily again… what can I say?) Only 20.5 light years away! So if life is out there, they are JUST NOW receiving Def Leppard’s Hysteria album and learning to be afraid of us!
Superman Beware: Scientists Uncover Kryptonite →
(from ScienceDaily) If you can see through walls, better go ahead and get it all out of your system now…
Yapta should be awesome for a week or two →
This site is apparently going to offer predictive travel ticket sales, with - really - refunds if the price goes up after you purchase the ticket. The catch, though, is that this is apparently already a rule that the airlines subscribe to voluntarily. So, what’s the over/under on that rule getting changed, and Yapta’s fifteen minutes being over?
The Decemberists Embark On Orchestral Tour And... →
A brilliant scale for the demise of rock bands…
Why I don't read the metromusicscene message board...
Just got this awesome message, reminding me that I should really rethink all of the World Records I’m going after: Beware of Guiness Book of World Records Howdy all, Having read their agreement, I have terminated my bid with the Guiness Book of World Records as having written the most yodeling songs ever, for the following reasons listed below. REMEMBER, the only entity that gets exclusive...
Seals have accents? →
I wonder if they make fun of the way other seals talk. Or debate the War of Northern Seal Aggression.
March 2007
4 posts
“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
– Thomas Edison
I mean, I guess it's better than a sitcom about... →