January 2008
YouTube - Weekend Plans →
Here's Lookin' at You →
If you thought that prairie dog was dramatic, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! (Thanks, Jan)
Patients →
Everybody relax.
Marc and I have not abandoned the podcasts. We hit a little snag is all, and it’s my fault.
First of all, I’ve had some technical problems. I can’t access files I need, and the podcasts are just stacking up like planes at O’Hare. We have to stop recording them until I can solve these issues, and I’m hoping to have it sorted out by the end of the day.
Secondly, they changed my...
Hulk smash. →
Hulk smash.
All About Arj →
With no football this past weekend, I needed something to fill the eight hour void that two games and ESPN gameday used to fill. Since being productive or even just going outside weren’t serious candidates, I decided to rewatch every episode of Flight of the Conchords. If you’re not familiar, Conchords is an HBO comedy about a New Zealand novelty band. Brett and Jermaine are hilarious...
Jay J. Armes, Private Investigator, PM... →
Jay J. Armes, Private Investigator, PM MAGAZINE I’ll admit it. There’s a part of me that hopes this is the sole 7 minutes of information that visitors from other worlds have to understand our civilization. I totally had a Jay J. Armes action figure as a kid and was pretty obsessed with his whole deal for a few months. But, if I’d witnessed the awesomeness of this video at age 10, I would have...
Depressed Candidate Runs Attack Ad About Self →
WASHINGTON—”Is this who you want running your country?” asks the damaging spot. “Someone who can’t even run a simple microwave without crying?”
The Great Possum Debate is officially Over →
Ruhmember way back when we ALMOST had a Rule 16: “Possums can never, ever ever be cute” and alert reader Meg C. hit us with some anerable possum pics? We had to back off the possum hatin’. Well this: Oh, and EXTRA CREDIT: Possum ON BACK OF BEHBEH KITT-TAYNS! And where is that kitten going? He’s all: “Possum delivereee!” I didn’t know Sears did possum...
Dept. of Imperfect/Insensitive Analogies →
John Edwards is that guy at the bar who—knowing he’s gonna catch hell from the wife for staying out late drinking—decides to make a whole night of it. Go home, John. She’s got cancer, she doesn’t have enough energy to really tear into you.
Hillary's Big Balls →
A reader notes:
You got to admit, Hillary’s got big balls. To imply that Obama is trying to leapfrog his way to the presidency when she’s basing her campaign around the what she did as first lady and a corporate lawyer is so utterly brazen that it rivals … it rivals … well, I’m speechless. That’s it. She’s dumbfounded me. How do you fight against...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > For the Love of Allah: “I’ll see you and raise with the fact we have a 50-ish on-the-weekends tranny at work who, when dressed like a man, is the spitting image of John Denver.”
Friday musical selection →
Mother America is brandishing her weapons She keeps me safe and warm with threats and misconceptions. YouTube - Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ - Fly Me Courageous
Well, at least his heart was in the right place →
Police arrested and charged a teenager Tuesday night at Nashville International Airport. Investigators said he planned to hijack a commercial airliner. The 16-year-old boarded a plane in California bound for Nashville. Airport police said he smuggled handcuffs and other dangerous items on board… Investigators said he planned to hijack the plane and order the pilots to divert the course from...
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Don't ask →
Tom Petty To Play Some New Stuff He's Been Working... →
PHOENIX—Veteran rocker Tom Petty, known for such classic hits as “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” “The Waiting,” and “Refugee,” announced Monday that…
Are you master of your bitstream? →
Matt’s Idea Blog: A conversation with Mark Hurst, web usability expert and author of “Bit literacy”: “Mark stresses that the book is not just about email and getting the inbox to zero (a major change for most of us). It’s about managing effectively all the bitstreams coming into our lives. Mark says the world has changed, but most people haven’t caught up yet -...
The man is a productivity animal! →
The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss: “Here’s the upshot: I get more than 1,000 e-mail a day from various accounts. Rather than spending 6-8 hours per day checking e-mail, which I used to do, I can skip reading e-mail altogether for days or even weeks at a time… all with 4-10 minutes a night.”
This is super cool →
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Surplus Commodities and 1940s Hats: “The Library of Congress just announced that it has put up 3,000 public-domain photos on Flickr and enabling tagging by all comers. It’s a pilot project that could someday be extended to the 14 million photos in the collection.”
Something cool to play with →
A New Way of Mind-Mapping | Mysterious Flame: “On the wall of our copywriter’s office, I saw something on her whiteboard that made me take notice. “Nice spider-web,” I said. She explained to me what it was: a sort of modified mind-map called UNO, short for UNiversal Organizer, developed by Paul Borzo, a teacher and writing tutor at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis/St....
Remember to wash your hands →
At last, the Smithsonian gets Colbert - Los Angeles Times: “WASHINGTON — The line outside the bathroom at the National Portrait Gallery has been out the door ever since museum officials decided to hang a portrait of late-night host Stephen Colbert between the men’s and women’s restrooms. ‘The lines have been extraordinary,’ museum director Marc Pachter said...
It's that time again... →
A Letter of Introduction from T. Herman Zweibel | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source: “I almost cannot believe it is time for the suet-brained populace of this flagging Republic to be once again herded into the voting-booths to allegedly choose precisely which bloody-handed butcher will crack their bones and suck the marrow over the next few years.”
At last, the Smithsonian gets Colbert →
People line up near the restrooms at the National Portrait Gallery to catch a glimpse of the comic’s ‘digital image on canvas.’ The line outside the bathroom at the National Portrait Gallery has been out the door ever since museum officials decided to hang a portrait of late-night host Stephen Colbert between the men’s and women’s restrooms.
Hillary On Bill →
Crowley imagines:
“The happiest day of my life was the day I met my Tremendous Asset. He means everything to me, he is the father of my child, and moreover provides me with an incomparable strategic advantage across demographic lines.”
"How to Make Your Dreams Come True"... →
There’s a complimentary review of How to Make Your Dreams Come True on Jennifer George’s Lifemuncher blog.
Forster combines a comforting, down to earth, practical Englishness with a very American understanding of the value of self-interest and creativity
I’d not seen this blog before, but it’s full of useful tips and tricks for everyday productivity, written with some humour and a great deal of...
Tarantino Explains How Top Gun Was a Movie About... →
She's Tracy Flick →
The Political Scene: The Choice: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: “Obama spoke for only twenty-five minutes and took no questions; he had figured out how to leave an audience at the peak of its emotion, craving more. As he was ending, I walked outside and found five hundred people standing on the sidewalk and the front steps of the opera house, listening to his last words in silence,...
“Omar comin'!” →
Oh, man. Michael K. Williams is on Fresh Air tomorrow. I’m so there.
Packing Tape Art →
Mark Khaisman created these artworks with just brown packing tape. Surprising drama is crafted with carefully applied layers of tape on Plexiglas, suffused with light from behind. More pictures after the jump. Source: Mark Khaisman via RubenMiller Tags: Mark Khaisman | Tape
My Forster Admiration Continues →
I literally finished reading Mark Forster’s How to Make Your Dreams Come True just a few moments ago and wanted to put some thoughts down and share them in public. The title of the book makes you think it’s yet another get-rich-quick ripoff that promises far more than it can possibly deliver. But in reality it’s actually a very profound, moving book about the meaning of life, the role of the...
Scales, Eyes, Clintons →
A reader writes:
After years of loyal reading I finally understand your distaste for all things Clinton. I live in Las Vegas, Saturday was my first caucus. I went to support Obama, requiring changing registration from independent to Democrat. I brought 18 voters including friends and family. All Obama supporters. Early in the campaign most of us thought we’d hope for Obama now and still...
Cri de coeur →
Once, long ago (actually last year), when I was young and impressionable, I was seduced by the siren’s song of Levenger’s beautiful, expensive Circa system. The paper was luxurious, the pictures in the catalog were sensual and filled with leather clad offices and crackling fireplaces. I succumbed, and dropped a couple hundred bucks on the stuff. But since then, after getting frustrated with all...
Dolphin Playing with Bubble Rings →
Dolphins have been observed to create bubble rings by exhaling air carefully in the middle of the vortices caused by the motion of their fins through the water, among other techniques. Besides being nice to look at (and a neat demonstration of fluid mechanics), this phenomenon also might throw some light on dolphin cognition, since the skill to create the rings is a bit subtle and tends to be...
Children! Listen to Bobby Conn. You’re never gonna... →
Children! Listen to Bobby Conn. You’re never gonna get ahead saying yes to the man. (Thanks Michael.)
Clever Atheist Quote →
Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.
Face Of The Day →
Father Juan Manuel Villar touches the nose of a Carlino dog with an aspergillum while he blesses the dog during the feast of San Anton, the patron saint of animals, at the San Anton church on January 17, 2008 in the center of Madrid, Spain. San Anton is honored by many Catholic churches in Spain where thousands of animal lovers flock to their nearest place of worship to have their animals...
Numerosi palline colorati →
Apply directly to the forehead! →
Davenetics* : Five Reasons I Am Too Old to Blog: “The commercials that air during the nightly news actually speak to me. I do have a restless leg. My wife and I often recline side by side in separate outdoor tubs, watch the sunset and wonder, “Are we ready?”. I eat Flomax like tic tacs. And I haven’t taken a shit without any outside help since the late nineties.”
A Ball Bonanza at the Spanish Steps →
A greyish 18th-century landmark in Rome was transformed into a colorful mess when a half-million plastic balls were dumped at the top of the Spanish Steps. The balls bounced downhill before filling the Barcaccia fountain, leaving surprised passers-by and tourists snapping pictures of a scene that recalled the indoor-playground ball pits that spark joyful frolicking by children of all ages. Many...
Little and Often - Mark Forster Part Two →
When I was a kid, I had a little metal coin bank with motivational sayings on the side. One that stuck with me is “Little and often fills the purse.” I think it meant that steady saving, no matter how small the amount, makes a big difference in the long run. Productivity guru Mark Forster applies this bit of wisdom to projects, particularly ones that you’re procrastinating about. As he...
Gotta get me a timer →
My Favorite Productivity Trick: “Here’s how I plan my day. I take a piece of paper, often scrap paper or a page in my capture notebook and write the date at the top of the page. I draw a line down the center. In the right column I write ‘To-Do’ and on the left I write ‘Plan.’ I write out all my to-do’s first. Then I plan out my day by inserting those to-do items into...
Dave's on the Teevee →
Michael Dolan: David on Fox Business
The artiste at work →
Here’s how any writing project starts for me: Irrational Jennifer: Ok, I have to write something. But I don’t know where to start! Oh no, it’s going to be terrible! I have absolutely nothing to say! Rational Jennifer: But you always feel this way, and you always come up with something eventually. IJ: Yes, but I torture myself for days before! I’m insane! I can’t do it! RJ: Why don’t you just jot a...
The Schnozzle Patrol →
Um, there is MORE than enough schnozzle to go around in this vid. Question: Could you have MORE Schnozzle in this video? The answer is none. None more schnozzle, Lynette. None!
o hai →
welkum to mythbusters
is jamie hyneman kitteh!
picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: 4ster
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welkum to mythbusters
is jamie hyneman kitteh!
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Covering The Live Coverage: TMZ Finds Man With... →
Lest he be unceremoniously stricken from the internets like so much background noise, Losanjealous provides these topical, in-the-moment screen captures of Man With Dollhouse On His Head, originally streamed live by Los Angeles’ own TMZ.com at approximately 440pm Pacific Standard Time today.
Loitering aimlessly, the house-hatted gentleman captured the TMZ camera crew’s attention as they...
Too Much Nick has all the good posts →
People in Order: Ages 1 to 100. Thanks Rich! →
People in Order: Ages 1 to 100. Thanks Rich!