January 2012
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November 2011
2 posts
I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...
– “What’s Wrong with First World Problems” (via grrrlstudies)
August 2011
2 posts
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April 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
4 posts
Metaphors are great. Just don’t choose loopy metaphors, and never, never...
– A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists | Tim Radford | Science | guardian.co.uk
470. Don't play the ace if you can win with the...
Sound euchre advice.
April 2010
1 post
July 2009
1 post
April 2009
1 post
WannaFeelOld: Mr. Plow episode of 'The Simpsons'...
wannafeelold:
aired over seventeen years ago.
THAT NAME AGAIN IS MR. PLOW
March 2009
6 posts
Google Street View comes to Canada! Well, sort of.... →
Is the internet to blame for the decline of... →
From bioephemera.
Eee PC-in-a-Keyboard Coming Soon →
It’s a Commodore 64!
January 2009
7 posts
Q listener feedback on Twitter
CBCRadioQ: amazed we didn't have one complaint for playing Ace of Base on the show yesterday.
aejrussin: @CBCRadioQ re: ace of base. i threw up in my mouth a little. does that count?
CBCRadioQ: @aejrussin only if you mail it in to listener feedback.
Microsoft Songsmith takes on The Police's... →
The Service Alert Will Be Crowdsourced →
The Sun Teaches Us How To Make Sackboy →
Sledding Discussion →
Mandebrot the fractal teddy-bear →
Stephen Fry on the beauty of "incorrect" language... →
December 2008
3 posts
11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Aren't →
11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Aren’t
Toronto's Forgotten Landmarks: A Night at the Roxy →
BBC considers how Twitter and the Mumbai attacks... →
November 2008
8 posts
Chicken Head Tracking →
Ant architecture →
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wears pajamas on-air in... →
Amelie, Jr. →
LittleBigPlanet's TV commercials, built entirely... →
Touching story of Eugene Allen, a butler who... →
Stop the insanity: CNN's 'hologram' was horrendous... →
October 2008
12 posts
Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline →
CNN asks voters to say something nice about the... →
Long-term fuel efficiency can be displayed in two ways – either as a traditional...
– Driving a car as a video game (2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid: Ford SmartGauge LCD Instrument Panel)
infochimps.org: Geography of Newspaper... →
Awesome map. Lots of info in the colour, border colour and size of the cirlces.
I'm a Railroad. →
Ugh, baby names that are the worst
amilniazi:
1.) Jayden
2.) Kayden
3.) Braden
4.) Trig
5.) Cody
6.) Rod
7.) Jessica
8.) Brittany
9.) Kaelen
10.) Chrissy
11.) Stefanie
12.) Kimmy
13.) Brody
Ugh. We’re thinking of naming our next kid Hayden. It’s my dad’s middle name. All these -aiden names today, though. It’ll just ruin it for the kid.
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century →
Now, Bill Adama has more to worry about than Harper (survival of the human race...
– Richard Handler, Can the ‘inner grown-ups’ save us from disaster?
24 Words the CED Want to Exuviate (Shed) - TIME →
Use these words before they’re gone! Surely the MacGuffin in an RPG could be a periapt? Must these words be vilipended in this way? What niddering fubsies these dictionary makers be! Olid, griseous skirrs! (OK, the last two don’t make sense. Don’t get all oppugnant on me.)