August 2009
The reason some girls stay single - very funny! -... →
I do not know if this is a hoax or not, but dear gawd there are some deraged people out there. And you wonder why I choose to stay single…
oh wait, there’s more - read this…
subject: IMPORTANT
message: Senior executives from [company] will be in our office today for a Q&A session / pitch from around 2:20 until 3:45. We will be in [conference room]. Please follow the typical "routine" of putting on a good show when they are here.
cw1: I guess I will postpone my “I’ve lost my mind” pantomime until around 4 then.
cw2: Does this mean we should hide the snakes and rats?
cw3: Does it also mean I have to leave the office?
ooo yeah.
I can’t really remember the last time I *needed* a vacation as bad as I need this one. After COB today I will be OOO until the Tuesday after Labor Day.
“Is a frontal wedgie a cameltoe if no one sees it?”
– anonymous, zen kōan of panties
“I am a C. I am a C-H. I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N. And I have C-H-R-I-S-T in my...”
– Reblog if you sang it as a kid. (via nickdouglas)
From Ernie: Actually Nick, my song of choice was “I LIKE BANANAS / I KNOW THAT MANGOS ARE SWEET / I LIKE PAPAYAS (PAPAYAS!!) / BUT NOTHING CAN BEAT / THAT SWEET / LOVE / OF GOD!”
From me: I sang that one and this lovely ditty on the...
Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the... →
My brain seems muddled enough, multi-tasking or not.
The Great Wine Cover-up - The Daily Beast →
one for the “to read later” category…
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by... →
This is a fun little toy. Go. Go play with it now.
subject: sorting out the bullsh...
subject: sorting out the bullsh…
If you are overwhelmed by all the Healthcare Reform and other political news, I wanted to remind you all of a great website. PolitiFact is a non-partisan Pulitzer Prize winning site run by the St Petersburg Times. They are really great at sorting out what’s really what. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
re: subject: sorting out the bullsh…
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No Bull: Ag Group Holds 'Testicle Festival' →
“Folks will be able to dine on the bull testicles, which are also called rocky mountain oysters, cowboy caviar, prairie oysters, swinging sirloin and calf fries…
Some of those puns are featured on a flyer promoting the event. A section of the pamphlet features the saying, ‘No bull … join us for balls of fun!!!’”
(via KSBW)
[ insert 12yo boy humor here ]
“Can a gun have a soul?” That’s the question asked by criminally underrated...”
– A Decade Later, The Iron Giant’s Weaponized Soul Still Stirs: Wired appreciates the Iron Giant 10 years on. (via neilio)
Iron Giant is still, and probably always will be, one of my favorite movies.
If you get a kick out of questionable html, view... →
me3dia:
bluishorange:
jaschu:
No, really. (Hat tip to @sarahdopp/@thomasknoll)
HA HA HA FONT FONT FONT
WYSIWYG web design program FTW!
holy crapness! if you scroll through it fast enough and back and forth - it’s almost like you’re at a disco!
Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6 →
“Some Web designers are staging an online revolt against an old version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, which they say is hampering the ability of the Web to move forward in a cool and interactive way… The “IE 6 No More” site provides Web developers with a piece of code — an online hurdle, essentially — they can install to encourage Internet...
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100...
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a...
“The world doesn’t owe me a living. If the world doesn’t want to buy my books,...”
– William T. Vollmann, an Author Without Borders - NYTimes.com (via themorningnews)
Replace “books” with whatever you happen to produce. (via me3dia)
Yes! (via me)
