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Oct 27
Haunted Austin Provides Halloween Fun
“Austin, TX - Halloween is just around the corner and many people are looking for a good scare. Legend has it that ghosts haunt many Capital City hit spots including the Governor’s Mansion and the Driskill Hotel .
Located at the corner of Sixth Street and Brazos, the Driskill has a few ghosts haunting its halls.
Legend has it that a young girl fell to her death in the hotel. Some say children’s laughter can be heard coming from the bottom of the stairs.
Another story says a woman hung herself after her fiancee called off their wedding. Some have seen her walking the halls, wearing a wedding dress.
Other say they’ve seen the ghost of Col. Peter Lawless, a Confederate soldier who lived at the Driskill from 1886 until his death in 1917.
According to the Austin ghost tours Web site , staffers see Col. Lawless as they perform mundane tasks like shampooing the carpet. They’ll get the sensation that someone’s watching them.
The Web site says the staffers will then see Lawless peer at them, glance at his pocket watch, turn and walk through a wall or closed door…”
This stuff is so flippin’ cool. I wonder if you could paint this stuff over the magnetic paint and have a gigantic magnetic whiteboard wall…
Oct 26
» Microsoft watches 'Family Guy,' pulls out of special
insert a bad joke about “pulling out” here.
(via omarg)
» Eight steps to Internet unpopularity | The Industry Standard
These are all no-brainers for those of us who have been around the Intarweb block a time or two.
The Hella Tight Bombay - the hat that is so fly, it has its own theme song (by Del The Funky Homosapien).
Oct 23
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A contented person with a whole heart, who has never doubted for a moment that she is loved by God and the universe, should not bother trying to succeed as a creative entrepreneur. She should get a job working for someone else, turn it off at 6:00 PM, and come home to the people who love her.
Only a restless, broken heart can drive you to do what is necessary.
Oct 22
Oct 21
Those bloody clever Dutch:
You may have heard the term flashpacking, the act of traveling in the spirit of a backpacker but with the budget of one more monied. Well, from the Netherlands comes what might be the ultimate in flashcamping—a portable, wood-burning spa.
The Dutchtub is a personal hot-springs-to-go. If you have a tub-sized patch of flat ground, wood and 200 gallons (750 liters) worth of water or snow you can have your own spa virtually anywhere.
Here’s how it works:Fill your tub with water via a suction hose, bucket brigade or whatever other means you can.
Next, attach the included convection unit to the side of the Dutchtub and build a three-to-four log fire within its coil. Then cover your tub and wait for the water within to get toasty warm.
Genius is still a job somewhere on the planet.
Yes, yes this is clever. But it doesn’t look that portable.
Wait, really?
— From Walgreen’s
Now this is just fucking stupid. There is no way in hell one of my dachshunds would wear one of these or even sit still like that. That has to be a taxidermied dog.
Baise m’encor - a sonnet by Louise Labé interpreted by Nataly Dawn (via natalydawn)
Sonnet XVIII by Louise Labé
Baise m’encor, rebaise-moi et baise;
Donne m’en un de tes plus savoureux,
Donne m’en un de tes plus amoureux:
Je t’en rendrai quatre plus chauds que braise.
Las! te plains-tu? Ça, que ce mal j’apaise,
En t’en donnant dix autres doucereux.
Ainsi, mêlant nos baisers tant heureux,
Jouissons-nous l’un de l’autre à notre aise.
Lors double vie à chacun en suivra.
Chacun en soi et son ami vivra.
Permets m’Amour penser quelque folie:
Toujours suis mal, vivant discrètement
Et ne me puis donner contentement
Si hors de moi ne fais quelque saillie.
A translation by Graham Dunstan:
Kiss me again, kiss, kiss me again;
Give me the tastiest you have to give,
Pay me the lovingest you have to spend:
And Ill return you four, hotter than live
Coals. Oh, are you sad ? There! Ill ease
The pain with ten more kisses, honey-sweet,
And so kiss into happy kiss will melt,
Well pleasantly enjoy each others selves.
Then double life will to us both ensue:
You also live in me, as I in you.
So do not chide me for this play on words
Or keep me staid and stay-at-home, but make me
Go on that journey best of all preferred:
When out of myself, my dearest love, you take me.
Oct 20
Feministe » Women are welcome at Yahoo events
Wow. Yahoo is not scoring any points with me.
(via @cinnachick)
Oct 19
