April 2008
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March 2008
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Top U.S. Housing Official Resigns - New York Times →
Okay, y’know what? I’m sick and fucking tired of officials that are under investigation in this administration and elsewhere saying that they’re resigning to “spend more time with their families.” That’s bullshit. They’re resigning because they were crooked fucks and they want to get out before the floor drops out and all hell breaks loose. Spending more...
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Where'd The Weekend Go?
I can’t seem to find your weekend anywhere, Marty! Did I just miss a weekend? I swear I remember it being Friday, and then the next thing I knew, it was Monday again. Was this some sort of early April Fools joke? If so, I am not amused. Seriously, there was Friday, with our hesitant dinner out at a local Italian place we’d always driven past and never stopped at- Lesson learned: next...
best of craigslist : Thanks, Mr.Hipster Record... →
Partially, this is why I don’t buy physical albums anymore and just purchase digital music. Well, that, and I don’t own a CD player. Besides, I like my Chuck Taylors.
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ESPN - Greg Oden Plays Basketball - TrueHoop By... →
Greg Oden’s playing pickup games at 24-hr fitness? I need to dump my Ballys membership and join up. Maybe he can dunk on me…
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Watchadamrc: Salute Your Solution on Vimeo (via Vimeo) sweet new song from The Raconteurs. Like most everything else that the Raconteurs do, I like 65% of this and dislike the other 35%. Brendan Benson makes great music, Jack White (usually) makes great music, but I think that when they come together, they don’t quite fit.
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Growing Up Nate: Doll Parts →
We’ve all, at one time in our lives, played with dolls. We may not like to admit it, but we were curious, and it was a very confusing time in our lives, and we only did it once, and it’s not…
Songbird Music Player Challenges ITunes with Major... →
I’m toying around with Songbird right now. I like a lot of the plugins that are offered and the way that you can customize it to your liking. Having a web browser in the program and the ease with which you can get mp3s from music blogs is very cool. I just want them to come out with the 1.0 already!
Art Levine: 25% of Anti-Obama Dems Think He's a... →
Booo!! to segments of the voting populace that fail to properly inform themselves.
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Growing Up Nate: Doll Parts
We’ve all, at one time in our lives, played with dolls. We may not like to admit it, but we were curious, and it was a very confusing time in our lives, and we only did it once, and it’s not like it meant anything, anyway. I’d be willing to bet that some of you are playing with dolls right now. Put that down. When I was a kid, just barely into double-digits, I briefly played with...
Blogs: Manila Ryce: Noam Chomsky: Why Don't We Ask... →
Yay, Chomsky!
Presidential relations →
You’re probably like me and thinking to yourself that this election season has been way too focused on the important issues. Why can’t it instead focus on inconsequential bullshit? Well,…
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Hillary's Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Richard Mellon... →
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Dark Roasted Blend: Airship Dreams →
Pretty neat. Darkroastedblend is a an awesome time-waster website. They have infinite amounts of interesting stuff like this.
Burger King Wants You to Spank It & Get On With... →
My wife, Sara, brought this lovely little nugget of advertising gold to my attention last night by screaming “OH MY GOD! OHMYGOD!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT!!!” from halfway across the house….
NYT - Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison... →
As an admitted audiofile, this is pretty cool. Although, I have to say that the idea that Scott created his recording device with the idea that someone, at some time down the road would be able to figure out how to play it back is kinda short-sighted. Still, pretty neat.
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Tumblr is Back Up!
Yesterday, every time I found a hilarious link or funny photo, I was unable to post it right here, for all of you to enjoy. It seems that the good folks at Tumblr were experiencing some technical difficulties, which happens to us all from time to time. It seems like they have them ironed out, so expect more from me today.
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Burger King Wants You to Spank It & Get On With...
My wife, Sara, brought this lovely little nugget of advertising gold to my attention last night by screaming “OH MY GOD! OHMYGOD!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT!!!” from halfway across the house. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAoYQzkW4Gw[/youtube] Yeah, Morning Tongue. There are so many jokes here. Let me collect myself. Okay, first of all, isn’t this ad basically...
Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing... →
I hate to sound utterly callous and heartless regarding the utterly unfortunate death of this 11 year-old girl, but I’m not going to lose any sleep over her death. I think her parents should be charged with murder for their gross negligence of their daughter’s health and well-being and that their other children should be removed from their custody. You can practice whatever religion...
Donklephant » Blog Archive » Hillary’s Team... →
Heehehehehe…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
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This is a track off of She and Him’s Volume...
Smile you're on ele-vision: How a camera attached... →
I’ve been trying to do the same thing with one of my Uncles for years…
Griper Blade: The Solution to Iraq →
I’ve liked this guy’s position on stuff for quite awhile now. He’s a fellow Midwesterner (albeit a Wisconsinite) whose writing and pragmatic approach to the world around him I very much appreciate. This is just another example of that.
ESPN - Report: Sonics willing to leave name,... →
This is the best news in an otherwise shitty series of events for Seattle Sonics fans. Even Blazer fans here in Portland have been expressing regret over losing a rivalry with the Sonics. This at least ensures that said rivalry can be re-started once the NBA pulls it’s head out of it’s ass and realizes that they shouldn’t shit on dedicated basketball fans like those in Seattle.
The Brand Called Obama -- 2008 Presidential... →
Sara sent this to me. I hadn’t thought about it from this angle before, and it’s a very interesting way to look at the Obama candidacy.
Niagara Falls Was Frozen in 1911 at Sean Buckley... →
Wow!
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Ready From Day One →
Sorry I’m a little late with my post today. I arrived to work this morning under a barrage of sniper fire and my whole day has just been screwy ever since.
But I’m not going to complain. I’ve…
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South Park Studios →
Quite possibly, this is exactly what the internet was created for.
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“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Ready From Day One
Sorry I’m a little late with my post today. I arrived to work this morning under a barrage of sniper fire and my whole day has just been screwy ever since. But I’m not going to complain. I’ve dealt with things worse than sniper fire. I’ve had to withstand withering attacks from the GOP attack machine over the years. Yet, I’m still standing after that horrible...
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Brace Yourselves, I Went to a Doctor!
That’s right, a doctor. One with a stethescope and everything. I haven’t been to a doctor or to the hospital for anything at all since I was 21. I’m 28, now. That’s seven years. When I told my new doc this, he didn’t even bat an eye. Apparently, men my age rarely come in for check-ups unless they have something wrong with them. Here I was thinking I was a stubborn,...
HAPPY EASTER, SODS! →
Fido →
Horror-comedy is a hard genre. It can fail much more likely than normal comedy or normal horror. Many try, many fail. Fortunately, we have the genre done right, with movies like Shaun of the…
Hey there, Bareilles, what’s it like to write a... →
Because the Sara Bareilles song is on every commercial that I can’t fast forward through, or on every mall speaker system, and because the popularity of the sad-bastard music of the Plain…
‘Drillbit’ not a bore… →
Judd Apatow seems to have a Midas Touch when it comes to comedy. Whether it’s directing (The 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up), writing (Fun With Dick and Jane and Walk Hard) or producing…
HBO’s John Adams: I →
If you don’t have HBO this season, I’m sorry.
It’s not because you’ll miss the crazy antics of those feisty bigamist Mormons in HBO’s Big Love, or the asinine drivel that spews from Bill…
Story behind the story: The Clinton myth -... →
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Growing Up Nate: Jack Frost Jumpshots →
It’s March Madness once again, folks, and that means that both yesterday and today millions of men across the country are trying to wedge a few minutes of work into their busy days spent…
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Growing Up Nate: Jack Frost Jumpshots
It’s March Madness once again, folks, and that means that both yesterday and today millions of men across the country are trying to wedge a few minutes of work into their busy days spent watching live streaming video of the opening round games of the NCAA Tournament. I am one of those men. Furthermore, I’m going to try and squeeze a blog post into that equation as well. I know, I know,...
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Multitasking At Work
A co-worker and I, multitasking. Occasionally, when I’m at work, I lean back in my chair and take a good look at my dual displays and wonder how the hell I get anything done. I have Thunderbird, Firefox, Adium(IM client), iTunes, Photoshop, NeoOffice and Final Cut Pro all open simultaneously (thanks, Quad-Core Mac!). Most of those windows are visible on the screens at all times.You could...
Dylan Loewe: The Grandpa Problem - Politics on The... →
We’ve already suffered through 8 years of a president who didn’t understand (or seem to want to understand) the religious politics of the region, do we really want another one?