Archive for January, 2007

January 30th, 2007

new slogan?

Carl / home away from home / Honey Nut Insanity
Cheerios come out on top but it hardly tells you anything you didn’t know before – as the only solid food in the experiment you might equally read the result as,
Cheerios – better for you than starvation
This time when I say “Advertising genius” I am being [...]

January 30th, 2007

Blog Archive » clearly

a hilarious picture from the good ole days.
Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » clearly
Clearly that is what the picture is describing

January 29th, 2007

Open Letter to Triathletes

Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Triathletes
Triathlon is Not a Sport Because it Does Not Fit Into the Way I Choose to Define “Sport”
As far as I’m concerned, a sport is a physical activity you can do for fun or competition. By my (very authoritative and comprehensive) definition, a sport is [...]

January 29th, 2007

Milk meets Coffee

Milk meets Coffee Photo Gallery by Irene Müller at pbase.com
BTW, I don’t use any sound/photogate triggers for my high speed photography. Just a pipette or syringe, good eye/shutter finger coordination and patience, patience, patience…..

amazing

January 29th, 2007

Caffeinated Doughnuts

Scientist Develops Caffeinated Doughnuts
developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee.
I can’t wait to dunk mine in my large cup of coffee!
via Joe. My. God.: Another Triumph Of Science

January 29th, 2007

“Donnie Davies”

Joe. My. God.: “Davies” Exposed As Actor Joel Oglesby
Thanks to the sleuthing of Dallas JMG reader Bob Stoller, “Pastor Donnie Davies” has been exposed as Dallas-area actor Joey Oglesby
In case you haven’t seen this, here is some backstory on Good As You.

January 29th, 2007

I’ll Drink to that!

Daily Rotten: Weird News
Jan 29 1919
Prohibition begins, and with it the rise of organized crime.

January 27th, 2007

Ella

Development Blog › WordPress 2.1 Ella
announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 “Ella”, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald

oops
apparently i haven’t been updating wordpress at all (damn wget and wordpress) because all releases are always called “latest.tar.gz” and i was just downloaded them and wget would auto add a .1 or .2 or .3 [...]

January 26th, 2007

theworkshop.ca

Projects, plans promoting rural skills – The Workshop.ca
basically this site sucks you in
from his projects on solar power, batteries, generators, to his maple syrup making and metal casting I just couldn’t stop reading.
go there if you have some time, or just keep going back and clicking till every link turns purple.

January 25th, 2007

I thought it was gonna be about computers

Overheard in New York | We’ll Have to Take the MUH-TAA to Get There
We’ll Have to Take the MUH-TAA to Get There
Lady: Hey, I have to get going to that puh-taa meeting tonight.
Husband: That what meeting?!
Lady: Puh-taa. For the school…
Husband: … You mean the P.T.A. meeting?
Lady: You know that’s what I meant!
–W 5th St, Brooklyn

January 24th, 2007

snow

RIT – Webcams
Eastman Quad Webcam

If you don’t go to RIT, you may not be getting tons of fluffy white snow, but we are so you can look @ the webcams and be jealous!

January 24th, 2007

Design Goodness

from MAKE: Blog: LEGO periodic table of elements
which was via » LegoAdvertising/Design Goodness
now, the second link is dispicable
the comments go on and on, because people don’t know what this is a picture of, and even when they find out they think its “WAY too cryptic”
It is a periodic table of the elements
legos, like the elements, [...]

January 22nd, 2007

Andy Griffith vs. Patriot Act

YouTube – Andy Griffith vs. Patriot Act
Andy Griffith clearly hates America

January 22nd, 2007

google is a man

from: 19020 to: 1579 US-1 (S), North Brunswick, NJ 08902 – Google Maps
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Google is awesome and clearly didnt want [...]

January 21st, 2007

All your base

are belong to Lenin
Daily Rotten: Weird News
Jan 21 1924
Lenin dead of stroke — they keep him on ice, expertly preserved. Now after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian gangsters employ the use of the same scientists who taxidermied Lenin to preserve each other after they get whacked.
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