Posted in crybaby, heads up, humor, sappy on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Estelle Getty, who played Momma on The Golden Girls, died Tuesday, a few days after her 85th birthday, from unspecified causes according to an LA Times article.
I really wasn’t a big fan of the show (especially because of Blanche.. ick), but Momma and the lady who kept recounting stories from back in St. Olaf held [...]
Posted in humor, video, wtf, youtube on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
According to the subtitles on this video, a tradition of celebrating Easter in Chios, Greece, arose out of an 1889 occupation by the Ottoman Empire that confiscated local cannons, so the townsfolk expressed their disapproval by firing off a bunch of home-made rockets. Since then, churches have participated in the friendly and often humorous [...]
Posted in add to my list, humor, words on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
A recent-ish meme these days on the intarwebs is to come up with a clever one-liner joke about Chuck Norris — being in his favor (as not to tempt fate, perhaps) and describing him doing something amazing or impossible. Here is my list of them that I’ve accumulated. Anyone else have favorites or [...]
Posted in humor, science, weird on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
In the recent print feature panel of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, there’s a bit about a gentleman, John Melling, who built a yacht in his backyard — knowing that he could never even move it out onto the street to take it out for a sail. I decided to look this one up, [...]
Posted in crybaby, dooftards, humor, images, speed runs on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I nearly fell out of my chair with laughter in a quite literal LOL when I read the headline for a story at Consumerist — and then nearly Rocky-Mountain-Chocolate’d the desk chair after I realized the stock imagery they posted next to it! Too funny! I don’t sympathize at all with the whiney [...]
Posted in beat my score, flash, games, humor, video games on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I got up to level 32 before my lives ran out. Caution — your health meter doesn’t recharge on the next level. The game itself is a simple 2D platformer where you use arrow keys to move side to side, jump and duck. There’s no shooting anything. Your little avatar can, in a [...]
Posted in artsy, diy, humor, life hacks, science, words on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Whilst reading over my usual visit to Boing Boing (from which I abscond with some of their links from time to time), there was an interesting comment in one of the articles that struck my fancy.
There’s a familiar droning phrase from certain Creationism proponents that science should teach, not only about evolution theory, but also [...]
Posted in humor, images, life hacks, random images, wtf on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Why, what were you thinking they were? It says so right there on the package! Click image for article, When Candy Design Goes Terribly, Hilariously Wrong.
Posted in crybaby, dooftards, humor, science, well you see officer, youtube on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing that has amazed me the most about the science vs. creationism debate is how easily purportedly science-minded stand-takers will be suckered into falling for their own accusation — right there in plain view. It should be acknowledged, that, while there is at the same time Creationist amateurs who have no idea what [...]
Posted in humor, life hacks, list me stuff, music, video, youtube on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a small collection of videos showing two musicians playing on the same instrument. Post a link in the comments and I’ll try to add it to the list!
Example:
2 Guys 1 Flute - J.S. Bach Badineri
2 Guys 1 Guitar - 90210 Theme
2 Guys 1 Guitar - Mozart/Classical
2 Guys 1 Guitar - Jerry’s Breakdown
Posted in humor, images, random images on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a random image I got from an email forwards out of the blue..
Posted in ffffound snag, humor, images, random images on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in big freakin woop, dooftards, humor, images, random images on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s been a new rapidshare captcha checkpoint to go through, and it involves kittens. Usually it will have a series of wavy letters and numbers that have a crude drawing of either a kitten or a puppy spun around inside it at various angles, and you’ve got to sift through them and pick the [...]
Posted in downloadables, heads up, humor, newton, science, video, youtube on May 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This is the original release post (at ablestmage.com) for the 1989 VHS Promo reel regarding the Newton personal household robot. My uncle was owner/CEO/etc of SynPet at the time (also inventer/creator of the Bottomline technology, the fisherman’s depth detector. I’ve got a VHS Promo reel of that also, but it seems to be [...]
Posted in corny, downloadables, flash, freebies, humor, mp3, music, video, weird, wtf on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
An excerpt from the strangely can’t… look… away…-esque flash video, Charlie The Unicorn 2 by FilmCow.com, they actually offer the Banana-in-your-ear tune for free on mp3. Add it to your tracklist on whatever your mp3 player is for a wtf? moment whenever some poor un-Charlie’d sap hears it playing. It makes for either [...]
Posted in flash, humor, news, video, well you see officer, wtf on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Some punk munchkin (a punchkin?) stole the keys to his grandmother’s SUV and drove it around town on a joyride with a fellow 7-year-old “who smokes with cigarettes” hitting cars and plowing over mailboxes. The team at WPBF in West Palm Beach, Florida who are hosting the video online interviewed the little buzzard and [...]
Posted in crybaby, grrrrr, halo 3, heads up, humor, life hacks, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, wiki-ref, words on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
After posting this Ask Metafilter question, I have learned that I am a linguistic descriptivist whereas my accuser is a linguistic prescriptivist. In a nutshell, it means that I believe language rules can be identified by ways in which they have been demonstrated to operate in the past — whereas my accuser subscribes to [...]
