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February 2009

Men Now Wearing Tighter Pants to Get Women to Stare at Their Posteriors  → nymag.com

up-schist-creek:

starline:

sooshi:

That is all.

What?  That is totally assinine, no butts about it.  Just wait some ass cracks jokes about this trend.

If they bought cars and rectum, and so ended up in arrears, getting women interested may move them from the posterior position in the legal queue.

Feb 26, 200914 notes
Man jailed after stabbing girlfriend's feet → tcpalm.com

tristanjay7:

up-schist-creek:

setuplikeadeckofcards:

up-schist-creek:

The man, a resident of Fort Pierce, alledgedly attacked her from the foot of the bed.

Doctors believe the victim’s injuries will totally heel.

If convicted, she plans to pray daily for his sole to be saved.

I don’t get why the girlfriend didn’t suspect anything. It doesn’t take a stab in the dark to know something is afoot.

I believe she was toetally unaware, despite the fact that he treadened her several times.

Feb 26, 20098 notes
Well now, ain't that something.
I asked Tower Records on Exchequer Street if I could order Asian Kung-Fu Generation’s Sol-Fa album. I got a text a week later saying none of their suppliers had it.

And yet.

Should I bother pointing that out to them, or is this how they know none of their suppliers had it?

Feb 26, 2009
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Listen

jamiebridgette:

Incubus - Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)

Auto Incubus reblog.

Feb 25, 200913 notes
Icewind Dale 2 Let's Play → lparchive.org

From the Let’s Play Archive. It’s really rather good. No prior experience with DnD, Icewind Dale II, Faerûn or even PC RPGs required.

Feb 24, 2009
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Mother sells newborn to pay for hospital bill → blogs.app.com

up-schist-creek:

kbkarma:

tristanjay7:

up-schist-creek:

Was snapped up at the ‘Buy it now’ price, woman promises to pay shipping charge.

When reached for comment, the buyer remarked “A+++++++++++++++++ WILL BUY AGAIN!”

However, he only gave her four stars out of five, for not including a ready supply of breast milk.

Buyer to contact mother to pump her for more info.

Mother says that baby will miss the breast years of his life.

Feb 24, 20095 notes
Obama should stop saying "and I" → nytimes.com

tristanjay7:

barthel:

Disagree. Hey, if it’s good enough for T.S. Eliot, it’s good enough for the President. Like anti-semitism!

Good enough for Shakespeare too!

I was going to rehash the old “in noun phrase conjunctions, case is assigned to the matrix noun phrase, not the conjuncts” explanation, but I’m a little behind on the current literature. Instead, I’d like to look at this quote:

Here, then, is a tip, Mr. President. Nobody chooses the wrong pronoun when it’s standing on its own. If you’re tempted to say “for Michelle and I” in tonight’s speech, just mentally omit Michelle (sorry, Mrs. Obama), and you’ll get it right. And no one will get on your case.

I direct the grammarians to Mad Magazine: “What, me worry?”

I don’t see the issue. To me, Michelle and I sounds perfectly correct. Although, reading up on the issue, I can see that I’ve been doing it wrong. But I tend to prefer I to me. Not quite sure why, but that’s the way it is.

Feb 24, 2009
Mother sells newborn to pay for hospital bill → blogs.app.com

tristanjay7:

up-schist-creek:

Was snapped up at the ‘Buy it now’ price, woman promises to pay shipping charge.

When reached for comment, the buyer remarked “A+++++++++++++++++ WILL BUY AGAIN!”

However, he only gave her four stars out of five, for not including a ready supply of breast milk.

Feb 24, 20095 notes
Pissy Fans → whatever.scalzi.com

dailymeh:

Excellent points, all. My favorite comment about the whole thing is on metafilter, and it goes:

I think it’s partly that GRRM isn’t really part of the Internet generation and finds it hard to understand why everyone’s so rude all the time.

That’s funny, because I’m pretty sure I’m part of the internet generation and I don’t understand it either.

That makes two. Hmmm. Maybe I should take up Ice and Fire.

Feb 24, 200910 notes
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Feb 24, 2009
“Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in North America (Square Enix), and Valve Corporation (Valve), a developer of leading-edge technologies and software, announced today an agreement to bring Square Enix titles to customers worldwide via Steam®, Valve’s leading platform for digital content distribution and management.” —Steam News, via FiringSquad.
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Parent of gamer asks his son to honor the Geneva Conventions → boingboing.net

Very interesting. I wonder how a game which involved violating said convention would go down with the public (via GamePolitics).

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凹目

inky:

‘kubome’, a Japanese word meaning sunken/deep-set eyes.

Previously: 凸凹

ie what I tend to have 24/7. Except during summer.

Feb 20, 20096 notes
Feb 19, 2009
Giant rabbits to return to Spanish menus → telegraph.co.uk

tristanjay7:

megalomaniac:

up-schist-creek:

Tiny font on menus will have to be read through the looking glass provided to each restaurant patron.

I was trying to tell my friend how delicious rabbit meat is, bunny wouldn’t hare it.

This is no lapin matter. Local health officials warren that the rabbits are more likely to spread food-borne illnesses due to their unconey size.

I didn’t know that! Tell me more, I’m all ears.

Feb 19, 20095 notes
Dirk's Accident → magnetnerd.com
Dirk collects things. Such as neodymium magnets. Two of which, about 50cm apart, decided to come together.

With his finger in the way. Removing the tip of his finger. And his entire fingernail.

It’s been calculated that the force could be equated to 500kg. On his finger. Warning: VERY gory pictures (via Hackaday).

Feb 19, 2009
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Feb 16, 2009
Eau Claire students charged for riding ice on Chippewa River → kare11.com

up-schist-creek:

kbkarma:

tristanjay7:

up-schist-creek:

Students tell police to chillax, just go with the floe.

Eau, this clairely was an ice-olated incident.

If they’re fined, they’ll probably appeal, with all of them chipping in to the legal fund. Otherwise, it’ll just dry up before they get to court.

Just prior to the student’s arrest, their assets were frozen.

That’s one hell of a cold shoulder.

Feb 16, 200910 notes
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Feb 16, 2009
Evolution and Facebook's "25 Random Things About Me" craze → slate.com

Oddly enough, I always thought memes were viral thought processes. Not sure if Dawkins already suggested that, but it looks like I was right (via Slashdot).

Feb 16, 2009
These aren't the pants you're looking for

darran:

  • I find your lack of pants disturbing.
  • Chewie and me got into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.
  • I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.
  • In his pants you will find a new definition of pain and suffering.
  • Han’ll have those pants down - we’ve gotta give him more time!
  • I have altered the pants, pray that I don’t alter them further.

The best lines from Star Wars that are improved by replacing a word with “pants”.

I found that my lecturer’s sentences were more entertaining by adding the word “pants” (and whatever other words would make the word make grammatical sense).

Feb 16, 2009
Eau Claire students charged for riding ice on Chippewa River → kare11.com

tristanjay7:

up-schist-creek:

Students tell police to chillax, just go with the floe.

Eau, this clairely was an ice-olated incident.

If they’re fined, they’ll probably appeal, with all of them chipping in to the legal fund. Otherwise, it’ll just dry up before they get to court.

Feb 16, 200910 notes
TumblrStats: a pretty nice little tool. → tumblrstats.com

brilliantology:

via peroty: via 101mg

Very nice. I have just under 50% original content, and over 300 photo posts.

Feb 16, 2009309 notes
Nigerian web scam bilked Utah out of $2.5M → sltrib.com

Oh dear. Oh DEAR (via Slashdot).

Feb 16, 2009
Feb 15, 2009
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“It’s like Spot the Ball for the philosophically advanced.” —

Times Online on Garfield Minus Garfield.

G-G was included in their Guide to the 100 best blogs feature today, which is pretty cool.

(via travors)

Meant to congratulate you on that, but I was busy making shelving. So, congratulations!

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“Astronauts have described watching urine being released into space as one of the most beautiful sights in orbit” —Wired.com. Eeew.
Feb 14, 2009
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Feb 13, 2009
“Positech (Kudos, etc) have announced a new game: Gratuitous Space Battles. That is all.” —Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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