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Friday, March 31, 2006
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- The Gospel is here! Check out this customer image to see how they pulled pulled off making it look like a hard-bound book with a noodley page saver on Amazon (also note the "shoddy construction" review). Maybe if it does real well they'll put out a quality edition. But then again, at this cheapass price I wouldn't mind giving a few copies to a friend who travels for her job and having her place them on top of the bibles in the hotels where she stays.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
- stock.xchng is no longer free
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The last remaining high-quality high-volume free stock photography site is no longer free. Figured it was just a matter of time, but it's a shame when an open community gets bought out and they immediately begin charging money for photos that people uploaded without intent to sell. You know somebody's getting ripped off. Not that the photos are that expensive, but working as I am on internal facing projects there's zero budget for such things, so even $1 is $1 too much.
Update: I was decieved. Between the evil that is Websense restricting what I can see at work, and the Stockxpert.com pages that I ran into during the v.6 upgrade, stock.xchange remains free even though it didn't appear that way last Thursday.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
- The Typography of Girls' Asses
- 'tis a shame.
- Orgasm Girl
- OK, even though this isn't blocked at work I think I'd better save it for later. The game's official website is www.orgasmgirlgame.com, but websense has that blocked from here.
Friday, March 24, 2006
- Oglala Sioux Tribe on the South Dakota Abortion Ban
- A truly righteous response.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
- How to spot a baby conservative
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"Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative." (emphasis mine)
Remind you of anyone?
Friday, March 17, 2006
- AskOxford: Frequently Asked Questions
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Have a grammar question eating away at your soul? I know I did, but not anymore!
And for you typography geeks out there, here's a shorter version of "quick brown fox…" that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet in 28 letters:
brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
- PostSecret - Pinky
- I forget what reminded me of this site, PostSecret, but the above linked little slice of Vegas I find especially poignant. And hot.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
- The New Yorker: Troublemakers
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If you're going to read this article don't be a jackass just read the first two paragraphs. As any good essayist, Gladwell begins by eloquently summarizing the opposing view.
Bottom line, if I had to give one regarding the dog breed issue, would be that dog temperments are more a reflection of their owner's personality than the dog's breed. The lesson regarding the ban on pit bulls in Ottawa is that generalizations based on prejudice make crappy laws, but that generalizations based on facts, followed up by preventative actions (also based on facts) make meaningful laws.
- The New Yorker: Million-Dollar Murray
- This "power law" distribution approach to solving society's problems is a hard one to wrap your political beliefs around. It's big government handing out special favors to a select few. It's effeciency over fairness. Placing fixing the problem above the American dream of rags to riches. But more than anything I think it's cold rationality trying to fight the hot emotions of politics. And clearly it is emotions that rule the current political environment in the US.
- darice.org * got everything - Grey's Anatomy
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Found this blog via a liquid layout site (of which it is a prime example, check out how the photo is handled). I'm not usually a fan of black on white, but this site puts content first so effortlessly that I don't mind the stark contrast. I think the meatiness (the proper term escapes me) of the serif font helps. Oh, and the "ColorZilla" plugin informs me that that's not black, it's #222.
I'm linking to this particular post to save myself the effort of linking to all three Grey's Anatomy blogs. We just started listening to the podcast last weekend, and last night I watched all the special features on the Season 1 DVD. It really is the best show on television right now. Put it this way – Battlestar Galactica we only watch each episode once.
Monday, March 06, 2006
- Jason Gaylor » Blog Archive » Fresh Foliage Photoshop Brushes for High Resolution [Part I]
- Never can have too many killer hi-res photoshop brushes, even if they don't work in photoshop 7.
- Rakehell Review: Never Seduce a Scoundrel
- Let me just say that writing is damn hard work. It doesn't help that I wouldn't let myself cop-out and just write a plot summary style review, but still, it was more difficult than it should have been. Maybe I should get in on some writing project like the "zombie wikipedia" thing that Josh is participating in, to keep my writing skills fresh.
Friday, March 03, 2006
- New Scientist - Eyes are fooled by spinning, curving balls
- an evolutionary explaination as to why side-spin fucks with people so delightfully. can you tell i've got that table tennis itch?
Thursday, March 02, 2006
- Northridge Table Tennis
- It's going to happen. I'm going to play for real, and get my ass kicked by pre-teens.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
- Confessions of a Car Salesman
- Read this and you might be able to put yourself in the shoes of a car salesman. This empathy thing is hard for those of us with autistic tendencies, but at the very least we can use the inside information to our advantage, and just buy the damn car online. Understanding that it's not the salesman's fault that he is the way he is doesn't make him less of an asshole, it just lets us understand why he sucks. And maybe, just maybe, the internet can force the car sales industry to change, or at least re-build itself better after online sales have destroyed it.
