March 2009
29 posts
Smoking Cohiba Minis and drinking Einz Zwei Dry Riesling from the bottle. Don’t know if I feel grown up, or merely degenerate.
http://howisbabbyformed.com/
Best name for a court case ever: “United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, 241 US 265 (1916)” http://tinyurl.com/2couv9
The Pope is in Africa “reaffirming the ban on condom use.” His old...
– Twitter / cwalken is seriously funny, real or not.
Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace →
M*A*S*H - Show Time Vs. Real Time →
This super niche blog is tracking the progress of real time during the Korean war, which ran for just over 3 years, against the progress of time in M*A*S*H, which ran for nearly 11 years on US TV.
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Terms never actually used in the original Star... →
Terms never spoken in dialogue, but used in script
Y-Wing
Snowspeeder
Tusken Raider
Tagge
Motti
Wampa
Cloud City
Sith
Ewok
Terms neither spoken in dialogue nor used in script
Palpatine
A-Wing
B-Wing
AT-AT
AT-ST
TIE Interceptor
TIE Bomber
Although many of these terms were popularised by the toys, not the films, you would at least have learned many of them if you sat through...
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Amazon reviewer bixx 456 reviews Wolfram’s “A New Kind of Science:
“Why you are reading this review
I can only imagine how fortunate you must feel to be reading my review. This review is the product of my lifetime of experience in meeting important people and thinking deep thoughts. This is a new kind of review, and will no doubt influence the way you
think about the world...
Zach Snyder's Upcoming Projects
The Catcher in the Rye
The Waste Land
Led Zeppelin IV: The Movie
Guernica
Gravity’s Rainbow
That Story Arc in Wolverine Where He Goes Evil and Kills the Only Gay X-Man
Maus
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Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You... →
GREG RUTTER’S DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE 99 THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED ON THE INTERNET UNLESS YOU’RE A LOSER OR OLD OR SOMETHING
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Sausage pony causes 999 calls: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7939187.stm
Cursor*10 - The sequel
I’m saving cursor*10 2nd session for when I have a spare hour to really relish it. If you played the original, you’ll know why it’s exciting, and if you didn’t, I’m not going to spoil the brilliant gameplay. (via jonky cat’s shared items)
The McGangBang meme
I’m on a severe post-holiday diet, so I won’t be eating a McGangBang anytime soon. It’s a McChicken Sandwich Inside a Double Cheeseburger. I did however enjoy this thorough history of the McGangBang.
So happy that property prices are down 2.3% in Feb. It equates to me having made 5 times more money by not owning, as by actually working.