quote out of context
from a tea party email chain:
Then I got to the part that made me feel like my head was going to explode: “A protégé of the political imprisoned patriotic poet Ezra Pound, Mullins compiled a well-researched corpus of works…”
Er? (via The Hydra)
Thinking of all y’all
A Google image search turned up 191,000 hits for bacon bra.
olympic etiquette
A luger knows he’s going to hear cowbells ringing while negotiating turns at 90 mph, yet it wouldn’t be fair if a spectator rang one during Evan Lysacek’s free skate.
I disagree.
take two
hunger, thirst, happy anticipation
In the never ending quest to sell, ad men are researching the impact of sound.
To figure out what most appeals to our ear, Lindstrom wired up his volunteers, then played them recordings of dozens of familiar sounds, from McDonald’s ubiquitous “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle to birds chirping and cigarettes being lit. The sound that blew the doors off all the rest–both in terms of interest and positive feelings–was a baby giggling. The other high-ranking sounds were less primal but still powerful. The hum of a vibrating cell phone was Lindstrom’s second-place finisher. Others that followed were an ATM dispensing cash, a steak sizzling on a grill and a soda being popped and poured.
The down side:
The Microsoft start-up sound has taken on similarly negative associations, because people so often hear it when they’re rebooting after their computer has crashed.
Olympic Artists
There was once such a thing:
The dream of uniting sport and art, as they were once paired in the original Greek Olympiads, was in fact central to the mission of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the godfather of the Games. The goal was “to reunite in the bonds of legitimate wedlock a long-divorced couple — Muscle and Mind,” the baron loftily announced to an organizing committee in an early attempt to get the idea off the ground. But while the first athletic competitions got under way in Athens in 1896, it was not until the Stockholm Games in 1912 that medals would be given for architecture, sculpture, painting, music and literature.
bits and pieces
David Bowie as web visionary
“I don’t even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years because I don’t think it’s going to work by labels and by distribution systems in the same way. The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing.”
photo out of context
“That’s where it all began,” Ventola said.
The media reported that black-tar heroin was sweeping through town, killing users. That “made people want it more,” said Paul Hunter, a Huntington police narcotics officer. “Addicts are always looking for the best high.”
From a series of articles in the LA Times about Xalisco Mexico, middle-class America, black-tar heroin, decentralized business models, and addiction.
what might have been
“On average, bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists,” said Victoria Medvec, a psychologist and professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Managementv in Illinois.
think of the children
A group of pediatricians in the United States is pushing for a redesigned hot dog.
“We know what shape, sizes and consistencies pose the greatest risk for choking in children and whenever possible food manufacturers should design foods to avoid those characteristics, or redesign existing foods when possible, to change those characteristics to reduce the choking risk,” said Dr. Gary Smith, immediate-past chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention and lead author of the organization’s new policy statement on preventing choking.
About Right
“I regret how I said to you, “honey, just open your heart” when I’ve got trouble even opening a honey jar. And that right there is where we are…” - Joanna Newsom, Good Intentions Paving Company
Wombat Music Workshop | Ladybug
What to sing to the ladybugs you find in your coconut icecream.
real name
screenshot
Amy said
You got teats on your dick so really I don’t understand your whole dog system.
spam names
Ken Bacon.
Barbara Plummer.
Sterling Baxter.
Amy said
I want an unlimited cheese budget.
spam name
Marylou Jeffers.
So I think that this
is kind of a big deal.
urban skiing
In Pittsburgh, we don’t get two-plus feet of snow in 24 hours – but that happened two weeks ago. And some people knew what they should do… (via @woycheck and @schulman)
quote out of context
To the formal study data, I feel I must add one last statement about the afterlife, passed along to me by Allison DuBois, who received it from an unnamed discarnate during a private sitting: ‘I can wear pleated pants now.’”
Your mouth red on the inside, pink
from the comments
He gave us a real good deal on a Massey Ferguson front axle spindle. Straight shooter. Love him and his wife. His breath stinks from the diabetes though.
