Ask a law librarian
Man pushing baby carriage: “Downstairs they said I need something here” [points to blank header space above the title of his own motion for enforcement].
Librarian: “Yeah. What’s your question?”
Breeder: “Well why did that lady not tell me when I was here before?”
Librarian: “I dunno. I wudn’t here.”
Breeder: “Y’all should tell people that before they type it.”
Librarian: “I do.”
Breeder: “Well why didn’t that lady before tell me the first time?”
Librarian: “I dunno. I wudn’t here.”
All You Can Travel In 30 Days
From September 7th to October 6th, you can fly anywhere you like, as long as it’s somewhere Jet Blue goes, for either $699 (unlimited) or $499 (Can’t travel on Fridays and Sundays.)
Guess what I wear as a hat?
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.
Why I am voting Tea Party
And there’s more.
Kottke & Kickstarter
Think, and ye shall receive. Today Kottke pointed his Internet cannon over at a girl on Kickstarter, and hopefully this means she’ll get the money she needs to finish her project. I’ve often thought that the big-time bloggers should make mention of Kickstarter projects that they like, because then people will pledge not only to those projects, but maybe click over and look at other projects and pledge there too. And then we all get more art and more community, and hey, that’s great.
and I know this is an infomercial
I know I already did this one before
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quote out of context
So that’s the Republican plan — to fight socialism, we must become communists.
“It’s true,” says Avery without pause. “If I could have bought a Laura Ashley car, I would have.”
Gender preferences in car buying:
Women:
1. Rear visibility
2. Low monthly payment
5. Front visibility (tie)
5. Remote outside mirrors (tie)
5. Side air bags (tie)Men:
1. Styling
3. Horsepower (tie)
3. Engine design (tie)
4. Front visibility
5. Sound system
The first question to ask is why male players choose more aggressive openings against female opponents
Recent research at Stockholm University shows that equally strong male and female chess players employ different opening strategies. The males tend to play aggressive openings against female opponents of the same playing strength, even if it increases the probability of losing the game. That has to be classified as irrational behavior.
(via marginal revolution)
the gendered nature of motor vehicle theft
“The findings indicate that while initiation into auto theft and property disposal networks are both governed by male gatekeepers, women experience greater barriers in gaining access to disposal networks than they do entry into auto theft offending,” say authors Michael G. Cherbonneau and Christopher W. Mullins.
The 2014 Beloit College Mindset List
Somehow better in theory than in practice, still, an interesting snapshot of the cultural context of the class of 2014.
from the spam
intense expected 1979 android
Cat Scratch Fever
Brass Balls
BestBuy sends cease-and-desist letter to God.
headline of the day, II
Bear steals car for peanut butter sandwich, trashes interior, poops on seat
headline of the day
Playboy app for Apple iPad only shows content from the neck up
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
Stuffed with supplies for our adventure in the 100 Aker Woodz, my little red car just sped by Rick and Danny’s place. A couple of shadowy figures behind the slatted fence appeared settled in on their patio. I couldn’t swear they had drinks in hand, but if I had to guess….
Unintentionally tasteless headline of the day.
Eating New Orleans
Ray Cannata, a man who also happened to write a recommendation for my stint in seminary, has been eating his way through every non-chain restaurant in NOLA, 604 eateries, with 12 more to go. I hope he knows a good cardiologist.
Cluster Lore
The initial reference to a pee chute.
“Hallowed Ground”
Some great photography of what is the same distance from Ground Zero as the proposed Ground Zero “mosque.”
via Anil Dash
Don’t piss your pants. Piss in this awesome metaphorical creek.
A while back I wrote about the minor bloodbath at my workplace. Lots of people lost their jobs; the ickiness was as gummy as shit-flavored melty jujubees. And Van Halen.
A few weeks later, someone embedded in the upper echelons of management sent out this morale-booster of a message, essentially telling the kiddie pool that they shouldn’t play “telephone”. Listen here, old boy, rumors and ickiness, like your soiled pull-ups, are bad for the class. Let’s see if a water metaphor makes it easier for you:
He said, “Think about going to the woods with a creek running through it. Look into the water and focus on nothing but the running water and you begin to see all the underlying elements in the creek, the rocks, the small fish, branches and all of a sudden the whole creek becomes crystal clear.”
I get why the reduction was necessary. I get that life goes on. Just don’t talk to me like I’m Donny: I have a frame of reference, motherfucker.
I kept this ridiculous email in the books, thinking it would be a useful reminder of the lateral bounds of stupidity. It must now be purged onto the pillowy bosom of Clusterflock!!
-Ronya
Monday Music News: Arcade Fire (Quietly) Reinvents the Album
Arcade Fire have apparently re-engineered the concept of the album for the digital age. The digital version of their new release “The Suburbs” comes bundled with .m4a files that present a stream of visuals and synchronized lyrics (finally!), along with a deep nest of embedded contextual links that work like an easter-egg hunt, encouraging the user to keep clicking.
Here’s a video created by Topspin’s Ian Rogers, showing what the synchronized artwork looks like in action:
And here’s a brief explanation of the concept and the execution of the synchronized artwork by its creator, Vincent Morisset.
Personally I’m impressed not only by the degree of thought and creative direction that went into engineering this new immersive album experience, but by the (by today’s standards, mystifying) inverse degree of self-promotion they’ve applied to this approach.
Guess I’ll be buying it now!
Via Hypebot: Arcade Fire Rethinks Album Format, Tells No One
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