How well we have loved
Are you hearing this, dear clusterflock? Are you listening to Barack Obama’s speech?
I am as hopeful for our nation as ever in my life.
I’ll put these fucking pussy panties on right now
I’m on a bus
I’ll be in Houston till Monday looking over the footage I accumulated for the costume documentary. Probably won’t be posting much. Have fun.
The roaring game
A very short clip from last year.
Curling on the Lake of Menteith
Riddley Scott Teaches Typing
A great typing game called Z-Type. Go play.
tweet of the day
(thanks, Joel)
The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written
CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Mitch Delaplane of PitchPoint Public Relations has issued the most amazing press release ever written. While hundreds of press releases are distributed daily, Delaplane feels this particular release will go down in history as the most amazing press release that has ever been written.
“I’ve been in the business for over ten years and have to say, I’m speechless,” claims Delaplane. “The title alone grabs you and demands that it be read. Then there’s this quote that completely takes things to an entirely new level. I’m proud of this press release. In fact, I think it is [really] amazing.”
1964 Dodge Hemi Charger concept
The last time this vehicle changed hands in 2007 it went for a reported $1.1 million.
Ken Grimes, Untitled, Soccer Pool, acrylic on masonite, 2001
A few years after Ken Grimes had his first psychotic break, he started putting some of his ideas about extraterrestrials on canvas.
old wine
The earliest known winery has been uncovered in a cave in the mountains of Armenia.
A vat to press the grapes, fermentation jars and even a cup and drinking bowl dating to about 6,000 years ago were discovered in the cave complex by an international team of researchers.
While older evidence of wine drinking has been found, this is the earliest example of complete wine production, according to Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles, co-director of the excavation.
Kepler 10-b
The planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has spotted its first rocky exoplanet, astronomers announced today at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
“This is the first unquestionably rocky planet orbiting a star outside our solar system,” said astronomer Natalie Batalha of San Jose State University, a member of the Kepler team. “It’s an important milestone for our team, and I think it’s an important milestone for humanity.”
The new planet, called Kepler 10-b, orbits a sun-like star 560 light-years away.
Busy Bone
spam name
Orville G Brock.
Refreshing the Resort
The general manager of our neighborhood resort:
We gave the resort a “refresh” as we modernized the overall look of our Inn rooms. Overall the results have created quite an impact, while keeping with the rustic country motif in an underlying modernized quaintness.
this just in
Phoenix Jones, Guardian of Seattle had his nose broken in a superhero altercation thingy:
KOMO reports that the incident occurred Saturday night, when Jones saw two men “swearing at each other and like about to fight.” The mask-and-body-armor-wearing Jones stepped in to intervene, but one of the men started “swinging” at him. So Jones put him in a headlock, and called 911. That’s when the other man pulled out a gun. Jones let go, and was kicked in the face by the man he had just been holding. Both men got away.
regional accents captured on twitter
The informal, and public, nature of Twitter has allowed Jacob Eisenstein, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon, to track regional accents across the site with remarkable accuracy.
The statistical model could predict the location of a tweeter in the continental United States with a median error of about 300 miles.
Some of the regionalisms seem to have evolved because of Twitter:
For instance, in northern California, something that’s cool is “koo” in tweets, while in southern California, it’s “coo.”
In many cities, something is “sumthin,” but tweets in New York City favor “suttin.”
New Yorkers are “deadass” tired and Angelenos are simply tired “af,” which stands for “as f***.”
Y’all.
Awesome Headline of the Day
NASA’s Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space
Tuesday Morning Corporate Sellout
photo out of context
The headline’s pretty good too:
Jason Schwartzman – What’s In My Bag?
Schwartzman shopping at Amoeba for his unborn child.
Portraits of Australian Criminals from the 1920s
I want whatever camera these were taken with.
(via @wilfreeborn)
Ben Lee covers MGMT, filmed in a single take by Shoot the Player in Sydney Australia
(thanks, Andrew)
this just in
A vulture that was caught in Saudi Arabia last week and accused of spying for Israel’s Mossad is to be released, a Saudi official said.
Top 10 Days of 2011
January 1st.
January 2nd.
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