from the comments
Amish mullets are all ordnung in the front, rumspringa in the back.
from the moderated comments
Davis baking powder is a NY Metro area regional favorite. Hearth Club is currently being sold by Dollar Tree Corp both online and in brick-and-mortar Dollar Tree and their Deals stores for $1 for 8.1 ounces. Most of the store brand baking powder around here is also made by Clabber Girl Corp. If someone has access to a food chemistry lab, it should be fairly easy to assay the contents of the various brands. My guess is that they vary the portions of ingredients for each brand. But I have been wrong about these kinds before, i.e., except for Rumford, they could all be the same stuff.
A Lot Did Happen
Hey gang, putting together one of those year-end compilations isn’t as easy as you’d think.
12 Indicted On Hate Crimes Charges For Hair Cutting Assaults Led By Break-Off Amish Group
I think this is my favorite story of 2011.
Fox News Christmas Card
For your analysis. (via Brian Stelter)
headline of the day
2011: The year when a lot happened
tweet of the day
I’ll bet Ben Kenobi has gross fucking toes.
— John Gruber (@gruber) December 20, 2011
quotes out of context
What we see, specifically, in our research is that men have the biological capability to “attune” to fatherhood, responding to the transition to fatherhood with large declines in testosterone.
Their stuff was so much more exciting and interesting than the Wittgenstein texts that had formed the basis of my philosophical training that I gradually found myself switching direction.
9. CARLSON THINKS, AS PRESIDENT, RICK PERRY MIGHT FOREGO AIR FORCE ONE TO TRAVEL BY HORSE
These little bundles of joy are actually chow chow dogs that have been dyed black-and-white to look like pandas.
But nothing demonstrates the veneration of all things gangster, like the untimely demise of a vor v zakone, or Russian mafia boss.
If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
How to Pronounce Stieg Larsson
And other pronunciation guides from Pronunciation Manual.
(thanks, Dave)
dueling banjos
Every time a bell rings, an angel trained by Pavlov starts to drool.
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) December 20, 2011
Franklin, our ancient, probably senile dog sometimes walks around the houseand drops what I’m calling turdpedoes.
— Amy Mabli (@amymia) December 20, 2011
image out of context
I am posting this post
because to now I have posted 1964 posts. So this will be 1965. And that was a beautiful year. I was just old enough to know that I wanted to be a grown-up woman. In 1965.
At least one of those grown-up women in the movies. Or to have a hit record.
tweet of the day
Why couldn’t the fruit of the tree of knowledge be a banana? The whole rest of the bible is metaphorical. Maybe they didn’t eat it, per se.
— ★ＯＫ★ (@horsedreamer) December 19, 2011
Smell Them; You’ll Know.
Fade from black to black.
Phonograms
Patrick Feaster studies the culture of early phonography (the recording and reproduction of sound) and blogs at Phonozoic, where I’ve been hanging out for the past hour or so. At the 2011 conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Feaster shared “Phonogram Images on Paper: 1250-1950.” You can listen to his presentation and download slides here. Just scroll down a little ways and you’ll find the links.
(via Excavated Shellac)
from the moderated comments (spam?)
I stumbled across this website when i saw the title “Neglected Pet Dreams”. I just wanted to say what a relief it is to know that other people suffer from this weird syndrome? as well. I have horrific nightmares about my cats (still alive) and a rabbit that died over 15 yrs ago!! Why is this haunting me?? Does anybody have a clue!
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How do you celebrate the death of the worst person on the planet?
I’ve never quite heard anything like it. Terrifying.
What kind of preternaturally hyper-trained eye does it take to find and resolve in a picture, in an instant, compositions of such visual complexity and internal harmony?
It didn’t take long for the beautiful and perfect Ed King to ejaculate for the fifth time in twelve hours, while looking like Roman public-bath statuary.
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way, but they come out looking another way. And that’s what people observe.
It’s snowing!
from the comments
And I should point out that the Lego Technic sets that I had as a kid are still actively developed, you just wouldn’t know it walking down the lego aisle at your local toy store.
And that brings up an even bigger point, which is that the internet has freed the long tail to go live in cheap ecommerce space, rather than cutthroat toy store shelves. If there’s a particular brick you need, there are official and unofficial places to get it. Whole communities of people online trade designs for their new transmission gearbox.
I’d argue that there’s never been a better time to get your kid interested in legos, male or female.
quotes out of context
You know what’s shameful? A complete lack of empathy.
Reaction to news of the unusual arrangement in which Perry retired as a state employee but remains Texas’ elected governor was swift and negative.
Peggy Drexler, a social psychologist at Cornell Medical School, is interested in the evolution of the new fathers — not so much in how daughters shape their fathers (though, to be sure, that constitutes an enormous part of the equation, as George Eliot understood so well), but in how they shape their daughters, and, especially, how they shape their daughters’ ambition.
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much exclusively towards boys.
PLEASE NOTE: The above, the famous “Singing Asshole” scene from John Water’s Pink Flamingos (1972), should be viewed, at least the first time, in the context of the entire movie.
They speak to me
from the comments
Future Joel gets the tiny piece.
Have you seen this?
Wait until about the 4:45 mark…
headline of the day
‘Internet is for Porn’ pops up during House SOPA debate
Dear Clusterflock: 2011
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