new car smell
I’m making some internet at deronbauman.com.
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They never mention his full title. He was more than just and artist, He as a Ripoff Artist!
I hope someone pisses on your bones for pissing on Winnie the Pooh and grabbing ass while being an obnoxious drunk.
Rest in you warm place buddy.
Update:
GOOD, I did not like it when he pissed on Winnie the Pooh and said, “Here’s One for you Walt” Not very Christian family like now is it? Sell the Christian BS and profit from it…Not cool either.
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Just out of curiosity, how many of you who are skeptical of the benefit or positive effect of what you see demonstrated in this video have actually received ThetaHealing® from a certified, professional ThetaHealer®?
Project Nim
From the director of Man on Wire, Project Nim:
Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
(via marginal revolution)
dueling banjos
Anything but hear the voice that says we’re basically alone.
— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) March 18, 2012
It begins w attraction, then a kind of attack, & it ends, if you are lucky, w a strong impersonation of your author. (fagles on translating)
— Sam Anderson (@shamblanderson) March 18, 2012
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tweet of the day
Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk died at 91 today, effectively ending his bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) March 17, 2012
dueling banjos
Everything’s happy underground.
— Andrew Simone (@asimone) March 17, 2012
Little known fact – bagpipers are actually missing the part of the brain that processes criticism.
— Garrett Miller (@heyitsgarrett) March 17, 2012
Bill Callahan, Jim Cain
quotes out of context
Burglars and con men can be great at what they do, but even if you admire them as puckish, chaotic-neutral antiheroes, you certainly wouldn’t want their means of employment to “catch on” any more than it already has; if *everybody* started behaving that way, we’d experience a net loss of awesome.
The bottom line on these experiments is, “More Net access, less rape.”
Who knew that being in space sounds like being trapped with a whale underwater in a tin pail?
Will they be hackable and if so, dangerous?
So here’s the story: On February 11, Horse_ebooks overtook Jack Dorsey’s Klout score (74.7).
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I’m taking notes in shorthand and will transcribe them on my typewriter.
headline of the day
Chimpanzees have police officers
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The important thing to pay attention to, when dealing with Smiths, is not what they said but when they said it.
but what did you order?
Not quite a headline of the day, not quite a smoke signals, not quite a dueling banjos:
quotes out of context
My hypothetical dream iPad from 2010 is today the just-plain real-life iPad.
It’s actually really powerful considering it’s a 4.99 app and it’s running on a tablet.
State Rep Terry England seems to be suggesting pigs and cows do it, why can’t humans?
In a second demonstration, Soong used his software to grant Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, the ability to speak Mandarin.
Please help me live wi/out the brambles by donating your pence !
Handmade Type
In this experiment, I drew shapes with ink on one or both of my hands, manipulating my gestures into the corresponding shape to signify an upper-case letter. Then, using the same shape on my hands, I manipulated my gesture or changed the perspective through which the shape is viewed in order to transform the upper-case letter to a lower-case of the same letter.
Beautiful and clever. I look forward to seeing more.
(thanks, Chris)
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The whole Internet publishing enterprise will be a parenthesis, MacArthur thinks, before people come back to their senses and realize that LL Bean catalogs were the apotheosis of the at-home shopping experience.
Using the scale of the Lego people as a guide, Allain estimated that the Lego Death Star would be much taller than the world’s tallest buildings and weigh more than 2 billions tons.
“There’s no way he can be using,” said Melville. “I hope for his own sake he’s not using that much toilet paper everyday.”
First, let’s be clear.
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Melanie Smith said on July 27th, 2010 at 2:05 am
tweet of the day
Whenever someone tells me I should be ashamed of myself, I’m like “Got it covered, bro!”
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 14, 2012
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Is it delicious, my precious?
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Cow of many — well milked and badly fed.
tweet of the day
Everyone calm down. We can’t fix this.
— Paul Ford (@ftrain) March 13, 2012
from the comments
I’m adding “Has a password more secure than the secret access code to the computer controls of the U.S. nuclear-tipped missile arsenal between 1968 and 1976″ to my resume.
quotes out of context
The “Himalaya Water Tower” is a skyscraper located high in the mountain range that serves to store water and helps regulate its dispersal to the land below as the mountains’ natural supplies dry up.
Dean’s band — Junkyard Prophet, a Christian heavy metal/rap group — performed at Dunkerton High School on Thursday and then split the audience up into several groups: boys, girls and teachers.
“This is one of the worst marketing campaigns in the history of movies,” a former studio marketing chief told Vulture before the film opened. “It’s almost as if they went out of their way to not make us care.” If that was the goal, it worked.

