November 2007
57 posts
Marshmallow Festival in Ligonier Indiana →
Goddammit, why the hell didn’t anyone tell me there was a marshmallow festival?!
Top ten terrible tech products →
Ok, I confess I liked my Tamagotchi, when I had one. And yep, Windows Vista is on the list too.
BUTTEROIL by BUTTERLICIOUS →
Deeply, deeply disturbing.
Pantone Matching →
Everything has a Pantone color…it’s just a matter of finding it. (via rivet sf’s photostream and Chris Glass)
Bush = Hitler, Stalin, et al.? →
Listen to Naomi Wolf’s case and decide for yourself. (Some guy from the Hoover Institution disagrees, shockingly enough.)
Tired on Thanksgiving? Don't Blame Turkey →
Let’s put the tryptophan myth to rest for good, shall we?
How Not to Succeed in Law School →
If you’re not a lawyer or a law student, this won’t be all that funny to you. If you are, and you haven’t read James Gordon’s Yale Law Journal essay yet, go read it RIGHT NOW. (pdf)
A myth in the unmaking →
Fox News’s status as a politically impartial channel is at last being exposed as a fiction. Better late than never, I suppose. (via Guardian UK)
A classic by any other name →
Why is Joseph Heller’s famous ‘Catch’ called ‘22’? Why is Bertie’s manservant called Jeeves? And why does the postman always ring twice (in a book that has no postman)? In these extracts from his new book, Gary Dexter reveals the story behind the stories.
“Everyone envies everyone else.”
– Philip Larkin
The 50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said →
All in one handy-dandy place.
The Life and Death of Jesse James →
Astonishing LA Weekly story by screenwriter Josh Olson, involving Harlan Ellison, a dog named Stan, and a mordibly obese woman who’s bugfuck crazy. Plus, you know when you have a friend who has a new Significant Other and she’s so smug about the depth of their DEEP LUV that you want to throttle her? This article has the best description of that phenomenon I’ve ever read.
Gender Bender
I’m not too keen on the notion of Bloomberg for President, and the whole “There’s no difference!” notion is a little too reminiscent of Ralph Fucking Nader for my taste. But still, this is a pretty good piece of digital manipulation. (Via bloombergwhitehouse)
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Dept. of Criminology: Dangerous Minds: →
Malcolm Gladwell explains why profiling is basically a lot of crap.
“It’s so incredibly insulting. The 24-hour waiting period implies that...”
– Dr. Susan Wicklund, author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
Google Image Labeler →
This thing is stupidly addictive. Also, I should be annoyed at doing free R&D for google, but I can’t stop playing the damn thing. I bet you won’t be able to either.
