March 2010
33 posts
“This saw can do it all from opening the chest of an elk, securing firewood or...”
– Cool Tools: Fiskars Pruning Saw
You laugh, but the next time someone’s at a party, looking helpless, holding the unopened chest of an elk? I’ll be there.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Presidents Who... →
“Trams in the early twentieth century must have traveled really fast.”
– Cromulent Postings: A Book for Dummies
Fantastic catch.
kung fu grippe: Block you. →
Looks like Google Voice recently introduced the second-best thing ever: ability to block a given “UNKNOWN” caller, even though, by definition, you don’t know their identity or number. Marry me. Frankly, I don’t care whether this works by wires, slave labor, or fucking elfin magic,…
Google Voice trying to win me back? Sweeee-eet.
“Occam’s Razor, dude. I’m going with Hoffer.”
– Wall Street Poker: Skeptical about James Lipton
Agreed.
“He told a story of how it may have happened, that a man’s good friend...”
– Julius Caesar - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I find Simple English Wikipedia very reassuring. (Seriously, try to read Caesar’s article in the regular Wikipedia. Yikes.)
Sous vide steak at home →
That’s interesting. I wonder what it is about 2010 that made hot water technology finally affordable?
First Draft Propaganda Posters
fuckingbookdeal:
Funniest thing on the Internet right now.
NBA JAM : Basketball Game : EA SPORTS →
Say what? Didn’t know this was an EA property, and didn’t know it was coming soon. (Fall!)
“The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire...”
– Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth - Yahoo! News
At first, I said “not possible”, but then I said “well, wait, the closer your mass is to your center of gravity, the quicker you spin”. So we could undo this by moving a lot of rocks to the second floors of...
lonelysandwich:
“I’m wearing a bow tie right now, and it looks great.” — Jesse Thorn, my pal and partner needs no time to recover from some utterly classless attack from the proprietor of a fairly popular I’m told web comic.
Dirty pool, Penny Cartoon.
Ah, don’t make me pick. Both camps are wildly successful in their narrow target markets, which is to say nerds, which is to say...
“BT chose to release the album online to digital retailers as two large tracks to...”
– These Hopeful Machines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now, I’m on Lala, so I’m not a paying customer, but why can’t I have track names and junk? I’ll listen to it consecutively, I promise.
“WHO DAT!
World Champions XLIV
Sean Payton
That’s the kind of thing Jones...”
– NFL combine, overtime change proposal, Mike McGuire, more - Peter King
- SI.com
I want football back now and I want the Cowboys to play the Saints now and I will not settle down.