February 2008
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January 2008
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Onion Radio News: 'Lucille' Calls Police On B.B.... →
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Instapaper →
The procrastinating link-junkie’s new best friend.
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Sean Young's Next Career Move: From DGA Awards... →
For conduct unbecoming a replicant. (via CNN)
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Edwards Out →
Can only hope there’s room for his Populist talking points in the campaign discourse to come. Note to No. 44: Attorney General.
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Today's Obscure Unit Of Measure
Smoot: a measure of length developed by some MIT students, equal to 5 feet, 7 inches—the height of one Oliver R. Smoot. (via WIRED)
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Jenna Bush's White House 'Slumber Party' →
The crazy night for one half of the No-Wonder Twins and her friends on the eve of her wedding shower included such classic activities as: Ordering pizza Playing ‘Obfuscate or Dare’ Painting each other’s foreign policy into a corner Prank Robo-Calls Kissing practice on the Secret Service detail
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Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1/Gallon,... →
Without corn? So, what, that means I can expect the price of Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch to go down? Well, okay then… get on it. Chop, chop. (via WIRED)
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State of the Union: W’s partying like it’s 2004.
State of the Union: The hootin’ ‘n hollerin’ from the House Chamber balcony sounds like Josh Bolten’s bussed in the West Point Pep Squad.
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“…is ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ for the Internet Age.”
– Critic’s review of the film ‘Untraceable’ “…is ‘The Net’ for the Internet Age” is more appropriate. On the TV ad, the critic’s name is so small and illegible that it reeks of pseudonym for a cubicle crawler in the Screen Gems marketing...
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Join The Navy, Kill Some Whales →
Via WIRED. Further reading: Bush Attempts Illegal Override Of Court Order Protecting Whales From Sonar Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law
Emailed Noah, hoping to get aboard the Ark on stand-by. Will gladly share steerage space with LA local who has own llama costume.
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Mysterious 'Doughy" Blob Clogs Maine Sewer →
So now we know what happened to all the stories Stephen King threw out.
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It must be a tour stipulation that winners of pro tennis matches collapse into an emotional heap on the court. Do they specify both knees?
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Top-Selling Internet Domains At LA Auction →
Serious cash laid out for available domain names such as: porn.net - $400,000 alimony.com - $75,000 groundbeef.com - $16,000 While a few others remained unsold: effmykidscollegefund.org betterlatethannevertothedotcomparty.com heylookigotporndotnet.net thiswasnotthewirelessspectrumauctionidiot.com
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Do's And Dont's With Babies →
By no means the final say for each situation. Merely suggestions. Your mileage may vary. (via Neatorama)
It’s official… LA’s unofficial monsoon season has begun. Popo, secure the hut, collect the rations and DVDs, and biofuel the raft!
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Reese Witherspoon's Nude Rule - Never! →
Admirable yet disappointing. (via Huffington Post)
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'Pioneers Of Television' →
Great, four-part PBS American Experience doc for those who suckled the TV teat (‘Sitcoms’, ‘Late Night’, ‘Variety’, and ‘Game Shows’). With the atrophied state of current broadcast content, perhaps it’s possible to hack the DVR with a time-traveling module, to Season Pass 1948-1978. ALSO: The PBS American Masters episode, ‘Carol...
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TerraChoice: Six Sins Of Greenwashing →
‘Green-wash (green’wash’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.’ (via C|Net)
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Design Police →
Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Be on the look-out for bad design. (via Creativebits)
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Electicker 2008 →
One-stop election news, opinion and whatever aggregator site for Left, Right and Center. (via Metafilter)
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200 Documentaries You Must See Before You Die →
In well-designed, downloadable PDF format (‘while the bandwidth lasts’). Highly subjective list, but a decent place to start. A few glaring omissions, however: Salesman (Maysles/Zwerin) Titicut Follies (Wiseman) Harlan County, U.S.A. (Kopple) The War Room (Pennebaker/Hegedus) Tom Dowd & The Language of Music (Morrmann) Lost in La Mancha (Fulton/Pepe)
Oscar® Noms out (http://www.oscars.com/nominees/). Way behind. Need to reach me? I’ll be popcorn-and-Raisinetting at the über-plex.
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“On the other hand, you have different fingers.”
– Warren Miller
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A Little Trip →
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The Campaign Game →
Sorta like Risk for the Election set.
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Rejected NFL Fan Sign Concept
Pats-Giants Super Bowl = excitement black hole. Antidote: Pitchers and catchers report in 3 weeks.
RulesOfThumb.org →
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Enough With The Asian Horror Remakes!
The originals weren’t that good. The posters are better, though.
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70's Sitcom Co-Star RIP
Allan Melvin - ‘Sam The Butcher’ from The Brady Bunch Suzanne Pleshette - from The Bob Newhart Show If I were a cast member of Rhoda, The Partridge Family, or Good Times, I’d be concerned: the ‘Rule of 3’ must be maintained.
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Willie O'Ree: NHL Pioneer →
In 1958, O’Ree became the first Black player in the NHL. Played the majority of his career in the minors, and currently works promoting youth hockey to minorities. (via ESPN) Still on my Amazon Wish List, Black Ice, a detailed account of Nova Scotia’s Coloured Hockey League, which, for the most part, is sadly absent from mainstream hockey history. There was talk of a documentary based...
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75 Words Every Sci-Fi Fan Should Know →
Via C|Net. Curiously excluded from this list: girlfriend (n.) lowfat (adj.) razor (n.) sunlight (n.)
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Last Call For Famed Cocoanut Grove Nightclub →
‘Say Goodbye to Hollywood’. Los Angeles Conservancy lawsuit settlement hands keys to school district wrecking-ballers. More Tinseltown history reduced to scrap. At least there are still the fading memories and the photographs. (via Los Angeles Times)
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'Wham-O' Co-Founder, 82, Slips And Slides To Other... →
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Shopping Cart Stories 1
25 cans Fancy Feast cat food 1 bag Fresh Step cat litter 1 pack Stayfree Ultra Thin Regular Maxi Pads 3 Ghirardelli ‘Intense Dark Evening Dream’ chocolate bars 1 Bride’s magazine 1 Martha Stewart Weddings magazine 1 qt Seagram’s VO
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Army Seeks 'Professional Celebrity Rock Band' →
Does your outfit pass muster? (via Wired)
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'The Lone Ranger' Turns 75 →
Clayton Moore as TV’s Lone Ranger. (via NPR)