March 2008
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Exxon Still Hasn't Settled Up With Alaska Over... →
WTF?!!
February 2008
89 posts
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Google Expands Free Phone Numbers/Voicemail... →
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Speaking of 'Nightmare'...
Rumor has it (or had it) the aforementioned New Line Cinema was in talks to embark on a remake of their touchstone franchise, ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ (1984), in cahoots with the creative midgets who brought the re-tooled ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2003) to life. Must this un-lubed cornholing of my 70’s and 80’s horror canon continue? I literally wept at...
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New Line Cinema: 1967-2008 →
Bob Shaye’s nightmare come true: The little indie that could is slated to disappear into the corporate morass that is Time-Warner, Inc. (via Variety)
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Movies I'll Watch Whenever They're On TV #3
‘Manhunter’ (1986). ‘Red Dragon’ (2002), not so much.
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This Week's Canceled DVR 'Season Pass'
Quarterlife - Felt like that’s how much of mine was wasted.
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So Cenegenics Is What, Exactly...?
Leafing through an American Airlines Hemispheres a while back and had my psyche seared by a disturbing print ad featuring this freakishly buffed-out grandpa. The nightmares wore off, until I saw the ad again in WIRED. ‘Anti-aging hormone treatment,’ their web site claims. Sounds like marketing pseudo-science speak for ‘snake oil’. Or something worse…
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ESPN: Cubs Owner Says Wrigley Field Naming Rights... →
‘Won’t hesitate… even if baseball purists don’t like the idea.’ Have to wonder whether Sam Zell would like the idea of pitchforks and torches chasing him out of Chicago.
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Researchers Look To Spot Photo Hoaxes →
Jinkies, it’s the Photoshop Police! (via WIRED)
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WatchDiebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
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Korean Mock Funerals →
Declare bankruptcy on your shitty life-outlook. (via Chicago Tribune)
“Dream more while you are awake.”
– Anonymous (via Mom’s email)
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Paper Cups vs. Styro: Who's Greener? →
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Ralph Dusts Off Campaign For '08 Run →
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Best Moment(s) Of 80th Academy Awards
Watching, with an ear-to-ear grin, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s shock and unapologetic jubilation as their beautiful ‘Falling Slowly’ (from Once) was announced as Best Original Song. Kudos to the voters for recognizing powerful songwriting, especially when the Disney McMusic factory had a 3-in-5 chance to walk away with the statue. And an ‘atta boy for whomever gave...
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Alex Steinweiss →
Managed to catch a local showing of the graphic designer’s ground-breaking album cover art before it closed. His is the DNA from which evolved the album cover as we now know it. Books and web graphics don’t do justice. An immersive appreciation of the work would’ve been to sit cross-legged on the gallery floor, leafing through piles of covers, as a record player crackled with...
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Unknown numbers station broadcast. Can’t get...
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Rubber Sidewalks →
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Bears Re-Sign Grossman →
Here I was, all excited because I thought the ESPN headline said “resign”. Crap. And where do they get off, disrupting my Cubs’ season ramp-up with this downer?
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79 Years Of Best Picture Oscar® Winners In Posters →
(via Oscarfreak/Adfreak.com)
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Swedish Freeze-Dried Eco-Burial →
‘We’re here today at the Ljunggren Funeral Home where we’ve replaced these mourners’ dearly departed loved one with Promessa crystals. Let’s see if they notice the difference…’
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Esquire: The Best Sandwiches In America →
Road trip! One teeny-tiny oversight, though… Beef on Weck (Buffalo, New York). It ain’t all just about the wings. Try one at Charlie The Butcher’s.
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The Air Car →
Wha…? But air is free. I don’t see how U.S. Auto Makers and a subsidized Petroleum Industry are supposed to compete against that. Oh, right… Strong-arm tactics and Washington lobbying.
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'Virgin Galactic Orders More Spaceships' →
If nothing else, it’s a cool headline. Tré Jetson.
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Bob The Angry Flower's Grammar Lesson →
Crap. Would hate to hear what he thinks of semi-colons. (via Neatorama)
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Modern Drunkard Magazine →
All the booze that’s fit to print.
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This Week's Canceled DVR 'Season Pass'
Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesHard to turn away from the Lena Headley/Summer Glau eye-candem, but series feels like it’s collapsing under its own wait (re: slow-going). Repetitive effects. Repetitive backstory recaps (Kyle Reese is the kid’s dad — got it). Two pancake jokes in three weeks. And the Terminator-on-Terminator fights play like bad porn: “Okay, do a #5 (Push...
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NASCARa
I don’t watch nearly enough stock car racing on ESPN. Nicole Manske, Jamie Little and Shannon Spake: Restrictor plate required.
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Batter Blaster →
Pancake batter from a friggin’ can?! Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
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Drawing The Line: Are There Rules For Editorial... →
© Daryl Cagle - MSNBC.com (via Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index)
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'Webmaster' Named New LA Times Editor →
Print and online integration is paper’s new ‘mandate’.
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Panoramio →
“Hey, I can see your house from here!” Google Maps geo-tagging.
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“It is hard for a Packer to support a Bears fan… But you would not want...”
– Sen. Barack Obama - At a Green Bay, WI, campaign rally on Feb. 16th, after pointing out Packer Linebacker Brady Poppinga in the crowd. (via Chicago Tribune)
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'The Spies Who Love You' →
Animated political satire explaining President Bush’s warrant-less wiretapping boondoggle that hurts, and should. (via Boing Boing) ‘That’s not illegal, that’s love.’ - Snuggly the Security Bear.
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“I think we’re going to win the World Series, I really do.”
– Ryan Dempster, Chicago Cubs pitcher, on the first day of Spring Training in Mesa, AZ (via Chicago Tribune) And why not?! Fukudome, doubters!
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Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat? →
Mostly likely the main reason patents for the original compound names Bigaspartame, Sacchardoublechin and Sucrullite weren’t filed. (via TIME)
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