October 2008
44 posts
Come On Everybody, DO THE ZOMBIE! It’s not...
WatchDiebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early (via The Onion - America’s Finest News Source)
Kids Halloween Candy Code →
Growing up in the Bowling Green neighborhood of Sacramento, I was taught how to read and mark houses with the Halloween Candy Code. For kids with an early curfew these codes were invaluable.
Best news story ever. →
That’s what I said. (via maxforfree)
The Vampire March - Rank Strangers
Part of the...
“Frank TV, you’ve got nothin’ on TV’s Frank”
– Twitter / Jordan_Morris
Beatles License Songs to Viacom Videogame Unit -... →
The Beatles have licensed songs to MTV Networks’ Rock Band videogame series, according to several people familiar with the matter, a coup for the Viacom Inc. unit in its battle with rival Activision Inc. for supremacy in the world of rock and roll video games
Paul and Storm’s Cruel, Cruel, Moon. Just...
Spooky. Scary.
“Got the GLaDOS and Dennis Hopper voices for my new Tom Tom 130s. GLaDOS actually...”
– Twitter / Leo Laporte: Got the GLaDOS and Dennis …
Neil Gaiman's Journal: A fine wensleydale? →
Neil Gaiman tries to buy a G1.
“It is, in fact, Norway that is veritably ribbed with fjords as if for her...”
– The Macalope Weekly: Hippies, Loose Accusations and They Got My Partner! - MacUser
“DC will blow up McCain/Palin wins. shauna already said that if it happens we...”
“We aim to provide a member of staff per mile of storeroom floor but this depends...”
– Davidology - KRAPEA.com
“I actually want the American Sign Language symbol for “John McCain”...”
– Bryan Lambert
“Senator, I went to pipe laying school with Joe the plumber. I unclogged toilets...”
– Twitter / John Moltz
“After watching 30 Rock, I always want to pronounce “Facebook” as...”
– Twitter / Lore Sjöberg
Big ballot boo-boo →
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s last name is spelled “Osama” on some 300 absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County hilltowns.
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"All I Smell Is Raw Power And Speed" -- Daddy... →
More research on David Letterman’s Paul Newman Designed 400bHp Volvo Stationwagon.
“So, wait, McCain WOULD attack inside Pakistan but shhhh, we’re hunting...”
– Twitter / John Moltz
very small array →
Histograms of genre popularity in music over time. Aw, comeon…they’re kinda pretty!
“Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in...”
– (Freaking) Roger Ebert answering reader-mail…
Flickr: Panda →
WTF?
“There are two types of people in the world: those who can’t tell the difference...”
– Daring Fireball
Geoffrey Nunberg - on "elite" →
“People are always splitting off new meanings for words. Much more rarely they’ll shmoosh together two old ones. As with other kinds of inbreeding, the process can produce monsters. Take the curious recent development of the noun elite. Not long ago it was a barely nativized French word that still opened with a jaunty accent aigu on its é. Now it can drive items like health care,...
Speakably Vile | You Are Dumb →
There are days when Bryan is firing on all cylinders. Today is one of those days.
