August 2009
52 posts
July 2009
25 posts
“@websoup Youre momma so fat, the Sorting Hat put her in the House of Pancakes!...”
– Twitter / Robert Lach
“Today, to ask a boy I really liked to my school’s turnabout dance, I gave...”
– FML
Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain... →
Now THAT'S irony. →
Orwell’s 1984 removed from kindle devices without notice or owner permission.
Remembering Apollo 11 - The Big Picture →
40 years ago, three human beings - with the help of many thousands of others - left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard. The entire trip lasted only 8 days,...
Suggested Poems for Specific Occasions
yourmonkeycalled:
Childbirth Announcement Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”
Graduation, High School Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”
Graduation, College Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”
Wedding Some shit by Kahlil Gibran
Funeral Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”
“There are 92 specialties. How special can they be?!”
– Cheesecake Factory: The Alexander Challenge - Ruhlman.com
New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of... →
Why are we on Facebook, again?
“So let me look again at that holy text: ‘if life gives you lemons, make...”
– The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
That's Not Cool →
“a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of...”
– a NASA climatologist
Knepper Thanks Sutherland For Punch To The Face →
Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge -... →
“The incandescent bulb is turning into a case study of the way government mandates can spur innovation. “There’s a massive misperception that incandescents are going away quickly,” said Chris Calwell, a researcher with Ecos Consulting who studies the bulb market. “There have been more incandescent innovations in the last three years than in the last two decades.”
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Feel free to read...
cabel.name: Yay! Fireworks! 2009! →
Cabel’s annual look at Fireworks package design.
Photo of monorails →
Monorail crash at the TTC.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train’s operator, emergency officials said.
Disney said it was the first fatal crash in the monorail’s 38-year history in the park.
— AP report.
“Remember when you were in college, and you had a friend who spent junior year in...”
– Dave Holmes (via yourmonkeycalled)
