Cake or Death?

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January 10

What do I even know about 11 year olds?

thumbwrestlinginbaltimore: Last week I wrote about finally getting placed with my “little sister”,...
Jul 1st
Life in the Pyrénées, circa 1900 « Flickr Blog
Jul 1st

Deastro :: The Shaded Forest

about-today: Well, let’s see how this first post goes. Despite downloading something like 10...
Jul 1st
“Someone selected Ryan Adams. This made me happy for two...”
— Chuck Klosterman, in Esquire,...
Jul 1st
Google learns to crawl Flash
Jul 1st

My Innovation Integration Timeline

juliaallison: The history of great innovations is always the same: they are invented they are...
Jun 29th
Warch Watch
Who’s on first? Yogurt is!
Jun 27th
“Someone like Jay-Z can be Mr. Carter, certainly, or he can...”
— Sam Sifton, NYT culture...
Jun 25th

More proof I am not allowed to shop...

I just caught myself singing to pages of Le Creuset cookware online, while browsing for a wedding...
Jun 23rd
Another one from this weekend.
Jun 23rd

There's a word for what I want to study

Sociolinguistics.
Jun 22nd
How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap
Jun 22nd
Scenes from a Harley ride through Virginia: -Guapo’s...
Jun 22nd
Huffington Post To Take on Local Newspapers
Jun 20th
St. Petersburg Times photographer and art director re-create...
Jun 20th
ejronin: karmcity: Dear Newspapers, Making your...
Jun 20th
Generate Design | Sommelier Wine Glasses by Maxim Velčovský....
Jun 19th
“Iranians have downloaded 268,568 copies of the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox...
Jun 19th
“I’ve been listening to NPR so long now that I simply cannot...”
— nancynall.com » I are an...
Jun 19th
Oh, Flickr, my dear. I think it’s over.
Jun 19th

The Great American Think-Off and/or...

In this year’s “philosophy” contest, the question for debating was, “Does...
Jun 17th
Cary Tennis again: This time, on workplace...
Jun 16th
“On March 10, 2007, minutes before the deadline, Ms. Lucas’s phone rang. “After five years, he...
Jun 16th

Where's my Tom's of Maine?

I would have sworn that the toothpaste last night was expired. I’m visiting my parents for...
Jun 15th
On sexism in language: a satire
Jun 14th

It's really over?

I didn’t renew my old domain after I’d quit blogging there, and I just checked:...
Jun 14th
“We long for a way out, don’t we? But why do we assume...”
— What should we do with our $3...
Jun 13th
Long-exposure shots in St. Petersburg, Russia turn people...
Jun 13th

Judean date palm is oldest seed to...

“Scientists using radiocarbon dating have confirmed that an ancient Judean date palm seed...
Jun 13th
The 7 Deadly Glasses
Jun 13th
'I will always feed you'
Jun 13th

Favorite song titles of the moment

Touch Me I’m Going to Scream, Pt. 1 Touch Me I’m Going to Scream, Pt. 2 by My Morning...
Jun 13th
“I realize there’s enormous lip service given to the value of community news and info...
Jun 13th
productiveatwork: so i just realized that in bengali BALTI MARY would be "i hit you with a bucket"
Baltimary: yayyy
Jun 12th
Warch Watch
I forgot how much I love this. “Ten days of perfect tunes, the colors red and blue.”
Jun 12th

Oldie but goodie: I still get chills...

“No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor...
Jun 11th
“Anyway, it’s not like any of this has any meaning....”
— Face the music
Jun 11th
mylifeinacube: I got passwords comin’ out my ears over here.
Jun 11th
OMG! Steve Jobs doesn't wear a belt!
Jun 11th
karmcity: Today I cried the entire last two miles of this...
Jun 9th

A me meme

I miss memes. Here’s one I saw at Bright Yellow World and Stefanie Says. a. Type your...
Jun 6th
Warch Watch
crumbler: We went to college with Kristen Schaal, who has since been in Flight of the Conchords and...
Jun 6th
2 Men Scale New York Times Building Hours...
Jun 6th
"Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber."
Jun 5th
Everything but the music
Jun 5th
I viewed my trip to Party City to get balloons for a friend’s birthday as a chore. And while...
Jun 5th

You sure know your cars!

Mary: I sat in a Lotus once.
Me: Oh yeah? What kind?
Mary: White. With tan seats.
Jun 4th

Top Five Most Violent Deaths in the Sex...

crumbler: Spoiler alert! 5. Wedding planner Anthony Merentino (decapitated by Carrie after the...
Jun 4th
Welcome to my life
Jun 3rd

America's finest, ladies and gentlemen

Cousin Jimbo: i ended up getting arrested at Eglin AFB this weekend...so I spent 12 hours figuring out why
Me: WTF????
Cousin Jimbo: long story short...i filed my flight plan wrong and they thought I was hijacking a T6
Me: holy crap, jimbo
Cousin Jimbo: yeah...it was a mess...but at the same time i was laughing while they were handcuffing me 'cause I knew I wasn't going to jail and it was ridiculous
Jun 2nd
This photographer recreates children's...
Jun 2nd
“I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying —...”
— Molly Ivans, in 2006
Jun 2nd

Rules

airhen: I tried to explain the infield fly rule today, and, looking it up later, I was surprised at...
Jun 2nd
“Work to eat Eat to live Live to ride Ride to work”
— Possibly my favorite slogan...
Jun 1st
I think I know the answer to the question I keep asking myself today: “Is it bad that I get T....
Jun 1st