Blogging has (obviously) been light today, as I had three meetings today. That, combined with it being a Chinese Tuesday meant that I actually sat in front of my computer for what seemed like a grand total of 35-45 minutes,…
If you’re a *snort* geek like me, you may very well enjoy Engadget’s retrospective “from” 1985, featuring the latest news on cellphones, Windows 1.0 and the Engadget “Tapecasts”. It starts out thusly: WELCOME TO THE ENGADGET BBS August 22, 1985…
You’ve got to hand it to the Iowa Hawkeyes – they sure know how to make a visiting team feel wanted. What better way to reaffirm the perceived masculinity of a visiting football squad than painting the visiting locker room…
Frank J. offers an urgent call to President Bush and I, too, urge him on in this pursuit: punch Senator Chuck “Junior Maverick” Hagel square in the face. The amount of hyperventillating going on on NPR over Sen. McCain, Jr.’s…
Proof, once again, that vanity can do very, very strange things to people: Meet the Real-Life ‘Ken’ Doll. I feel sorry for the poor guy. He actually thinks he looks good, as opposed to hideous. And not just ordinary hideous,…
I came across mention of an interesting game in my daily flitting about the Internet[s] the other day, but slipped into that game link was a far more intriguing fact: Scott had stumbled across the game via Jeff Bridges’ site.…
What is it about the Home Depot? Is there a pheremone that they’ve locked on to that causes Y chromosomes to hum like a plucked string? I’m not much of a handyman, as my wife can tell you, yet today,…
I knew that ribbon campaigns (AIDS ribbons, Breast Cancer ribbons, etc.) had Jumped the Shark when Rush Limbaugh began touting a method for turning $1 bills into “tax awareness” ribbons. I knew that magnetic “ribbon” campaigns (Support Our Troops, Autism…
I report, you decide: vs. Britney FederlineSpears: Brain stolen by mysterious brain slug; Explains bizarre marriage and ensuing behavior. [Picture taken at Spears’ “Morroccan-themed” baby shower, apparently. Click her picture for further creepyinformative details. -ed.]
Any website owner/operator could probably hold forth for quite a while solely on the subject of odd search phrases that lead people to their sites. I, for instance, have seen searches for “Thumb+Of+The+Punisher”, “incent d’onofrio” and “what religion is eartha…
