October 2008
43 posts
3 tags
The OCD Diet →
The OCD Diet doesn’t require that you count calories or grams of fat. There is no restriction on quantities or carbs, sugar or salt. The one single requirement is that you eat only foods in combinations that rhyme. Demi Sec Ready Brek, anyone? Holy crap I love rhyming so much. (b3ta was good today, eh Rich?)
Oct 31st
2 tags
WatchWatch
Get me one of these please. (via b3ta, again)
Oct 31st
5 tags
The Great Vegetable Massacre →
A guy gets bored of pumpkins, and decides to carve Jack O’Lanterns out of an aubergine, a watermelon, and various other fruits and vegetables, with impressive results. (via b3ta)
Oct 31st
4 tags
Oct 31st
6 tags
Sock Tube Presents →
Okay, in fact, just go watch them all. It’s like an awesome sock-themed video version of Mad Magazine! (But with no Sergio Aragonés)
Oct 30th
3 tags
Oct 30th
3 tags
Oct 30th
4 tags
SEXTILLIONS of Ways to Spell Viagra →
Cockeyed.com discovers 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell Viagra. And that was back in 2004! I bet there are more ways now! I need him to publish a list my spam-trap can use for filtering. (via Language Log)
Oct 30th
5 tags
WatchWatch
If this video is trying to make a point, then I disagree. Everyone has stock words and phrases that they overuse. If it had been your job to talk to people over and over again about the same handful of subjects for the past few months, then you would end up sounding pretty well synchronised with yourself, too. It’s very cool, though, “my friends”. (via marco,...
Oct 30th
20 notes
2 tags
Oct 29th
134 notes
3 tags
281. You aren't done raking until you've played in...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Oct 27th
42 notes
2 tags
Oct 24th
2 tags
Oct 24th
14 notes
2 tags
WatchWatch
This radio DJ is the coolest man in the world. He is not afraid of you, fire! You are my new hero, flame-retardant radio man. (via the b3ta newsletter)
Oct 24th
1 tag
Oct 24th
3 tags
Oct 24th
3 tags
United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of...
“This is an example of a lawsuit in rem “against a thing”. It is the typical form of action in seizure cases. This results in wonderful case names like “United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat’s Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness, 40 F. Supp. 208 (W D.N.Y. 1941)” , “United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of...
Oct 22nd
2 tags
The Most Shameless Man in the World? →
Is Alexandre Mouradian the most shameless man in the world? Apparently.
Oct 22nd
3 tags
WatchWatch
When members of the audience occupy the space, the mirrors inquisitively follow someone that they find interesting. Having chosen their subject, they all synchronise and turn their heads towards them. Suddenly that person can see their reflection in all of the mirrors. They will watch this person until they become disinterested, then either seek out another subject or return to their private...
Oct 22nd
5 tags
Oct 21st
3 tags
The Things He Carried →
Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease. I once smuggled a larger tube of toothpaste than I was allowed through airport security. It was in my back jeans pocket. I wasn’t...
Oct 20th
3 tags
Oct 17th
74 notes
2 tags
Oct 16th
4 tags
Oct 14th
3 tags
Map and History of the Electoral College →
Been meaning to post this for a week or two now. I am very timely! It’s a swanky map of America. You can click on states to toggle them between Democrat and Republican, and see how this affects who would win the election. It’s interactive, baby! More interesting than this, to me, is the feature where you can select views of past elections. Check out 1972 and 1984. Mondale got...
Oct 13th
3 tags
“We understand how important it is that this team be elected. For one thing, we...”
– Sarah Palin I read this quote as an amusingly over-the-top satire till I read the attribution. (via squashed)
Oct 13th
5 notes
3 tags
“I once saw a Nun rollerblading along the westside highway and didn’t get my...”
– Alisa Shamrow Made me chuckle.
Oct 13th
1 tag
WatchWatch
And item the second is My Day, Yesterday, above. Yesterday, in video. Shot throughout the day, put together and uploaded today. You should do the same. No, I should not. It would be boring. In other news, this was shot with a Nikon D90. I am so totally getting one of those once this whole financial armageddon thing blows over. (via marco. That is the whole theme.)
Oct 10th
53 notes
2 tags
WatchWatch
The theme for the day is Videos posted today by marco in which essentially nothing happens, but which are still strangely compelling. Item the first is My 11 days in Europe in 5 Minutes, above. (via marco, obviously)
Oct 10th
43 notes
2 tags
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov →
Have you heard of Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov? No? Me neither. But just over 25 years ago, he saved my life. And yours. And just about everyone else’s. Worth noting, I think, is that he was not rewarded for saving the world from nuclear war, but was instead reprimanded for not filling out his log books. And a year later he was sent into early retirement. Years later, in 1998, he was...
Oct 10th
2 tags
“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the...”
– Andy Warhol (quoted in Daring Fireball’s review of the iPhone 3G)
Oct 10th
3 tags
500 Billion Pounds Is a Lot of Money
Seriously. It’s a lot. It’s getting on for $900b, which puts the Americans’ puny $700b bailout to shame. It’s also about £8,200 per person. Or, as the Daily Mail likes to moan, £16,000 per taxpayer. I’m aware that hopefully half of this (the £250b in loan guarantees) will never actually get used, and that hopefully we’ll get £200b of the other half back...
Oct 9th
3 tags
Oct 9th
38 notes
3 tags
AIG Executives Have No Shame →
At least it’s nice to know that the people that caused the massive financial chaos we’re heading into won’t be making out like bandits while the rest of us struggle. Oh… wait… Iainl of the Triforum sums it all up nicely: “The banks have taken a load of my money, and pissed it up the wall. Now they need me, as a taxpayer, to bail them out (to the tune of...
Oct 8th
3 tags
Oct 7th
4 tags
Oct 6th
10 notes
5 tags
How to Decaffeinate Coffee
Have you ever wondered how they get the caffeine out of the coffee beans? Me too! Today is the day we find out! Okay, I just went and found out and now I’m going to share the knowledge with you. You can thank me later. Method 1 So. What you do, is you soak your beans in water, and the caffeine leeches into the water. With it goes a lot of the coffee deliciousness, though, so you are...
Oct 3rd
3 tags
“Then she flipped the note over to see if there was anything written on the back...”
– Agent Zero Gets Engaged (via TrueHoop)
Oct 2nd
3 tags
“There are two types of people in the world: those who can’t tell the difference...”
– John Gruber
Oct 2nd
4 tags
NYTimes on the Credit Crisis →
Gripping and slightly terrifying. (N.B. Login is required on the NYTimes website. If you don’t want to create an account, you might want to visit BugMeNot.) (via Daring Fireball)
Oct 2nd
4 tags
Oct 1st
2 tags
Rob Liefeld Cannot Draw →
I was clearing out some old emails, and I found a short correspondence about this HILARIOUS annotated list of the 40 worst drawings by the RICH and SUCCESSFUL comics artist, Rob Liefeld. Ben’s favourite bits: “If I had a nickel for every time Liefeld had his characters standing behind something so he didn’t have to draw their feet, I would still not have nearly as much...
Oct 1st
5 tags
The Wind Blow!!! My Flat Top Swang!!! →
Pals of mine will know that I am a massive fan of Dan Steinberg’s D.C. Sports Bog. But I’m even more of a fan when it’s NBA season, and he’s writing about the peerlessly entertaining Washington Wizards. DeShawn Stevenson has made $1,000 worth of wristbands. One of the designs has the words, “THE WIND BLOW!!! MY FLAT TOP SWANG!!!” on it. What does his...
Oct 1st