Via M.G.: NPR’s piece “Where the 10-ounce Bud is the King of Beers” — I believe M.G. summed it up best already: The bizarre idiosyncracy of St. Mary’s hits primetime. Ah… Does anything else beat a 10-ounce Budweiser? Not in St. Mary’s county.
Via BoingBoing: Quite possibly the best use for Marshmallow Peeps ever.
Still not sure what he means by spime (is spime the meme of ’06?) but Bruce Sterling is a heroic nexus. The first image in this series blows my mind. It’s almost like it says: I traveled 2500 miles to sit on an inflatable couch and chat IM with friends that live 3500 miles away […]
Via MeFi: A brief history of Unicode in Japan: JIS X 0208 (originally JIS C 6226) of 1978 was the first JIS character set to include kanji. It specified 6,335 kanji, arranged by frequency into two levels … Many bizarre mistakes were made in transcribing names, resulting in several new kanji coming into existance. And […]
Another one via Boing Boing: Investigated by Homeland Security for paying a credit card bill What’s next? EFF-brand 4th Amendment Credit Card Envelopes?
The Buffalo by Force Protection: For when you absolutely, positively must travel with Dick Cheney.
Via Warren Ellis: Why I hate Florida. And more importantly, vindication for all those times people looked at me funny when I said, “I don’t eat Domino’s for political reasons.” The catch, of course being that I would have needed to know that it was Domino’s before sinking my teeth in. There are limits to […]
If you work (and who doesn’t?), you’re probably forced to attend meetings. And if you’re like me, your skin crawls at the very idea of having more than three people in a room at the same time. Thus do I suggest this 43 Folders article: 9 tips for running more productive meetings – – you’ll […]
Via Boing^2: Crazy Taco Bell Automated Ordering photos on Flickr. Wow! In my perfect world, ALL retail would be like this.
I can see the newspaper articles now… In a stunning act of generosity, Objectivists worldwide donate over 40,000 copies of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead to the New Orleans public library system.