In case you need to waste even more timeThu May 1 2008
Pikabuggy.com has somehow spawned BuggyAlums.org. If nothing else, it's significantly easier to read. They're looking to start some sort of alumni group and are looking for leadership as well. So head over there and check it out. -hendrix
From Philippe: I can't believe that Marvin Harrison is involved in a shooting. The best part about the article is that he owns a bar: "Playmakers" and a car wash. Too bad they did not give us the name of the car wash.
Combine this with the rating of the President and Congress and what do you get? Unhappy Apathy? Malaise? It's like Americans are sort of unhappy, but not pissed enough to do anything about it.
The real scary part is that Pittsburgh is breaking this story (instead of wind, for a change).
Simultaneous invention and the new breed of thinkers. Long-ish article by Malcom Gladwell (Tipping Point/Blink guy) exploring the phenomenon of the same or similar inventions being 'discovered' at the same time. -hendrix
The NE Patriots have officially lost all credibility and i'm LOVING every second of it. Hopefully Belicheck steps down and we remember him for two reasons... 1) Cheating and 2) Walking off the field like a sucka chump after the Super Bowl. - JT
The New York Times obtained a list of the Walsh tapes, and the league confirmed that list, which says that the Patriots taped offensive and defensive coaches in regular-season games against the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and San Diego Chargers. The team also made video of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2002 AFC Championship Game.
Compiling some sort of useless list in the first place is ridiculous and asinine. Posting it for all to see (not just teachers) takes it up a notch. Calling the gay kid's mom and outing him is the most ridiculous thing I've heard this week. She needs fired (goin' out to bean-o) yesterday. -hendrix
Skin available for Gmail. You need to install a Firefox plugin called Stylish which stores a new style sheet. Takes about 30 seconds, give or take. As far as I know, if you're not using the dirty hippy browser you're SOL. -hendrix
From boot: some bretheren at Tulane really f'd up "D'Amico said his client, who was attending Tulane on scholarship, suffered second- and third-degree burns to his back, chest, buttocks and genitals."
Papa John's offering 23 cent pizzas to apologize for something involving Lebron (#23). That sound you just heard was rick driving 10 hours to wait in line for 2 hours to get some "cheap" pizzas. -jm
that was the kick in the balls i needed Thu May 8 2008
Ryan sent in this link along with the following ramble (unless I'm missing a reference in the first part):
so a crappy week turned into a crappier day. but i'm at work because you have to. and i pull up the internet because, well you have to. thanks msn for putting this front and center on my home page. this was exactly what i needed.
an angry person once told me to just throw up yoru hands and say "ftiq". I'm trying it now. I'll let you know how it works
Not quite Clooney, but he's getting thereFri May 9 2008
John Mayer on how to write a song. [video] I would love to rag on this guy, but this has some good chuckles, and added to his 2 girl 1 cup parody, he's building quite the body of work. Thanks Kristen Bell. -hendrix
I don't play video games much, but thought the GTA bit on Weekend Update was great (Bill Hader's impression seems particularly good). Skip to the -3:35 point to see it. Also, the story right before it is about that Tulane pike house. -decker
Crazy pong table has LEDs and ball washers. Looking at how much crap is under the table, it seems like it should do more. Still pretty cool, though. Oh - and for the love of all things holy, can we stop with the Priceless crap? Thanks. -hendrix
I said Good Day Wednesday. Gooood Day.Wed May 14 2008
Drum licks from hell. This isn't some amateur hour namby-pamby list made by a 13 year old in his mom's basement. The dude intentionally excludes popular stuff. Schweet. -hendrix
LA Cyclists use freeway - beat traffic. For anybody that's ever been on a freeway in CA during rush hour, this should come as no surprise. Knowing how much drivers hate motorcycles lane-splitting, I can't believe they didn't get doored. -hendrix
I made an adjustment to the comments display so that the time will actually be accurate. It's working for me, but if you can take a glance and let me know if it's not working for you, that would be cool.
It's taking your timezone off your system clock in order to do this, so if that's messed up, you're SOL.
Q. Did the Patriots keep a book on other teams? A. I don’t know. I just filmed the tape and handed it over to Ernie. At first, it was filming teams we were going to be playing again later that year. In 2001, it evolved to filming other teams, especially in the A.F.C., that we thought we might either possibly see in the playoffs or see again another time. It was the kind of situation that being the third video guy, there wasn’t anything else I necessarily needed to shoot, especially for home games. So it was said, ‘Go ahead and shoot the signals.’
I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast... Fri May 16 2008
All Weatherfood: What car recently set the record for the fastest time around the 17 mile Nordschleife (Nurburgring) for a production sedan on factory-spec tires? No..not some piece of shit BMW, Mercedes, or Audi. It was the 2009 CTS-V lapped it in 7:59.32.(with a de-tuned 550HP version of the LSA V8 found on the new upcoming ZR1). Here is the video of the lap from the onboard cam.
On a side note, I am selling everything I own to pick one up...then I can stare at it in my garage as I won't be able to afford to fuel or insure it.
Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 is out. This is what the final version will be unless they discover any huge bugs. I've been using 3.0 since the last couple betas, and there are some really nice improvements. Most of the themes and extensions I use have already been updated/upgraded. Installation's really easy and it imports all your data from earlier versions.
If you liked 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' or 'Punch Drunk Love', definitely check out Stranger Than Fiction. I liked it a lot more than either of those two, but for some reason I thought all three had a similar feel.
Just released today, Scarlett Johansson's album of Tom Wait's covers. Included in the link is a video (one of those day in the life type deals). I wouldn't call her a singer, but then again, neither is Tom Waits. And yes, that is David Bowie in the background. All for you, bth. -jm
...any customer who pays at least $8.99 per month for a DVD rental plan gets unlimited access to the streaming service. ... ...few recent movies are available on Netflix's streaming service.
HD movies will cost $4.99 [to rent], with over 100 titles in HD at launch. There will be over 600 TV shows, available for $1.99 per episode... The launch will have more than 1,000 films by the end of February, but they won't be available until 30 days after the DVD releases
One nice thing about the Netflix solution is that BluRay player manufacturers will start to include it in their players (which will soon use internet connections anyway), while Apple requires a separate box hogging an HDMI port all to itself. -decker
One would think that this was sent by Miolla, but it's not. Surprisingly, this isn't really NSFW, but I've marked it as such just in case. Oh yeah, classified as 'Art' (not Leipzig). All from Bean.
American to start charging for the first checked bag. I can't imagine the cluster this is going to cause on the plane. And are they going to charge that if you have to gate-check something? jm, comment already registered. You fully approve.
Newsweek's list of top public high schools. FWBHS comes in with a respectable 294 out of 1,300, with 43% subsidized lunches. Let's hear it for the poor kids. -jm
From miolla: Dudes. I've identified a TV that I'm going to get. I'm in the process of deciding between whether to get a 46" or a 52". My question to you guys is: Am I spitting hairs by getting the extra 6" or is the 46" going to be fine. I don't have a huge space for a TV in my apt but also don't want to make sure that I'm considering future dwellings this piece of technology might be involved with.
The best part of the entire article is the 2nd comment, mis-spellings and all:
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I guarentee that no octopi find the Mellon Arena ice. If they do, the dude who throws better run straight out of the building before some yinzer and his mullet from Lawrenceville pummel his face.
From ab: These are great. I would be terrible in retail. Picture me, Hendrix and Bean as salespeople in a retail shop. We would make "soup Nazi" look like the Easter Bunny.
From Goldsmith: Spurmo - Straight, proud, unmarried men over 30.
You're exaggerating,” a female friend told me. “There are plenty of single guys your age for you to play with.”
Yes. True. There are. Thousands of them. But they're wearing tight white T-shirts and meeting for cosmopolitans to discuss which Sex and the City character they are.
David Leonhardt describes a heuristic for determining whether houses are reasonably priced: the Price to Rent ratio. I had heard of this before, but this column had a map with ratios for several cities. Historically, this ratio has been between 10 and 14, he claims (must be using a different data set than the graph I linked above). Unsurprisingly, right now is not a good time to buy in most cities by this standard, but should be getting better. There is a also a rent vs buy calculator.
But before you flee to Tehran, think again. -decker
UPDATE: Also an interactive graphic for year over year change in home prices by city. Check out Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Scott McClellan comes clean He was the previous White House press secretary. And he deserves to die in a god damn fire. After contracting the worst case of cancer the world has ever seen. -hendrix
From the Wall Street Journal. Pretty interesting view behind the scenes. Naturally, some of the descriptions of events must be one-sided, but it reads as if it's well researched.
When you're finished with that, you can read this cheery description of the near future for the US:
The same factors that were behind the housing bubble were also at work, to varying degrees, in the auto bubble, the commercial real estate bubble, the travel bubble, the college tuition bubble, the retail bubble, the Web 2.0 bubble and most recently the commodities bubble. ... Airline executives will say that if they were to charge enough to reflect all these costs, they would have many fewer passengers. That's the point: A sustainable equilibrium will inevitably involve a smaller industry with fewer planes, fewer flights, fewer passengers and fewer employees.
