Why the Chicago White Stockings Became the Chicago White Sox (and not Socks)
(tags: interesting chicago)
Google now offers flight times.
(tags: cool reference useful goodideas google)
“The Requiem for a Dream helmer has just signed on to direct an episode of ABC’s Lost, which will likely air at the beginning of May sweeps.”
(tags: cool as.hell tv woohoo movies)
“Rosa [...]
Michelle Malkin: Demonizing Condi
And they’re talking about quite literally someone demon-izing Condi. Check out those eyes!
(tags: politics government funny)
Bill O’Reilly classifies his cowards. However, he neglects to notice his own cowardice.
“Of the 27 people and organizations on the list, O’Reilly ranked as the top three cowards: Dean, the DNC chairman; King, the Florida [...]
7:22 am: How can I get my hands on a Vienna phonebook from circa 1938?
7:54 am: I just spke with a researcher here (I work at the Holocaust Museum in Washington) and I think we might be able to get the street address for you. Let me look into is a little bit…
9:41 am the [...]
God bless the power of the Internet — I finally found some information — actually, an entire webpage devoted to — a musical I was misremembering as Gather ‘Round Children. It actually has the less memorable name of Rocket City (or once The American Dream … Interrupted). It’s a very, very peacenik musical [...]
MIT has recently found that being stuck in habits can actually be a bit of a biologically based problem:
Habitual activity–smoking, eating fatty foods, gambling–changes neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain when habits are formed. These neural patterns created by habit can be changed or altered. But when a stimulus from the [...]
I recently came across an online article from my old hometown newspaper, the Asbury Park Press:
When students post their faces, personal diaries and gossip on Web sites like Myspace.com and Xanga.com, it is not simply harmless teen fun, according to one Sussex County Catholic school principal.
It’s an open invitation to predators and an activity that [...]
I love the fact that the website for Left Behind: World at War features a review saying it “lit a file under [the reviewer's] tail” and another review comparing it to “paranoia fables.”
Thanks to Wikipedia and its Neighborhoods of Chicago article, I’ve learned that technically, the address I’m moving to is not an Andersonville address, but is instead right on Andersonville’s southern border, in the New Chinatown section of the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.
Katamari Damacy: the Text Adventure!
(tags: funny games geekery)
Mr. Angry and Ms. Calm
A rather cool little optical illusion.
(tags: interesting science images)
Elmer Dressler — may he rest in peas.
“He boomed out ‘ho, ho, ho’ in Jolly Green Giant commercials that aired for decades.”
(tags: sad)
Google addresses the “Google Base” leak.
“Here’s what’s really going on. We are testing a [...]
Being someone who lives on the North Side, I’m, by default, a Cubs fan.
And, in all honesty, I’m not really a major Cubs fan, either — I’m just not normally a baseball fan.
That having been said, it’s a very proud evening to be a Chicagoan — our first World Series win in 88 [...]
Alterations to Safari’s Browser.nib and to SafariStand’s visual tabs sidebar.
(tags: reference mac)
“Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it’s downright scary.”
Google is behaving evilly.
(tags: evil google badideas)
Turn your iPod Shuffle into an iPod Cross. (No kidding.)
(tags: mac religion funny music)
How [...]
Anne Rice has become a born-again Christian. Good frickin’ grief, I didn’t see that one coming.
EULAs are End-User License Agreements. They’re those little windows of legalese that show up when you first activate an application. They very often contain very nasty legalese, but I’ve never seen any that were worse than this nasty little bugger by this company, disclosed in this article:
You agree, if purchasing by credit card [...]
“Throughout the years, these classic horror films had one thing in common … THEY WERE ALL FOR SISSIES!”
Actually, this movie may be too creepy for me. I think I’d rather not introduce those stills into my brainpan …
(tags: movies scary funny interesting gross)
Wikipedia on the end of the universe.
“The Universe now reaches extreme low-energy [...]
Ever since the upgrade to Tiger, Safari had lost several options of downloading embedded media. Before, one could find a listing of embedded media files in Safari’s Activity window; that feature was removed when Safari was upgraded to 2.0, incidentally making it much less competitive compared to other browsers such as Firefox and Opera [...]
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