Pertinacious Metanoia

“Oprah is to be commended for taking such a brave step. It’s not easy for anyone, let alone someone who is surrounded by constant worship, to make such a humble apology.”

“The Sharpness of a Breath of Winter Air (with real strawberries)”

You know, I actually REMEMBER this commercial now.

Nice Mac v. Spinal Tap reference there.

Ba DUM dum.

Amazingly, it may have gotten someone to do some massive rethinking. Quite amazing reading.

“Those on the ‘good’ side get Macs. Evil-doers get PCs.”

Hilarious little animated GIF: the Matrix meets origami.

“It’s not every day that Microsoft Corp. asks to put a competitor’s logo on one of its own products. And the kicker is, the answer was ‘No.’”

“See, there you liberals go again! Sneaking off to download porn from Kentucky! I’m not forgetting you owe me 100 dollars!”

Heh. Gladz to seez they’re thinking about uz madzmen who are losing hair. Shizzle ma nizzle.

I find most interesting that Kerry is evidently a contributor to the Daily Kos! Jeez Louise — blogging’s gone pretty mainstream, hasn’t it …

However, it turns out that he never got PAID for it … until very recently. Through a quirk.

After all, we won the Spanish-American War a very, very, very long time ago.

“The codeword is used in public address announcements at [British] rail stations, to alert authorities of a potential emergency without causing panic amongst travellers by explicitly mentioning the nature of the emergency.”

Some of the world’s best wisdom. One of the better pages I’ve ever checked out.

“If you print a lot of documents throughout the day without
necessarily needing to edit them, you can create a ‘desktop printer’ onto which you can simply drag and drop
a file to print it.”

“If you choose their ‘Instant Download’ options, you’ve literally paid $30 to download software from the internet that you could get from thousands of other sites for free.”

“After I started spending more time at home, I realized I didn’t miss what I was doing. I hadn’t enjoyed the last few years of what’s called acting. I’m really not an actor.”

“I saw it blow, it was a spout of water which sparkled in the air. It was on this side of Westminster Bridge … it was an amazing sight.” Poor little guy is swimming all around going, “Where the fuck am I?” Poor guy.

A question I asked Metafilter … I wondered if my new tankless toilet would ever clog. Evidently, it’s fairly unlikely.

““PINNACLE/NUCFLASH” are the flagwords or header that presages an electronic transmission through the U.S. military’s command and control structure that reports an actual or possible detonation of a nuclear weapon. Not only that, these code words mean

Well, I’m never going to listen to THAT song the same way again.

I suppose I should have expected this after they sold “Whip It” to Swiffer, for use as “Whiff It.”

“In a conventional system, waiting passengers crowd into the first available elevator, which often results in the car stopping at numerous floors, increasing travel time”

“You’re a Cylon. And that’s sad.”

“The city’s Customs and Excise Department has begun training youth groups to use a web page to report illegal file-sharing activities using BitTorrent technology.”

“By typing terrorist:true preceding any search query, you tell us and
the governments of the world that you are in fact a terrorist, or involved in terrorist activity,
or planning to get involved in such activity, or that you once met a te

“John’s Newts made up the Newton Museum, which he sadly has had to abandon. Earlier this week, his collection sold to none other than Walter Smith, co-creator of the Newton.”

If I ever get an iPod Video, this’ll be something I should download.

“In the middle of the cross are the initials ‘D.L.K.’ The teen, whose full name is Derek Leon Kelly, said the initials are his.”

“FileInfo.net contains a searchable database of file extensions with detailed explanations of each file type.”

“Peaches has three sisters named Fifi Trixabelle, Pixie and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lilly.”

“He replied: ‘I don’t know honey. I think I just realized I need the book ‘The Black Man’s Guide to Understanding the White Woman.’ ‘”

Funny really only to total Mac geeks, but still more than a bit fun.

“I like c—,” Donna from “The West Wing” says.

“[S]o, you’re suggesting that the best way for me to respect America — which was founded on the Bill of Rights, with freedom of speech at the first order of business — is not to exercise my rights. Hmm. How interesting.”

“So it’d be ok to say that while it wasn’t necessarily true before, you and MacUpdate are done over this?”

Bananas naturally split into three wedges.

Woo-hoo! “Strong holiday sales at the State Street store have given Federated Department Stores Inc. bosses second thoughts about their controversial decision to deep-six the Marshall Field’s name.”