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Monthly Archives: February 2008

links for 2008-03-01

29-Feb-08

Leap Day – February 29
Some interesting stuff about leap days and how people whose birthdays fall on leap days handle it.
(tags: interesting cool reference funny)

New York Times: McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out
(tags: interesting politics food4thought)

Wrigley Field to no longer be called “Wrigley Field”? Travesty possibly in the [...]

Only one of these I like …

29-Feb-08

Tumbles from 02/29/08

29-Feb-08

Not a PhotoShop; someone actually altered an AT&T billboard…
“All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic…

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28-Feb-08

Hard drives crash: a fact of computing life. Hard drives rarely crash quite as dramatically catastrophically as this. Wonderfully ‘WTF?!’ photos.
(tags: geekery)

A _Catholic New Times_ article from 2003 muses as to whether Pope John Paul II (at the time) believed that Bush was the Antichrist.
(tags: interesting religion)

Heaven’s Database
A very funny SNL skit I [...]

Tumbles from 02/28/08

28-Feb-08

portal - still alive on player piano (via )
“Bah. I liked the terminal theme from Portal so I made it…
For the pizza lover who also craves shrimp and cheese wrapped in…

links for 2008-02-28

27-Feb-08

“Researchers developed a new nanoscale crystal called ZIF (zeolitic imidazolate framerwork) that can trap 80x its volume of carbon dioxide.”
“At one point, the technique was yielding so many potentially useful compounds that Yahgi had to ask his students to stop so they could publish their findings.”
(tags: science amazing cool)

Top Ten Crazy Asian Pizza Crusts
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek.
(tags: weird [...]

Tumbles from 02/27/08

27-Feb-08

Song Lyrics Represented by Venn Diagrams, Atlases, Flowcharts,…

links for 2008-02-27

26-Feb-08

Maxim reviewed the Black Crowes’ latest album, giving it a 2.5/5, without having listened to it. When asked, they said their review was an “educated guess.”
(tags: music whaddafuck hysterical dumbfuck)

Why does the Mona Lisa look like it’s smiling sometimes, but sometimes not? HERE’s the answer.
Sometimes, science is really rather amazingly cool.
(tags: amazing cool [...]

Tumbles from 02/26/08

26-Feb-08

Olbermann Timeline: How The Bush Administration Exploited Terror…
“I will hug him and squeeze him and love him and pet him,…
Windmill Going Wild and Finally Breaking (via )
“Texas Republicans have worked overtime to make it harder…
A baby sings “Hey Jude.” He really wails on that…
“Star Wars According to a Three-Year-Old.”
Okay,…
“Women and cats will do as [...]

links for 2008-02-26

25-Feb-08

Ralph Nader decides that the retainer he got from the Republicans in 2000 to give Dubya the election wasn’t enough, and that he needs McCain to tender him some money, too.
(tags: whaddafuck neocon dumbfuck asshole)

Odds of Dying from the National Safety Council
(tags: reference useful interesting)

John McClane for President ‘08
(no, read that last name again)
(tags: funny [...]

Tumbles from 02/23/08

23-Feb-08

“Scan It® is an educational and creative play toy that…
The basis of the 2×4-inch “Digital Tattoo Interface”…

links for 2008-02-23

22-Feb-08

Art of Manliness: The Brad Pitt Rule
“Imagine that instead of you, Brad Pitt had asked this same woman out. Would she use the same excuse with him? If Brad Pitt asked her on a date, would she still say she had to study or was going to the movies with friends that night? Nope.”
(tags: funny [...]

Tumbles from 02/22/08

22-Feb-08

john.he.is (via )
RickRolling the Baby (via )
The diamond sharp edge will also cut skin down to the bone (with…
Neatorama » Blog Archive » One of These Things…

links for 2008-02-22

21-Feb-08

John McCain states that a President being unfaithful to his wife is reason for articles of impeachment — so does him screwing a lobbyist disqualify him?
“I [...] vote to convict the President of the United States on both articles of impeachment. [...] I am genuinely concerned that the institution of the Presidency not be harmed, [...]

Some of the Worst of Humanity’s Ilk

21-Feb-08

Sometimes, you consider yourself a relatively amiable person who gets along fairly easily with everyone, including most strangers — not someone precisely prone to violence.
Then, sometimes you read something (on the Wall Street Journal’s site, no less, not exactly a newspaper unfriendly to corporations), and you find that you have a deep and pervasive desire [...]