Musings of a Chicagoan

• Don’t do stand-up comedy at Apple. Evidently, you’ll get fired. Nevertheless, the act is frakkin’ funny!
  (tags: funny as_hell mac video)
• “Built on the belief that music metadata is public domain information, MusicIP’s Music Digital Naming ServiceTM (MusicDNS) is a simple, dependable, inexpensive way to identify digital music tracks and provide basic metadata.”
  Yeah, until *they* sell out, too.
  (tags: music cool geekery)
• “The longer you remain in this rare condition–known as ‘globe luxation’–the more strain you’ll put on the blood vessels and nerves that connect your eye to the rest of your head.”
  “Your luxated globes will also be susceptible to corneal abrasions or inflammation, and the feeling of your eyelids clamped down behind them won’t be pleasant.”
  (tags: gross as_hell interesting reference)
• Chicagoist: Stroger Suffers Stroke
  “His doctor has advised him to stop campaigning and said it could be over a month before he can go back to work. The doctor also believes Stroger suffered a series of mini-strokes before yesterday.”
  (tags: politics chicago sad)
• Today’s Inspiration
  Hubba hubba hubba hubba!
  (tags: funny sexy images)
• Amish neighbors take just one day to rebuild home destroyed by twister
  “His brother, Ernest, who lives nearby, said the entourage of workers ‘looked like a bunch of ants’ when it came to rebuilding the 36-by-64 structure that was a combination living quarters and workshop.”
  (tags: amazing cool as_hell admirable heroic neat powerful religion)
• “George Clooney does not make statements. He answers questions.”
  I’m not sure that this whole feud isn’t just a way of drawing more attention to the statement itself. If so, it’s a masterful piece of crowd psychology.
  (tags: celebrity interesting politics)
• ABC News: Man Hits His Own Car Then Sues Himself
  “When a dump truck backed into Curtis Gokey’s car, he decided to sue the city for damages. Only thing is, he was the one driving the dump truck.”
  (tags: funny weird as_hell)
• Users choke on price of Apple’s first iTunes movie
  “I’m sorry, but $1.99 is perfect for an iPod format. When you get to $10, you’re basically paying for a DVD without getting the DVD extras or quality.”
  (tags: insightful movies geekery)
• New Scientist Technology - Saved by ’sand’ poured into the wounds
  “The porous mineral powder is poured into the wound, where pores quickly absorb water, which concentrates the blood’s clotting factors and so speeds up clotting [...] clots in less than 2 minutes, compared with the 10 minutes or so for untreated blood.”
  (tags: cool as_hell science)
• Technology News Article | Reuters.com
  “[G]et a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type.” Um, what the FUCK, Bill?
  (tags: dumbass microsoft arrogant asshole as_hell creepy stupid unbelievable)
• Chicago Tribune | Corned beef gets blessing for St. Pat’s
  “It would be imprudent for Cardinal George not to cede to this reality that corned beef and cabbage and green beer are the staples to an Irishman’s diet on St. Patrick’s Day.”
  (tags: dumbass religion)
• “People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don’t put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”
  (tags: politics insightful woohoo you_go_boy)
• Todd Dominey: “So with that, here’s a few tidbits of advice for the soon-to-be dads out there.”
  If I ever find myself fortunate enough to be a father, some things to keep in mind …
  (tags: reference useful)
• Fight the Bull - Download Bullfighter
  “Bullfighter is the epoch-defining software that works with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint to help you find and eliminate jargon in your documents.”
  (tags: interesting funny cool microsoft)
• A man talks about how a benign brain tumor began to have a strange little side effect with the language center of his brain.
  “Now the phrase began to appear in print. Books, magazines, the covers of CDs, even the side of a case of oil at Pep Boys.”
  (tags: science interesting as_hell weird)
• Original Food Creations McDonald’s Employees Can Cook Using the Food & Equipment Available to Them
  The hot fudge peanut butter sundae sounds rather amazing, as do a few of the other ones.

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