Musings of a Chicagoan

• Upside-Down-Ternet
  “My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.”
  (tags: geekery funny)
• I Say We Fly Naked
  (tags: terrorism funny)
• opinionistas.com » Blog Archive » Traps
  “‘R, I think maybe there’s a reason all this happened, and that things like this keep happening to you,’ I say carefully.”
  (tags: food4thought funny)
• A mini-tornado crops up in the middle of a children’s soccer game in Japan.
  (tags: whaddafuck weather amazing video)
• Escher’s “Relativity” in LEGO
  (tags: nostalgia weird photos funny cool)
• Music Notation Modernization Association (MNMA)
  “We are an international nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring ways to make reading, writing, and playing music easier to learn and enjoy. Our members include musicians, teachers, composers, and notation inventors from around the world.”
  (tags: music goodideas fascinating funny)
• MetaFilter: Katrina every day
  “How did this country get so completely fucked up? How could we let this happen? Why is it still going on? We’re the goddamned United States of America, this should have been all taken care of by now.”
  (tags: nature whaddafuck amazing powerful horrifying)
• The six places on earth where a one-megaton nuclear bomb could do the most damage. Horrifying to read.
  (tags: powerful insightful nature science terrorism oh_shit holy_shit whaddafuck horrifying)
• Boing Boing: “I forgot all about this funny, profanity-infested voice mail that a gentleman left for me a few months back. He was upset that I linked to a how-to piece written by Deke McClelland … “
  ” … about scanning currency in Photoshop, which has certain features that prevent you from scanning and printing US currency.”
  (tags: audio funny)
• “It was simply a week before Halloween and Jim wanted to do something legitimately scary, as opposed to Halloween-scary. ‘Ghosts aren’t scary…’ he told me … “
  ” … before explaining that before writing the strips he went around to everyone he knew and asked them what truly scared them. The answer he got most often was ‘being alone’ or ‘dying alone’. Just that simple.”
  (tags: fascinating comics food4thought cool)
• Boing Boing: If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?
  “And then they have the photo of the TSA guy dumping a tub of confiscated possibly explosive liquids into a garbage can in a crowd of people. Figure that shit out for me.”
  (tags: photos whaddafuck terrorism insightful)
• Ford eventually will do away with fuel tank caps
  “Replacing the caps will be a flap that opens under pressure from the gas pump nozzle.”
  (tags: fascinating)
• eBay: 2 % of Ron Steen’s Future Earnings For College Money
  The way this guy spells, I wouldn’t exactly count on you recouping your investment.
  (tags: weird funny)
• Fans and famous comic book artists are cooperatively restoring a “lost” 1940 Superman comic.
  “The story marked many radical shifts in the life of Superman. Murray argues that since Jerry Siegel had recently gotten married and that his life had gone through many other changes since his first Superman story, Siegel wanted to alter Superman’s life
  (tags: nostalgia goodideas cool comics)
• Chicagoist: Ebert’s Ill Communication
  “Chicagoist thinks we could speed Roger’s recovery if we put some good vibes into the air and kept the man in our thoughts. We know it sounds a little hippie-ish, but it worked in Ghostbusters II.”
  (tags: chicago movies)
• Instant replay in QuickTime Player: “A feature I really miss from having a DVR is the ‘8 seconds back’ button, to catch a play or repeat something funny.”
  (tags: useful reference macintosh)
• Find: WWDC is a no blog zone: “We have made it people, Apple fears blogs. Or something.”
  (tags: macintosh photos funny)
• macosxhints.com - One way to stop a system Shut Down action
  “[C]lick on any non-running application in the Dock (preferably one that will take more than one bounce to open), and that process will then cancel the shutdown routine. Hope this helps some folk out there.”
  (tags: macintosh reference useful)
• MailFollowup Home Page
  For if I ever go to Mail.app: “MailFollowup Mail Plugin adds a ‘Followup’ item to the Message and contextual menus of Apple’s Mail application that allows you to compose (and then send) a quoted version of the original message to all of the original recip
  (tags: goodideas reference macintosh mail-app)
• My Boring-Ass Life: The Red Bank Stash Signing: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
  Kevin Smith on being surprised by having 2,000+ fans show up to a signing he expected 200ish fans for. I gotta respect the fact that the guy stayed around 13 hours, until 4:00 am and took care of EVERYONE in line. Damn good treatment of his fans.
  (tags: movies cool funny)
• SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Health | Michael Graham: Why I helped my wife to kill herself
  “It seems crazy to me that you must either risk jail or go to Switzerland to do something you should be able to do provided you do it yourself and nobody else is involved. It seems wrong that while suicide is no longer an offence, finding a way to achieve
  (tags: powerful food4thought amazing tragic fascinating)
• Cool photograph of an exploding egg.
  (tags: science photos cool)
• “A group of 10 to 15 masked individuals entered Taco Bell, 3244 S. Western Ave., around 10:46 p.m. Tuesday to return a three-year stash of fire sauce packets, police say. “
  “The group returned six 40-gallon trash bags filled with approximately, 25,000 sauce packets to the restaurant. “
  (tags: cool funny weird)
• Cool Little Excel Graphing Hack: Lightweight data exploration in Excel
  “The bar graphs are built using the Excel REPT function which lets you repeat text a certain number of times.”
  (tags: useful microsoft reference cool)
• “It’s easy to delete a single entry from the grey autocomplete dropdown.”
  “Just start to type in into the form field until the grey dropdown appears, then use the cursor keys to move to the entry to be deleted and press the SHIFT key and the delete key (”Del” on an english, “Entf” on a german keyboard). Voila! :-)”
  (tags: useful reference firefox)
• Monitor Duty: My brother fights alongside Optimus Prime!
  “OK, I’m exaggerating, obviously. But I think it’s kind of cool that my brother is going to be in the new Transformers movie.”
  (tags: funny movies cool)

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