Musings of a Chicagoan

• Bruce Willis posts to Ain’t It Cool News … and he later gets on Apple’s iChat AV (video chat) with a fan to prove it’s him.
  (tags: cool celebrity interesting funny movies)
• CNN: “[T]he Mafia — like a suburban Jersey mall shuttered by blue laws — closed for business when Mother’s Day arrived each May. No vendettas or broken bones. Just gift baskets and boxes of candy.”
  (tags: weird interesting cool)
• American and Japanese Have Different Smilie and Frownie Emoticons Due to Differences in How They Read Faces
  “In Japan, emoticons tend to emphasize the eyes, such as the happy face (^_^) and the sad face (;_;).”
  (tags: cool useful interesting weird)
• “She handed it over to the TSA worker who told her that [the small tube of lotion] would be donated to a local homeless shelter.”
  Now, wait a minute. If the TSA *knows* that the liquid is harmless enough that they feel comfortable donating it to a homeless shelter, then they know that it’s harmless enough to be kept and traveled with. WTF?
  (tags: terrorism dumbfuck whaddafuck government)
• Mathias v. Accor: an oldie but goodie | bedbugger
  “[I]t’s difficult to imagine a more righteous bedbug lawsuit.”
  (tags: interesting reference)
• Panabasis - the Journal of the Janus Museum - May 2007 Archives
  “The grenades proved to be very popular souvenirs, and I wondered briefly what the TSA chaps at the airport would do when tourists started turning up at the airport with grenades in their luggage and carry-ons. Won’t there be some larfs in security!”
  (tags: funny terrorism weird)
• The CTA boasted of 70-mph speed runs for its cars back in 1955 … how far, far, far we have fallen …
  (tags: chicago subway surreal)
• Size matters, so does shape under new postal rates - CNN.com
  Jason Kottke: “[T]he USPS passing along internal problems to their customers, the same crappy stuff that banks and the airlines do. Keep the process simple…we don’t care about your technology can and can’t do. Figure it out.”
  (tags: cool insightful government dumbfuck)

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