February 2011
WatchWhen he puts on the duct-tape/cardboard Robocop helmet? BRILLIANT.
via @thedailywhat:
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: RoboCop himself (AKA actor Peter Weller) joins the movement to erect a monument to RoboCop (AKA a monument to actor Peter Weller) in the city of Detroit.
[fod.]
America's last World War I veteran dies →
RIP, good sir.
via demons:
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110.
Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died peacefully of natural causes early Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. Buckles turned 110 on...
“I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try...”
– Charlie Sheen explains himself to ABC’s Andrea Canning. (via abcworldnews)
This makes my head hurt.
clientsfromhell:
Client: ”We’ve been discussing it and we’d like you to register aaa-carpets.com. We’ve checked and it’s available.”
Me: ”Okay, no problem - what do the three a’s stand for out of interest?”
Client: ”They don’t stand for anything, we just want to be above our competitors on Google.”
Churnalism →
Interesting, important and also sad. Is one in the works for U.S. papers/websites?
via onethingwell:
Enter a press release to see which UK papers and websites have ‘churned’ it into news, complete with slick interactive visualisations of every cut ‘n’ paste.
An example: if you paste this press release into Churnalism, it shows that The Daily Mail churned it into this news item, pasting a...
Bacon, anyone? Airline apologizes after serving... →
1) Ooops.
2) Ham AND bacon?
via @today:
msnbc:
Some travelers went without food for the 4 1/2-hour flight, refusing the ham melts and bacon baguettes offered after wrong meals were loaded onto the plane.
This shall forever be known as the Bacon Baguette Incident.
Wait, some airlines serve bacon baguettes?
Looks legit. →
Ladies and gentlemen: The Official Website of America (warning, may cause blindness): http://officialwebsiteofamerica.com/
ex-genius:
sarahspy:
me: http://officialwebsiteofamerica.com/ Jessica: lol me: lol Jessica: wtf me: idk
Looks like the official website of america to me.
Anonymous asked: I can drink lite beer at nite. But I don't have the slitest idea if that's the rite way to right it. What the hell is wrong with the English language, anyway? It's weigh two weerd.
Anonymous asked: We still talk about "candlepower" and "horsepower" to measure modern things. If I had a million candles in my hand while riding on 300 horses (that is, a muscle car and a normal handheld spotlight plugged into the car's power port) AND a time machine, could I rule colonial America like some kind of wacky superhero?
Here Is How To Be A Woman In A Boys' Club →
THIS.
mollylambert:
A Handbook/Manifesto For Everyone, by Molly Lambert at This Recording
withoutfeatherss asked: so, a baby seal walks into a club...
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: SparkNotes:... →
Possible Essay Questions
1) Analyze the scene in which the bunny says goodnight to the lighthouse in relationship with the rest of the book. Cite textual evidence whenever possible.
2) Compare and contrast Goodnight Moon with The Sun Also Rises. Whose sentences are simpler: Brown’s or Hemingway’s?
3) What have you said goodnight to you? Analyze what that says about you. Try not to...
peppermintpocky asked: Where have all the cowboys gone?
Anonymous asked: Should I just let the Wookie win? What's your advice in this matter?
