September 2010
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Fill ‘er up: self-serve tanks bring wine to French...
Keg wine and wine vending machines just got supersized: 500 and one-thousand liter tanks have landed in French supermarkets. Bring your own resealable bottles, Poland Spring containers, jerrycans, whatever. Or you can get one at the store. Select your grade (red, white, or rosé). Pump. Print receipt. via DrVino, via Consumerist, DListed, @fervidmuse (Jason Williams) on Twitter Posted...
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Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert to March on...
On last night’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart announced that he will hold the Rally to Restore Sanity on the Washington Mall on October 30, as a counter to the crazy people dominating our national politics. (See the website here.) The gathering, which Stewart referred to as the Million Moderate March, is intended to “spread the timeless message, ‘Take it down a notch for America …...
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Worst Commute Ever - There, I Fixed It
via thereifixedit.failblog.org Wait, a British double-decker bus, a section of a Tube train, and …I’m not sure what that last train segment is, but it’s bigger than the Underground one — British National rail maybe? Seems to me the best way to do a multimodal commute, to be honest. Just climb in the back, hop off the front, and you’re off to work. What could be...
Oh happy day!
Honey crisp apples are back in season! So that’s the question of what I’ll be living on for the next couple of months sorted then. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » Honey crisp apples are back in season! So that’s the question of what I’ll be living on for the next couple of months sorted then. …
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How to Lose the House « John Scalzi's Whatever
Given the paucity of intellect in the GOP, you can’t really blame it for running back to this strategy over and over, especially when it works. What you can do is blame the Democrats for continuing to fall for this shit, over and over and over again. The reason it works is because the Democrats can’t or won’t call stupid stupid; they keep trying the “let’s be reasonable” thing against people...
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Medieval helpdesk (Dutch, but with English...
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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
Everyone’s heard the supposed fact that if you take the English idiom “It’s Greek to me” and search for equivalent idioms in all the world’s languages to arrive at a consensus as to which language is the hardest, the results of such a linguistic survey is that Chinese easily wins as the canonical incomprehensible language. (For example, the French have the...
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Isaac watching the planes taking off at Castle...
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Emerson students stage "Improv Everywhere" style...
via universalhub.com The dance remix of “The Lonely Goatherd” is annoying, but whatever, this looks like it was fun anyway. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » via universalhub.com The dance remix of “The Lonely Goatherd” is annoying, but whatever, this looks like it was fun anyway.Click image to play video …
I am the dog your dog could smell like if it ever...
This fella is identical to my brother’s dog except, like, his is perpetually covered in mud :-) Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » This fella is identical to my brother’s dog except, like, his is perpetually covered in mud :-) …
Plymouth Rock is ringed with Union Jack fencing....
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Massasoit, bearer of light itself
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Candy cigarettes: not yet banned or out of...
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Some people get tattoos. I've had a cheap loop of...
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That's not Plymouth, that's Chicago....
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Admiral! There be whales here!
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BREAKING NEWS: sea pirates spotted in Plymouth...
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Alligator spotted sunning near Charles River in...
BOSTON — Ever seen an alligator on the Charles River? A local canoeist got a big surprise when he spotted one sunning himself on a log Thursday. He took a photograph of the reptile as he paddled down the river in Dedham. State wildlife officers were called in to try and capture the ‘gator. They got close, but couldn’t catch him. They said they would try to...
Let's go bowling. In HDR.
Trying out iPhone 4’s new HDR mode. Normal: HDR: The wider results are nice, but I think I prefer the regular version. The real world has light & shadow, and photos should, too. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » Trying out iPhone 4’s new HDR mode. Normal:HDR:The wider results are nice, but I think I prefer the regular version....
While there are admittedly other ways to interpret...
While there are admittedly other ways to interpret this, I prefer to think the scoreboard say we’re winning 200,000 to 002,462. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » While there are admittedly other ways to interpret this, I prefer to think the scoreboard say we’re winning 200,000 to 002,462. …
The view from the Ted Williams seat at Fenway...
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Picture: Doctor Who's Sonic Screwdriver to be a...
via chriscummings01.posterous.com And there I was thinking “Wiimote Lightsaber” was a clever idea. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » via chriscummings01.posterous.com And there I was thinking “Wiimote Lightsaber” was a clever idea. …
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I can't just keep buying nerd t-shirts. But this...
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Does Language Influence Culture? - WSJ.com
‘The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563, The Gallery Collection/Corbis Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express? Take “Humpty Dumpty sat on a…” Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme...
Lava lamps explained
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When I was a kid, I thought "cook book" was a...
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Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight.
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Conditions are still deteriorating, Dwight.
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Numbers & angles
via i.imgur.com Counting Number Angles Date: 10/13/2002 at 13:25:53 From: Terri R Subject: Counting Number Angles I am trying to find the history of counting number angles. I was told by my professor that the way the numbers were written gave you the number in the number of angles in the written number, such as the number 2 being written as what we know as a Z: there are two angles ...
Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight.
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FloridaSunshineCoast.com's Hurricane Correspondent...
What you should say: When covering a hurricane, there’s no such thing as overstating the obvious. And, let’s face it, how many different ways can you say it’s rainy, windy and miserable? To break the monotony, you might take a guess at how high the “storm surge” will be, even though you won’t have a clue....
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Yet Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes Off Louisiana...
Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: There is another matter… one I’m reluctant to… Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Please. Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: One of our submarines, an Alfa, was last reported in the area of the Grand Banks. We have not heard from her for some time. Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Andrei, you’ve lost another submarine?via IMDB: The Hunt for Red October (1990) - Memorable...
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Vespa/VW sidecar genius | Flickr
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GUNMAN TAKES HOSTAGES AT DISCOVERY CHANNEL,...
1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live...
August 2010
YES YES YES
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Doppler effect with iPhone 4G video recording
Download now or watch on posterous IMG_0103.MOV (2288 KB) Watch the blades on the starboard (on the left, at first) propellor: there seem to be two slowly-moving blades at first, then the apparent number of blades varies and they almost seem to reverse direction as the plane turns, and by the end there seem to be six or eight of them. Meanwhile, the...
New rule at Chez Devers: instead of time out,...
Download now or watch on posterous IMG_0074.MOV (1767 KB) Either 30 minutes or however long the O2:CO2 ratio is survivable, whichever is longer. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » Either 30 minutes or however long the O2:CO2 ratio is survivable, whichever is longer.Click image to play video …
Saddum Hussien's tombstone makes it's clam
Where to begin? • You meant “whole of humanity,” not “whole of humane”. • You meant “Saddam Hussein,” not “Saddum Hussien”. • A Patriot missile made “it’s clam,” eh? Not “its claim”? • No, really, “it’s clam” means “it is shellfish”, come on now. • He was killed by Iraqi executioners in...
Raaaahhhhhhhh! Poodle-chicken attacks!
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Marshfield Fair
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@ThomasBrand now would be the time to upload the...
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Lamp
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Just me & The Boy, so naturally we blast...
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How Wall Street Made The Mortgage Crisis Worse :...
Say I’m a sausage grinder. My sausage is selling great. Until one day, my customers say they don’t want the ends, the ones with those nasty knots. Pretty soon, I’ve got all these end bits piling up on my counter. I’m worried it’s going to turn off customers. So I shove the end bits back in the grinder and...
For today's performance, the part of C-3PO will be...
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Ok, so it turns out there really was a TARDIS on...
I’d take the boys by to show them that there’s a spaceship here, but somehow I think they’d be underwhelmed. Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » I’d take the boys by to show them that there’s a spaceship here, but somehow I think they’d be underwhelmed. …
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un giorno lungo un anno | Flickr
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FORA.tv - David Harvey: The Crises of Capitalism...
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Daily Show: Mosque scare-mongering in action at...
Yes, it’s time for items related to the proposed mosque and community center two blocks from the World Trade Center and the rhetoric about why the Park 51 project should or shouldn’t go forward. Last week, the Daily Show pointed out that speculating about Fox News’ speculation about possible terrorist funding for the mosque was akin to speculating about terrorist funding for...
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Science, Reason and Critical Thinking: The...
I thought I’d try and apply the rational to the irrational, and came up with this. Click image to enlarge. via crispian-jago.blogspot.com, via @pfig’s http://post.ly/tLvJ Posted via email from ☛ HoloChromaCinePhotoRamaScope‽ | Comment » I thought I’d try and apply the rational to the irrational, and came up with this.Click image to enlarge.via...