May 24, 2008
Welcome to the World's Least User-Friendly Tumblog, author: we. The officially unofficial AE tradition for the "Mildly hmmmworthy but I don't want to make it a front-page post" has been to necromance some tangentially-related old thread with a comment at the bottom. As an experiment, here is a second option. We've stickied this post ("Quick Hits") for you to dump anything you'd like noted in passing below. Continue to front page post anything you want, and to keep doing the tangential-reply thing if there's a good match, but post here if you're too lazy or too nonlinear to find one.
For posterity:
- How to Make a Link
- Keep in mind that for *any* HTML, just find a page that does what you want, "View Source", then copy/paste, replacing their text with yours
- And as always, if you foul up a post completely, or can't figure it out, just do your best: an admin will repair it and won't even make fun of you.
Dump anything I like noted in passing below?
Gotta say that I appreciated this response to the new Indiana Jones movie (even though I enjoyed quite a few parts of it):
I am still confused on why we have Quick Hits.
anything you would like to post
not connected to a previous thread
that struck you as funny/interesting/cromulent
but you don't think needs a front page post:
stick it here, as a comment.
Comment/Suggestion: With the addition of more and more comments, wouldn't it be useful for the link to go towards the bottom of the page? I mean, clicking on it directs me to the top and then I have to scroll down... and if there are going be 50 million comments...
In other news, I am still offshore. I wish I had brought my camera.
... then you have plenty of time to wade through the php code that powers this beast and fix the jump-to-comment difficulties :) My expectation is that when it gets unwieldy we can start a new QH thread and spill to the old one by hand.
On a Mac, ⌘↓ and ⌘↑ send you straight to the bottom or top of the page... is it control home/end on a PC? something.
Oh, if it is going to take more two seconds to do, forget about it. That was just a user suggestion.
And in Windows, you have 1 key that does that. "End".
This is probably old news for any Journey fans out there, but Hijinks Ensue pointed out to me today that Journey has a new lead singer. Be sure to check out the video since, as Joel from HE points out, this new guy sounds more like Steve Perry than Steve Perry. The best part of the Wired article is the rabid Steve Perry fan objecting to calling Steve Perry obsolete.
Also, Boston hires a Home Depot employee to be their lead singer.
Also also, if you wear chain mail while jamming, this guy wants you to be in his band.
xkcd does discovery channel doing campfires.
(I originally wrote 'xkcd does the discovery channel doing girl scouts' but I worried that would be misinterpreted)
Meet the new chairman of the fed: Vizzini. Inconceivable!
If you enjoyed WALL-E, you might enjoy this easter egg that pixar left us on the internet.
The contents probably aren't worth clicking thru for, but I wanted to share my vote for "Best Title for a Blog Post on a Technical Subject" webby award: Automating Rick Rolls with Launchd.
If you want to take your icosahedron- shaped dice to go see The Dark Knight, then perhaps you might want to see this before you fill out your character sheet.
"Hey, didja hear about Al's next party? I hear it's going to be scandalous." Graphic not quite up to NYT snuff, but when do you ever get to see the term Venn diagram in a layman publication?
I was going to say what a relief Gonzales wasn't appointed to the Supreme court -- but looking at him in the center of all that maybe there's a reason for the bizarre spectacle that derailed it.
Heh. I hope she does see him again and maces him, that would be sweet.
Why are all the best ones taken from us so soon, Lord?
"This posting has been flagged for removal
(The title on the listings page will be removed in just a few minutes.)"
Care to summarize the funny, MsC? n/m, found it elsewhere:
washington, DC craigslist > district of columbia > missed connections
To the perv who groped me on my way home - w4m - 30 (Mt. Pleasant)
Reply to: pers-774158390@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-07-29, 12:06AM EDTMe: caucasian, white yoga capris and tan tank top
you: Latino, 5'8, in your twenties, sports jersey, short hair, mole on your face.You might have been following me for a while, Mr. Perv, I don't know - I was on the phone with my mother, venting about my roommate situation (we had to find a new one) and my job search (like, I need a job), when you snuck up behind me, and gently squeezed my ass. Not just the top of my ass, but kinda low, kinda close to my you-know-what, if you know what I mean.
You know, even my boyfriend needs permission to get that close, so having a perfect stranger attempt access so suddenly, so completely out of the blue, triggered my fight-or-flight response. And I *fight*. Did it hurt when I grabbed your collar and punched you in the head? I'm a little worried that I didn't get enough momentum in my swing to make you feel it, seeing as I'm kinda short (5'2"). But you must have felt bad when you took off running and I chased you down so easily - it's not that you're slow, dude, it's just that I run fast, as you might have suspected from the well-muscled form of my posterior, had you been viewing it with its athletic potential in mind.
It was all worth it when you realized you couldn't outrun me and so you stopped with your back to me in shame, and I kicked you in your hole. You might not remember, but I said: "Are you sorry? Are you sorry? Say you're sorry!", and you did. That was great. Then I said: "run on home, you asshole! Run home!" and you did that, too!
Ladies, these pervs are cowards who run in fear when confronted with any kind of resistance. They are weak and pathetic.
To the two guys who came out of their houses when they heard me yelling - thank you for being so aware and willing to help out-especially - Chris, was it? - who walked me home. It's great to know the people here care about the safety of others. Thanks so much.
My mom was really worried, because she heard me start swearing and then the phone went dead (I closed it so I could chase the motherf*cker down) and she thought I had been hit by a car. When I told her what happened, she told me not to be so agro, and pointed out that he could of had a knife or something. True. You're right, mom.
But you're unlucky if you're from this neighborhood, Mr. Perv. Cause I'm here ALL THE TIME (no job, remember?) and next time I'll MACE YOUR FACE.
awesome.
There were tape drives in the 80's that somehow used fiber optics?
Hmm, I 90% believed that before but much less now. There are (in the tape controllers that would run those), but please refile the above under "Pathetic, but kinda deviously funny (if true)"
Just in case mrflip, who has been known to change his hair for or as a result of various sporting events, needs some ideas. Just don't tell Mama Flip I had anything to do with it.
what should the ranking of a decathlete with an imaginary score be?
And, a resolution to something that had always bothered me about a movie that I really loved when I was a teenager.
Article/Interview with Flickr's Community Manager - a nice little article, which yielded this gem:
"I'm a nice Canadian girl. I'd never even heard of a Dirty Sanchez when I started here, much less seen a photo of one."
Please take a second to enjoy the AVClub's Taste Test Labs field trip to National Association Of Convenience Stores' annual convention, a convention "for the nation's convenience and petroleum retailers"?
It opens with the Wonkaesque video for "Purple Stuff" by the preposthumous Big Moe and gets better from there.
Leisureguy's Guide to Gourmet Shaving: Shaving Made Enjoyable
All I've read is the product page, but I'll admit to being a bit intrigued.
Mostly, though, I'm glad that I live in a world so large as to encompass the idea of "Gourmet Shaving".
Pepsi: Anteater, not Mushroom. And voting Obama by the looks of it.
Since the movie Sniper is one of my favorite guilty pleasures, I found this article fascinating. Equally fascinating are its outlinks: to a story on the "White Tights" -- deadly and mythical rodents of unusual size female snipers of Chechnya; and to storied sniper Carlos Hathcock (nicknamed "Lông Trắng" (White Feather) by the Vietnamese).
One of Hathcock's most famous accomplishments was shooting an enemy sniper through his scope, hitting him in the eye and killing him.[2] Hathcock and John Burke, his spotter, were stalking the enemy sniper in the jungle near Hill 55, the firebase Hathcock was operating from. The sniper had already killed several Marines, and was believed to have been sent specifically to kill Hathcock. When Hathcock saw a flash of light (light reflecting off the enemy sniper's scope) in the bushes,[2] he fired at it, shooting through the scope and killing the sniper.[3] Surveying the situation, Hathcock concluded that the only feasible way he could have put the bullet straight down the enemy's scope and through his eye would have been if both snipers were zeroing in on each other at the same time, and Hathcock fired first, which gave him only a few seconds to act. Given the flight time of rounds at long ranges, both snipers could easily have killed one another. The enemy rifle was recovered and the incident is documented by a photograph.
(This incident was written in to the movie Sniper, natch.)
I also feel compelled to link to this on-point classic.
Mythbusters say the bullet down the sniper scope is "plausible" after previously labeling it busted.
Peter Gabriel covers Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. Some slight lyric changes - "And it feels so unnatural, to sing your own name."
From SisterInLawOK -- Maine man faces [DUI] charge atop Zamboni.
You've seen aptonyms, but have you ever seen one that looks like, acts like and misuses his name as badly as this peckerhead? [link and observation via CH]
Some preliminary info on this year's Super Bowl ads. Miller is running 1 second ads, complete with hype website. GM smartly decided not to purchase any airtime.
This sounds like a fun book: letters written to Obama by kids - "Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country". This was mentioned on The Inauguration Show, a recent episode of This American Life.
Continuing my trend of posting This American Life stuff, a recent episode had a good intro (the first 6 min) where David Kestenbaum (who I just recently found out has a physics PhD) relates how he and his grad school friends at Harvard applied some Drake equation logic to the probability of finding girlfriends. Results? Not good. Even better was when a single female faculty member joins in and adds her conditions for finding a boyfriend/husband.
I weirdly can't find any thread about Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, but XMFCers may recall the somewhat-turgid documentary detailing his culture-jamming campaign against the Disneyfication of Times Square. It's like Improv Everywhere but with a political edge.
Anyway, the Right Rev. is Running for Mayor.
Vague Science. I'm in, where do I send my subscription form?
eBay auction: I'm selling my wife's box, my cock won't fit (SFW)
I wanted to see a larger picture of the box, but I got this. (SFW)
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Rule of Thumb: MOON WATCHING: To know whether the moon you see tonight will be bigger or smaller tomorrow night - In the Northern Hemisphere, the moon spells "DOC" each month - first it looks like a "D" (waxing moon), then an "O" (full), then a "C" (waning.) South of the equator, it's just backwards and the word is "COD" - "C" moons will grow and "D" moons will shrink. Kate Gladstone, Brooklyn, NY, USA
posted by mrflip at 09:17AM CST on May 24