August 2007
66 posts
“I’ve heard parents complain that video games are bad for kids, or harmful to...”
– via Adam Conner via SuicideGirls > News > Geek > Wil Wheaton’s Geek in Review: Gaming is a Social Activity, Goddammit
“When you are a bike rider. you are considered a wheeled vehicle and that means...”
– The Sietch Blog » How To Ride Your Bike To Work
Chris Tucker To Focus Attention On Smaller, More... →
“Thanks for being a champion.”
– From the “Things you say to yourself in the mirror in the morning, not to pro baseball players in public” file, by ‘stros owner Drayton McLane Astros retire Jeff Bagwell’s No. 5 jersey before game with Pirates - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
Internet Commenter Business Meeting - CollegeHumor... →
“The town of Kermit, Texas was named for him”
– Kermit Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“At another point, he imagines Gore exploding: “Why don’t you tell us how many...”
– The Political Brain - Drew Westen - Books - Review - New York Times
“Scrabble is one way to kill time. I can think of better ways to pass obsessive,...”
– :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: WORD WARS
“These words gave me an epiphany: The key to understanding right-wing rhetoric...”
– The article is a good read; insightful.
The Mahablog » The Power of (Right Wing) Myth
“Evolution is very rarely a simple ladder-climb series of beneficial mutations....”
– Butterfly Unlocks Evolution Secret
“The rally squad’s task is to use their signs and banners as shields...”
– Instructions for the staffers and volunteers who setup presidential events via White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters - washingtonpost.com
Discussing 100 Best Bridges to see before you die →
mls anthems --- mike jones for houston dynamo,... →
Sarah Vowell, Author →
“a hippo sleeping underwater will rise and breathe without waking”
– Hippopotamus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“if a human of average height and weight had the strength of the rhinoceros...”
– Rhinoceros beetle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Assignment #47
Re-enact a scene from a... →
“Then McKinley, the last Civil War veteran to become President, uses the...”
– Powells.com Interviews - Sarah Vowell
“It has been suggested that humans became hairless “to prevent overheating...”
– Aquatic ape hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“While we have the will and the resources to fight in this context, we are...”
– The War as We Saw It - New York Times
Same Lottery Numbers Picked Two Days in a Row →
“More than anything his name is a nugget of lyrical gold. It sounds like a...”
– Talib Kweli on the B-RockCNN.com
DAFT PUNK'S ELECTROMA →
“The creative thing the crows did was to use the short stick to get the long tool...”
– BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cleverest crows opt for two tools
Flickr: The The Microverse - World of the Micromen... →
“As President, Thomas Jefferson discontinued the practice of delivering the State...”
– Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Tests with robotic squirrels confirmed that a warmed squirrel tail made...”
– Squirrels wield a hot, secret weapon - life - 13 August 2007 - New Scientist
“Stadium authorities did not understand this exuberant form of fan love. The...”
– In the World of D.C. Soccer Fandom, the Boisterous Group Known as The Barra Brava Is Determined to Score a Reputation That It’s No. 1
The Road to Clarity →
“Rove has acknowledged that in 1970 he used a false identity to get into the...”
– N&W: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Karl Rove
“Tom Petty’s involvement was by chance as George Harrison had left his...”
– History of the Traveling Wilburys
“Goodbye, good riddance.”
– The entirety of John Edwards’ official statement on the resignation of Karl Rove
Alvin & the Chipmunks slowed down (MP3) →
(via Centripetal Notion)
“Its density of 0.2 grams per cubic centimetre is so low that the planet would,...”
– BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Team finds largest exoplanet yet
“Once you’ve accumulated a certain amount of stuff, it starts to own you...”
– Stuff