March 2009
“With reference to people, the word defenestration refers to being thrown from a...”
– Fenestration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 2009
“To have a clean home, one must hate dirtiness more than one hates cleaning.”
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(via assholes)
“Dilution is the solution”, was a popular saying in the seventies.”
– New Home Makes Family Sick : Green Building Elements
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“Just for giggles: where do all the TV shows (both child-focused and adult) that...”
– Critical Hits
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kenyatta:
“We’ve been over this before, but with Wall-E’s recent win at the Oscars, it’s worth mentioning again: Pixar movies don’t have any good women characters.” — Pixar: no chicks allowed
Captain Obvious says: They weren’t written by women. Get over it.
(via wreckandsalvage)
Colonel Context says: While the deconstruction of gender in cartoons is covered territory (in my bok), I hate the...
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“We’ve been over this before, but with Wall-E’s recent win at the...”
– Pixar: no chicks allowed
Captain Obvious says: They weren’t written by women. Get over it.
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Band: Peeping Tom
Album: The Eyes Have It
Song:...
“On the anvil” means any thing in the making, being created, in production...”
– Anvil -
This expression has instantly entered into my language database, and I will henceforth be saying, “Yeah, it’s on the anvil.”
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“The word “anvil” derives from Anglo-Saxon anfilt or onfilti, either...”
– Anvil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“@Staxx09, whteva u like boss, yur wish is my command, I am kazaam”
– Twitter / THE_REAL_SHAQ
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WatchKatie Couric’s Notebook! on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Admire Katie’s robotic poise and delivery.
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rollin →
A1A Beachfront Avenue!
“Steve Jobs is 54 today. To combat the effects of aging he is hard at work...”
– Twitter / Josh Donoghue: Steve Jobs is 54 today. To …
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Free House Plans and Free Green Home Plans from... →
Nelson, I’m sure you’ve already seen this, but could be a good resource. Just called Dedman the other day. We’re getting psyched about the barn-raising.
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Brian Eno, Art Student (via Art Fag City) →
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500000th Guests of the Creation Museum →
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“On March 22, 2008, Brian Lewis, 50, scuttled the Jubilee in the Puget Sound Bay,...”
– Seattle man accused of sinking his own yacht - CNN.com
“Scuttled the Jubilee” is a very succinct metaphor
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sidelined
At Chrysanthe’s last night I met the guy who ran Obama’s online campaign. He is still working closely with the administration, but now works mainly from NYC instead of DC. I asked him only one question: Is Obama really going to change things as far as transparency and the Internet?
He said that everyone working for Obama right now, every single person, wants to move in that...
70-mpg Car for $7K that Goes 0-60 in Under 7... →
guy:
And it’s an ‘81 VW Rabbit.
mental kitchen
uncertaintimes:
Daily Routines:
Perhaps the finest writer ever to use speed systematically, however, was W. H. Auden. He swallowed Benzedrine every morning for twenty years, from 1938 onward, balancing its effect with the barbiturate Seconal when he wanted to sleep. (He also kept a glass of vodka by the bed, to swig if he woke up during the night.) He took a pragmatic attitude toward...
