Monthly Archives: September 2007
nternational Talk Like a Pirate Day!!
Yarr!! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! And to think, I almost missed me chance!
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Best Spam Ever
I got a spam email in the mail today that simply said this: Vizit mycheapoem. com in Internnet Xp1orer browser. This is funny for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that they felt like they had to tell me to use IE. Apparently spammers don’t want you to use Firefox or Opera. [...]
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Andrew Bird — Live or Recorded
Wow. I just watched this video of Andrew Bird: About 5 minutes in, they start creating this wash of music. It’s incredible. First of all, it’s really pretty moving. But even cooler, from my perspective, is how they keep it all in check. By then end, there’s this huge wash of sound and the most [...]
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Inflammatory Language Isn’t Cool
Yesterday, I linked to a site with some decent design/typography (and subsquently received a rather cryptic comment). Reading several of his posts left a really bad taste in my mouth. At first I thought it was just because I didn’t disagree with him. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized it had [...]
The Theology of Sleep
Here’s an interesting post about sleep from the Scriptorium. The most moving line: “Sleep is good practice for death.”
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The Exception to the Rule: Angy AND Good Typography
My brother and I were discussing the other day why all wacko Christian websites look the same: lots of animated .gifs and bad typography (words in different colors and sizes, etc). And why the others of said websites don’t realize that they’re shooting their credibility to pieces with their own sites. Well, here’s the exception that [...]
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In Favor of Net (non)Neutrality
This is why the internet shouldn’t be so democratic. Some classic quotes: :O LINDSAY! GO TO SKEWL!OR UR MATH SKILLZ WILL BE AS BAD AS MINE!! and LOLOLOLOL neither did anyione else i asked lmao. i like, rapped my msn list and they were all like: umm. iunno :\ Genius.
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Professional Wrestling on the Wikipedia
Seriously, professional wrestling on the wikipedia is about as funny as it gets.
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Freakin’ Linux
My wireless router went down this weekend. It came back up after I restarted it on Sunday afternoon. But not before I spent most of the weekend trying to figure out how to fix my wireless in Ubuntu (not realizing it was a router problem). First, I did something that worked really well, and then [...]
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Brilliant Graphics