All the pundits I see induce nausea
With hate filled conspiracies implaussia
Who likes this damn dreck?
I’m in over my neck.
I hope never to learn me the cause’o’ya.
Just you try to deny me the inheritance of Dorothy Parker…
A limmerick’s form’s built up with ease
And it’s message is certain to please
Audience under thirty?
Or is it quite dirty?
Or is the last line just a tease?
And it’s message is certain to please
Audience under thirty?
Or is it quite dirty?
Or is the last line just a tease?
I think this is what Cy thinks when he hears the word “sushi”.
Campfire
xkcd.com
via Campfire.
I am not nerdy enough, and I feel shame about that…
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)
via April 24, 2010.
Bad Eyedea
Best Photo Caption Ever
Remember, it could have been one of the firemen…
Sadly, a cremation could never be this easy…
This only works if your doctor never gets to meet you…
Tech support guy goes to medical school and becomes doctor: assumes that most illnesses can be cured by killing the patient then bringing them back to life.
Thanks to TechStuff in http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/amio3/hint_if_you_are_helping_someone_over_the_phone/
Catchup blogging…
These are all things that are either too specific or too small to deserve a post of their own.
- Urban Dictionary: crumping
- Overheard in New York | Dakota Learns How to Get Some Breathing Room
- texts from last night
- texts from last night
- Hiroshima, 64 years ago – The Big Picture – Boston.com
- If Sarcasm Ruled the World | Cracked.com
- Top Tech Rollercoasters – PC World
- Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda | | AlterNet
- Total Cost of Ownership: myTouch 3G versus iPhone 3GS versus Palm Pre
- 15 Great Tips For Ubuntu Power Users
- 3qiYJ.png (PNG Image, 434×432 pixels)
- Chain Sudoku: A new twist on the world’s most popular puzzle
- Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine
- What is the best best quote you know? : AskReddit
- Give your boss the illusion of managing you… with pidgin and dbus « Random Rants of a n00b
- Thomas Pynchon Wiki – A Literary / Literature Wiki
- Hell Yeah, Hubble! : Starts With A Bang
- Buy n Large Disclaimer
- xkcd – A Webcomic – Superlative
- Cowbirds in Love: a daily comic by Sanjay Kulkarni
- How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so fast — chicagotribune.com
- 12 add-ons every Firefox user must have | News | TechRadar UK
- harsh, but helpful?
- texts from last night
- The 6 Best British Comedies You May Not Have Seen… « Beck’s Beer – The global official website
- Quick and strong file-encryption with OpenSSL – Lars Strand
- Ubuntu – Some Repositories You Should Know About ~ Web Upd8
- How to Enable Facebook Chat for Pidgin in Ubuntu | Ubuntu Geek
- Download Pidgin for Ubuntu
- pdfpirate.net – free, online and no limits pdf restriction remover
- The Psychology of the Right-Wing’s Anti-Government ‘Death-Panel’ Delusions | | AlterNet
- 4 Cool Firefox Tools That Are Not Addons
- 10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
- ME TALK PRESIDENTIAL ONE DAY: GQ Features on men.style.com
- 45+ Cool Google Android Apps – The Perfect iPhone Replacement : Speckyboy Design Magazine
- 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers | Crooks and Liars
- Ekin Ertaç – Free Complete WordPress Cheat Sheet
- Integrate and Extend with the Google Apps Administrative APIs – Google Apps APIs – Google Code
- 20 Powerful WordPress Security Plugins and Tips & Tricks
- Importing Facebook Phonebook Into Gmail Contacts
- How to sync Palm Treo (PalmOS) contacts with the G1 – Google Applications – T-Mobile Forums
- PdaNet — Use your Android as a USB Modem
- slightlywarped.com’s Curiosities
- Arensus Crossword Player Readme | Oxonom – Android Developer
- Drought restrictions
- 95 websites you should totally bookmark today | News | TechRadar UK
- Installing the Android 1.6 SDK | Android Developers
- android-scripting – Project Hosting on Google Code
- Trendsmap – Real-time local Twitter trends
- Please be patient – This Page is Under Construction!
- Stephen P. Tarzia’s webpage (sonar presence detection for linux and windows)
- 45 Homemade Foods You Can Make Yourself (But Never Thought You Could) : Planet Green
- Cooking For Engineers – Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
- 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About | Maximum PC
- The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs | Serious Eats
Humor in court
Shouldn’t this be chapter 1?
Another month of catchup blogging:
- How to Run Android Applications on Ubuntu – Step-by-step tutorial with screenshots – Softpedia
- 50 handy Ubuntu time-saving tips | News | TechRadar UK
- Overheard Everywhere | I Like to Think Of It As Adding a Little More Magic to the Kingdom
- Caps Lock has a new name…
- 25 brilliant bookmarklets to boost your browsing | News | TechRadar UK
- PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to’s | Noupe
- Dangerous Carnival Rides, Roller Coasters and Attractions – Scariest Theme Park Rides – Popular Mechanics
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- Film features: The 40 Greatest Movie Bastards | TotalFilm.com
- Weather Specific Backgrounds on Ubuntu with Apache, PHP, Cron and Weather.com
- 20 Business Lessons Learned from Monty Python | Small Business | Focus.com
- Installing Firefox 3.5 the right way in Ubuntu Jaunty
- texts from last night
- Quotations
- How to Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP
- Overheard in the Office | …We Fired the Psychic During Budget Cuts
- Overheard in the Office | …Oh.
- Overheard in the Office | I’m Working on Your Employee Evaluation
- Overheard in the Office | And When She Comes Back She’ll Be All Hopped Up on Java
- Overheard in the Office | Which Explains Why We Now Do It on My Back Porch
- Dos Equis ‘Most Interesting Man’ Is a Great Beer Salesman – Advertising Age – News
- Difference between scattered and isolated thunderstorms, and other geek storm stuff
- Facebook sez, “Don’t mind us, we’re just whoring out your photos”
- Top 5: Proofs That The Moon Landing Happened – AskMen.com
- Green’s Opinion: Android versus iPhone Development: A Comparison
- Chernobyl offers a holiday in hell | Europe – Times Online
- Overheard in New York | Wednesday One-Liners Support a Woman’s Right to Shoes
- Less Wrong: How likely is a failure of nuclear deterrence?
- Marc Lehmann’s “Judge”
- Very off topic: Why I won’t be at my high school reunion : Good Math, Bad Math
- Exciting Technologies Coming to Linux | Internetling
- How to Setup VirtualBox as a Service in Linux [Glump.net]
- How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’ – Forbes.com
- David Lynch’s American Dreams – Page 1 – The Daily Beast
- How Amazon’s remote deletion of e-books from the Kindle paves the way for book-banning’s digital future. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine
- Films considered the greatest ever – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Discussing PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which? | Noupe
- Overheard Everywhere | Like Romeo and Ghouliet or A Midsummer Night’s Scream
- iPhone Document Scanner | Kyle A Koch
- LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot – Debian Wiki
- 15 Creative WordPress Footers @ Designussion
- Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
That’s the kind of drive I’m talking about!
Tomorrow at 12:34:56 it will be 12:34:56 07/08/09 unless you are dd/mm/yy, in which case you have a month to go :> : reddit.com
Nearing the end of the month, unsorted bookmarks
I’ve now started using the firefox “Unsorted bookmarks” folder; if anyone knows how to make the ^d keyboard shortcut default to that folder, I would love to know!
- MonitoringExchange: check_dell_warranty
- Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS
- favicon.ico Generator
- Sensemaking: How intellectual pollution has crippled America’s children
- 10 cool things to do with your old laptop | News | TechRadar UK
- Repair4Laptop: How to Make a Digital Picture Frame – DPF from an Old Laptop or Notebook
- Adam Franco.com » Blog Archive » Old Laptop –> Digital Picture Frame
- 10 Useful WordPress Loop Hacks | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
- Repository configuration for older Fedora releases. – FedoraForum.org
- Are urban tapeworms on the rise?: Scientific American Blog
- 22 Mixed Quality WordPress Hacks | Tutorials | instantShift
- Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations | Video on TED.com
- Don’t call what happened in Iran last week an election. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine
- Seesmic Desktop: More Facebook Comments, Less Twitter Spam
- Prayer vs getting off your knees and actually doing something
- 5 Useful Bookmarklets to Make Your Life Easier | Geektechnica
- Back When Game Shows Were Funny, Not Scripted – Disaboom
- Text utilities
- Unixmen – Linux howto and Tutorials – 10 Top extensions to add more fonctionality to your Openoffice
- Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour? | Scienceray