TWatkins mentioned this on twitter and it’s amazing: Take A Weird Break — a compendium of headlines from the Take A Break magazine published in the UK. Take A Break is a concept so brilliant that it must be replicated here in the US: It’s a tabloid whose stories come largely from reader submissions. [...]
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A state representative wants to rewrite the legal description of Iowa’s state seal so that it no longer includes a reference of a citizen soldier “with a plow in his rear.”
From Boing Boing
We’re really talking Meta here: The audience who’d instantly get this joke would be anyone who works in the Web Ghetto, and old-school nerds like myself. But consider this: this joke wouldn’t exist 30 years ago. Comic Sans was invented in 1994 and I’m not sure when the Comic Sans backlash started. [...]
Bless redacted’s bureaucratic little heart. I’m sure it’s all very important to the business of the hospital, but I can only hear this e-mail in John Cleese’ voice when I read it.
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I like how Lady Gaga skipped a lot of steps in recapitulating Madonna’s Career, jumping straight to Madge’s ‘Sex’ and ‘Blond Ambition’ period.
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This was at the top of an e-mail from a University of Iowa office. The mail had nothing to do with penguins, top hats and monocles, penguins wearing top hats and monocles, or Lyndon Baines Johnson. It is surreal and random in a way that can’t possibly be intentionally surreal and random. The people [...]
From Black Dog Flickr Feed
Man just wants delicious burrito, gets accused of being a zombie, has nose broken.
Iowa City is home of the Zombified “Resist Evil” Zombie Movie trilogy, an annual Zombie Parade (which benefits charity), and now, a guy who apparently imagines himself a zombie fighter.
Dude fucked up — Zombies eat brains, not burritos.
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I cut my finger cooking last night, and apparently found a nice juicy vein in the process. I was in the middle of something time critical, so when I couldn’t find a band-aid, I did the ol scotch tape + paper towel approximation* and went back to what I was doing until I could reach [...]
We wanted to ship a package to my son in India, where he’s doing a term abroad. Amazon says, “sure no problem, it can be there for his birthday, that will be $50.”
It didn’t arrive, and this was my entry into what seems to an American the surreal world of India. Let me enumerate.
1. [...]
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Nice catch for Black Heart/Gold Pants, from the inimitable Iowa City Press Citizen — 6th picture in this series.
It’s my birthday, and I’ll be flying to Utah for a family reunion.
I turn 52 today. I did the math. Turns out I have been thinking I was 52 for the entire last year, for some reason. So this is the year I have a birthday, and stay the same age!
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I had an interesting talk a couple weeks ago with my brother about his job at Digg, and Diggs interaction with the people at Google. Without going into the industry gossip, the takeaway from the chat is that above all else, Google values algorithms. Their business model, the companies they’re interested in acquiring, is [...]
I’m a Metro Area fan and all but I didn’t know Morgan liked himself quite THAT much.
Steelberry Clones posted about Elli Et Jacno’s “Main Dans la Main”, saying “I will never be 80’s synthpop nostalgic again.”
Which is sad, because “Main Dans la Main” is, I think, a clever pop song. Sure the arrangement is really wimpy, but I like Elli’s voice and style. Jacno looks like the guy who [...]
Having just had a conversation with Secret Agent Gel about new dance genres that are emerging in the UK … and I have to say I’m amazed at what goes on there. Dubstep, Grime, Funky, Bassline, ‘Wonky’, Donk (I want to call it ‘Donkey’) …
It’s kind of like virtual particles appearing in a [...]
This is making the rounds so maybe you’ve seen it already, but it cracked me up.
Exampla Gratia: Francois K’s remix of Coldplay’s “Talk”
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
I know how wrong, or “wrong” it is to like Progressive House tracks. But sometimes I can’t help myself. It’s almost as wrong as liking Coldplay. Liking a progressive remix of a Coldplay hit? I may lose my techno [...]
(luna/lunarator): MULHOLLAND DRIVE: Lesbian relationship is harmful.
(rich/winner): W.: Unspeakable disaster afflicts America. Then terrorists
attack.
(kent/oh.c’est.haut!): where are you getting those?
(kent/oh.c’est.haut!): what about the seventh seal?
(kent/oh.c’est.haut!): plague grips europe, things get grim for chess player
(luna/lunarator): leave it to kent to come up with some obscure movie that no
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Noise Addicts come up with a ‘name your band, name your album, choose a cover image’ meme.
1. Go to Wikipedia and hit “random” and the first article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to “Random Quotations”. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page will be [...]