delusions of grandeur
Market Street to Close to Traffic for Pilot Project
Well thank God for this. Lord knows when I’m walking near Market and 6th what I really want to be doing is wandering around in the street.
Read MoreMaking New Friends!
Just for the record, this story was not my idea. It’s all good fun, folks. All good fun.
Read More#3, #4
I like the cut of the jib of the guy that wrote these spelling words. [click for full size]
Read MoreDying to Know the Origin of This
[click for full size] Update via Reddit: The picture itself was created by the artist Hugh Fleming and called “Star Wars Rocks,” and made as an exclusive to the official Star Wars fan club in the late 90s. Original prints are collector’s items now, although Lucas officially resells the poster (as mentioned above by another…
Read MoreSorry
Joe Queenan offers a dazzlingly insightful look at the modern apology and its apparently utter lack of actual remorse. Even in more recent, less theatrically vindictive times, true regret for one’s transgressions has always required a willingness to accept punishment, even if the punishment consists of nothing more than humiliation. The wrongdoer must admit that…
Read MoreBenjamin Franklin: Full of Win
Love this page on Franklin, but this daily to-do list is the best part.
Read MoreThis Is All Kinds of Awesome
The world’s most expensive champagne looks fit for the Flintstones. (Thanks for the tip, Toby!)
Read MoreWhat Does the Fire Alarm Sound Like?
Surely They Make a Toilet-Shaped Piece
Been waiting for this news all my life. TOP Gear presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house in Surrey – but one made entirely out of Lego bricks. As part of his BBC series James May’s Toy Stories, he plans to build a two-storey house in the middle of Denbies…
Read MoreBig Brother Is Comin’
And he’s comin’ on strong.
Read MoreThe Kool-Aid Is Served
Final recording from Jonestown, November 18, 1978. 44 minutes of preaching and death. Yeesh.
Read MoreCoulda Been Somebody
Not really sure why these guys wanted to interview me, but the whole thing turned out to be quite a bit of fun. Check it out, then go update my Wikipedia entry.
Read MoreOn Conservation
Pundit Derrick Jensen says: Conservation, recycling, and personal green technologies are useless. Interesting and very sad piece on why, as a race, we’re pretty much doomed. Favorite quotes: “Even if every person in the United States did everything [An Inconvenient Truth] suggested, U.S. carbon emissions would fall by only 22 percent. Scientific consensus is that…
Read MoreCenter of the Googleverse
Open up Google Maps. Zoom in all the way without moving the location/cursor. The center of the Googleverse is Coffeyville Country Club in Kansas.
Read MoreI Miss All the Good Stuff
Keep on keepin’ it real, Houston!
Read MoreWhere Seinfeld Is Still in its First Season
Ever wonder what the aliens are watching on TV?
Read MoreThe Big Time
News of the AMC Filmcritic.com acquisition has finally made the papers. Oddly, both (very short) stories about it have something incorrect in them. This one has the descriptions of the two sites bought reversed. This one has the suffixes (.com/.org) mixed up. Whoopsie.
Read MoreOscars Expanding Best Picture to 10 Nominees
Fairly ridiculous. When’s the last time there were even five truly worthy nominees in that race? Still, I guess it will make for a more unpredictable finish, which is fun.
Read MoreOn Fava Beans, Chianti
I’m getting so tired of this ridiculous Steve Jobs liver transplant story. The increasingly tiresome Jim Goldman “confirms” what was widely suspected: Jobs went to Tennessee so he could get a liver transplant. Yeah, we got it. But now comes the backlash: Did Jobs jump the transplant line so he could get a liver before…
Read More$500 for 2 Hours Work
I could totally handle this. Totally.
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