March 2011
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What The Bachelor really means when he calls you...
“One out of a remaining three.”
February 2011
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Look, even the regulators felt sorry for me … The first day I came in here, they...
– Bernie Madoff | NY Mag: The Madoff Tapes
Today’s great long read comes, as always, from Longform.org
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GOOD LUCK TO ARCADE FIRE AT THE OSCARS TONITE!
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interweber:
“Oh hey, we’re moodshowering. We hit you with the ball and you tell us the first thing that comes to mind about sports wear!”
“Come play air guitar with us, it’s all goooood”
http://officialwebsiteofamerica.com/ →
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Jon: Are you working late?
Nick: Nope. LATE BLOGGING.
Jon: What are you blogging about?
Nick: Just boring internet stuff. Westboro vs. Anonymous
Jon: BORING
Jon: Talk about how Denver is sad it lost its BEST NUGGET
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White House to celebrate Motown with tribute... →
…Announced performers include just one from Motown’s classic era: Smokey Robinson. The rest of the roster are contemporary artists Natasha Bedingfield, Sheryl Crow, Jamie Foxx, Gloriana (?), Nick Jonas, Ledisi (?), John Legend, Amber Riley and Mark Salling (of Glee), Seal and Jordin Sparks.
joemande:
Shatner’s Raw Nerve is the strangest show on television.
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When You Ask People in Maine for their Phone...
They don’t include the area code.
Seriously.
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What a group of 20 construction workers protesting...
“Brah bearah?”
“Hom Derrrmun.”
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For their roles in the film, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon all...
– Wikipedia - Apollo 13 (Film)
NBC Renews The Sing Off, Biggest Loser, Who Do You... →
That can actually be read as a real sentence.
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Only a New Yorker...
Walks into his single room at a Holiday Inn Express and thinks to himself, “Damn, I got a lot of room here.”
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Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human Jeopardy! player: It’s...
– Ken Jennings in his recent article, “My Puny Human Brain” that he wrote for Slate about playing and evenutally losing to the supercomputer Watson on Jeopardy!.
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There isn’t a woman alive who doesn’t love diamonds. Even the super left wing...
– Sage advice from Tom Haverford
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What is Toronto?????
– IBM supercomputer WATSON’s response in the form of a question to last night’s Final Jeopardy! answer, under the category “U.S. Cities”: “Its largest airport was named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle.”
A totally lame excuse for Watson’s blunder — emphasized by...
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