oh the irony

I guess one of the pitfalls of being the 21st century’s “hog butcher for the world,” is that sometimes you inadvertently manufacture items that, while free of any deadly contaminants, are just embarrassing.

BBC: ‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China

The Quintessence of Gentlemanly Beverages. . .

This made my day/week/month, in the same way that The Philadelphia Story did—the gentlemanly love of drink, and the baroque linguistic decadence, the gentle wit:
Major General Wm. D. Connor
West Point, N.Y.
My Dear General Connor:
Your letter requesting my formula for mixing mint juleps [...]

aahh subway monster!

he’s done other things, but this by far is the most ambitious and ballin’ one…
ps. ryan and melissa are the straight tightest

such incredible writing

Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building
IOWA CITY, IA—The mouse briskly traversed the complicated wooden maze in under 30 seconds, roughly 1/8,789,258 the time it took to secure funding for the experiment.

obviously I got as much out of this class as was put in…

cmps80u was the worst class I ever took, and even now, its legacy lives on…

gee, professor, what a really helpful evaluation.  Without it, I would’ve only known for sure that I had passed, but now I am positive.  your interest and engagement was mediocre during the course, and obviously has not improved since.

cheaper than the real thing

Sidewalk Psychiatry
Really, there are too many other cool things on this site, just check it out.

TED

first, a really excellent talk from the TED (Technology/Entertainment/Design), a annual conference held in Monterey, CA which brings together the “world’s greatest thinkers and doers,” who are challenged to speak for 18 minutes (no more, no less) on pretty much anything that strikes their fancy. Each year there is a [...]