August 2008
Fox News: Michael Phelps fails drug test →
(via spiegelman)
I would never even have gone for it (or known who Michael Phelps was) until three weeks ago when everyone at my job started talking about him. DAMN THEM
Watchspiegelman:
boingy:
A Londoner was stopped by a London Transport Police officer under S.44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and had the presence of mind to whip out his video camera and record the officers tearing through his stuff. They officers admitted that they had no suspicion of him, no reason to search him and told him he’d be arrested if he refused.
I am reminded of the beauty of our...
Judge leaves gag order intact on subway... →
A federal judge on Thursday let stand a temporary restraining order preventing three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from discussing or disclosing their research into security vulnerabilities in the payment system for the local subway system.
“In China, some doctors are paid monthly when you are healthy. If you are sick,...”
– Reversible business models (via deplorableword)
WatchBad Horse (Preschooler Mumble Edition) (via drhorrible)
“Someone hooked up a pair of speakers and a stereo to a giant tricycle. Genius I...”
– DoloresPark on Twitter
“Blogging is like masturbating into a mirror while you videotape yourself so you...”
– Lewis Black (via glass) (via jimray) (via merlin)
getting what you ask for
interlocutor: A guy I know told a woman that she got what she asked for by receiving unwelcome touch in a dance club because of the way she was dressed
interlocutor: she'd commented that she likes to wear skimpy clothes because it makes her feel sexy, and he asked "why can't you just feel sexy at home? it's ridiculous to think you can go to a club where people are drunk, dressed hotly, and not expect men to be aroused."
me: i would kick him swiftly in the nards, then say "it's ridiculous to think you can be such a cock and not expect people to become violent"
me: EAT MY SHOE WITH YOUR DICK
The best conspiracy video ever made. →
topherchris:
Open your eyes, people! The government is putting rainbows in our water supply!
We as a nation have got to ask ourselves: What the hell is going on?
Jesus, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying right now.
WHAT IS COMING OUT OF OUR GROUND
I banished the panic by watching this version directly thereafter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck7A9vufrX4
If I follow anybody besides Nick Douglas, I can’t tell.
“Five years ago, plastic surgeons, dermatologists and tooth-whitening centers...”
– It’s Botox for You, Dear Bridesmaids — NY Times
TechCrump.com →
topherchris:
Another site from me where I promise nothing but a headline every so often. My favorite kind.
<3 Need headline writers? :)
Large Hadron Collider Countdown →
When CERN destroys the world by activating the Large Hadron Collider and spewing the Earth through a black hole into a parallel dimension, where gravity is time and width is pudding, people with a crust of bread in their pockets will be saved.
“This morning, she spent like 20 minutes looking for her keys, but couldn’t...”
– Only in SF: CouchSurfing
