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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Heidi Montag's Very White Ass
via celebuzz.com
As much as she's photographed on the beach, girl could use a tan. Is she inside except when she's being photographed? Does she have access to an unreleased SPF 3000?
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Monday, August 24, 2009
WTF Family Photos
I didn't even know three bacon suits existed. Are these things mass produced?
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Anticipating Facebook 3.0
Am I the only one checking the App Store every hour for the Facebook 3.0? We know it's been sent for approval, so it's only a matter of time before we see it clear the hurdles of Apple. As a pretty loyal Facebook user, I'm pretty damn excited.
If it's comprehensive enough, I might even consider canceling my MySpace account, which I hardly use as it is. Maybe once a month I check MySpace for friend requests, but it's mostly dead to me.What I'm really looking forward to is both the new UI, which seems a lot more usuable, and the ability to both like and comment statuses without having to jump through hoops.Posted via email from Anjrued
The Change in Our Voice
On Gearfuse, I wrote about the differences our vocal inflections have gone through from the early 20th century. Listening to old-time radio and watching vintage movies, you can hear for yourself the difference that a century can have on our national, even universal voice.
Old-time radio DJs had a certain vocal bravado which was exclusive to the news and media men of the day. Radio men had a distinctive vocal accent which disappeared as the century progressed into the 50s and even more so, the 60s. What happened in this time frame to change the voice of a nation? I think it has something to do with an evolution of standards. When radio and TV were a relatively new medium, there was a consensus about the standard radio and TV / movie voices. As time progressed, so did the evolution of the audio and visual medium. Boundaries were pushed, even if the boundaries began as being a slightly different voice among the crowd of carbon copy media men. Media voices became more natural, as did the voices of actors and actresses. The decrease of formality in the media voice can almost literally follow the timeline of the regression of American formality. No more constant suit and dress wardrobes. No more formal greetings among those not involved in business. The voice of the media is the voice of our culture. Or at least it has been since the dawn of radio. And I think that's pretty significant.Posted via email from Anjrued
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
-40 C = -40 F
If you convert -40 degrees from Celsius to Fahrenheit, the answer is -40 degrees. And vice versa.
I should have known that, but I didn't. Now I do.
via j-walkblog.com
Why didn't I know this? As a self-proclaimed trivia nerd, I'm utterly ashamed.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?
According to Harold Ramis, on the Groundhog Day DVD commentary, Bill Murray spent 10 years trapped in his own little corner of hell... But this seems like an arbitrary number. We can do better than that.
via wolfgnards.com
Wolf Gnards boils the exact time down to about 8 years, 8 months and 16 days. But who's counting?
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Chain of Command
It was built in 1995 as a Builder's Square. When it opened, the little Ace Hardware down the street and a local garden center next door went out of business. Only two years after it opened, the blue and gold markings of Builder's Square were replaced by the green "HQ" of Home Quarters Warehouse. It stayed that way for a couple of years more. Then an even larger store opened a few blocks away, this time with the orange blaze of Home Depot. Within months, the green HQ store was closed. Now the orange store has been flanked by an even bigger, newer store, bearing the blue markings of Lowe's. The orange store is starting to look a little shabby. Ace to Builder's Square to HQ to Home Depot, and maybe now to Lowe's. Surely there's someone with another logo -- purple or yellow or maybe chartreuse -- lurking on the horizon.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock - Boing Boing
via boingboing.net
Bob Dylan was detained by police after being mistaken as a hobo while checking out a house in New Jersey.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
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