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So, as loyal readers know, a few weeks ago, I went to the SomethingStore, a website where you pay $10 and they send you something.  You don’t know what it will be. I blogged about it here.  So what did I get?  This… I got everything in the picture above, except the iPod.  That’s right.  I got a universal iPod … Read More

Jamie Livingston took a poloroid picture every day from from March 31st, 1979 through October 5th, 1997, his 41st birthday. He stopped on October 5, 1997, because… well, because he died. Although some photos have gone missing from the collection, 6,697 Polaroids remain. The collection, dated in sequence, has been organized by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into … Read More

more graph humor and song chart memes

Someone somewhere is in trouble: The problem photos are obvious. One girl’s arm is missing. Another girl is missing her clothing – and was left with a blurred chest. Multiple students have the same body and clothes. Some shirt colors were changed, while patterns and wording on other shirts were wiped out. At least 34 students had someone else’s body. … Read More

The Typo Eradication Advancement League is on a mission.  To correct typos.  As they explain: This March through May, we, sworn members of TEAL, will be taking a road trip around the country to stamp out as many typos as we can find, in public signage and other venues where innocent eyes may be befouled by vile stains on the … Read More

What’s it like to portray Jack Sparrow at Disneyland?  A former pirate tells his story.  A snippet: Disney warned us we were going to have a lot of horny women coming on to us. They were also worried about girls. I heard Disneyland had an Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She was very flirtatious, and they finally pulled … Read More

CNN: When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help. Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor’s roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, … Read More

BBC, for example

I don’t know what it is. But I bought it anyway. I went to this site, the SomethingStore: SomethingStore is a fun new website that operates simply: We will send you something, an item selected randomly among many things from our inventory, for $10 (free shipping) and you will find out what your something is when you receive it. What … Read More

You may feel differently, but I’m not about to bid on an Air Guitar owned by JFK.

Origin of the phrase "Logging On" This phrase’s predecessor was "logging in" (sometimes still used interchangeably). Back when mainframe computer operators used to go on shifts, they’d have to write everything they did in a paper log, beginning when they arrived. So when you log on to a computer today, you’re signing in.

Oh, Sue… She apologized today.

Where does that phrase come from?  Nobody knows: Another thing some people just can’t accept is that the origins of many common expressions will probably always remain a mystery. We know, for instance, what “the whole nine yards” means—the works, everything, the whole enchilada. But nobody knows where it comes from. Before you offer the definitive etymology of the expression, … Read More

Let’s hope it doesn’t catch on here… Reuters explains: Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual – they’ve been throwing their young children off a tall building to improve their health. The faithful have been observing the ritual at a shrine in Solapur, in western India’s Maharastra, for more than five hundred years. They believe it will … Read More

How is this possible? The pool was full of kids at the time, but for some reason, the three girls who were practicing synchronized swimming at the deep end of the pool all fainted and went under at the same time.