Posts tagged “Los Angeles”

• The fictional high school chorus at the center of Glee has a huge problem: nearly a million dollars in potential legal liability.
• What were we thinking about when we had all that extra time?
• Who wants to see the ruins of modern Greece?
• Glasses are the ultimate image changer. (via jim)
• Authentic, game-used baseball cufflinks are just one of the many classy gifts for guys that can be found at the Gent Supply Co.
• I need to start slowly making my way through the 101 best sandwiches in Los Angeles. Very slowly.
• Lovely phrases and beautiful definitions can be found in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
• I’ve never really been a big Trek fan, but this list of the fifteen cruelest deaths in Star Trek history is pretty sweet.
• WTF is HTML5 and why should we all care?
• You really should follow me on Twitter. That’s the quickest way to learn about awesome sites like youarenotsosmart.com.

• You would think that a prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson sticker would be hard to miss, or at the very least hard to forget about and leave behind.
• The shortest possible game of Monopoly requires only four turns, nine rolls of the dice, and twenty-one seconds.
• Fuck Yeah Cats! is cute. But FUCK YEAH SHARKS is cool.
• “The economic slave never realizes he is kept in a cage going round and round basically nowhere with millions of others,” said the totalitarian Buddhist who beat SimCity3000.
• I have got to agree that putting an awesome costume on your observatory is the greatest astronomy-related college prank ever.
• Web developers should always be mindful of the commander’s intent.
• It looks like the AT&T tethering plan for the new iPhone is going to suck and be absurdly expensive. I’m shocked. Shocked.
• And, finally, I love this quote from an article about the murder of porn actor Tom Dong: “That’s why I have a gun in my office. Weird things happen all the time. We’re in the Valley.”

Okay, riddle me this, kids: The local NBC affiliate’s nightly news keeps running items about how Los Angeles residents are not returning their census forms. The anchorman reports hyper-specific percentages each evening of how many of us have not responded. On Thursday night he said that less than 72% of the city had completed the census.

HOW DO THEY KNOW?!?!