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Toilet Bowl Brushes

Brunei’s economic collapse was made explicit with an auction of Prince Jefri Bolkiah’s depleted assets, which included gold-plated toilet-bowl brushes.

Psycho Killer

Psycho Killer – Talking Heads

UF v. FSU

UF v. FSU

Q: Who has better fans, Florida or FSU? Tickets to every Florida Gator home game have been sold out for 8 consecutive years. The Noles only sell out 30% of their games in the state of Florida despite having a much smaller stadium. Florida has sold out all of their bowl games except one in

Home Amputation

I really just don’t know what to say about this one: Prepare yourself for an adventure like you have never before experienced. In an unprecedented event … LIVE via webcam access … you can watch me amputate my legs with a homemade guillotine on October 31st! [link via Visual Distortion]

Karma Police

Karma Police – Radiohead Did you ever notice that there are no “casual” Radiohead fans? Everyone I know that likes Radiohead just is mad for the group. “No, you don’t understand,” they always say, “They are the b e s t!” Interesting …

Good Grief!

Great news from Harlan: We are all going to die!

ultracrepidarian

Definition: In a word… ultracrepidarian: (n., adj.) a person who gives opinions beyond his scope of knowledge. “Nonexpert opinion or assumed authority – Don’t be swayed (or try to sway someone else) based on the opinion of an unqualified authority. The Air Force is chock-full of people who, because of their position or authority in

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.