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How does a bill become a law? A lovely infographic from Mike Wirth Art is a swell way to learn the answer… but nothing beats the original (YouTube).
Make your hidden self a little bit cooler with better Facebook default profile images.
“These are their stories.” RIP L&O.
“You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.” — from an interview with Leroy Stick, the man behind @bpglobalpr
On June 5, 1910 there were only nine mothers of U.S. Senators still alive.
Book owners have smarter kids.
Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (I honestly don’t know which one I am.)
This is the sort of stuff I love: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites. I need the History or Discovery Channel to do a special on this!
Derek thinks he’s finally figured out why everything sucks. And it’s actually kind of awesome.
@sbnation presents an explanation of the recent and confusing NCAA conference realignments.

2024-01-21: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Team owners Frank and Jamie McCourt paid a Russian physicist at least six figures — for five years! — to transmit positive energy to the Dodgers from his home in the Boston suburbs.
These LEGO recreations of iconic photographs are pretty cool.
Some friendly Mormons have posted an exhaustive guide to overcoming masturbation.
Everyone knows that Jack sits right on the court. But who are all the other purple and gold fanatics? Someone has investigated and detailed the entire (updated) arrangement of Lakers courtside seating.
Die-hard college sports fans will likely enjoy following The Bylaw Blog: The Unofficial Blog of NCAA Compliance. (RSS feed)
I’m fairly confident that the NCAA and / or the NFL will not be happy about broncogator.com.
California has — of course — the coolest proposed license plate redesign.

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.”

2024-07-12: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

If you like our football team, you’ll love our chem labs full of Asian students!
People sometimes ask me why I never wanted to be a bullfighter. It’s simple, really. I tremendously dislike getting gored through the throat with a horn.
I am ashamed to admit that I knew only four of these 10 Facts Every Westerner Should Know about the Middle East.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: Invisible Sharks!
Dedicated games should review this handy guide to Pac-Man ghosts.
@BPGlobalPR is some seriously black humor.

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There are many, many good reasons why First Citywide should be your change bank, and Old Glory should be your insurance company. (These are two of the best commercials ever.)
Not many people are going to get this one, but… “Be Like Han” is damn great advice.
The moodINQ Programmable Tattoo System is simply mind-blowing. Getting a “sub-dermal” implant seems a little extreme, but it might be worth it to occasionally rock my favorite tattoo.
Twitter vs. The Pony Express
A guy got mugged in Australia… right in front of a Ninja school.
In Finland there are 5.2 million people and nearly two million saunas. That’s why the Sauna World Championship is a nationally televised event.
Lane Kiffin is Supercoach!
The Bullies of the 80s were quite cruel.
Should we impose term limits on Supreme Court justices? Consider: “When the Framers wrote the Constitution, life expectancy was less than 40 years; today, life expectancy is 77 years.”

2024-07-24: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Literary Tattoos
The Periodic Table Of Super-Powers
Dale Peterson is not screwing around. (He’s got my vote.)
If you like The Big Picture, you’ll love The Big Caption.
Apple, Inc. v. Apple Corps: Why The Beatles Are Not in the iTunes Store
Never Punt with Tebow: A Mathematical Analysis of 4th Down
The fastest man in college football is University of Florida running back Jeff Demps, who helped the Gators win the SEC outdoor track championships by running the 100m dash in 10.06 seconds. (That’s just a half-second “slower” than world record holder Usain Bolt.)

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Better Marriage Blanket: Contains the same type of fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons!
I’ve been using Twitter since April 23, 2007. How about you?
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the premise of this article is that superheroes seem to be getting less super, and that’s bad. If that’s what he’s saying, I agree. If that’s not what he’s saying, then I don’t get it.
It’s been almost fifteen years and the Ike Hilliard Stop and Pop is still one of the most amazing plays I’ve ever seen.
Nimoy Sunset Pie is a lot like Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
“The Township will feature an ensemble cast, including actors Wendell Pierce and Dominic West from The Wire as a pair of successful, well-adjusted real estate agents who occasionally grab one quick drink after work before returning home to the families they love.”
“When the worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find [its] creators and defeat them. The cops are failing. And now the worm lies there, waiting …”

2024-07-26: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Fun With Secret Questions & Answers
CrabRevenge.com: “Yes we sell pubic lice and yes we are proud of it.”
Life is beautiful.
The Boston Globe has the best coverage (as usual) of an extraordinary event. This time The Big Picture details the oil spill.
If you are in any way involved with building things on the web, you should read A Brief History of Markup.
Looking for literary superheroes? Behold the awesome power of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne!
Have you ever wondered if there is video of an enormously pregnant woman and her skinny friend doing a very disturbing dance to the theme song from Law & Order: SVU? You’re in luck!
Bonus: The 50 Worst Video Game Names Ever

2024-07-26: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Building an airplane looks like fun.
When the biggest problem in personal technology is that the leading company is getting a little too exceptional, it’s a good problem to have.
Mouth-to-snout resuscitation saves lives!
The “happy” version of The Shining is still one of my all-time Internet favorites.
The Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator
One of the cool things about Tebow being drafted by the Broncos is that he’ll still be rockin’ the orange and blue.
R.I.P. one of my heroes: Dick Giordano

2024-07-27: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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