- Take a moment this holiday season to indulge in the Southern University sousaphones playing the Veggie Tales theme in the Superdome parking lot.
- Actor Michael Sheen purchased and then forgave $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts.
- This first-person account from a high school kicker of what it’s like to miss a game-tying PAT is riveting.
- There are no words to convey how excited I am about the return of The Muppet Show, even if it’s just a one-off. See also: Forks Out: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery
- Yes, There’s a Parallel Parking Championship – via Jason
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“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken
If you’ve been extremely online (and building things on the web) since the middle of the 1990s, you will enjoy reading this Christoffer Artmann essay: 30 Years of <br> Tags
- After much cajoling, last night our son finally convinced us to watch Interstellar (2014, Matthew McConaughey) and I loved it. Brilliant film.
- I feel like this archive of fictional companies is missing a few thousand references from The Simpsons alone, but it’s a good start.
- Fahlo is a wonderful service that (for a nominal fee) allows you to track an animal in the wild. I can confirm that kids love this app.
- The full story of Fedora Man is in the running for the best thing on the Internet this year.
- Ugh: The rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools.
- The serial killer epidemic in 1970–80s US may have been caused by lead fumes from cars and factories, and solved by environmental regulations. – via Tom Whitwell
- Take a minute to recall The 2017 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog – via Lauren
- Friendly reminder: The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war.
- Just in time for Christmas! “This lightproof, soundproof vat filled with our signature vine-ripened, zesty sauce marks the beginning of an exciting new era in tomato-based relaxation.
Posts tagged “debt”
- The story of the creation of the “Wanted” posters for Jonah Hex is pretty fascinating.
About five years ago, on September 1, 2005, I sat at a coffee shop across the street from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and could not believe just how much it leans. And that was five years after they fixed it.- Everybody loves lists, so Listiki — a site for finding, making, and sharing them — should be popular.
- Adjusting to today’s dollars, the United States has incurred more debt in the last decade then during the entire combined previous 211 years of the republic’s existence.
- How to Create a CD Ladder, from FrugalDad
- “In an era when very little remains shocking, Pierce might have actually managed to create a genuinely disturbing work of fiction, the literary equivalent of Schindler’s List rewritten by the Marquis De Sade and filmed as a Tim Burton animated feature.” (hat tip to rb)
- Just about 100 years ago — on July 24, 1910 — the New York Times featured an article titled “Will Future Generations Lose Historical Documents of To-Day?”.
- “When you are parting with your money, know the person on the other side of the deal thinks you are not so smart and is depending on the anchoring effect when they tell you how much you are about to save.”
2024-06-04: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
This Makes No Sense
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
BlogRolling
I got rid of the weblogs.com recently-updated list in my sidebar. I liked it and all, cha, but it was taking too long to load and if some of the blogs I like to visit hadn’t updated recently (as the name implies) they weren’t there. I replaced it with a combo-box. I stole the code