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06 Mar 2011 21:47

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Tech: Favimon: General web nerdery and Pokemon, together at last

  • For nerds only: Remember Pokemon? Of course you do. Do you know what Favicons are? Perhaps you might. Favimon combines the two, so you can surf and collect your favorite sites, Pokemon-style. As if you needed another reason to waste your time. (Thanks Hacker News) source
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20 Sep 2010 00:29

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Offbeat: Secret Services loses woman’s car, doesn’t help her find it

  • dumb A woman (illegally) parks in a handicapped spot outside of a dinner where Obama’s speaking; a police officer says it’s OK for her to park.
  • dumberUpon leaving, she learns that her car has been moved by Secret Service agents – and they don’t know where they put it. They can’t find it.
  • dumbestThe woman, after having given up and run through red tape, finds it herself the next day – less than a block away from the convention center. source
  • » How far did WaPo commenters read? Rather than get upset about the fact that the Secret Service lost her freaking car, they criticized the woman for parking in a handicapped spot, even though the tag was for her husband. Not to underplay the traffic violation, but the Secret Service lost somebody’s freaking car.
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07 Jul 2010 11:13

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Offbeat: Austin Sendek: Hella close to making “hella” an official math term

Let’s face it. Nobody was using 10 to the 27th power anyway, so why not give it to an annoying Northern California slang term? We’re with Austin. source
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04 Jun 2010 14:49

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Offbeat: We don’t believe this dude’s shirt for some reason

  • We may not be giving this guy enough credit, but after he and his sons got arrested for getting in a fight with some dude over RELIGION (in that shirt!!!!), something tells us our first instincts are the right ones. source
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03 Jun 2010 21:59

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World: Russian Pretendonauts: Let’s pretend to go to Mars, guys!

  • 6 number of “spacemen” who will pretend to go to Mars; playtime!
  • 250 the number of days the crew will be pretending to go to Mars
  • 30 the number of days they’ll pretend to be on Mars’ surface
  • 220 the number of days it will take them to get “back” to Earth source
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09 May 2010 11:43

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Politics: Joe the Plumber says John Wayne should play him in a movie

  • I definitely cried when ‘Old Yeller’ got shot. I also cried in ‘Remember the Titans.’
  • Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher • In an fairly cheeky interview with AOL News. On the scale of attractiveness, Wurzelbacher gives himself a 7. He types with three fingers, not two. He says he wishes John Wayne were alive so he could play him in a movie. And he notes that when he was 28, he could bench press over 450 pounds. The conservative icon recently became a politician, winning a seat on the Republican party committee in Lucas County, Ohio. And he knows when to cry at a movie. source
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01 May 2010 09:29

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Music: This may be the greatest T-shirt in the history of ever

  • We want to see Henry Rollins wearing this shirt. Some dude put this amazing piece of work on Etsy the other day, and we’re positive that the members of Black Flag themselves would appreciate the subversiveness of this fine piece of work. source
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15 Apr 2010 10:13

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World: Twitter’s having fun with the Icelandic volcano eruption today



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10 Apr 2010 19:19

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Politics: Contract With America: Let’s call tea partiers “bizarro hippies”

  • Last night, a reader of ours made an astute observation. The Tea Party movement is doing a lot of damage to the memory of the old-school Boston Tea Party, which defined the start of our country. And it’s gonna be tough to wipe the movement away from the history. So, here’s our Contract With America. Let’s call the Tea Party Movement the “bizarro hippie movement.”
  • why? Because, much like the protest movement of the late 1960s, bizarro hippies meet up en masse, drive around crazy buses and rage about politics. Except the exact, bizarro opposite.
  • usage Use it as a non-proper noun. Example of usage: “Did you hear those bizarro hippies talking about slaying the Porkulus at Perkins the other day? One was wearing a ‘Palin 2012’ hat.”
  • next? From this post forward, ShortFormBlog will only call the Tea Party Movement by this name. We feel that our name is a better fit that best represents the movement’s historical context.
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01 Mar 2010 11:27

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Culture: More ads need to be like this Old Spice ad right here

  • It’s clever, it’s funny, it’s absurdist, and it’s a talker. That, to us, is a total winner. “Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady.” Best. Commercial. Ever. Also worth watching: This related ad.
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