April 2009
81 posts
“Duck, duck, goose (duck, duck, gray duck in Minnesota)”
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Duck, duck, goose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why is this ONLY in Minnesota?? {oleiah}
Because everyone else is wrong. {robosheep}
Because Minnesotans don’t leave and people are afraid to come here, due to the wild blizzards and impending popsicle state the...
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Guy next to me has some crazy B.O.! Get some SpeedStick up in here, stat! LOL!
Insta-classic.
Arlen Specter to join the Wu-Tang Clan →
Be careful. This post has gone viral. We don’t think it’s Swine Flu, but you better put your mask on, just in case.
{mediation}
“Under the [Information and Communications Enhancement (ICE) Act], the Federal...”
– Alexander Howard, SearchSecurity.
This is different from the way it’s been for thirty years how, exactly? And why in the world does everything federal involving computers become “cyber”?
WatchTime lapse of the construction of Urban Play in Amsterdam. With a slightly horrific ending.
{Disrupted.us}
WatchI love the first moment of stunned silence as everyone tries to figure out what just happened, about 25 seconds in, even though they knew it was coming.
Pardon?
{britishisms}
But there are some legitimate pronunciation differences, some of which I find very odd. One of them is “greasy”: in BrE that would be [GREE-see], but in AmE it becomes [GREE-zee]1. That one still trips me up whenever it comes up, and since some halfwit left a tub of discarded cooking fat in the yard (not the garden!), it comes up with unusual frequency.
That particular one’s...
Waterboard Sean Hannity for Torture →
Seriously. Hannity has volunteered, on the air, to be waterboarded for charity. I’m good for one dollar for every second that Sean Hannity lasts.
Weirdest random IM exchange I've had in awhile.
metalliccoho: New rule: when people use the word "creeper", I castrate them. Brutally.
minntc: huh?
metalliccoho: who art thou?
metalliccoho: ???
minntc: who are you?
metalliccoho: ye sent me a carrier pigeon, ye tell me
minntc: Uh, you sent me a message first.
metalliccoho: what?
minntc: Remember?
metalliccoho: i dost not know who the f*** this is or how ye got my guild membership, but dost not IM me anymore or i will call the police. they traced two other peasants for me, they can do it again.
minntc: Okay dude.
metalliccoho: daffadowndilly knave
WatchI am a craft [home]brewer. Support these local craft brewers and craft brewing enablers:
Summit
Surly Brewing
Flat Earth Brewing Company
August Schell Brewing Company
Great Waters Brewing Company
Town Hall Brewery
Barley John’s Brew Pub
Northern Brewer
Midwest Homebrew Supply
“I do not thank you for turning me onto this game. I installed it on the way down...”
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Ted found Flight Control
I had a very similar situation two weeks ago. A coworker handed me his iPhone and walked away. I looked at it as two planes crashed in mid-air, then I tried again. A half-hour later, my coworker had to physically remove his iPhone from my hands. So I took my iPhone out...
I Love You, Minneapolis Public Radio →
gordonshumway:
I’m swooning this morning over The Current, a public radio station in Minneapolis that also streams online. I discovered them a couple of days ago when Robyn Hitchcock was an in-studio guest and cued ‘em up again this a.m. when he appeared on a taped segment spinning some of his all-time fave tracks.
Since then they’ve won my barnacled heart with a playlist that sandwiched Kool...
Tom Elko's different take on commenting systems. →
My buddy @tomelko came up with this neat idea for blog comment management. Read all about it over on his site. In short, the idea is: don’t manage comments. Don’t accept comments. Provide an alternative mechanism for commenting and discussion in response to your content.
Watch his presentation, 50 minutes in.
WatchI enjoyed this quite a bit. Bill Strickland talks about how he is changing the culture of despairingly poor schools to turn around the performance of these Pittsburgh students.
“I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured...”
– Maureen Dowd, NYT, in possibly the rudest and most clueless interview of anyone that I have ever seen.
The link over Maureen’s name, by the way, is to her Twitter account.
A funny lady talks about shite.
katefeetie:
I hope that nobody’s feelings got too stirred up by the model pictures ordeal. I will now attempt to relieve any pain that was caused by doing something called over-sharing.
Are you nuts? I saw no over-sharing. Just some under-dressed ladies.
I have always been overweight. I was tortured by others for it in middle school, I tortured myself for it in high school, and we all...
WatchThis is some of the most skilled trials riding I’ve ever seen. #IMissMyMountainBike.
kbem's bluegrass saturday mornings! →
when i lived in minneapolis and had to work at the hardware store early of a saturday morn whilst still that sloshy kind of am-hour drunk, this is the only thing that got my ass out of bed or off the floor and off to work.
7am-noon cst/-6 gmt (8am-1pm est/-5 gmt)
have a listen if you’re up. i guarantee it’ll liven up your mornin’.
{superdoofus-stratodrive}
This is also a great show to tune...
“I want to own every pixel of my web page from the top left to the bottom right.”
– Gruber, talking to Mann, on why there are no comments on Daring Fireball. Get the good stuff from the 43folders podcast.
“I couldn’t help noticing a few things about this transaction. First, something...”
– Pogue, after getting the hookup via Twitter.
WatchI drank it all just because you hate it when I let things go to waste.
“There is no bike culture — all culture includes the bike.”
– David Colman, NYT
Sounds lovely.
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Ornamental Concrete: The Beginning.
That crazy Billy, always willing to do anything for a piece of lunchmeat or fruit.
{wreckandsalvage}
Google's Love For Newspapers & How Little They... →
Danny Sullivan over on Daggle.com writes a good, long post on the old media dogs’ whining and bitching about those evil search engines and all the unwanted traffic they bring.
I’m going to save you all those potential legal fees plus needing to even speak further about the evil of the Big G with two simple lines. Get your tech person to change your robots.txt file to say this:
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Minneapolis Foursquare Photogenic Badge Quest →
s4xton:
Thursday:
A drink and photo booth fun at Nye’s at 7pm. A drink and photo booth fun at Kitty Cat Klub at 8pm. Drinks and photo booth fun at the Turf Club at 9pm.
I won’t be there, unfortunately, but you have my permission to have fun without me. Y’all should go fo’ real.
WatchYouTubeSymphony, FTW. {xtal}
Your NPR Name
liana:
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most...