Archive for July, 2010
Posted on July 29, 2010 - Filed Under Cool Picture | Leave a Comment
RIP: Ivy Bean (1905 – 2010)
Posted on July 29, 2010 - Filed Under Article | Leave a Comment
I feel bad that I was on the road and I couldn’t properly pay my respect to Harvey Pekar, Steven Sneider and Daniel Shorr, but this one hit me really hard. Ivy Bean was touted as the ‘world’s oldest Twitterer’. A delightful old British woman, she was one of the first people I started following [...]
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Cool Picture | Leave a Comment
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Whale – 1: Sailboat – 0
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Cool Video | Leave a Comment
This photoset came out about a week ago, but the video is way more awesome. Basically a whale breached directly over top of someone’s sailboat, crushing it. Here’s the video and it is nuts:
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Cool Picture | Leave a Comment
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Powell’s Affiliate
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Article | Leave a Comment
It’s about time I made some money off this thing. You may or may not notice that the links I provide in my recent review of ‘Naked Economics’ point you towards Powell’s Books. This is because I have become an affiliate of Powell’s books. If you buy a book after clicking that link, I get [...]
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Cool Picture | 1 Comment
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Book Review: Naked Economics
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Book Review | 1 Comment
The full title of Charles Wheelan’s book is “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science.” I’m pretty sure in this day and age that economics is the last thing you want to read about. But man this book makes it easy as Lindsay Lohan. The critical factor here is that Wheelan is not a professional economist. [...]
Posted on July 26, 2010 - Filed Under Cool Picture | Leave a Comment
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Sunday Link Roundup: 25 July 2010
Posted on July 25, 2010 - Filed Under Link | Leave a Comment
‘Plus sized’ clothes for 3-year olds
Lumberjack camp
Google funding for discovery of ancient texts online.
French World Cup players suspended.
Favre doesn’t show up for training camp.
Cheerleading is not a sport: It’s the law.
WWTJD?
Upgrade a phone to a Porsche
Moody’s downgrades Irish gov’t debt.
Keep your laptop away from your scrote.
Food fabricator.
THE MARMOTS ARE GETTING LARGER!!!
Maggots won’t eat the corpses [...]
