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nerdgasms: rubysneakers: adambozarth: Drunkest Guy Ever...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:46:58 -0500

rubysneakers:

adambozarth:

Drunkest Guy Ever reimagined as Silent Film-era comedy

Brilliant.

I love literally everything about this.

THIS MADE MY (NATIONAL CAPS LOCK) DAY.

How do you even get this drunk? It’s almost painful to watch by the end. Almost. Because of the laughing.

Video

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:25:17 -0500

I used to think I knew what I was doing with a Rubik’s...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:37:25 -0500

I used to think I knew what I was doing with a Rubik’s cube.

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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:11:39 -0500

via imgur.com

Fabulous.

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Bobby Zimmerman, cool mo-fo.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:39:57 -0500

Bobby Zimmerman, cool mo-fo.

I hope this is what Brizzly locks the explanation of this trend...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:16:42 -0500

I hope this is what Brizzly locks the explanation of this trend at.

britishisms: “They can’t be that different, they’re called the...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:52:00 -0500

britishisms:

“They can’t be that different, they’re called the same thing!”

For your convenience: waffles, muffins, and biscuits, in the US and England.

I did take a few liberties with this, in the interest of making an awesome graphic:

The “England” header should probably say UK, but Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have their own delicacies, and I’m not sure how they conflict with these definitions. Playing it safe.

The British waffle is potato, and is generally eaten with sausages or bacon or baked beans (or all three!). (Baked beans, by the way, are not supposed to have brown sugar in them, you awful people.) Waffle is actually interchangeable and can mean either a potato waffle or a sweet waffle in England, but if someone says “waffle” they usually mean the potato kind.

The American muffin is technically called an English muffin, which is equal parts ironic, ridiculous, and confusing. Muffin is also interchangeable in the US, and possibly in England (I’m sure we have English muffins like you guys, but I’d never eaten one before now).

The American biscuit looks awful, and I do not ever want to eat one. What I call a biscuit, Americans call a cookie or a cracker. American cookies are also fairly common in the UK.

Images stolen from Wikipedia, mostly.

This makes me hungry. Also, oddly enough, the “muffin” in the USA is called an “English Muffin”, which makes this all the more confusing. The biscuit in the bottom left may not look that appetizing, but whenever you do decide to try one, I think you will not look back.

Also, try asking your average American who has not been to Europe what a “digestive” is sometime. (Americans see also: biscuit.)

This morning, I checked failwhale.com to check out the prices...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:30:46 -0500

This morning, I checked failwhale.com to check out the prices for a fail whale mug, only to find this error message. Oh, the irony.

Stop Poking Me

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:01:52 -0500

Stop Poking Me:

Shared by jth
Whod’joo want me kill.

insooutso: Now, for something a little less serious. Dead Fly...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:25:33 -0500

insooutso:

Now, for something a little less serious.

Dead Fly Art

via

Flies…what can’t they do!

"Western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn..."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:23:43 -0500

“Western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.”

- Merlin Mann

Photo

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:00:30 -0500

I've no idea where they've come from but I seem to be covered in baby spiders.

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:46:28 -0500

sniffyjenkins:

They’re ever so sweet, actually.

Goodness, you’re eating baby spiders as they crawl over you!?

The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:08:14 -0500

Graphics are informative when discussing incomprehensibly large numbers. Americans spend more on yoga than Russia does on their military. America spends enough on pharmaceuticals to convert the entire world to solar power and other renewable energy sources.

The financial crisis has already cost America’s government more than double the cost of The New Deal, the Marshall Plan, China’s stimulus package, and the UK, German, and French bailout packages. (Adjusting for today’s dollars.)

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NEED: Screen. Act. Impact.

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:09:10 -0500

WHEN October 8, 2009 at 7 pm

WHERE Oak street cinema

WHAT Screen. Act. Impact. The NYC-based Media that Matters Film Festival is coming to Minnesota! NEED magazine presents the Media that Matters Film Festival, including a spoken word performance by Poetic Assassins.

WHY This event will bring leaders from nonprofit and community organizations together to screen 12 award-winning short films that represent different social issues. Each organization leader will relate to a certain film and will be available to answer questions and spark conversation. Help us make an impact and hold true to the film festival’s mantra of “Screen. Act. Impact.”

Films and organizations involved:

The Next Wave presented by U of M’s Institute on the Environment (IonE)
Locusts presented by Poetic Assassins
Lone Wolf presented by the Twin Cities Daily Planet
Why Do White People Have Black Spots? presented by Marnita’s Table
La Hoja presented by Witness for Peace
Will I Be Next? presented by MAD DADS
Exiled in America presented by Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition (MIRAc)
The Secret Life of Paper presented by Eureka Recycling
Knock Knock, Who’s There? presented by Men As Peacemakers
Looking Back presented by Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
Bits and Pieces presented by Mizna

Food and drink sponsors: Finnegan’s and Stub & Herb’s!

via needmagazine.com

Gig. Ga. Dee.

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Excuse me, but do you have a moment? It’s your loss, if...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:45:37 -0500

Excuse me, but do you have a moment?

It’s your loss, if not, for you will miss this beautiful short film by Will Hoffman, inspired by Radiolab’s short #16, Moments.

marrina: The Shoes at Alexander McQueen Were Only Ten Inches...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:48:07 -0500

marrina:

The Shoes at Alexander McQueen Were Only Ten Inches High

Not to mention incredibly fugly.

The Gettysburg Address, Renewed.

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:08:15 -0500

In 1776, our nation was founded on this continent in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal.

Now, we are testing whether this nation will endure, fighting a civil war. We have gathered today to dedicate a portion of this great battlefield—this final resting place—to those who gave their lives, so that our nation may persist. But we can not dedicate this ground today, or any other day. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have already done so.

The world will not remember what is said here today, but we must never forget why this war was fought here. So it is we the living who will be dedicated here, today, to the unfinished work which those soldiers who fought here have so nobly advanced. From these honored dead, we will renew our devotion to the cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion. These dead shall not have died in vain: this nation shall have a new birth of freedom for all, and democratic government shall not perish from the earth.

Rizzo channels Herb Brooks with aplumb.

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:06:32 -0500

Rizzo channels Herb Brooks with aplumb.

ReadItLater is my favorite app for the iPhone, and one of my...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:22:30 -0500

ReadItLater is my favorite app for the iPhone, and one of my three must-have plugins for Firefox. RIL integrates with Google Reader and Firefox so all you have to do is click a button to add an article to your reading list for later. At any point, you can pull up an item from that list, mark it as read once you’ve finished, or stop reading and resume later where you left off. And because your reading list gets synced, you can do all this from the browser plugin, the RIL website, your iPhone, or another computer.

It supports other browsers as well, but the integration isn’t close to what you get from the RIL Firefox extension. The free version will hook you and the pro version is worth every 299 pennies.